Best Research AI Skills & MCP Servers
72 curated Research skills and MCP servers — install any of them into Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, n8n, or any AI stack with one command.
Brapi
A collaborative BrAPI v2.1 workspace for multi-agent research via MCP. Search studies, germplasm, genotypes, & more - across Breedbase, T3, Sweetpotatobase, & any BrAPI v2-compliant server.
Openalex
Access the OpenAlex academic research catalog - 270M+ publications through MCP. STDIO & Streamable HTTP.
Tapetide
Tapetide Stock Research MCP Server — search, screen, and analyze all NSE/BSE stocks with 26 tools for quotes, financials, technicals, analyst ratings, forecasts, FII/DII flows, screener, and market insights. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Kiro, and a
Arxiv
Search arXiv, fetch paper metadata, and read full-text content via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
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Studio Signal MCP Server — AI-powered M&E intelligence via Model Context Protocol
Fluxra Cli
CLI + MCP server for Fluxra — scrape comments, generate viral hooks, run AI research from the terminal or any MCP host (Claude Desktop / Code, Cursor, OpenClaw).
Axiom Data
Financial & research data MCP server — SEC filings, DeFi analytics, wallet profiling, academic papers, US macro data, patent search, token sentiment. 30 tools for AI agents.
Openalex Research
MCP server for OpenAlex API - enabling literature review and research landscaping
Arxiv
An arXiv MCP server for searching and retrieving academic papers.
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Frase MCP Server — The complete content platform for AI agents. Research, write, optimize, and host SEO & GEO-optimized content with built-in AI search visibility monitoring. Includes Frase CMS for auto-optimized web hosting, 95 tools, 9 agent skills, and
Nodebench
Turn messy input into a sourced report. 15 default tools: workflow, bidirectional sync, canonical NodeBench research bridge, discover_tools, and load_toolset.
Continuous Improvement
Stops Claude Code from skipping research, claiming 'done' without verifying, and repeating yesterday's mistakes. The 7 Laws of AI Agent Discipline — 13 enforcement skills, gating hooks, the Mulahazah auto-leveling instinct engine, and a GitHub Action tran
Emet
Zero-setup grounded web research MCP server and Pi extension for AI coding agents.
Novada Search
MCP server for web search, extraction, crawling, and research — powered by Novada's 100M+ proxy IPs across 195 countries. Works with Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and any MCP client.
Pdf It
Turn Claude research output into designed PDFs. Cover page, table of contents, code blocks that hold across pages. MCP server and Claude Code skill for markdown to PDF.
Grados
The enrichment-grade MCP server for academic paper search and full-text extraction. For science.
Bgpt
Search scientific papers from any MCP-compatible AI tool. Raw experimental data from full-text studies — methods, results, quality scores, and 25+ metadata fields per paper.
Openalex
MCP server for accessing scholarly articles and research data from the OpenAlex database
Perplexity User
Perplexity AI MCP server — browser automation for search, reasoning, research, and compute. Not affiliated with Perplexity AI, Inc.
Biorxiv
Search and retrieve bioRxiv and medRxiv preprints — by DOI, date interval, or keyword — via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Crossref
Resolve DOIs, search ~155M scholarly works, and fetch references via the Crossref REST API. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Ufn
UniFuncs MCP Server
Openalex
MCP server for scholarly works, authors, and institutions via OpenAlex API
Oksure Openalex Research
MCP server for OpenAlex API - enabling literature review and research landscaping
About Research skills on iClaude
iClaude is the universal install layer for AI skills. Every Research skill on this page can be installed into Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, n8n, Codex, and more — using a single copy-paste command. No config drift, no per-stack adapters, no manual MCP wiring.