Best Research AI Skills & MCP Servers
75 curated Research skills and MCP servers — install any of them into Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, n8n, or any AI stack with one command.
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.
Agent Toolbelt
MCP server that gives Claude real-time stock research — investment thesis, earnings analysis, insider signals, valuation, and bear/bull cases. Plus 20 utility tools.
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
Pubmed
Search PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
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.
Arxiv
Search arXiv, fetch paper metadata, and read full-text content via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Ai Agent Guidelines
MCP server exposing public instruction workflows as tools, backed by hidden AI agent skills for requirements, orchestration, quality, research, evaluation, governance, resilience, and physics-inspired analysis
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
Openinsider
MCP server that exposes openinsider.com to any MCP compatible client.
Arxiv
An arXiv MCP server for searching and retrieving academic papers.
Server
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
Perplexity User
Perplexity AI MCP server — browser automation for search, reasoning, research, and compute. Not affiliated with Perplexity AI, Inc.
Server
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
Novada
One MCP server for all web data. Search, scrape, crawl, proxy, and AI research in one install.
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.
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.