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Best MCP servers & Codex plugins for research
13 plugins in our catalog say they help with research. Here are the top 12, editor's picks first, then by GitHub stars. Most of them sit in Agent Workflows and Docs, Content & SEO.
How to choose
- Match the host first: Codex and Claude Code install commands differ, and the install line below shows which one each project targets.
- Check where it runs. Hosted MCP endpoints are quicker to set up but send your requests to someone else's server.
- Prefer a recent push and a real license (MIT or Apache-2.0) for anything you'll use at work.
- Stars tell you how many people looked, not whether it works. Read the code before you install.
The list
1. Research Agent Skills
280+ Agent Skills that turn Codex, Claude Code, Cursor and other agents into a research co-scientist across the academic research lifecycle: literature and PRISMA reviews, hypotheses, experimental design, data analysis in biology, chemistry, medicine, physics and ML, paper writing, citation verification and peer review.
★ 136 · No license file · pushed 2026-11-14 (this week) · skills · by KalarisLabs · alternatives
npx skills add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
2. Krexa
Turn a trading idea, post or video into fixed rules, backtest and paper-trade them for free, and request a live trading agent on Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, Bybit, MEXC, Hyperliquid, Polymarket or Solana DEXs that you approve and sign, through Krexa's hosted MCP server.
★ 119 · MIT-0 · pushed 2026-11-03 (last 30 days) · MCP server, skills · by Krexa-xyz
npx skills add krexa-xyz/skills --skill krexa -g
3. Hermes Tweet
Hermes Agent X/Twitter plugin for read-first social research, monitoring, and approval-gated actions through Xquik.
★ 40 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-10 (this week) · plugin · by Xquik-dev
4. Thermal-Fluid Research Workflow
Thermal-fluid mechanical engineering research workflow for literature review, technical writing, data analysis, presentations, proposals, coding, and AI/ML tools.
★ 26 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 (last 30 days) · plugin · by hanhuark · alternatives
5. Codex Agenteam
Specialist AI agents (researcher, PM, architect, developer, QA, reviewer) orchestrated as a configurable team pipeline.
★ 15 · MIT · pushed 2026-07-06 (132 days ago) · plugin · by yimwoo · alternatives
6. Hypercore
Korean-first agent skills for planning, architecture, design, docs, research, issues, and Git delivery, each with declared triggers, workflows, and validation gates.
★ 12 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-15 (this week) · plugin, skills · by alpoxdev · alternatives
claude plugin marketplace add alpoxdev/hypercore
7. Revid
Research what goes viral, make finished short-form videos (voice, captions, music, AI footage) and post them to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and X through Revid's hosted MCP server.
★ 12 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 (this week) · MCP server, plugin · by tmakersas · alternatives
/plugin marketplace add tmakersas/revid-skills
8. Zagrosi Forge
Decompose broad project briefs into researched plans and implement sectioned work with TDD, quality gates, and traceability.
★ 8 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 (last 30 days) · plugin · by zagrosi-code · alternatives
claude plugin marketplace add zagrosi-code/zagrosi-forge
9. Zotero Research Tools
Connects Codex to Zotero Desktop for local-library search, citation export, collection and tag inspection, and research workflow support.
★ 5 · MIT · pushed 2026-07-01 (137 days ago) · plugin · by summer521521 · alternatives
10. PapersFlow
Paper discovery, citation verification, graph exploration, and DeepScan analysis.
★ 4 · MIT · pushed 2026-10-10 (36 days ago) · plugin · by papersflow-ai
11. Stata Research Guard
Codex plugin for readable Stata research code, with official command help, paper examples and peer-review checks.
★ 4 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-10 (this week) · plugin · by Plokies-2
codex plugin marketplace add Plokies-2/stata-research-guard --ref main
12. Sofya
Web search with page content, URL and document reading (PDF, Office) as markdown, single-fact extraction and cited research reports through Sofya's hosted MCP server with browser sign-in, plus search and research skills.
★ 2 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-11 (this week) · MCP server, plugin, skills · by sofya-co
/plugin install sofya --marketplace sofya-co/sofya-mcp
Head-to-head
Research Agent Skills vs Thermal-Fluid Research Workflow · Research Agent Skills vs Zotero Research Tools · Thermal-Fluid Research Workflow vs Zotero Research Tools
Matched by keywords in each project's own name and description. The topic comes from what people actually type into Google and Bing search boxes.
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Data from GitHub and each project's README, checked 2026-11-15. We haven't installed or audited these, and stars measure attention, not quality. Paid placements never change this page. Spot a mistake? hello@pickaplugin.com
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