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Issue No. 1Updated Sunday, November 15, 2026550 plugins catalogued
Classifieds (paid, labelled):12 of 12 lines open · $19/mo
Best for · writing · data checked 2026-11-15

Best MCP servers & Codex plugins for writing

43 plugins in our catalog say they help with writing. Here are the top 12, editor's picks first, then by GitHub stars. Most of them sit in Docs, Content & SEO and Agent Workflows.

Quick read on these 12: 11 have a permissive license, 10 got a push in the last 30 days, 0 install as a hosted MCP endpoint.

How to choose

The list

1. e2e

Write, run, and debug end-to-end tests for web and mobile apps with agent skills and an MCP server.

★ 13,906 · Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-15 (this week) · MCP server, skills · by tester-army

2. LinkedIn Skills

Codex-ready LinkedIn marketing bundle with a native .codex-plugin manifest and 10 skills: post writing with 16 tested hook formulas, AI-tell humanizer, pre-publish audit, comment and reply drafting, hook extraction, content planning, profile optimization, engager analytics, and thread monitoring; also works in Claude Code.

★ 5,930 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-10 (this week) · plugin, skills · by sergebulaev

codex plugin marketplace add sergebulaev/linkedin-skills

3. Story Skills

Fiction-writing skills for planning, drafting, and revising stories as markdown, with a dependency-free CLI that checks continuity: deaths, promise payoffs, open questions, and durable story state.

★ 417 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-14 (this week) · plugin, skills · by danjdewhurst

/plugin marketplace add danjdewhurst/story-skills

4. Emulo

Mines selected evidence from local coding-agent sessions into private work, design, and writing profiles for Codex, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot.

★ 306 · MIT · pushed 2026-10-12 (34 days ago) · plugin · by ohad6k · alternatives

/plugin marketplace add ohad6k/emulo

5. ru-text

Russian text quality for AI agents — 2,000+ linguistic atoms for typography, information style, editorial standards, UX writing, business correspondence and AI-text cleanup, with a 0–10 text score.

★ 298 · MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 (last 30 days) · plugin · by talkstream · alternatives

6. X Twitter Scraper

X/Twitter data, monitored workflows, HMAC webhooks, and MCP access through the Xquik REST API with confirmation-gated write guidance.

★ 229 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-13 (this week) · MCP server, plugin · by Xquik-dev

codex plugin marketplace add Xquik-dev/x-twitter-scraper

7. Reimagine It

Content-derived design CLI and Codex plugin: HTML in, standalone redesigned HTML out, styled from the source page's own content.

★ 215 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-14 (this week) · skills · by Kayforkind · alternatives

npx skills add Kayforkind/reimagine-it

8. unslop

Strip AI writing patterns from text output — removes filler phrases, hedging language, and generic constructs to produce cleaner written content. Install: `npm install -g unslop`.

★ 192 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-09 (this week) · plugin · by MohamedAbdallah-14

/plugin marketplace add MohamedAbdallah-14/unslop

9. X (Twitter) Skills

Codex-ready X (Twitter) marketing bundle with a native .codex-plugin manifest: tweet and thread writing with corpus-validated hook formulas (validated against ~450 top tweets), AI-tell humanizer, hook extraction, reply drafting, content planning, and audience insights; also works in Claude Code.

★ 179 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-11 (this week) · plugin, skills · by sergebulaev

codex plugin marketplace add sergebulaev/x-skills

10. 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

11. WTFM

Writes illustrated end-user help articles from a codebase, with screenshots rendered locally from the real interface code.

★ 126 · Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-12 (this week) · plugin · by SupportPages-io · alternatives

codex plugin marketplace add SupportPages-io/wtfm

12. Inkdrop MCP Server

Official MCP server for the Inkdrop note-taking app, so AI agents can search, read and write your Markdown notes.

★ 57 · Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-09 (this week) · MCP server · by Inkdrop (Takuya Matsuyama) · alternatives

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