Best Research AI Skills & MCP Servers
76 curated Research skills and MCP servers — install any of them into Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, n8n, or any AI stack with one command.
Courtlistener
Search and retrieve US court opinions, federal dockets, judge records, citation networks, and oral arguments from CourtListener's 9M+ opinion corpus via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Openalex Research
MCP server for OpenAlex API - enabling literature review and research landscaping
Nodebench
Turn messy input into a sourced report. 15 default tools: workflow, bidirectional sync, canonical NodeBench research bridge, discover_tools, and load_toolset.
Openalex
MCP server for scholarly works, authors, and institutions via OpenAlex API
Openalex
Access the OpenAlex academic research catalog - 270M+ publications through MCP. STDIO & Streamable HTTP.
Oksure Openalex Research
MCP server for OpenAlex API - enabling literature review and research landscaping
Devxira
MCP server for developer workflows — PR review, daily reports, task management, plugin research
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.
Tapetide
NSE BSE Indian stock market MCP server — 34 tools for Indian stock market data & research: live NSE/BSE quotes, financials, technicals, stock screener (326 ratios), analyst ratings, FII/DII flows, IPOs, portfolio tracking & watchlist. Works with Claude, C
Openinsider
MCP server that exposes openinsider.com to any MCP compatible client.
Server
SURA MCP server - search, read, and edit your research workspace from any AI assistant
Arxiv
An arXiv MCP server for searching and retrieving academic papers.
Pubmed
Search PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Emet
Zero-setup grounded web research MCP server and Pi extension for AI coding agents.
Arxiv
Search arXiv, fetch paper metadata, and read full-text content via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Server
Studio Signal MCP Server — AI-powered M&E intelligence via Model Context Protocol
Crossref
Resolve DOIs, search ~155M scholarly works, and fetch references via the Crossref REST API. 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
Perplexity User
Perplexity AI MCP server — browser automation for search, reasoning, research, and compute. Not affiliated with Perplexity AI, Inc.
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).
Orcid
Search and retrieve researcher profiles, works, affiliations, funding, and peer review records from the ORCID registry via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
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
Biorxiv
Search and retrieve bioRxiv and medRxiv preprints — by DOI, date interval, or keyword — via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Novada
One MCP server for all web data. Search, scrape, crawl, proxy, and AI research in one install.
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.