A curated collection of links for building a Claude Code-centered research and coding workflow.
This repository is meant to collect useful tools, skills, MCP servers, plugins, and references. It is not an installation script. For each tool below, follow the upstream README unless noted otherwise.
Install Node.js 22 with nvm, then install Claude Code globally:
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.1/install.sh | bash
# Restart your terminal, then:
nvm install 22
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code| Item | Link |
|---|---|
| Zhipu / GLM API key | https://open.bigmodel.cn/ |
| GitHub personal access token | https://github.com/settings/tokens |
| Zotero | https://www.zotero.org/download/ |
| Tool | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code | Main coding agent |
| cc-switch | https://github.com/cc-switch/cc-switch | Provider switching and local proxy |
| Codex CLI | https://github.com/openai/codex | OpenAI Codex CLI |
| uv | https://github.com/astral-sh/uv | Python package and tool manager |
| Zotero MCP Server | https://github.com/rewrite84/zotero-mcp-server | Zotero integration for MCP |
| Project | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| ARIS / Auto Claude Code Research in Sleep | https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep | Research automation skills |
| paper-search-mcp | https://github.com/openags/paper-search-mcp | Academic paper search MCP / skill |
| figures4papers | https://github.com/ChenLiu-1996/figures4papers | Scientific figure-making scripts and skill |
| Hugging Face kernels | https://github.com/huggingface/kernels/tree/main/kernel-builder/skills | CUDA kernel-building skills |
| Skill | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| ssh-skill | https://github.com/badseal/ssh-skill | SSH workflow skill |
| Planning with Files | https://github.com/othmanadi/planning-with-files | File-based planning skill |
| Scientific Figure Making | https://github.com/ChenLiu-1996/figures4papers/tree/main/scientific-figure-making | Publication-quality plotting skill |
| agent-skills | https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills | Extra agent-oriented skills |
| Plugin / marketplace | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Official Claude Code plugin marketplace | https://github.com/claude-plugins-official | Official plugin collection |
| Andrej Karpathy skills marketplace | https://github.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills | Karpathy-style learning / coding skills |
| Codex plugin for Claude Code | https://github.com/openai/codex-plugin-cc | Codex integration |
| Superpowers marketplace | https://github.com/obra/superpowers-marketplace | Superpowers plugin marketplace |
| agent-skills | https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills | Agent skills plugin source |
Useful plugin names from the official marketplace include:
githubplaywrightcontext7huggingface-skillsfrontend-designskill-creatorchrome-devtools-mcp
Some Claude Code helper plugins may auto-install depending on the setup, such as code-review, code-simplifier, claude-code-setup, claude-md-management, and remember.
| Tool | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| qmd | https://github.com/tobi/qmd | Optional CLI helper |
| cc-connect | https://github.com/chenhg5/cc-connect | Optional Claude Code helper |
After installing tools from their upstream READMEs, a useful final prompt inside Claude Code is:
Check my Claude Code setup — are all MCP servers, skills, and plugins installed correctly?