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Research & Knowledge

AI agents for web search, document retrieval, and knowledge synthesis. These tools give agents real-time access to the internet, specialized databases, and document stores — enabling grounded, citation-backed responses. Critical for any agent that needs current or domain-specific information.

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Agent Lightning

OfficialFeatured

Optimizes any AI agent with reinforcement learning without rewriting it, decoupling training from execution so existing…

OrchestrationResearch & Knowledge
APICLI
3 skillsNone
L

LightRAG

Featured

Builds a graph-based retrieval index over documents so agents can answer questions spanning many sources, served throug…

Memory & StateResearch & Knowledge
APICLI
4 skillsNone
A

Agent Switchboard

Searches a curated, open-source directory of 300+ verified AI agents, MCP servers, and agentic tools by capability, cat…

Research & KnowledgeInfrastructure & Ops
MCPAPI
3 skillsNone
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akta.pro

Serves private-company data to agents — 20M+ companies across 70+ fields with entity-resolved news, available over REST…

Research & KnowledgeSales & Marketing
APIMCPCLI
3 skillsAPI Key
A

Algolia

Official

Hosted search and discovery API with typo tolerance, faceting, and vector search, callable directly for agent retrieval…

Research & KnowledgeVector Databases
API
0 skillsAPI Key
A

Almanac

Compiles a company-wide wiki from Slack, files, wikis, and repos, then gives agents its own computer plus MCP search ov…

Memory & StateResearch & Knowledge
MCP
3 skillsOAuth 2.0
A

AnythingLLM

Runs an all-in-one, self-hosted RAG and agents app: chat with documents, build agents, and connect tools via MCP. Deskt…

Research & KnowledgeCode & DevTools
APICLIMCP
3 skillsAPI Key
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Atlassian Rovo

Official

AI teammate for Atlassian products — searches across Jira, Confluence, and connected apps to find answers and automate…

Scheduling & WorkflowResearch & Knowledge
APIMCPCLI
0 skillsOAuth 2.0
B

Brave Search MCP

Official

Brave Search MCP server. Gives AI agents privacy-preserving web and local search with an independent index — no Google…

Research & Knowledge
MCPAPI
5 skillsAPI Key
C

Casetext / CoCounsel

Official

AI legal research assistant by Thomson Reuters that reviews documents, drafts memos, analyzes contracts, and finds rele…

Legal & ComplianceResearch & Knowledge
API
0 skillsAPI Key
C

Cherry Studio

Runs a Windows, Mac, and Linux desktop client for OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Ollama, and LM Studio models, with 300+ pr…

Research & KnowledgeOrchestration
MCP
5 skillsAPI Key
C

Clipto MCP

Indexes terabytes of local video, audio, and images so agents can search them in natural language and pull back timesta…

Content & MediaResearch & Knowledge
MCP
3 skillsNone
C

Cloudflare Web Search API

Official

Returns structured web search results from Exa, Linkup, or Ceramic through Cloudflare's AI Gateway via REST or a Worker…

Research & KnowledgeInfrastructure & Ops
API
5 skillsBearer Token
C

Concho

Models an entire enterprise codebase into a queryable knowledge layer, then serves sourced architectural and business-l…

Code & DevToolsResearch & Knowledge
MCP
3 skillsAPI Key
c

context.dev

Scrapes, crawls and searches the web for agents through a REST API, SDKs, CLI and hosted MCP server, returning LLM-read…

Browser & Computer UseResearch & Knowledge
APIMCPCLI
5 skillsAPI Key
C

CourtListener MCP

Searches US case law, PACER dockets, judges, citations, and oral arguments through a hosted MCP server over the Free La…

Legal & ComplianceResearch & Knowledge
MCPAPI
3 skillsAPI Key
C

Crawl4AI

Crawls and scrapes web pages into clean Markdown for RAG pipelines, with CSS, XPath, and LLM-driven structured extracti…

Browser & Computer UseResearch & Knowledge
APICLIMCP
5 skillsNone
C

Crunchbase MCP

Brings Crunchbase private-market intelligence into Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor over MCP, covering company profiles, fund…

Research & KnowledgeFinance & Accounting
MCPAPI
3 skillsAPI Key
D

DeerFlow

Official

Open-source deep research super-agent from ByteDance that orchestrates sub-agents with memory, code sandboxes, and MCP-…

Research & Knowledge
APICLI
3 skillsAPI Key
D

Docling

Parses PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, audio, and image files into a unified DoclingDocument and exports Markdown, HTML, D…

Content & MediaData & Analytics
APICLIMCP
5 skillsNone
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Exa AI

Official

Neural search engine API that understands meaning — find similar pages, search by content type, and get clean extracted…

Research & Knowledge
APIMCP
0 skillsAPI Key
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FastGPT

Builds AI agents on a visual Flow canvas backed by hybrid-retrieval knowledge bases, workflow and RPA nodes, bidirectio…

OrchestrationResearch & Knowledge
APIMCP
5 skillsAPI Key
F

Firecrawl

Turn websites into LLM-ready data — crawl, scrape, and convert web pages to clean markdown for AI consumption.

Research & KnowledgeData & Analytics
APIMCPCLI
0 skillsAPI Key
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Glama

MCP server directory with a public paginated JSON API for programmatic discovery, plus hosting and inspection tooling f…

Research & KnowledgeInfrastructure & Ops
APIMCP
0 skillsNone
G

Glean

Official

Enterprise AI search and knowledge management — connects all your company apps and surfaces answers with AI-powered wor…

Research & Knowledge
APIMCPExtension
0 skillsOAuth 2.0
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GPT Researcher

Autonomous deep-research agent that plans queries, browses the web in parallel, and produces cited research reports in…

Research & Knowledge
APIMCP
5 skillsAPI Key
G

Graphify

Maps a codebase, docs, PDFs, and media into a queryable knowledge graph so AI coding assistants trace and cite paths in…

Code & DevToolsResearch & Knowledge
CLIMCP
5 skillsNone
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Hugging Face MCP

Discovers AI models, explores datasets, and accesses model documentation and capabilities on Hugging Face — the central…

Research & Knowledge
MCP
3 skillsAPI Key
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Jina Reader

Official

Web reader and search API for AI pipelines. Converts any URL to clean markdown, runs grounded search, and powers RAG at…

Research & Knowledge
APIMCP
5 skillsAPI Key
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Keenable

Serves a hundred-billion-document web index built for agents rather than human search pages, returning dense structured…

Research & KnowledgeInfrastructure & Ops
APIMCP
3 skillsAPI Key
K

Khoj

Self-hostable AI second brain that answers over your documents and the web, runs custom agents, and schedules automatio…

Research & Knowledge
API
3 skillsAPI Key
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Linkup

Production-grade web search API for AI — sourced, cited answers with full-text snippets from trusted sources. REST API,…

Research & Knowledge
APIMCP
3 skillsAPI Key
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LinqAlpha

Run research agents over filings, transcripts, and news for buy-side investing — encodes an analyst research framework…

Finance & AccountingResearch & Knowledge
APIMCP
3 skillsAPI Key
L

LlamaIndex

Data framework and cloud platform for LLM apps over private data. Offers parsing, indexing, retrieval, agent workflows,…

Research & Knowledge
APICLI
5 skillsAPI Key
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LLM Wiki

Builds and maintains an interlinked wiki from your documents in a desktop app, and exposes hybrid search, graph and fil…

Memory & StateResearch & Knowledge
APIMCPExtension
5 skillsAPI Key
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Markdownify MCP

MCP server that converts PDFs, images, audio files, and web pages into clean Markdown for efficient LLM ingestion and R…

Research & Knowledge
MCP
4 skillsNone
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MathCode

Mathematical coding agent that formalizes and verifies mathematical reasoning by generating and checking executable cod…

Research & KnowledgeCode & DevTools
CLI
0 skillsNone
M

MaxKB

Open-source enterprise RAG platform for building AI agents. Upload docs, auto-vectorize, and orchestrate multi-step wor…

Research & KnowledgeInfrastructure & Ops
APICLI
4 skillsAPI Key
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MDZHB

Public, persistent message board for AI agents to publish and read findings across sessions via HTML/JSON and an HTTP A…

Communication & MessagingMemory & State
API
3 skillsNone
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MinerU

Converts PDFs, Office documents, and scanned pages into LLM-ready Markdown or JSON, preserving tables, formulas, and re…

Data & AnalyticsResearch & Knowledge
APICLI
3 skillsAPI Key
O

Obsidian MCP

MCP server connecting AI agents to Obsidian vaults via the Local REST API plugin. Read, search, and write notes to grou…

Research & Knowledge
MCP
3 skillsAPI Key
O

Onyx

Open-source enterprise AI search and assistant platform — connects to Slack, GitHub, Confluence, Drive and 40+ sources…

Research & Knowledge
API
3 skillsAPI Key
O

OpenAlex AI Agent Connector

Lets AI assistants search and analyze OpenAlex scholarly works, authors, institutions, and citations over a remote MCP…

Research & Knowledge
MCPAPICLI
4 skillsOAuth 2.0
O

OpenKnowledge

Runs an AI-native Markdown editor and wiki with built-in MCP server, skills, and agentic search. Connects to Claude, Co…

Content & MediaResearch & Knowledge
MCPCLI
3 skillsNone
O

OpenLLMetry

Official

Instruments LLM and agent applications with OpenTelemetry-native tracing, exporting spans for prompts, tool calls, and…

Infrastructure & OpsResearch & Knowledge
API
3 skillsAPI Key
O

OpenScience

Runs a research agent for scientists that reviews literature, writes and runs analysis code, and reproduces experiments…

Research & Knowledge
CLIAPI
5 skillsAPI Key
O

OWL

Optimised Workforce Learning multi-agent system ranked #1 open-source on the GAIA benchmark, orchestrating specialised…

Research & Knowledge
API
3 skillsAPI Key
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PageIndex

Indexes long documents as a reasoning-based hierarchical tree so agents retrieve by navigating structure instead of emb…

Research & KnowledgeVector Databases
APIMCP
3 skillsAPI Key
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Parallel

Official

Gives AI agents web search, URL extraction, and deep research APIs that return cited, structured results, with Python a…

Research & Knowledge
APICLIMCP
4 skillsAPI Key
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Patsnap

Official

Patent and scientific literature search across global databases using natural language, semantic, or keyword queries wi…

Research & KnowledgeLegal & Compliance
MCPAPI
0 skillsAPI Key
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Perplexity Sonar

Official

AI search API delivering grounded, cited answers with real-time web access — power your apps with Perplexity's search i…

Research & Knowledge
APIMCP
0 skillsAPI Key
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Prime Agent

Self-improving reinforcement-learned agent from Prime Intellect that refines its own policy across long-horizon tasks.

Research & KnowledgeOrchestration
API
0 skillsAPI Key
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PrivateGPT

Self-hosted document QA platform with OpenAI-compatible REST API, local LLM support via Ollama, a full RAG pipeline, an…

Research & Knowledge
API
3 skillsAPI Key
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Profound

Official

Tracks and shapes how brands appear inside AI search and answer engines, exposing visibility analytics to agents throug…

Sales & MarketingData & Analytics
APIMCP
3 skillsAPI Key
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QMD

Indexes local markdown notes, meeting transcripts, and docs for on-device BM25, vector, and LLM-reranked hybrid search,…

Research & KnowledgeProductivity & Work Management
CLIMCPAPI
4 skillsNone
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RAGFlow

Open-source RAG engine with deep document parsing (tables, charts, images) and an official MCP server. Deploy via Docke…

Research & KnowledgeInfrastructure & Ops
APIMCP
3 skillsAPI Key
R

Ragie

Retrieval API for AI applications. Ingest PDFs, web pages, and files, then query with semantic search. Built-in chunkin…

Research & Knowledge
API
5 skillsAPI Key
R

Reddit MCP Buddy

MCP server for Reddit — search subreddits, retrieve posts and comment threads, analyze user activity, and post content.…

Research & KnowledgeData & Analytics
MCP
4 skillsNone
R

RenooLab

Find building tradespeople in France, plan multi-trade searches and request moderated contact. Free read-only A2A acces…

Research & Knowledge
APIMCP
4 skillsOAuth 2.0
R

Rowboat

Builds a backlinked knowledge graph from your email, meetings and Slack in a local desktop app, then lets agents query…

Memory & StateResearch & Knowledge
MCPAPI
3 skillsOAuth 2.0
S

ScrapeGraphAI

Scrapes websites from a natural-language description of the data you want, building the extraction graph automatically…

Research & KnowledgeBrowser & Computer Use
APIMCPCLI
3 skillsAPI Key
S

Semantic Scholar MCP

Searches millions of academic papers on Semantic Scholar and arXiv with citation analysis and full-text PDF extraction.…

Research & Knowledge
MCP
3 skillsNone
S

Serper

Fast Google search API returning structured SERP results, widely used to give agents fresh web results without scraping.

Research & Knowledge
API
0 skillsAPI Key
S

SoL-Pi

Official

Extends the Pi agent harness with AutoResearch loops from NVIDIA, improving efficiency on long-running autonomous resea…

OrchestrationResearch & Knowledge
CLIAPI
3 skillsNone
S

STORM

Researches a topic and writes a cited, Wikipedia-length report by simulating multi-perspective question asking. Co-STOR…

Research & Knowledge
CLIAPI
3 skillsAPI Key
T

Tako

Live web search plus licensed datasets for agents, covering company financials, macroeconomic indicators, web traffic,…

Research & KnowledgeData & Analytics
APIMCP
0 skillsAPI Key
T

Tavily

Official

Search API built specifically for AI agents — optimized for LLM consumption with structured results, content extraction…

Research & Knowledge
APIMCP
0 skillsAPI Key
T

Terminal-Bench-Science

Evaluates agents on 70 expert-curated real scientific research workflows, run and graded through the Harbor benchmark h…

Research & Knowledge
CLI
3 skillsNone
T

ToolUniverse

Curates a large collection of scientific tools and MCP servers for AI scientists, exposing biomedical and research APIs…

Research & KnowledgeOrchestration
APIMCP
3 skillsNone
T

TrendRadar

Aggregates trending lists from 11 mainstream platforms and RSS feeds, filters them by keyword, pushes digests to chat a…

Research & KnowledgeData & Analytics
MCP
5 skillsNone
W

WeKnora

Official

Turns documents into a queryable knowledge base with RAG question answering, a ReAct agent orchestrating retrieval, MCP…

Research & KnowledgeCustomer Support
APIMCPCLIExtension
5 skillsAPI Key
W

What Are You Building

Catalogs indie builders and their AI/SaaS products worldwide by category and country. Exposes a public JSON API and MCP…

Research & Knowledge
APIMCP
3 skillsNone
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You.com Search API

Official

Programmable AI search with web, news, and RAG endpoints — grounded answers with citations for AI applications.

Research & Knowledge
APIMCP
0 skillsAPI Key
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