What is the best MCP servers, plugins and skill for a researcher?

By tashan's measured score the highest-ranked for this work are Exa, Atlassian, Minutes, Memorix, Remember. The score combines upkeep and freshness, gated by real adoption; every input is public and linked to its source.

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Every capability tashan measures is checked against the OSV advisory database at the version you would install today, for install-time scripts, for build provenance, and for the permission surface its declared dependencies reach. The existence of a finding is always free to see. The audit reads public evidence only and never executes anything, so an empty result means nothing was declared, never that nothing is possible.

The Index · By job · Researcher

MCP servers, plugins & skills for researcher, ranked

Q: What work does this cover?

A researcher here is the union of the tasks that job performs — knowledge management, web scraping, web research, literature review, scientific research — so a capability appears if it is measured against any of them. 479 capabilities qualify today.

tashan measures 479 capabilities against the work a researcher actually does: knowledge management, web scraping, web research, literature review, scientific research. Ranked on public evidence alone: upkeep, freshness and real adoption. How we measure ›

The stack for this job

One pick per task, taken from the ranking below. Best fit first, then how well it documents itself, then the tashan score.

Knowledge managementAtlassian74 Web scrapingExa83 Web researchFirecrawl · firecrawl68 Literature reviewExa · exa-labs76 Scientific researchClinicaltrialsgov67

#	Capability	tashan	Evidence	Health
1	Exa primary npm deep	83	20k/wk	active
2	Atlassian primary pkg deep	74	2k/wk	active
3	Minutes primary plugin deep	70	1k ★	active
4	Memorix primary npm deep	69	2k/wk	active
5	Remember primary plugin deep	68	143 ★	active
6	Firecrawl · firecrawl primary plugin deep	68	542 ★	active
7	Reddit MCP Buddy primary npm deep	63	2k/wk	active
8	Affine primary npm deep	62	895/wk	active
9	Notion · awkoy primary npm deep	61	905/wk	active
10	Notebooklm primary npm deep	60	367/wk	active
11	Noosphere primary plugin deep	57	18 ★	active
12	Redditapis primary npm deep	57	228/wk	active
13	Obsidian Visual Skills primary plugin deep	56	3k ★	active
14	Phdtaketaketake primary plugin deep	53	32 ★	active
15	Total Recall primary plugin deep	52	11 ★	active
16	Openweb primary plugin deep	52	35 ★	active
17	Notebooklm · PleasePrompto primary npm deep	51	5k/wk	active
18	Bluesky primary npm deep	50	121/wk	active
19	Enzyme primary plugin deep	49	51 ★	active
20	Ix Memory primary plugin deep	49	7 ★	active
21	Kindex primary plugin deep	48	24 ★	active
22	Gooseworks primary plugin deep	48	6 ★	active
23	Loredocs primary plugin deep	47	4 ★	active
24	LLM Wiki Plugin primary plugin deep	46	76 ★	active
25	Agent Loops primary plugin deep	46	143 ★	active
26	Artel primary plugin deep	45	7 ★	active
27	Longhand primary plugin deep	45	12 ★	active
28	Local RAG · TheWinci primary plugin deep	44	28 ★	active
29	Arx primary plugin deep	37	7 ★	active
30	Perplexity API Platform primary npm solid	81	30k/wk	active
31	Desktop Commander · wonderwhy-er primary plugin solid	78	9k ★	active
32	Mem0 primary plugin solid	78	62k ★	active
33	Claude Mem primary plugin solid	77	89k ★	active
34	Exa · exa-labs primary plugin solid	76	5k ★	active
35	Last30days primary plugin solid	76	54k ★	active
36	Notion · suekou primary npm solid	71	801/wk	active
37	Seekstone primary npm solid	69	2k/wk	active
38	Blockrun primary npm solid	68	636/wk	active
39	Clinicaltrialsgov primary npm solid	67	802/wk	active
40	Faf CLI primary npm solid	66	662/wk	active
41	Slack · slackapi primary plugin solid	65	86 ★	active
42	Tavily · tavily-ai primary plugin solid	65	433 ★	active
43	Sciagent Skills primary plugin solid	65	284 ★	active
44	Claude Self Reflect primary plugin solid	64	219 ★	active
45	Nimble primary plugin solid	64	50 ★	active
46	Firecrawl · firecrawl primary plugin solid	64	174 ★	active
47	Miro primary plugin solid	63	142 ★	active
48	Outline primary plugin solid	63	154 ★	active
49	Open Ontologies primary plugin solid	63	212 ★	active
50	Search1api primary npm solid	61	394/wk	active
51	Sciverse primary plugin solid	61	78 ★	active
52	Episodic Memory primary plugin solid	60	452 ★	active
53	Dark Memory primary npm solid	60	409/wk	active
54	Zyte Web Data primary plugin solid	59	27 ★	active
55	Parallel primary plugin solid	57	62 ★	active
56	Immich Photo Manager primary plugin solid	56	33 ★	active
57	LLM Wiki Compiler primary plugin solid	56	303 ★	active
58	Openephemeris primary npm solid	56	197/wk	active
59	Box primary plugin solid	54	5 ★	active
60	Private Journal primary plugin solid	54	416 ★	active
61	Mycelium primary plugin solid	53	54 ★	active
62	Antigravity · MarcosNahuel primary plugin solid	53	21 ★	active
63	Boltz primary plugin solid	53	4 ★	active
64	Origin primary plugin solid	52	47 ★	active
65	Mind primary plugin solid	52	533 ★	stable
66	Serpapi Claude Plugin primary plugin solid	52	13 ★	active
67	Loreconvo primary plugin solid	50	10 ★	active
68	Kagura Memory primary plugin solid	50	8 ★	active
69	Scout primary plugin solid	49	7 ★	active
70	Gyoshu primary plugin solid	49	240 ★	stable
71	Oh My Obsidian primary plugin solid	48	27 ★	active
72	Private Journal · 2389-research primary plugin solid	48	9 ★	active
73	Retrieve The Forgotten Memory primary plugin solid	48	20 ★	active
74	Stickies primary npm solid	48	68/wk	active
75	Browser Use primary plugin solid	48	7 ★	active
76	AI Coding Ok primary plugin solid	47	15 ★	active
77	Flexcompute primary plugin solid	47	5 ★	active
78	Archcore primary plugin solid	46	50 ★	active
79	Harness Designing Plugin primary plugin solid	46	5 ★	active
80	Mako AI primary plugin solid	46	51 ★	active
81	Phd Deepread primary plugin solid	45	56 ★	active
82	Releases primary plugin solid	45	3 ★	active
83	Session Recall primary plugin solid	44	6 ★	active
84	Bedrock primary plugin solid	43	86 ★	active
85	Bleu primary plugin solid	43	3 ★	active
86	Hipocampus primary plugin solid	43	160 ★	active
87	Project With Reflect primary plugin solid	43	13 ★	active
88	Gnosis primary plugin solid	42	25 ★	active
89	Letter For Myself primary plugin solid	42	4 ★	active
90	Recall · bledden primary plugin solid	42	22 ★	active
91	Vibesurfer primary plugin solid	42	15 ★	active
92	Research Co Pilot primary plugin solid	42	5 ★	active
93	Nnsight primary plugin solid	42	9 ★	active
94	Research · hec-ovi primary plugin solid	41	11 ★	active
95	Research Paper Writing primary plugin solid	41	3 ★	active
96	Membase primary plugin solid	40	3 ★	active
97	Vault Pkm primary plugin solid	40	13 ★	active
98	Trends Hub primary npm solid	38	1k/wk	abandoned
99	Harus Skills primary plugin solid	37	5 ★	active
100	Stepfun primary npm solid	37	624/wk	active
101	Memory primary npm ✓ Anthropic	96	152k/wk	active
102	Deeplake Hivemind primary plugin	70	2k ★	active
103	Hivemind primary plugin	70	2k ★	active
104	Mediawiki primary npm	70	566/wk	active
105	Scraper primary npm	70	2k/wk	active
106	Monomind primary npm	68	1k/wk	active
107	Gogcli MCP Drive primary npm	63	709/wk	active
108	Ltcai primary npm	57	110/wk	active
109	Travel Search And Booking API And Skills primary plugin	56	880 ★	active
110	Brightdata Plugin primary plugin	50	4 marketplaces	—
111	Context7 · anthropics primary plugin	46	2 marketplaces	—
112	Math Olympiad primary plugin	46	2 marketplaces	—
113	Dropbox primary plugin	44	2 ★	active
114	Haunt API primary plugin	44	2 ★	active
115	Munin Memory primary plugin	43	3 ★	active
116	Feedpik primary npm	43	25/wk	active
117	Aria Knowledge primary plugin	42	16 ★	active
118	Knowledge Graph primary plugin	42	4 ★	active
119	Egnyte primary plugin	41	2 ★	active
120	Mindmap Markmap Viewer primary plugin	41	67 ★	active
121	Graph Query primary plugin	40	2 ★	active
122	Learn · agent-sh primary plugin	40	2 ★	active
123	Memex Bookmarking 2nd Brain primary plugin	40	0 ★	active
124	Memex · STiFLeR7 primary plugin	40	0 ★	active
125	Comparative Landscape Brief primary plugin	40	1 marketplaces	active
126	Searching Apple Notes primary plugin	39	1 ★	active
127	Ultratech AI Memory primary plugin	39	0 ★	active
128	Asaki Memory primary plugin	39	0 ★	active
129	Logseq primary plugin	39	1 marketplaces	active
130	LinkedIn Apply primary plugin	39	1 marketplaces	active
131	Claude Patterns primary plugin	38	1 ★	active
132	Qoder Wiki primary plugin	36	1 marketplaces	active
133	Claudian Installer primary plugin	36	1 marketplaces	active
134	Alltuu Downloader primary plugin	36	1 marketplaces	active
135	Photoplus Downloader primary plugin	36	1 marketplaces	active
136	Paper Interpreter primary plugin	36	1 marketplaces	active
137	Article Interpreter primary plugin	36	1 marketplaces	active
138	Slite primary npm	35	2k/wk	abandoned
139	Research Toolkit · gioviat primary plugin	34	2 ★	active
·	Handoff · alirezarezvani primary skill	not scored yet	10 repos	active
·	Gdrive primary npm ✓ Anthropic deprecated	not scored yet	4k/wk	abandoned
·	Research primary skill	not scored yet	9 repos	active
·	Brave Search · modelcontextprotocol primary npm ✓ Anthropic deprecated	not scored yet	13k/wk	abandoned
144	Obsidian · StevenStavrakis primary pkg thin	79	3k/wk	active
145	Claude Scholar primary plugin thin	72	5k ★	active
146	Actionbook primary plugin thin	70	2k ★	active
147	Brave Search Skills primary plugin thin	60	161 ★	active
148	Bettercallclaude primary plugin thin	59	33 ★	active
149	Notion · makenotion primary plugin thin	55	454 ★	stable
150	Tinyfish primary plugin thin	55	14 ★	active

Recently changed in Researcher

514 changes recorded here in the last 45 days, newest and most serious first.

2026-08-05 Search1api — search1api now reaches credentials
2026-08-05 Gdrive — @modelcontextprotocol/server-gdrive was marked deprecated on npm
2026-08-05 Brave Search · modelcontextprotocol — @modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search was marked deprecated on npm
2026-08-05 One Search — one-search-mcp now reaches browser

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