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Enables logging time to Tempo (Jira time tracker) via natural language in Claude Desktop or OpenCode.

A Multi-Agent Conversation Protocol server that provides access to the New York Times Most Popular API, allowing agents to interact with NYT's most viewed, shared, and emailed content.

MCP server for personal knowledge management providing AI-powered tools for semantic search, audio transcription, image generation, and PPT creation.

Provides five safe tools (calc, search, model_drift, compare_runs, grade_answer) for arithmetic, keyword search, model drift monitoring, eval comparison, and answer grading against sources, all implemented directly from the MCP spec with zero dependencies.

An MCP server that enables users to search for recipes and cooking instructions via the API Ninjas Recipe API. It supports querying specific dishes and provides paginated results for recipe discovery.

Enables sentiment analysis of text blocks using the Api Ninjas API, returning sentiment scores and overall sentiment classification for up to 2000 characters of text.

Enables querying current date and time information by city/state/country, geographic coordinates (latitude/longitude), or timezone using the API Ninjas World Time API.

Enables access to the API Ninjas Riddles API to retrieve random riddles. Users can request between 1-20 riddles at a time through a simple interface.

An MCP server that enables users to retrieve trivia questions and answers across various categories through the API-Ninjas Trivia API. It supports customizable result limits and filtering by categories like science, history, and entertainment.

Enables geocoding and reverse geocoding operations to convert city names to coordinates and coordinates to location names using the API Ninjas service.

Provides access to the Nutrition By Api Ninjas API to extract detailed nutritional information from natural language food queries. It enables users to retrieve data such as calories, vitamins, and macros from text descriptions of meals.

Provides access to the Timezone By Location API to retrieve timezone information based on geographic location data.

MCP server for compressing AI embeddings by 5-7x using TurboQuant (PolarQuant + QJL), with tools to compress, decompress, estimate savings, and embed+compress vectors.

Local MCP servers that give Claude Code access to other tools mid-session.

Enables a family assistant to search documents, inspect, fill, edit, and sign files, manage scheduled work and runs, and perform web searches, with each tool gated by the caller's groups.

Enables clinical question answering via OpenEvidence with citation verification, including tools to ask questions, retrieve results, and follow up, plus an integrated skill to check citations against primary sources.

A modular multi-server architecture providing development automation, JIRA management, and performance reporting for Claude Code. It features specialized tools for PR health analysis, code reviews, and generating comprehensive team and individual quarterly reports.

Provides access to measured x402 ecosystem data, allowing users to query which merchants actually accept payment (verified by real on-chain settlements) and explore market concentration and health statistics.

Provides MSP support tools (ticket search, draft response, KB search, update) with a deterministic security guardrail that refuses to draft responses for security tickets based on content scanning, even if mislabeled.

MCP server that exposes tools to route natural language queries to typed IDs, describe catalog entries, and list repository verification commands for the m-dev-tools organization.