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Enables searching current used car, truck, and motorcycle parts in the US, resolving vehicles via VIN, and retrieving part listings with source attribution, through read-only MCP tools.

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.

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

A comprehensive Model Context Protocol server providing access to 70+ IT tools for developers and system administrators, including encoding/decoding, text manipulation, hashing, and network utilities.

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.

Enables users to annotate individual sentences or selected passages of Claude's responses in an inline interface and send all their replies and questions back in a single message. Claude then answers each point in turn.

Stdio MCP server for managing recommended.by lists from agents like OpenClaw, Codex, Claude Desktop, etc. It exposes tools to create, read, update, delete lists and items via the recommended.by REST API.

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.

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.

Enables deterministic calculations for AI API and subscription costs, meeting time zones, recurring schedules, and cron next-run previews, returning normalized inputs, units, assumptions, dated sources, and links to results.

MCP server for jar.tools' JAR security scanner. Enables AI agents to scan local .jar, .zip, or .class files for supply-chain risk without opening a browser.

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

An MCP server that exposes 43 domain tools behind 4 meta-tools, applying guardrails such as budgets, rate limits, schema validation, human-in-the-loop confirmation for mutations, PII redaction, and an append-only audit log while reducing context window usage.

Provides Korean-specific financial calculators (4 insurances, salary net, severance pay, capital gains tax, DSR/DTI, FX conversion, housing subscription score) as MCP tools for AI agents.