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Toolkit

The Toolkit collects the plugins, MCP servers, skills, and platforms that support Research Memex workflows.

A catalog. Pick what fits.

The Toolkit holds reference pages for the Claude Code plugins, skill artifacts, MCP servers, and research platforms built around the Research Memex approach. Each page documents what the tool does, which hosts it runs on, and how to install it.

How this catalog relates to practice

The catalog includes several kinds of relationship. They should not be mistaken for one fixed daily stack.

Current working core: MinerU, Memex Plugin, Vox MCP, Kimi Plugin for Claude Code, Sequential Thinking, and Lotus Wisdom recur in active research work.
Source infrastructure: Zotero remains useful for source and citation-library work; Zotero MCP keeps that library available to agents.
Onboarding: Carrel helps other researchers configure themselves onto this stack.
Occasional experimentation: DeepThonk is used selectively and also serves as a proof-of-concept project.
External-facing projects: Research Scanner, Interpretive Orchestration, and OpenInterviewer are built and maintained for broader use. They are not all steps in the author's routine personal workflow.

Carrel installs much of this for you

Carrel is a Claude Code plugin that interviews a researcher, audits their machine, and configures an Obsidian-centered environment. It installs the MCPs in this catalog that the interview warrants: Vox for multi-model access, MinerU for complex PDF parsing, and Zotero MCP for citation-library work. It also installs underlying conversion and transcription CLIs that do not have Toolkit pages because they are not agent-callable.

What Carrel doesn't install today:

Other Claude Code plugins (scope, not architecture): Memex, Kimi Plugin, and Interpretive Orchestration are siblings to Carrel. The onboarding could install them and today doesn't. Install from the plugin marketplace yourself; they coexist with Carrel cleanly.
Skill artifacts: Research Scanner is a portable skill brief, not a plugin Carrel installs.
Methodology-specific and compute-heavy MCPs: Sequential Thinking and Lotus Wisdom ship inside Interpretive Orchestration; DeepThonk is added manually when you want OpenDeepThink-style test-time compute.
Standalone platforms: OpenInterviewer is a web app you deploy yourself.

The per-tool install paths live on Carrel's own page, derived from the registry rather than restated here.

If you want the catalog without the conversation, browse the sections in the sidebar. If you want the conversation, start with Carrel and let the interview pick from this catalog on your behalf.

How the sections divide

Claude Code Plugins

Slash commands, agents, hooks, and skills that extend Claude Code itself.

Skill Artifacts

Portable instruction packages an agent reads and turns into a workflow.

MCP Servers

Model Context Protocol tools any compliant client can call.

Research Platforms

Standalone web platforms, deployed independently and used in a browser.

Each tool page opens with a host support matrix: an honest reading of which hosts each tool reaches at full capability, which are adjacent (the pattern is reachable, the plugin is not), and which are out of scope.

cite this page

Lin, X. (2026). Toolkit. Research Memex. https://research-memex.org/docs/toolkit

@misc{docs-toolkit-2026,
  author = {Xule Lin},
  title = {Toolkit},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://research-memex.org/docs/toolkit}},
  note = {ORCID: 0000-0001-7885-4194}
}

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