Systematic Reviews
Toolkit
Claude Code plugins, MCP servers, and research platforms maintained alongside Research Memex. Each page documents what the tool does, which hosts it runs on, and how to install it.
A catalog. Pick what fits.
The Toolkit holds reference pages for the Claude Code plugins, 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.
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 — alongside underlying conversion and transcription CLIs that don't have Toolkit pages because they're 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 current onboarding doesn't install them, but it could: Carrel's agents can invoke
claude plugin installlike any other shell command. The same is true cross-host — a Codex CLI or Codex app session can install a Claude Code plugin for you if Claude Code is on the machine, and you switch over to run it. Today, install these from the plugin marketplace yourself; they coexist with Carrel cleanly. - Methodology-specific MCPs — Sequential Thinking and Lotus Wisdom ship inside Interpretive Orchestration, not Carrel.
- Standalone platforms — OpenInterviewer is a web app you deploy yourself.
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. Install from the marketplace; one process per Claude Code session.
MCP Servers
Model Context Protocol tools any compliant client (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex CLI, Cursor, …) can call. Installable manually or, for some, via Carrel's interview.
Research Platforms
Standalone web platforms — deployed independently, used in a browser. Not invoked by an agent at runtime.
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.