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Research Memex

Systematic Reviews

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.

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, Zotero MCP for citation-library work — 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 install like 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.
  • 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.

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.

Skill Artifacts

Portable instruction packages a coding agent reads and turns into a workflow. They are not running servers, but they still belong in the catalog.

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.