Official
Microsoft's utility and MCP server that turn PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML and other files into Markdown for models
Skills and MCP servers for Claude Desktop
Anthropic's Claude desktop app: chat with MCP servers and local tools connected.
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Download Claude Desktop
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Official sources only: the developer site and app stores. No mirrors or third-party builds.
How to connect to Claude Desktop
What the agent reads
- MCP
Install with one command
npx skillfoxx add mcp/markitdown --agent claude-desktopExample for “MarkItDown”. Any entry installs the same way, by its catalog address. The CLI checks the recipe signature and writes the Claude Desktop settings itself.
MCP servers
All 1,059Reference MCP servers
Model Context Protocol servers
Official reference MCP servers: Filesystem, Fetch, Git, Memory, Sequential Thinking, Time and Everything
An MCP server built into the Netdata agent: metrics, logs, alerts and live process, service and container data for an AI assistant
Official
Local memory for agents: stores conversations and project files verbatim and retrieves them with semantic search over MCP
Official
A self-hosted knowledge base with block-level references and a built-in MCP server for connecting AI agents to your notes
Official
An MCP server and web tool for improving prompts: three tools for optimizing system and user prompts with iterative refinement
Skills
All 58A skill that gathers the last 30 days of discussion on a topic from Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, Polymarket and GitHub into one brief
A skill that strips AI writing tells from text using Wikipedia's list, without adding invented facts
Vercel skills for agents
Agent Skills
Vercel skills: React and Next.js performance, UI checks by guidelines, React Native, component composition, and deployment
inn-check-ru: counterparty risk traffic light
inn-check-ru
An open-source skill that checks a Russian company by tax ID across EGRUL, bailiffs, courts, bankruptcy and sanctions, and returns a dated risk verdict
PaddleOCR agent skills
PaddleOCR Agent Skills
Two official PaddleOCR skills: text recognition from images and PDFs, and parsing complex documents into Markdown
A short skill with strict rules that removes stock AI phrases and structures from prose
CLI tools
All 42Local search over Markdown notes, docs and meeting transcripts: keywords, semantic search and reranking, with an MCP server
Packs a repository into one LLM-ready file with token counts, code compression and secret filtering, also runs as an MCP server
A Python framework and CLI for MCP: write servers as plain functions, test tools and install servers into Claude Code, Cursor and other clients
Official
Static code analysis with rules that look like source code, plus a built-in MCP server for AI agents
Official
An AI assistant for Kubernetes that turns plain-language requests into kubectl operations and doubles as an MCP server
A Snyk CLI that discovers installed MCP servers, skills and agents on your machine and checks them for prompt injections and malicious payloads
Plugins
All 34Needs a VPN
Anthropic's plugin marketplace for finance teams: 10 agents plus skills and MCP connectors for DCF and LBO models, earnings, reconciliation and KYC
Needs a VPN
Anthropic's legal plugin suite: contracts, privacy, employment, IP, litigation, AI governance and legal education
A persistent memory plugin: stores observations from agent sessions and injects relevant context into new ones
Next AI Draw.io is an MCP server and plugin where the agent draws draw.io diagrams on a live browser canvas that you can edit by hand
Official
Document extraction engine for PDFs, Office files and scans, shipped as an agent plugin, MCP server and CLI
Skills and hooks for building n8n workflows through the n8n-mcp server: expressions, nodes, validation, AI agents, self-hosting
Workflows
Needs a VPN
Nine markdown files turn a Claude Project into a multi-agent context engine with plan checks and an execution trace
MAX AI secretary guide
clawbot-max-guide
A set of simplified Python examples for assembling a personal AI secretary in the MAX messenger via the Bot API, User API and MCP
Prompts
Awesome Prompts by AI Boost
Awesome ChatGPT Prompts (GPTs Store)
Over 370 ready-made persona system prompts, collected from top-rated custom GPTs in the GPTs Store
In short
Claude Desktop can be extended with MCP servers, skills, CLI tools, and plugins from the SkillFoxx catalog to enhance document processing, memory management, prompt optimization, and integration with external data sources. Key MCP servers include MarkItDown for file conversion to Markdown, MemPalace for local memory storage, and Reference MCP servers for core AI functions. Skills add capabilities like text recognition (PaddleOCR) and topic briefs (last30days), while CLI tools like FastMCP facilitate MCP server development and deployment. Plugins provide specialized functions such as persistent memory (Claude-Mem) and document extraction (Xberg).
FAQ
how do i connect an mcp server to claude desktop?
Use FastMCP CLI to write and install MCP servers into Claude Desktop. MCP servers like MarkItDown and MemPalace are compatible and can be integrated via FastMCP.
which tools are best for document processing with claude desktop?
MarkItDown MCP server converts various file formats to Markdown. Xberg plugin extracts data from PDFs and Office files. PaddleOCR skills perform text recognition from images and PDFs.
are there official plugins for claude desktop memory management?
Yes, Claude-Mem is an official persistent memory plugin that stores session observations and injects relevant context into new sessions for Claude Desktop.