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    {
      "id": "google-gemini",
      "name": "Google Gemini API",
      "provider": "Google",
      "description": "Frontier multimodal models on a permanent free tier — Flash and Flash-Lite families only since April 2026.",
      "free_limit": "1,500 requests/day on Flash, 1,000/day on Flash-Lite; 250K TPM",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
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        "gemini-3-flash",
        "gemini-3.1-flash-lite",
        "gemini-2.5-flash"
      ],
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        "text",
        "vision",
        "audio",
        "video"
      ],
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      "data_used_for_training": true,
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        "essential",
        "multimodal",
        "long-context",
        "frontier",
        "no-card"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Free-tier prompts are used to improve Google products outside the EU/UK/EEA. Pro models left the free tier in April 2026."
    },
    {
      "id": "groq",
      "name": "Groq Cloud",
      "provider": "Groq",
      "description": "Open-weight models at 300+ tokens/sec on LPU hardware, with the most generous request-per-day allowance of any free tier.",
      "free_limit": "1,000 req/day and 200K tokens/day per model",
      "free_limit_tokens_per_day": 200000,
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "30 RPM, 8K TPM",
      "models": [
        "gpt-oss-120b",
        "gpt-oss-20b",
        "qwen3.6-27b"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text"
      ],
      "context_window": 131072,
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://groq.com",
      "docs_url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits",
      "signup_url": "https://console.groq.com/keys",
      "tags": [
        "essential",
        "fast-inference",
        "openai-compatible",
        "no-card",
        "agents"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The 200K tokens/day ceiling usually binds before the request count does. Llama models were removed from the free plan in 2026."
    },
    {
      "id": "openrouter-free",
      "name": "OpenRouter Free Models",
      "provider": "OpenRouter",
      "description": "One OpenAI-compatible key fronting 19+ `:free` models across providers — the best way to A/B models without multiple signups.",
      "free_limit": "50 requests/day (1,000/day after a one-time $10 credit purchase)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "20 RPM",
      "models": [
        "deepseek-v3.2",
        "llama-4-scout",
        "qwen3-coder",
        "gemma-3-27b"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision"
      ],
      "context_window": 262144,
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://openrouter.ai",
      "docs_url": "https://openrouter.ai/docs/api-reference/limits",
      "signup_url": "https://openrouter.ai/settings/keys",
      "tags": [
        "essential",
        "multi-provider",
        "openai-compatible",
        "model-comparison",
        "no-card"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The `:free` roster rotates monthly. Upstream providers frequently return 429s on free variants."
    },
    {
      "id": "cloudflare-workers-ai",
      "name": "Cloudflare Workers AI",
      "provider": "Cloudflare",
      "description": "Serverless inference that runs inside a Worker — no egress cost, no cold-start management, free daily budget.",
      "free_limit": "10,000 Neurons/day (roughly 3-8K short LLM calls/day)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Account-level; unchanged by plan",
      "models": [
        "llama-3.3-70b",
        "gpt-oss-120b",
        "qwen3",
        "kimi-k2.5",
        "flux-1-schnell",
        "whisper"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision",
        "image-gen",
        "speech-to-text"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/",
      "docs_url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/",
      "signup_url": "https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up",
      "tags": [
        "essential",
        "edge",
        "serverless",
        "embeddings",
        "no-card"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Budget is denominated in Neurons, not tokens — per-model conversion varies, so budget by testing one call."
    },
    {
      "id": "github-models",
      "name": "GitHub Models",
      "provider": "GitHub / Microsoft",
      "description": "Frontier and open models behind a GitHub PAT — the lowest-friction free tier if you already have a GitHub account.",
      "free_limit": "150-1,000 requests/day depending on tier and model",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "15 RPM",
      "models": [
        "gpt-4o",
        "claude-sonnet",
        "llama-4",
        "phi-4",
        "mistral-large"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/features/models",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.github.com/en/github-models",
      "signup_url": "https://github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens",
      "tags": [
        "essential",
        "frontier",
        "no-card",
        "github-native",
        "prototyping"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Intended for prototyping, not production traffic. Rate limits are per-model."
    },
    {
      "id": "mistral-la-plateforme",
      "name": "Mistral La Plateforme (Experiment)",
      "provider": "Mistral AI",
      "description": "European-hosted Mistral family with a free Experiment mode worth roughly $10/month of credits, no card required.",
      "free_limit": "~$10/month of credits in Experiment mode (about 1B tokens/month on small models)",
      "free_limit_tokens_per_day": 33000000,
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": true,
      "rate_limit": "2 RPM on free mode",
      "models": [
        "mistral-medium-3.5",
        "mistral-small-3.2",
        "magistral",
        "codestral"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "embeddings"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": true,
      "url": "https://mistral.ai",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.mistral.ai/getting-started/models/models_overview/",
      "signup_url": "https://console.mistral.ai/",
      "tags": [
        "essential",
        "eu-hosted",
        "code",
        "gdpr-friendly",
        "no-card"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Experiment mode trains on your prompts by default. The 2 RPM limit makes it a batch/offline worker, not an interactive backend."
    },
    {
      "id": "nvidia-nim",
      "name": "NVIDIA NIM API Catalog",
      "provider": "NVIDIA",
      "description": "Free hosted endpoints for NVIDIA-curated open models (Nemotron, Llama, DeepSeek), built for prototyping.",
      "free_limit": "1,000 API credits (26,000 total requests) on signup",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Up to 40 RPM",
      "models": [
        "nemotron-4",
        "llama-3.3-70b",
        "deepseek-r1",
        "mixtral"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision",
        "embeddings"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://build.nvidia.com",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.api.nvidia.com",
      "signup_url": "https://build.nvidia.com/explore/discover",
      "tags": [
        "essential",
        "frontier",
        "open-models",
        "prototyping",
        "no-card"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Credits are one-time and not refilled; some models are marked as evaluation-use only."
    },
    {
      "id": "zai-glm-free",
      "name": "Z.ai GLM Flash Models",
      "provider": "Z.ai (Zhipu)",
      "description": "GLM-4.x Flash models served free of charge, popular as a drop-in for reasoning and coding agents.",
      "free_limit": "Unmetered access to GLM-4.7-Flash and GLM-4.5-Flash",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": true,
      "rate_limit": "Community-tier concurrency limits",
      "models": [
        "glm-4.7-flash",
        "glm-4.5-flash"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text"
      ],
      "context_window": 128000,
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://z.ai",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing",
      "signup_url": "https://z.ai/",
      "tags": [
        "agentic",
        "coding",
        "no-card"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Flash tiers are free but rate-limited during peak hours in Asia."
    },
    {
      "id": "cohere-trial",
      "name": "Cohere Trial Keys",
      "provider": "Cohere",
      "description": "Every Cohere model including Command A and the Embed/Rerank family on a free trial key, non-commercial use only.",
      "free_limit": "1,000 API calls/month",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "20 RPM",
      "models": [
        "command-a",
        "command-r-plus",
        "embed-v4",
        "rerank-v3.5"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "embeddings",
        "rerank"
      ],
      "commercial_use": false,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://cohere.com",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.cohere.com/docs/rate-limits",
      "signup_url": "https://dashboard.cohere.com/api-keys",
      "tags": [
        "rag",
        "embeddings",
        "rerank",
        "non-commercial"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Trial keys explicitly prohibit production/commercial use — fine for a POC, not for a shipped product."
    },
    {
      "id": "huggingface-inference",
      "name": "Hugging Face Inference Providers",
      "provider": "Hugging Face",
      "description": "One router in front of 18 inference partners, with monthly free credits on any account.",
      "free_limit": "$0.10/month of included inference credits",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Provider-dependent",
      "models": [
        "llama-4",
        "qwen3",
        "deepseek-v3",
        "flux-1"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision",
        "image-gen",
        "speech-to-text",
        "text-to-speech"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://huggingface.co",
      "docs_url": "https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/index",
      "signup_url": "https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens",
      "tags": [
        "essential",
        "open-models",
        "multi-provider",
        "hub"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The $0.10/month allowance is genuinely small — treat this as a smoke-test credit, not a workload budget."
    },
    {
      "id": "sambanova-cloud",
      "name": "SambaNova Cloud",
      "provider": "SambaNova",
      "description": "Very fast hosted open-model inference with a permanent per-model daily token allowance.",
      "free_limit": "200,000 tokens/day per model",
      "free_limit_tokens_per_day": 200000,
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Rate-limited by token budget",
      "models": [
        "llama-3.1-405b",
        "llama-3.3-70b",
        "deepseek-r1",
        "qwen3-32b"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://cloud.sambanova.ai",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.sambanova.ai/",
      "signup_url": "https://cloud.sambanova.ai/",
      "tags": [
        "essential",
        "fast-inference",
        "open-models",
        "405b"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Quota is per model, so stacking three models triples your effective daily allowance."
    },
    {
      "id": "alibaba-model-studio",
      "name": "Alibaba Cloud Model Studio",
      "provider": "Alibaba Cloud",
      "description": "Qwen family access with a free per-model token grant — the cleanest route to Qwen3 Coder for free.",
      "free_limit": "~1M free tokens per model, valid 90 days",
      "free_limit_tokens_per_day": 1000000,
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": true,
      "rate_limit": "Low RPM on free quota",
      "models": [
        "qwen3-max",
        "qwen3-coder",
        "qwq",
        "qwen-vl"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision",
        "image-gen"
      ],
      "context_window": 1000000,
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/product/modelstudio",
      "docs_url": "https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/models",
      "signup_url": "https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com/",
      "tags": [
        "qwen",
        "long-context",
        "coder",
        "china"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Grants expire 90 days after activation and do not renew — good for a build sprint, not a standing tier."
    },
    {
      "id": "google-cloud-vertex-free-credits",
      "name": "Google Cloud Vertex AI Free Credits",
      "provider": "Google Cloud",
      "description": "Vertex AI access to Gemini and Model Garden on new-account credits — the enterprise-labelled alternative to AI Studio.",
      "free_limit": "$300 in new-customer credits valid 90 days",
      "requires_card": true,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Paid-tier quotas from day one",
      "models": [
        "gemini-3-flash",
        "gemini-3.1-pro",
        "llama-4",
        "mistral"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision",
        "video",
        "embeddings"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai",
      "docs_url": "https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/start/quickstarts/quickstart-multimodal",
      "signup_url": "https://console.cloud.google.com/",
      "tags": [
        "enterprise",
        "credits",
        "google-cloud"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Requires a billing account with a card, so it fails the strictest no-card filter — but the $300 covers a serious prototype."
    },
    {
      "id": "azure-ai-foundry-free",
      "name": "Azure AI Foundry Free Credits",
      "provider": "Microsoft",
      "description": "Azure-hosted OpenAI, Phi and Llama models with the new Azure free-account credit bundle.",
      "free_limit": "$200 in credits valid 30 days",
      "requires_card": true,
      "requires_phone": true,
      "rate_limit": "Per-deployment quotas",
      "models": [
        "gpt-4o",
        "phi-4",
        "llama-4",
        "mistral-large"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision",
        "speech-to-text",
        "text-to-speech"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-foundry",
      "docs_url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/",
      "signup_url": "https://azure.microsoft.com/free/",
      "tags": [
        "enterprise",
        "credits",
        "openai-models"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Identity verification with a card is mandatory; 30-day clock makes it a sprint budget."
    },
    {
      "id": "aws-bedrock-free-tier",
      "name": "Amazon Bedrock Free Tier",
      "provider": "AWS",
      "description": "Bedrock-hosted Claude, Llama and Titan models on the AWS free tier for new accounts.",
      "free_limit": "Trial credits for Nova and select models for new AWS accounts",
      "requires_card": true,
      "requires_phone": true,
      "rate_limit": "Per-model on-demand quotas",
      "models": [
        "amazon-nova-pro",
        "claude-haiku",
        "llama-4",
        "titan"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision",
        "embeddings"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/",
      "signup_url": "https://aws.amazon.com/free/",
      "tags": [
        "enterprise",
        "credits",
        "aws"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Card required at signup. Bedrock model access must be requested per model in the console."
    },
    {
      "id": "baidu-qianfan",
      "name": "Baidu Qianfan (ERNIE)",
      "provider": "Baidu",
      "description": "ERNIE Speed and ERNIE Lite are permanently free on Baidu's Qianfan console for Chinese-language agents.",
      "free_limit": "ERNIE Speed and Lite free of charge; others on per-token billing",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": true,
      "rate_limit": "Low RPM on free models",
      "models": [
        "ernie-speed",
        "ernie-lite",
        "ernie-4.5"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://cloud.baidu.com/product/wenxinworkshop",
      "docs_url": "https://cloud.baidu.com/doc/WENXINWORKSHOP/index.html",
      "signup_url": "https://console.bce.baidu.com/qianfan/",
      "tags": [
        "china",
        "chinese-language",
        "free-models"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Requires a mainland-China verified phone number for full access."
    },
    {
      "id": "siliconflow-free-models",
      "name": "SiliconFlow",
      "provider": "SiliconFlow",
      "description": "Chinese inference host that keeps a rotating set of open models free to call, including embedding and rerank models.",
      "free_limit": "Rotating set of free models (Qwen, GLM, DeepSeek small variants)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": true,
      "rate_limit": "3-10 RPM on free models",
      "models": [
        "qwen3-8b",
        "glm-4-9b",
        "bge-m3",
        "bce-reranker"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "embeddings",
        "rerank"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://siliconflow.com",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/userguide/rate-limits/rate-limit-and-upgradation",
      "signup_url": "https://cloud.siliconflow.cn/account/ak",
      "tags": [
        "embeddings",
        "rerank",
        "free-models",
        "rag"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Free model list changes without notice; the reranker and embedding models are the durable part."
    },
    {
      "id": "chutes",
      "name": "Chutes.ai",
      "provider": "Chutes",
      "description": "Decentralised open-model inference with a community tier that costs nothing for low-volume agent calls.",
      "free_limit": "Community tier: quota-limited free requests across 100+ open models",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Community queue priority",
      "models": [
        "deepseek-v3",
        "llama-4",
        "qwen3-coder"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "image-gen"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://chutes.ai",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.chutes.ai",
      "signup_url": "https://chutes.ai/app/api",
      "tags": [
        "decentralised",
        "open-models",
        "community"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "degraded",
      "notes": "Community capacity is best-effort; expect queueing at peak. Fine for batch, risky for user-facing agents."
    },
    {
      "id": "vercel-ai-gateway",
      "name": "Vercel AI Gateway",
      "provider": "Vercel",
      "description": "One endpoint in front of every major provider with free monthly included credit and per-request observability.",
      "free_limit": "$5/month of included AI credits on the Hobby plan",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Gateway-level, per provider",
      "models": [
        "gpt-4o",
        "claude-sonnet",
        "gemini-3-flash",
        "llama-4"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision",
        "image-gen",
        "embeddings"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://vercel.com/ai-gateway",
      "docs_url": "https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway",
      "signup_url": "https://vercel.com/signup",
      "tags": [
        "gateway",
        "multi-provider",
        "observability",
        "fallbacks"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Also works as a BYOK proxy — you can route your existing free keys through it for logging and failover."
    },
    {
      "id": "cloudflare-ai-gateway",
      "name": "Cloudflare AI Gateway",
      "provider": "Cloudflare",
      "description": "Free caching, rate-limiting and logging proxy placed in front of any provider, including your own free keys.",
      "free_limit": "Free on all plans; caching and analytics included",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Not applicable (proxy layer)",
      "modalities": [
        "text"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/",
      "docs_url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/configuration/",
      "signup_url": "https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up",
      "tags": [
        "gateway",
        "caching",
        "observability",
        "cost-control"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The single highest-leverage free tool in this list: response caching can stretch a 1,000 req/day quota several-fold."
    },
    {
      "id": "fireworks-ai",
      "name": "Fireworks AI",
      "provider": "Fireworks AI",
      "description": "Fast open-model inference with a small no-card starter credit.",
      "free_limit": "$1 one-time credit",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "10 RPM until a payment method is added",
      "models": [
        "llama-4",
        "deepseek-v3",
        "qwen3-coder",
        "flux-1"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision",
        "image-gen"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://fireworks.ai",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.fireworks.ai/getting-started/quickstart",
      "signup_url": "https://fireworks.ai/login",
      "tags": [
        "trial",
        "open-models",
        "fast-inference"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The account suspends when the $1 is spent. Treat as a smoke test, not a tier."
    },
    {
      "id": "cerebras-cloud",
      "name": "Cerebras Cloud",
      "provider": "Cerebras",
      "description": "Wafer-scale inference — still the fastest tokens/sec available — but the permanent free tier ended in July 2026.",
      "free_limit": "$5 trial credit valid 30 days (card verification required since 2026-07-16)",
      "requires_card": true,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "5 RPM, 30K TPM on trial",
      "models": [
        "gpt-oss-120b",
        "glm-4.7",
        "qwen3-32b"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text"
      ],
      "context_window": 8192,
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://cloud.cerebras.ai",
      "docs_url": "https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/support/rate-limits",
      "signup_url": "https://cloud.cerebras.ai/",
      "tags": [
        "fast-inference",
        "trial",
        "card-required"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "degraded",
      "notes": "Downgraded from a no-card permanent free tier to a card-gated 30-day trial. Context is capped at 8K on trial."
    },
    {
      "id": "deepinfra",
      "name": "DeepInfra",
      "provider": "DeepInfra",
      "description": "Cheap open-model inference with a small signup credit and no card requirement for the trial.",
      "free_limit": "$1.80 one-time credit",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Standard trial limits",
      "models": [
        "llama-4",
        "qwen3",
        "deepseek-v3",
        "whisper"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision",
        "speech-to-text",
        "image-gen"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://deepinfra.com",
      "docs_url": "https://deepinfra.com/docs",
      "signup_url": "https://deepinfra.com/login",
      "tags": [
        "trial",
        "open-models",
        "cheap"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ai21-studio",
      "name": "AI21 Studio",
      "provider": "AI21 Labs",
      "description": "Jamba family models with a recurring free allowance aimed at evaluation.",
      "free_limit": "$10 in credits every 3 months on the free plan",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "3 RPM on free plan",
      "models": [
        "jamba-1.6-large",
        "jamba-1.6-mini"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text"
      ],
      "context_window": 256000,
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://www.ai21.com/studio",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.ai21.com",
      "signup_url": "https://studio.ai21.com/sign-up",
      "tags": [
        "long-context",
        "trial",
        "recurring-credits"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "One of the few providers whose free credit refreshes on a schedule rather than once."
    },
    {
      "id": "moonshot-kimi-trial",
      "name": "Moonshot Kimi API",
      "provider": "Moonshot AI",
      "description": "Kimi K2 family with signup credit for long-context Chinese and English workloads.",
      "free_limit": "Signup trial credit (roughly ¥15)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": true,
      "rate_limit": "Low on trial tier",
      "models": [
        "kimi-k2",
        "moonshot-v1-128k"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision"
      ],
      "context_window": 128000,
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://platform.moonshot.ai",
      "docs_url": "https://platform.moonshot.ai/docs",
      "signup_url": "https://platform.moonshot.ai/console/api-keys",
      "tags": [
        "long-context",
        "trial",
        "china"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "elevenlabs",
      "name": "ElevenLabs Free",
      "provider": "ElevenLabs",
      "description": "Best-in-class TTS voices with a genuine monthly free character allowance, no card required.",
      "free_limit": "10,000 characters/month",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "2 concurrent requests",
      "modalities": [
        "text-to-speech"
      ],
      "commercial_use": false,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://elevenlabs.io",
      "docs_url": "https://elevenlabs.io/docs/api-reference/text-to-speech",
      "signup_url": "https://elevenlabs.io/sign-up",
      "tags": [
        "tts",
        "voice-agent",
        "no-card"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Free-tier output requires attribution and cannot be used commercially."
    },
    {
      "id": "deepgram",
      "name": "Deepgram",
      "provider": "Deepgram",
      "description": "Low-latency STT and TTS built for voice agents, with a large one-time credit and no card on signup.",
      "free_limit": "$200 one-time credit (roughly 100 hours of Nova-3 transcription)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Standard free limits",
      "models": [
        "nova-3",
        "aura-2"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "speech-to-text",
        "text-to-speech",
        "embeddings"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://deepgram.com",
      "docs_url": "https://developers.deepgram.com/docs",
      "signup_url": "https://console.deepgram.com/signup",
      "tags": [
        "stt",
        "tts",
        "voice-agent",
        "credits"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Credit is one-time; voice agents burn it fast. Pair with a local Whisper fallback."
    },
    {
      "id": "assemblyai",
      "name": "AssemblyAI",
      "provider": "AssemblyAI",
      "description": "Speech-to-text plus audio intelligence (summarisation, topic detection) on a no-card starter credit.",
      "free_limit": "$50 one-time credit plus rate-limited free transcription",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "5 concurrent transcriptions",
      "models": [
        "universal-2",
        "slam-1"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "speech-to-text"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://www.assemblyai.com",
      "docs_url": "https://www.assemblyai.com/docs",
      "signup_url": "https://www.assemblyai.com/dashboard/signup",
      "tags": [
        "stt",
        "audio-intelligence",
        "credits"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "speechmatics",
      "name": "Speechmatics",
      "provider": "Speechmatics",
      "description": "Accurate multilingual transcription with a recurring free monthly hour allowance.",
      "free_limit": "8 hours of transcription/month",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Standard free limits",
      "modalities": [
        "speech-to-text"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://www.speechmatics.com",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.speechmatics.com",
      "signup_url": "https://portal.speechmatics.com/signup",
      "tags": [
        "stt",
        "multilingual",
        "recurring-free"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "google-cloud-speech-tts",
      "name": "Google Cloud Speech & TTS",
      "provider": "Google Cloud",
      "description": "Production speech APIs with a standing free monthly allowance for STT and WaveNet/Neural2 voices.",
      "free_limit": "60 min STT + 1M characters TTS per month",
      "requires_card": true,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Standard free-tier quotas",
      "modalities": [
        "speech-to-text",
        "text-to-speech"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text",
      "docs_url": "https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing",
      "signup_url": "https://console.cloud.google.com/",
      "tags": [
        "stt",
        "tts",
        "google-cloud",
        "recurring-free"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The STT/TTS free allowance does not expire, unlike the $300 signup credit — this is one of the best long-term free voice stacks."
    },
    {
      "id": "azure-ai-speech",
      "name": "Azure AI Speech",
      "provider": "Microsoft",
      "description": "Speech-to-text and neural TTS free allowances inside the Azure free account.",
      "free_limit": "5 hours STT + 500K characters TTS per month",
      "requires_card": true,
      "requires_phone": true,
      "rate_limit": "20 transactions/sec on free tier",
      "modalities": [
        "speech-to-text",
        "text-to-speech"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/ai-speech",
      "docs_url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/",
      "signup_url": "https://azure.microsoft.com/free/",
      "tags": [
        "stt",
        "tts",
        "azure",
        "recurring-free"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "stability-ai",
      "name": "Stability AI",
      "provider": "Stability AI",
      "description": "Stable Diffusion and Stable Audio via API, with a small recurring monthly credit grant.",
      "free_limit": "25 credits/month on the free plan",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Standard free limits",
      "models": [
        "sd-3.5-large",
        "stable-image-ultra",
        "stable-audio-2"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "image-gen",
        "audio"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://platform.stability.ai",
      "docs_url": "https://platform.stability.ai/docs/api-reference",
      "signup_url": "https://platform.stability.ai/account/keys",
      "tags": [
        "image-gen",
        "audio-gen",
        "recurring-free"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "pollinations",
      "name": "Pollinations.AI",
      "provider": "Pollinations",
      "description": "Completely keyless text and image generation API — the fastest possible zero-signup smoke test.",
      "free_limit": "Unmetered with fair-use rate limits; no API key at all",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "1 request / 5 seconds for image generation",
      "models": [
        "openai",
        "mistral",
        "flux",
        "turbo"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "image-gen",
        "speech-to-text"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://pollinations.ai",
      "docs_url": "https://github.com/pollinations/pollinations/blob/master/APIDOCS.md",
      "tags": [
        "no-key",
        "image-gen",
        "prototyping",
        "no-card"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "No SLA and no guarantee of model availability — perfect for demos, unsuitable for production."
    },
    {
      "id": "leonardo-ai",
      "name": "Leonardo.Ai API",
      "provider": "Leonardo.Ai",
      "description": "Image generation API with a daily free token allowance tied to a free account.",
      "free_limit": "150 free tokens/day (image generations)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Standard free limits",
      "modalities": [
        "image-gen"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://leonardo.ai",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.leonardo.ai/docs/getting-started",
      "signup_url": "https://docs.leonardo.ai/docs/getting-started",
      "tags": [
        "image-gen",
        "daily-free"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "voyage-ai",
      "name": "Voyage AI",
      "provider": "Voyage AI",
      "description": "High-quality embeddings and rerankers with an unusually large free token grant for RAG prototypes.",
      "free_limit": "200M free tokens across embedding and rerank models",
      "free_limit_tokens_per_day": 660000,
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "3 RPM, 10K TPM on free",
      "models": [
        "voyage-3.5",
        "voyage-code-3",
        "rerank-2.5"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "embeddings",
        "rerank"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://www.voyageai.com",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.voyageai.com/docs/rate-limits",
      "signup_url": "https://www.voyageai.com/",
      "tags": [
        "embeddings",
        "rerank",
        "rag",
        "large-free-grant"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The 3 RPM limit is the real constraint — fine for indexing a corpus offline, painful for live retrieval."
    },
    {
      "id": "jina-ai",
      "name": "Jina AI Embeddings & Reranker",
      "provider": "Jina AI",
      "description": "Multilingual embeddings, reranker and reader APIs with a large free token allowance on one key.",
      "free_limit": "10M free tokens on signup key",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Token-bucket per key",
      "models": [
        "jina-embeddings-v4",
        "jina-reranker-v2",
        "reader-lm"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "embeddings",
        "rerank"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://jina.ai",
      "docs_url": "https://jina.ai/embeddings/",
      "signup_url": "https://jina.ai/",
      "tags": [
        "embeddings",
        "rerank",
        "multilingual",
        "rag"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "mistral-embeddings-codestral",
      "name": "Mistral Codestral",
      "provider": "Mistral AI",
      "description": "Code-specialised completions and fill-in-the-middle model inside the Mistral free Experiment tier.",
      "free_limit": "Included in the Mistral free-tier monthly credit",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": true,
      "rate_limit": "2 RPM",
      "models": [
        "codestral-2508",
        "codestral-embed"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "embeddings"
      ],
      "context_window": 256000,
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": true,
      "url": "https://mistral.ai/news/codestral",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.mistral.ai/capabilities/code_generation/",
      "signup_url": "https://console.mistral.ai/",
      "tags": [
        "code",
        "fill-in-middle",
        "ide"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "bhashini",
      "name": "Bhashini (ULCA)",
      "provider": "Government of India / MeitY",
      "description": "India's national language platform — free STT, TTS, translation and OCR APIs for 22 scheduled languages.",
      "free_limit": "Free for developers via the Bhashini API program",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": true,
      "rate_limit": "Fair-use, per-API quotas",
      "modalities": [
        "speech-to-text",
        "text-to-speech",
        "translation",
        "ocr"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://bhashini.gov.in",
      "docs_url": "https://bhashini.gitbook.io/bhashini-apis",
      "signup_url": "https://bhashini.gov.in/ulca/user/register",
      "tags": [
        "india",
        "indic-languages",
        "translation",
        "government"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Requires registration approval and a pipeline configuration — the signup is heavier than a typical vendor, but the API is genuinely free."
    },
    {
      "id": "sarvam-ai",
      "name": "Sarvam AI",
      "provider": "Sarvam AI",
      "description": "Indian-language LLMs (Sarvam-M), speech and translation APIs with signup credits for Indian developers.",
      "free_limit": "Free credits on signup; usage-based afterwards",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": true,
      "rate_limit": "Low on free credits",
      "models": [
        "sarvam-m",
        "saarika",
        "bulbul"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "speech-to-text",
        "text-to-speech",
        "translation"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://www.sarvam.ai",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.sarvam.ai",
      "signup_url": "https://dashboard.sarvam.ai",
      "tags": [
        "india",
        "indic-languages",
        "voice"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Indic-language models are the differentiator; English performance is below frontier tiers."
    },
    {
      "id": "ollama",
      "name": "Ollama",
      "provider": "Ollama",
      "description": "The default way to run open models locally — one command to pull, serve and expose an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.",
      "free_limit": "Unlimited; limited only by your GPU/RAM",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "None",
      "models": [
        "gpt-oss-120b",
        "llama-4",
        "qwen3",
        "gemma-3",
        "mistral-small"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision",
        "embeddings"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://ollama.com",
      "docs_url": "https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/api.md",
      "tags": [
        "essential",
        "local",
        "privacy",
        "unlimited",
        "openai-compatible"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "No rate limit and no data leaving your machine — the correct answer to 'what is the truly free LLM API'."
    },
    {
      "id": "llama-cpp",
      "name": "llama.cpp",
      "provider": "ggml-org",
      "description": "Portable C/C++ inference engine that runs GGUF-quantised models on CPU, GPU or Apple Silicon.",
      "free_limit": "Unlimited (self-hosted, MIT licensed)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "None",
      "models": [
        "any-gguf"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp",
      "docs_url": "https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/tree/master/examples/server",
      "tags": [
        "local",
        "cpu",
        "gguf",
        "self-hosted"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "lm-studio",
      "name": "LM Studio",
      "provider": "LM Studio",
      "description": "Desktop GUI for local models with a one-click local server and built-in model discovery.",
      "free_limit": "Free for personal and work use",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "None",
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision",
        "embeddings"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": false,
      "url": "https://lmstudio.ai",
      "docs_url": "https://lmstudio.ai/docs/app/api",
      "tags": [
        "local",
        "gui",
        "beginner-friendly"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
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    {
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        "onnx",
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    {
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    {
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      "provider": "Anthropic",
      "description": "No public free API tier; the OSS program grants Claude Max to qualifying maintainers instead.",
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    {
      "id": "perplexity-api",
      "name": "Perplexity API (Sonar)",
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      "description": "Search-grounded Sonar models are paid API only; the free consumer app is not API access.",
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    {
      "id": "dahl-inference",
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    {
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    {
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      "data_used_for_training": null,
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        "open-models",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The API host is oai.endpoints.kepler.ai.cloud.ovh.net — posting to the marketing domain returns 405. Anonymous calls are accepted and then answered with \"API rate limit exceeded\", which is how the ~2 req/min cap presents itself; no key is required to reach that point. The published catalogue returns pricing of 0 for prompt, completion and request."
    },
    {
      "id": "hack-club-ai",
      "name": "Hack Club AI",
      "provider": "Hack Club",
      "description": "Free OpenAI-compatible access to Gemini, GPT-5.2, Kimi K2 and 30+ other models for Hack Clubbers — the most generous free tier aimed at teenage developers.",
      "free_limit": "Free for Hack Club members",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Not published",
      "modalities": [
        "text"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": null,
      "url": "https://ai.hackclub.com",
      "signup_url": "https://ai.hackclub.com",
      "tags": [
        "no-card",
        "students",
        "openai-compatible",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Gated on a Hack Club account, which is aimed at students and teenage hackers. Not a general-purpose public tier — do not list it as one."
    },
    {
      "id": "space-bunny-alpha",
      "name": "Space Bunny Alpha",
      "provider": "Stealth (anonymous, via OpenRouter)",
      "description": "Anonymous stealth model on OpenRouter with a 1M-token context window, free at $0 in and $0 out while the provider stays cloaked.",
      "free_limit": "Free ($0/$0 per million tokens) while the preview runs",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "OpenRouter free-tier limits",
      "models": [
        "stealth/space-bunny-alpha"
      ],
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision"
      ],
      "context_window": 1000000,
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": null,
      "url": "https://openrouter.ai/stealth/space-bunny-alpha",
      "docs_url": "https://openrouter.ai/docs",
      "signup_url": "https://openrouter.ai/keys",
      "tags": [
        "stealth",
        "free-preview",
        "openrouter",
        "hidden-gem",
        "volatile"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Confirmed live against OpenRouter's model API on 2026-09-24. Stealth previews are temporary by design: Ox Alpha, the previous drop, was unmasked as Z.AI's GLM-5.3-Flash and removed from the free catalogue within a week — which is exactly why it is not listed here. Needs an OpenRouter account, and prompts are handled by an anonymous provider, so keep secrets out of it."
    },
    {
      "id": "zenmux-free",
      "name": "ZenMux",
      "provider": "ZenMux",
      "description": "Unified gateway over 100+ models that keeps a small set of model ids permanently free, including DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision and GLM-5.3.",
      "free_limit": "Free model ids, including deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp-free and z-ai/glm-5.3-free",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Not published",
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": null,
      "url": "https://zenmux.ai",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.zenmux.ai/",
      "signup_url": "https://zenmux.ai",
      "tags": [
        "openai-compatible",
        "free-models",
        "gateway",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The gateway as a whole is commercial — only the -free suffixed model ids cost nothing. Paid tiers advertise a 5% service-fee discount on top-up, so expect upsell copy on the pricing page."
    },
    {
      "id": "puter-js",
      "name": "Puter.js",
      "provider": "Puter",
      "description": "Client-side JavaScript SDK that gives a web app AI, storage, database and auth with no backend — the developer pays nothing because each signed-in user spends credits from their own Puter account.",
      "free_limit": "Free for developers; end users spend their own Puter credits",
      "requires_card": false,
      "requires_phone": false,
      "rate_limit": "Per-user credit balance",
      "modalities": [
        "text",
        "vision"
      ],
      "commercial_use": true,
      "data_used_for_training": null,
      "url": "https://developer.puter.com",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.puter.com",
      "tags": [
        "no-signup",
        "user-pays",
        "sdk",
        "browser",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Usually marketed as \"free and unlimited\", which is only half true. It is genuinely free for the developer, but not unlimited: once a user exhausts their Puter allocation they pay Puter directly, so an app with heavy anonymous traffic will hit a wall. The open-source developer tools that wrap it as a drop-in OpenAI server are unmaintained third-party bridges and are not listed."
    }
  ],
  "mcp-servers": [
    {
      "id": "filesystem-mcp",
      "name": "Filesystem",
      "maintainer": "MCP Steering Group",
      "description": "Secure local file operations with configurable allow-listed directories — the reference server every local agent starts with.",
      "install": "npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem /path/to/allowed/dir",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "tools_exposed": 14,
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/filesystem",
      "docs_url": "https://modelcontextprotocol.io/",
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode",
        "windsurf",
        "zed",
        "cline"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "files",
        "local",
        "reference",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Always pass an explicit allow-listed root. Running it on `/` gives an agent write access to your whole machine."
    },
    {
      "id": "fetch-mcp",
      "name": "Fetch",
      "maintainer": "MCP Steering Group",
      "description": "Fetches a URL and converts it to clean markdown for the model, with robots.txt respect and chunked reading.",
      "install": "uvx mcp-server-fetch",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "python",
      "tools_exposed": 1,
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/fetch",
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode",
        "cline"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "web",
        "scraping",
        "markdown",
        "reference"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "git-mcp",
      "name": "Git",
      "maintainer": "MCP Steering Group",
      "description": "Read, search and diff a local git repository — history-aware agents without shelling out to raw git.",
      "install": "uvx mcp-server-git --repository /path/to/repo",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "python",
      "tools_exposed": 13,
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/git",
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode",
        "cline"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "git",
        "version-control",
        "reference",
        "local"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "memory-mcp",
      "name": "Memory (Knowledge Graph)",
      "maintainer": "MCP Steering Group",
      "description": "Persistent knowledge-graph memory stored as local JSON — gives an agent recall across sessions for free.",
      "install": "npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-memory",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "tools_exposed": 9,
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/memory",
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode",
        "cline"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "memory",
        "knowledge-graph",
        "rdf",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Pair with a free vector store (Qdrant or Chroma) when the graph grows past a few thousand entities."
    },
    {
      "id": "sequential-thinking-mcp",
      "name": "Sequential Thinking",
      "maintainer": "MCP Steering Group",
      "description": "Structured step-by-step reasoning with revision and branching — measurably improves multi-step agent plans.",
      "install": "npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-sequential-thinking",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "tools_exposed": 1,
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/sequentialthinking",
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode",
        "cline"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reasoning",
        "planning",
        "reference"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "time-mcp",
      "name": "Time",
      "maintainer": "MCP Steering Group",
      "description": "Time and timezone conversion grounded in the host clock — stops agents hallucinating dates.",
      "install": "uvx mcp-server-time",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "python",
      "tools_exposed": 4,
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/time",
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode",
        "cline"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "time",
        "timezone",
        "reference"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "everything-mcp",
      "name": "Everything (Test Server)",
      "maintainer": "MCP Steering Group",
      "description": "Reference server exercising every MCP primitive — the fastest way to test a new client or transport.",
      "install": "npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything",
      "transport": [
        "stdio",
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/everything",
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "testing",
        "reference",
        "development"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "github-mcp",
      "name": "GitHub MCP Server",
      "maintainer": "GitHub",
      "description": "Repo automation, PRs, issues, code search and CI workflows — the most-starred MCP server in the ecosystem.",
      "install": "docker run -i --rm -e GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server",
      "transport": [
        "stdio",
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "go",
      "tools_exposed": 51,
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "GitHub PAT (fine-grained, read-only works)",
      "url": "https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server",
      "stars": 33166,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode",
        "windsurf",
        "zed"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "git",
        "devops",
        "issues",
        "pull-requests",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "A hosted remote variant is available at https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/ if you would rather not run Docker."
    },
    {
      "id": "playwright-mcp",
      "name": "Playwright MCP",
      "maintainer": "Microsoft",
      "description": "Browser automation over accessibility snapshots rather than screenshots — deterministic agent browsing in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit.",
      "install": "npx -y @playwright/mcp@latest",
      "transport": [
        "stdio",
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "tools_exposed": 22,
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp",
      "stars": 37530,
      "clients": [
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode",
        "windsurf",
        "cline"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "testing",
        "scraping",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Accessibility-tree snapshots use far fewer tokens than screenshot-based browser agents."
    },
    {
      "id": "chrome-devtools-mcp",
      "name": "Chrome DevTools MCP",
      "maintainer": "Google Chrome DevTools team",
      "description": "Drives a real Chrome instance for performance traces, console errors and network inspection.",
      "install": "npx -y chrome-devtools-mcp@latest",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp",
      "stars": 52550,
      "clients": [
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "browser",
        "debugging",
        "performance",
        "frontend"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "notion-mcp",
      "name": "Notion MCP",
      "maintainer": "Notion",
      "description": "Reads and writes Notion pages and databases — the cleanest way to give an agent a knowledge base you already maintain.",
      "install": "npx -y @notionhq/notion-mcp-server",
      "transport": [
        "stdio",
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Notion internal integration token",
      "url": "https://github.com/makenotion/notion-mcp-server",
      "docs_url": "https://developers.notion.com/docs/mcp",
      "stars": 4644,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode",
        "windsurf"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "notes",
        "knowledge-base",
        "productivity"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Remember to share the specific pages with the integration — a token alone grants nothing."
    },
    {
      "id": "sentry-mcp",
      "name": "Sentry MCP",
      "maintainer": "Sentry",
      "description": "Pulls issues, stack traces and traces into the prompt so an agent can triage production errors.",
      "install": "npx -y @sentry/mcp-server@latest",
      "transport": [
        "stdio",
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Sentry user auth token",
      "url": "https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-mcp",
      "stars": 858,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "observability",
        "errors",
        "triage",
        "devops"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "supabase-mcp",
      "name": "Supabase MCP",
      "maintainer": "Supabase",
      "description": "Postgres schema, migrations, edge functions and logs through one authenticated server.",
      "install": "npx -y @supabase/mcp-server-supabase@latest --read-only --project-ref=<ref>",
      "transport": [
        "stdio",
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Supabase personal access token",
      "url": "https://github.com/supabase-community/supabase-mcp",
      "stars": 2919,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode",
        "windsurf"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "database",
        "postgres",
        "backend",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Start with --read-only; agents granted DDL rights will eventually drop something you wanted."
    },
    {
      "id": "mongodb-mcp",
      "name": "MongoDB MCP",
      "maintainer": "MongoDB",
      "description": "Query, aggregate and inspect collections, including Atlas administration.",
      "install": "npx -y mongodb-mcp-server --connectionString \"<uri>\"",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Connection string / Atlas API key",
      "url": "https://github.com/mongodb-js/mongodb-mcp-server",
      "stars": 1138,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "database",
        "nosql",
        "atlas"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "redis-mcp",
      "name": "Redis MCP",
      "maintainer": "Redis",
      "description": "Key-value access, data structure operations and vector set queries against Redis or Upstash.",
      "install": "npx -y @redis/mcp-redis",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Redis URL with credentials",
      "url": "https://github.com/redis/mcp-redis",
      "stars": 628,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "cache",
        "database",
        "vector",
        "key-value"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "cloudflare-mcp",
      "name": "Cloudflare MCP Servers",
      "maintainer": "Cloudflare",
      "description": "Fifteen-plus specialised servers for Workers, R2, D1, DNS, logs and Workers AI.",
      "install": "npx -y mcp-remote https://observability.mcp.cloudflare.com/mcp",
      "transport": [
        "http",
        "sse"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Cloudflare OAuth",
      "url": "https://github.com/cloudflare/mcp-server-cloudflare",
      "stars": 4277,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "cloud",
        "edge",
        "devops",
        "observability"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Each Cloudflare product ships its own server; pick the observability or bindings one rather than enabling all of them."
    },
    {
      "id": "vercel-mcp",
      "name": "Vercel MCP",
      "maintainer": "Vercel",
      "description": "Deployments, build logs, environment variables and project configuration.",
      "install": "npx -y mcp-remote https://mcp.vercel.com",
      "transport": [
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Vercel OAuth",
      "url": "https://vercel.com/docs/mcp/vercel-mcp",
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "deploy",
        "hosting",
        "devops"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "aws-mcp",
      "name": "AWS MCP Servers",
      "maintainer": "AWS Labs",
      "description": "Official suite covering S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch and 20+ other services.",
      "install": "uvx awslabs.core-mcp-server@latest",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "python",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "AWS IAM credentials / SSO profile",
      "url": "https://github.com/awslabs/mcp",
      "stars": 9728,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "kiro"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "cloud",
        "aws",
        "devops"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Scope IAM to a read-only role before letting an agent near your account."
    },
    {
      "id": "azure-mcp",
      "name": "Azure MCP Server",
      "maintainer": "Microsoft",
      "description": "Natural-language management of Azure resources with Entra ID authentication.",
      "install": "npx -y @azure/mcp@latest server start",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Entra ID (az login)",
      "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/mcp",
      "stars": 3705,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "cloud",
        "azure",
        "devops"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "gcp-mcp",
      "name": "Google Cloud MCP Servers",
      "maintainer": "Google Cloud",
      "description": "Managed MCP endpoints for Cloud Run, BigQuery, Spanner and gcloud workflows.",
      "install": "npx -y @google-cloud/gcloud-mcp",
      "transport": [
        "stdio",
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Google Cloud ADC (gcloud auth login)",
      "url": "https://github.com/googleapis/gcloud-mcp",
      "docs_url": "https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs",
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "gemini-cli"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "cloud",
        "gcp",
        "devops"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Google has renamed and reorganised these packages several times in 2026 — confirm the current package name on the docs page before copying the install line."
    },
    {
      "id": "docker-mcp",
      "name": "Docker MCP Gateway",
      "maintainer": "Docker",
      "description": "Container management plus a gateway that catalogs and proxies hundreds of other MCP servers.",
      "install": "docker mcp gateway run",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "go",
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway",
      "stars": 1582,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "containers",
        "devops",
        "gateway",
        "catalog"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "kubernetes-mcp",
      "name": "Kubernetes MCP",
      "maintainer": "Flux159 (community)",
      "description": "kubectl-style cluster operations — inspect pods, apply manifests and read logs.",
      "install": "npx -y mcp-server-kubernetes",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": false,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "kubeconfig context",
      "url": "https://github.com/Flux159/mcp-server-kubernetes",
      "stars": 1594,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "kubernetes",
        "devops",
        "platform"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Point it at a non-production context. An agent with cluster-admin is a very efficient way to delete a namespace."
    },
    {
      "id": "terraform-mcp",
      "name": "Terraform MCP",
      "maintainer": "HashiCorp",
      "description": "Provider and module registry lookups plus plan/apply assistance for infrastructure as code.",
      "install": "docker run -i --rm hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "go",
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server",
      "stars": 1532,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "iac",
        "terraform",
        "devops"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "grafana-mcp",
      "name": "Grafana MCP",
      "maintainer": "Grafana Labs",
      "description": "Query dashboards, Loki logs and Prometheus metrics from inside the agent loop.",
      "install": "docker run -i --rm mcp/grafana -t stdio",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "go",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Grafana service account token",
      "url": "https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana",
      "stars": 3491,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "observability",
        "metrics",
        "logs",
        "devops"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "elasticsearch-mcp",
      "name": "Elasticsearch MCP",
      "maintainer": "Elastic",
      "description": "Search indices and run aggregations; works against Elastic Cloud or self-hosted.",
      "install": "npx -y @elastic/mcp-server-elasticsearch",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Elasticsearch API key",
      "url": "https://github.com/elastic/mcp-server-elasticsearch",
      "stars": 720,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "search",
        "logs",
        "database"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "stripe-mcp",
      "name": "Stripe MCP",
      "maintainer": "Stripe",
      "description": "Read customers, invoices and subscriptions, and create payment links from a prompt.",
      "install": "npx -y @stripe/mcp --tools=all --api-key=<rk_live_or_test>",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Stripe restricted API key",
      "url": "https://github.com/stripe/agent-toolkit",
      "stars": 1830,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "payments",
        "business",
        "finance"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Use a restricted key in test mode. --tools=all grants write access to live objects if the key allows it."
    },
    {
      "id": "figma-mcp",
      "name": "Framelink Figma MCP",
      "maintainer": "Framelink (community)",
      "description": "Pulls design tokens, layout and component structure out of Figma files into the editor, over stdio, using a personal access token.",
      "install": "npx -y figma-developer-mcp --figma-api-key=<token>",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": false,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Figma personal access token",
      "url": "https://github.com/GLips/Figma-Context-MCP",
      "docs_url": "https://developers.figma.com/docs/figma-mcp-server/",
      "stars": 15902,
      "clients": [
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode",
        "windsurf"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "design",
        "frontend",
        "ui"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "Renamed from 'Figma MCP' to name its maintainer: this is the community Framelink server, not Figma's own. For the first-party server see figma-mcp-server.",
        "Works over stdio with a personal access token, so it needs no OAuth dance and no Figma desktop app — which is why people still reach for it over the official remote server."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "linear-mcp",
      "name": "Linear MCP",
      "maintainer": "Linear",
      "description": "Create, search and update issues and projects in Linear from the agent loop.",
      "install": "npx -y mcp-remote https://mcp.linear.app/mcp",
      "transport": [
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Linear OAuth",
      "url": "https://linear.app/docs/mcp",
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "issues",
        "planning",
        "productivity"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "atlassian-mcp",
      "name": "Atlassian MCP",
      "maintainer": "Atlassian",
      "description": "Jira issues and Confluence pages — the enterprise ticketing counterpart to Linear.",
      "install": "npx -y mcp-remote https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/mcp",
      "transport": [
        "http",
        "sse"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Atlassian OAuth",
      "url": "https://github.com/atlassian/atlassian-mcp-server",
      "stars": 1062,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "issues",
        "docs",
        "enterprise",
        "productivity"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "slack-mcp",
      "name": "Slack MCP",
      "maintainer": "Zencoder (community)",
      "description": "Read channels and post messages — the archived reference server's maintained successor.",
      "install": "npx -y @zencoderai/slack-mcp-server",
      "transport": [
        "stdio",
        "http"
      ],
      "official": false,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Slack bot/user token",
      "url": "https://github.com/zencoderai/slack-mcp-server",
      "stars": 75,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "chat",
        "notifications",
        "team"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The original Slack reference server was archived in 2026 and now lives in modelcontextprotocol/servers-archived."
    },
    {
      "id": "airtable-mcp",
      "name": "Airtable MCP",
      "maintainer": "Airtable",
      "description": "Read and write Airtable bases — a spreadsheet-shaped backend for agent prototypes.",
      "install": "npx -y mcp-remote https://mcp.airtable.com/mcp",
      "transport": [
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Airtable OAuth / PAT",
      "url": "https://support.airtable.com/docs/airtable-mcp-server",
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "database",
        "spreadsheet",
        "no-code"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "google-workspace-mcp",
      "name": "Google Workspace MCP",
      "maintainer": "taylorwilsdon (community)",
      "description": "Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs and Sheets through a single OAuth'd server.",
      "install": "uvx workspace-mcp",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": false,
      "language": "python",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Google OAuth 2.0",
      "url": "https://github.com/taylorwilsdon/google_workspace_mcp",
      "stars": 3218,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "email",
        "calendar",
        "docs",
        "productivity"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "zapier-mcp",
      "name": "Zapier MCP",
      "maintainer": "Zapier",
      "description": "Bridges an agent to 8,000+ app actions without writing per-service integrations.",
      "install": "npx -y mcp-remote https://mcp.zapier.com/api/mcp/mcp",
      "transport": [
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Zapier OAuth (per action)",
      "url": "https://zapier.com/mcp",
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "automation",
        "integrations",
        "no-code"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Free plan limits how many actions you can expose at once."
    },
    {
      "id": "n8n-mcp",
      "name": "n8n MCP",
      "maintainer": "czlonkowski (community)",
      "description": "Gives an agent the full n8n node catalogue so it can build and edit workflows.",
      "install": "npx -y n8n-mcp",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": false,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "n8n API key (optional, for live control)",
      "url": "https://github.com/czlonkowski/n8n-mcp",
      "stars": 22984,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "automation",
        "workflows",
        "low-code"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "browserbase-mcp",
      "name": "Browserbase MCP",
      "maintainer": "Browserbase",
      "description": "Cloud browser sessions with stealth mode, proxies and session replay for agents.",
      "install": "npx -y @browserbasehq/mcp-server-browserbase",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Browserbase API key + project ID",
      "url": "https://github.com/browserbase/mcp-server-browserbase",
      "stars": 3413,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "browser",
        "scraping",
        "cloud",
        "stealth"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "apify-mcp",
      "name": "Apify Actors MCP",
      "maintainer": "Apify",
      "description": "Runs any of Apify's 5,000+ scrapers as an agent tool, including the free-tier actors.",
      "install": "npx -y @apify/actors-mcp-server",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Apify API token",
      "url": "https://github.com/apify/actors-mcp-server",
      "stars": 8268,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "scraping",
        "automation",
        "data"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "elevenlabs-mcp",
      "name": "ElevenLabs MCP",
      "maintainer": "ElevenLabs",
      "description": "Text-to-speech generation and voice management inside the agent loop.",
      "install": "uvx elevenlabs-mcp",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "python",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "ElevenLabs API key",
      "url": "https://github.com/elevenlabs/elevenlabs-mcp",
      "stars": 1538,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "audio",
        "tts",
        "voice-agent"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "huggingface-mcp",
      "name": "Hugging Face MCP",
      "maintainer": "Hugging Face",
      "description": "Searches models, datasets and Spaces, and can call Gradio apps as tools.",
      "install": "npx -y mcp-remote https://huggingface.co/mcp",
      "transport": [
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Hugging Face access token",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/mcp",
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "models",
        "datasets",
        "hub",
        "gradio"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "qdrant-mcp",
      "name": "Qdrant MCP",
      "maintainer": "Qdrant",
      "description": "Stores and retrieves memories in a Qdrant collection — vector memory as a tool, in about four lines of config.",
      "install": "uvx mcp-server-qdrant --qdrant-url <url>",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "python",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Qdrant API key (cloud)",
      "url": "https://github.com/qdrant/mcp-server-qdrant",
      "stars": 1537,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "vector",
        "embeddings",
        "memory",
        "rag",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Pairs with Qdrant's free 1GB cluster, so long-term agent memory costs nothing to start."
    },
    {
      "id": "chroma-mcp",
      "name": "Chroma MCP",
      "maintainer": "Chroma",
      "description": "Local or cloud Chroma collections exposed as MCP tools for RAG and memory.",
      "install": "uvx chroma-mcp --client-type persistent --data-dir ./chroma",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "python",
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma-mcp",
      "stars": 599,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "vector",
        "embeddings",
        "rag",
        "local"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "neo4j-mcp",
      "name": "Neo4j MCP",
      "maintainer": "Neo4j",
      "description": "Cypher queries and graph-schema inspection against AuraDB Free or self-hosted Neo4j.",
      "install": "uvx mcp-neo4j-cypher",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "python",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Neo4j username/password",
      "url": "https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/mcp-neo4j",
      "stars": 986,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "graph",
        "database",
        "knowledge-graph"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "postgres-mcp",
      "name": "Postgres MCP Pro",
      "maintainer": "Crystal DBA (community)",
      "description": "Read-only-safe Postgres access with index tuning and health checks — the maintained replacement for the archived reference server.",
      "install": "uvx postgres-mcp --access-mode=restricted",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": false,
      "language": "python",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Postgres connection string",
      "url": "https://github.com/crystaldba/postgres-mcp",
      "stars": 3339,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "database",
        "postgres",
        "sql",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The original @modelcontextprotocol/server-postgres reference server was archived in 2025 — many guides still tell you to install it."
    },
    {
      "id": "sqlite-mcp",
      "name": "SQLite MCP",
      "maintainer": "MCP Steering Group (archived)",
      "description": "Query and inspect a local SQLite file, including business-intelligence style summaries.",
      "install": "uvx mcp-server-sqlite --db-path ./data.db",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "python",
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers-archived/tree/main/src/sqlite",
      "stars": 304,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "database",
        "sqlite",
        "local"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "degraded",
      "notes": "Archived but still functional and still the simplest SQLite option. Community forks exist if you need active maintenance."
    },
    {
      "id": "mysql-mcp",
      "name": "MySQL MCP Server",
      "maintainer": "designcomputer (community)",
      "description": "Read-only-by-default MySQL queries and schema inspection.",
      "install": "uvx mysql-mcp-server",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": false,
      "language": "python",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "MySQL username/password",
      "url": "https://github.com/designcomputer/mysql_mcp_server",
      "stars": 1395,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "database",
        "mysql",
        "sql"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "context7-mcp",
      "name": "Context7",
      "maintainer": "Upstash",
      "description": "Version-pinned, up-to-date documentation for thousands of libraries — the single highest-value server for coding agents.",
      "install": "npx -y @upstash/context7-mcp",
      "transport": [
        "stdio",
        "http"
      ],
      "official": false,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/upstash/context7",
      "stars": 62381,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode",
        "windsurf",
        "zed",
        "cline"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "docs",
        "coding",
        "hallucination-fix",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Works without a key at low volume; an API key raises the rate limit. The most-installed MCP server on npm."
    },
    {
      "id": "firecrawl-mcp",
      "name": "Firecrawl MCP",
      "maintainer": "Firecrawl",
      "description": "Crawls, scrapes and extracts structured data from sites, returning clean markdown for the model.",
      "install": "npx -y firecrawl-mcp",
      "transport": [
        "stdio",
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Firecrawl API key (free tier available)",
      "url": "https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server",
      "stars": 7509,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode",
        "windsurf"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "scraping",
        "crawling",
        "markdown",
        "research"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "exa-mcp",
      "name": "Exa MCP",
      "maintainer": "Exa",
      "description": "Semantic web search tuned for agents, with deep-research and company-research modes.",
      "install": "npx -y exa-mcp-server",
      "transport": [
        "stdio",
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Exa API key",
      "url": "https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server",
      "stars": 5045,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "search",
        "research",
        "semantic"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "tavily-mcp",
      "name": "Tavily MCP",
      "maintainer": "Tavily",
      "description": "Search, extract and map endpoints purpose-built for LLM grounding, with a genuinely usable free tier.",
      "install": "npx -y tavily-mcp@latest",
      "transport": [
        "stdio",
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Tavily API key (1,000 free credits/month)",
      "url": "https://github.com/tavily-ai/tavily-mcp",
      "stars": 2401,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "search",
        "research",
        "grounding",
        "free-tier"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "brave-search-mcp",
      "name": "Brave Search MCP",
      "maintainer": "Brave",
      "description": "Independent web and local search index with a free API tier — no Google/Bing dependency.",
      "install": "npx -y @brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Brave Search API key",
      "url": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
      "stars": 1466,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "search",
        "web",
        "privacy"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Brave's free tier is rate-limited to roughly one query per second and requires a card for verification."
    },
    {
      "id": "deepwiki-mcp",
      "name": "DeepWiki MCP",
      "maintainer": "Cognition (Devin)",
      "description": "Ask questions about any public GitHub repository and get answers grounded in its actual code and wiki.",
      "install": "npx -y mcp-remote https://mcp.deepwiki.com/mcp",
      "transport": [
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://docs.devin.ai/work-with-devin/deepwiki-mcp",
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "code-understanding",
        "no-auth"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ref-tools-mcp",
      "name": "Ref MCP",
      "maintainer": "Ref (community)",
      "description": "Token-efficient documentation search across technical sites, alternative to Context7.",
      "install": "npx -y ref-tools-mcp@latest",
      "transport": [
        "stdio",
        "http"
      ],
      "official": false,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/ref-tools/ref-tools-mcp",
      "stars": 1177,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "docs",
        "search",
        "token-efficient"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "duckduckgo-mcp",
      "name": "DuckDuckGo MCP",
      "maintainer": "nickclyde (community)",
      "description": "Keyless web search and safe text fetching — zero signup, which is rare in search tooling.",
      "install": "uvx duckduckgo-mcp-server",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": false,
      "language": "python",
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/nickclyde/duckduckgo-mcp-server",
      "stars": 1503,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "search",
        "no-auth",
        "free"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Rate-limited by DuckDuckGo itself; fine for occasional lookups, not for bulk crawling."
    },
    {
      "id": "wikipedia-mcp",
      "name": "Wikipedia MCP",
      "maintainer": "Rudra-ravi (community)",
      "description": "Wikipedia search, article retrieval and section-level summaries.",
      "install": "uvx wikipedia-mcp",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": false,
      "language": "python",
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/Rudra-ravi/wikipedia-mcp",
      "stars": 295,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "knowledge",
        "no-auth"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "youtube-mcp",
      "name": "YouTube MCP",
      "maintainer": "anaisbetts (community)",
      "description": "Fetches video transcripts by URL so agents can reason over talks and tutorials.",
      "install": "npx -y @anaisbetts/mcp-youtube",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": false,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/anaisbetts/mcp-youtube",
      "stars": 546,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "video",
        "transcripts",
        "research"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "obsidian-mcp",
      "name": "Obsidian MCP",
      "maintainer": "StevenStavrakis (community)",
      "description": "Read and write notes in a local Obsidian vault — a personal knowledge base as agent memory.",
      "install": "npx -y obsidian-mcp /path/to/vault",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": false,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/StevenStavrakis/obsidian-mcp",
      "stars": 735,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "notes",
        "markdown",
        "knowledge-base",
        "local"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "fastmcp",
      "name": "FastMCP",
      "maintainer": "Prefect / community",
      "description": "Pythonic framework and CLI for building MCP servers in about ten lines, with a built-in dev inspector.",
      "install": "uvx fastmcp run server.py",
      "transport": [
        "stdio",
        "http",
        "sse"
      ],
      "official": false,
      "language": "python",
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/jlowin/fastmcp",
      "docs_url": "https://gofastmcp.com",
      "stars": 27889,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "framework",
        "python",
        "development",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "If you are writing your own server, start here. It also has `fastmcp dev` for interactive testing."
    },
    {
      "id": "openapi-mcp",
      "name": "OpenAPI MCP Server",
      "maintainer": "ivotoby (community)",
      "description": "Turns any OpenAPI/Swagger spec into MCP tools — the fastest path to exposing an existing REST API.",
      "install": "npx -y @ivotoby/openapi-mcp-server --api-base-url <url> --openapi-spec <path>",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": false,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Target API credentials",
      "url": "https://github.com/ivo-toby/mcp-openapi-server",
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "openapi",
        "rest",
        "integration",
        "development"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "antv-chart-mcp",
      "name": "AntV Chart MCP",
      "maintainer": "Ant Group",
      "description": "Generates charts and dashboards (25+ chart types) as images from natural language data.",
      "install": "npx -y @antv/mcp-server-chart",
      "transport": [
        "stdio",
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/antvis/mcp-server-chart",
      "stars": 4382,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "visualisation",
        "charts",
        "data"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "puppeteer-mcp",
      "name": "Puppeteer (Archived)",
      "maintainer": "MCP Steering Group (archived)",
      "description": "The original browser-automation reference server. Superseded by Playwright MCP.",
      "install": "npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-puppeteer",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": false,
      "url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers-archived/tree/main/src/puppeteer",
      "stars": 304,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "archived"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "deprecated",
      "notes": "Still installs and works, but receives no fixes. Use @playwright/mcp for anything new."
    },
    {
      "id": "google-drive-mcp",
      "name": "Google Drive (Archived)",
      "maintainer": "MCP Steering Group (archived)",
      "description": "Searches and reads Google Drive files. Superseded by community Workspace servers.",
      "install": "npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-gdrive",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Google OAuth credentials",
      "url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers-archived/tree/main/src/gdrive",
      "stars": 304,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "files",
        "google",
        "archived"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "deprecated",
      "notes": "Archived in 2025. The community google_workspace_mcp server covers this and more."
    },
    {
      "id": "slack-archived-mcp",
      "name": "Slack (Archived Reference)",
      "maintainer": "MCP Steering Group (archived)",
      "description": "The original Slack channel-management reference server, now unmaintained.",
      "install": "npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-slack",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Slack bot token",
      "url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers-archived/tree/main/src/slack",
      "stars": 304,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "chat",
        "archived"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "deprecated",
      "notes": "Listed so you can recognise it when a tutorial tells you to install it. Use the Zencoder fork instead."
    },
    {
      "id": "brave-search-archived-mcp",
      "name": "Brave Search (Archived Reference)",
      "maintainer": "MCP Steering Group (archived)",
      "description": "Archived reference search server, replaced by Brave's own first-party server.",
      "install": "npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search",
      "transport": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Brave Search API key",
      "url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers-archived/tree/main/src/brave-search",
      "stars": 304,
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "search",
        "archived"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "deprecated",
      "notes": "Install @brave/brave-search-mcp-server instead."
    },
    {
      "id": "wikidata-mcp",
      "name": "Wikidata MCP",
      "maintainer": "Wikimedia Deutschland",
      "description": "Semantic and keyword search over Wikidata's ~30M entities and properties, so agents can resolve vague concepts into verifiable QIDs before writing SPARQL.",
      "install": "npx -y mcp-remote https://wd-mcp.wmcloud.org/mcp/",
      "transport": [
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "language": "python",
      "requires_auth": false,
      "auth_type": "none",
      "tools_exposed": 3,
      "url": "https://github.com/philippesaade-wmde/WikidataMCP",
      "stars": 33,
      "docs_url": "https://wd-vectordb.wmcloud.org/docs",
      "clients": [
        "claude",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reference",
        "research",
        "knowledge-graph",
        "open-data",
        "official",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Hosted as a public instance by Wikimedia Deutschland, so there is nothing to install or pay for. Exposes vector_search_items, keyword_search_items and vector_search_properties. Endpoint rejects plain GETs (406) by design — point an MCP client at it rather than curl."
    },
    {
      "id": "figma-mcp-server",
      "name": "Figma MCP Server",
      "maintainer": "Figma",
      "description": "Figma's own MCP server, hosted at mcp.figma.com over Streamable HTTP. Reads a selected frame's variables, components and layout into the editor, generates code from it, reuses real components through Code Connect and, while in beta, writes native content back to the canvas.",
      "install": "claude mcp add --transport http figma https://mcp.figma.com/mcp",
      "transport": [
        "http"
      ],
      "official": true,
      "requires_auth": true,
      "auth_type": "Figma account (OAuth)",
      "url": "https://github.com/figma/mcp-server-guide",
      "docs_url": "https://developers.figma.com/docs/figma-mcp-server/",
      "stars": 2016,
      "clients": [
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode",
        "gemini-cli"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "design",
        "official",
        "remote",
        "frontend"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "A hosted remote server rather than a package: https://mcp.figma.com/mcp answers 401 without a token, so there is nothing to install — you add the URL and authenticate.",
        "Free to connect on Figma's free Starter plan, but that plan and View or Collab seats on paid plans are capped at 6 tool calls per month. Dev and Full seats on paid plans get Tier 1 REST API limits instead. This is a real free allowance, not a generous one — the Studio plan at $16/month is what most people will need for daily use.",
        "Writing to the canvas is free during the beta, and Figma has said it will become a usage-based paid feature. Assume it will not stay free.",
        "Also installable as Claude Code and Cursor plugins and as a Gemini CLI extension, which bundle the server config together with the Figma skill pack below."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "agent-tools": [
    {
      "id": "cursor",
      "name": "Cursor",
      "category": "ide",
      "description": "AI-first code editor with whole-project awareness, tab completion and a multi-file agent.",
      "free_limit": "Hobby plan: limited agent requests + 2,000 tab completions/month",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": false,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "windows",
        "linux"
      ],
      "url": "https://cursor.com",
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "ide",
        "commercial"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Free tier is an evaluation budget, not a workflow. Pair it with Gemini CLI or Cline for the heavy lifting."
    },
    {
      "id": "devin-desktop",
      "name": "Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)",
      "category": "ide",
      "description": "Agentic editor from Cognition — the Windsurf/Cascade lineage, renamed after the 2026 acquisition.",
      "free_limit": "Free plan: unlimited tab completion, quota-limited Cascade agent sessions",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": false,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "windows",
        "linux"
      ],
      "url": "https://devin.ai/desktop",
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "ide",
        "unlimited-completions"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "windsurf.com now redirects to devin.ai. Tab completion is unlimited on every plan, including free — the agent quota is what runs out."
    },
    {
      "id": "github-copilot",
      "name": "GitHub Copilot Free",
      "category": "ide",
      "description": "Copilot's genuinely free tier inside VS Code, JetBrains and the GitHub web editor.",
      "free_limit": "2,000 completions + 50 chat/agent requests per month",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": false,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "windows",
        "linux",
        "web"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/features/copilot",
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "completions",
        "github"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Requires any GitHub account, including free. Best free choice if you already live in VS Code."
    },
    {
      "id": "zed",
      "name": "Zed",
      "category": "ide",
      "description": "Rust-native, GPU-accelerated editor with a free built-in AI tier and bring-your-own-key support.",
      "free_limit": "Free AI tier included; unlimited use with your own API keys",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "url": "https://zed.dev",
      "tags": [
        "ide",
        "fast",
        "open-source",
        "byok"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "kiro",
      "name": "Kiro",
      "category": "ide",
      "description": "AWS's spec-driven agentic IDE — writes requirements and design docs before it writes code.",
      "free_limit": "Free tier with monthly agentic-interaction quota",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": false,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "windows",
        "linux"
      ],
      "url": "https://kiro.dev",
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "ide",
        "spec-driven",
        "aws"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "trae",
      "name": "Trae",
      "category": "ide",
      "description": "ByteDance's AI IDE with a free tier built around frontier models and an agent mode.",
      "free_limit": "Free plan with monthly premium-model requests",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": false,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "windows",
        "linux"
      ],
      "url": "https://trae.ai",
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "ide",
        "free-tier"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Review the data-retention policy before using it on proprietary code."
    },
    {
      "id": "amp",
      "name": "Amp (Sourcegraph)",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Frontier agent from Sourcegraph with a free-forever plan, then pay-as-you-go with no subscription required.",
      "free_limit": "Free plan with a monthly ad-supported allowance; BYOK option",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": false,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "url": "https://ampcode.com",
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "cli",
        "frontier",
        "byok"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "opencode",
      "name": "OpenCode",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Open-source terminal coding agent with a client/server architecture and provider-agnostic model routing.",
      "free_limit": "Free software — you bring a model key (free tiers work fine)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/install | bash",
      "url": "https://opencode.ai",
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "cli",
        "open-source",
        "byok"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "kilo-code",
      "name": "Kilo Code",
      "category": "ide",
      "description": "Open-source VS Code agent with a large free model allocation before you need your own key.",
      "free_limit": "Free credits on signup for Anthropic/Gemini models; unlimited with BYOK",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "windows",
        "linux"
      ],
      "url": "https://kilocode.ai",
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "vscode",
        "open-source"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "gemini-cli",
      "name": "Gemini CLI",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Google's open-source terminal agent with the most generous free quota of any first-party CLI.",
      "free_limit": "1,000 requests/day with a personal Google account (60 RPM)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "npx -y @google/gemini-cli",
      "url": "https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli",
      "stars": 107139,
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "cli",
        "generous-free-tier",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Also ships a free Gemini Code Assist VS Code extension on the same account. The best $0 coding agent in 2026."
    },
    {
      "id": "qwen-code",
      "name": "Qwen Code",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Qwen's fork of Gemini CLI wired to Qwen3-Coder, with a large free daily request allowance via OAuth.",
      "free_limit": "~2,000 requests/day via Qwen OAuth",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "npm install -g @qwen-code/qwen-code",
      "url": "https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code",
      "stars": 28109,
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "cli",
        "qwen",
        "generous-free-tier",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Strong on large refactors thanks to Qwen3-Coder's context window. The 2,000/day figure is subject to change."
    },
    {
      "id": "aider",
      "name": "Aider",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Terminal pair-programmer that commits every change to git and maps your repo into the model's context.",
      "free_limit": "Free software — works with any free LLM API key",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install aider-install && aider-install",
      "url": "https://aider.chat",
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "cli",
        "git-native",
        "byok",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "cline",
      "name": "Cline",
      "category": "ide",
      "description": "Autonomous coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal, with human approval at every step.",
      "free_limit": "Free and open source — bring any provider key (including free tiers)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "windows",
        "linux"
      ],
      "url": "https://cline.bot",
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "vscode",
        "open-source",
        "byok",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The most flexible free setup: point it at Gemini or Groq free tiers and a full agent costs nothing."
    },
    {
      "id": "roo-code",
      "name": "Roo Code",
      "category": "ide",
      "description": "Cline fork with custom modes (architect, debugger, tester) and an orchestrator mode for multi-step work.",
      "free_limit": "Free and open source — bring any provider key",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "windows",
        "linux"
      ],
      "url": "https://roocode.com",
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "vscode",
        "modes",
        "byok"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "continue-dev",
      "name": "Continue",
      "category": "ide",
      "description": "Open-source Copilot alternative for VS Code and JetBrains with customisable model routing.",
      "free_limit": "Free software; connect Ollama for genuinely unlimited local use",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "windows",
        "linux"
      ],
      "url": "https://continue.dev",
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "vscode",
        "jetbrains",
        "local-models"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openhands",
      "name": "OpenHands",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Open-source software engineering agent (formerly OpenDevin) that runs in a sandboxed container.",
      "free_limit": "Free software; hosted version has limited free credits",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "docker run -it --rm -p 3000:3000 docker.all-hands.dev/all-hands-ai/openhands:latest",
      "url": "https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands",
      "stars": 89035,
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "autonomous",
        "docker",
        "open-source"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "goose",
      "name": "Goose",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Block's local-first agent that can extend itself by writing its own MCP extensions.",
      "free_limit": "Free and open source — bring any provider key",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux"
      ],
      "install": "curl -fsSL https://github.com/block/goose/releases/download/stable/download_cli.sh | bash",
      "url": "https://block.github.io/goose/",
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "cli",
        "mcp-native",
        "open-source"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "crush",
      "name": "Crush",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Charm's glamorous terminal agent with MCP support, LSP awareness and session management.",
      "free_limit": "Free and open source — bring any provider key",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "brew install charmbracelet/tap/crush",
      "url": "https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush",
      "stars": 28280,
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "cli",
        "mcp-native",
        "open-source"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "langgraph",
      "name": "LangGraph",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Stateful, graph-based agent orchestration with durable execution, human-in-the-loop and time travel.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (MIT). LangGraph Platform has a free developer tier",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install -U langgraph",
      "url": "https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/",
      "tags": [
        "orchestration",
        "state-machine",
        "durable",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Choose this over raw LangChain when your agent needs to pause, resume or survive a crash mid-run."
    },
    {
      "id": "langchain",
      "name": "LangChain",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "The widest integration ecosystem in the space — 600+ tools, loaders and vector store connectors.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (MIT); no account required",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install -U langchain",
      "url": "https://python.langchain.com",
      "tags": [
        "framework",
        "integrations",
        "rag",
        "toolkit"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "llamaindex",
      "name": "LlamaIndex",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Data framework for RAG: ingestion, chunking, indexing and query engines over your own documents.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (MIT); LlamaCloud has a limited free tier",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install llama-index",
      "url": "https://docs.llamaindex.ai",
      "tags": [
        "rag",
        "data",
        "ingestion",
        "retrieval"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "crewai",
      "name": "CrewAI",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Role-based multi-agent crews with delegation, sequential and hierarchical process modes.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (MIT)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install crewai",
      "url": "https://docs.crewai.com",
      "tags": [
        "multi-agent",
        "roles",
        "orchestration"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ag2-autogen",
      "name": "AG2 (AutoGen)",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Microsoft-originated multi-agent conversation framework: agents that talk to each other until the task is done.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (Apache 2.0)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install ag2",
      "url": "https://ag2.ai",
      "tags": [
        "multi-agent",
        "conversation",
        "research"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-agents-sdk",
      "name": "OpenAI Agents SDK",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Small, provider-agnostic agent SDK: handoffs, guardrails, sessions and tracing in a few hundred lines.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (MIT); works with any provider, not just OpenAI",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install openai-agents",
      "url": "https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/",
      "tags": [
        "agents",
        "handoffs",
        "guardrails",
        "lightweight"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Despite the name, it is vendor-neutral — point it at Gemini or Groq and it works unchanged."
    },
    {
      "id": "google-adk",
      "name": "Google Agent Development Kit",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Google's agent framework with a built-in dev UI, evaluation harness and A2A protocol support.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (Apache 2.0)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install google-adk",
      "url": "https://google.github.io/adk-docs/",
      "tags": [
        "agents",
        "google",
        "evaluation",
        "a2a"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "pydantic-ai",
      "name": "Pydantic AI",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Type-safe agent framework from the Pydantic team — validated structured outputs and dependency injection.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (MIT)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install pydantic-ai",
      "url": "https://ai.pydantic.dev",
      "tags": [
        "type-safe",
        "structured-output",
        "python",
        "validation"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "smolagents",
      "name": "smolagents",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Hugging Face's minimal agent library — code-writing agents in under 1,000 lines of core logic.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (Apache 2.0)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install smolagents",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/docs/smolagents",
      "tags": [
        "minimal",
        "code-agents",
        "huggingface"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "agno",
      "name": "Agno",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "High-performance multi-modal agent framework with built-in memory, knowledge and reasoning tools.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (MPL 2.0)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install agno",
      "url": "https://docs.agno.com",
      "tags": [
        "multi-modal",
        "performance",
        "memory"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "dspy",
      "name": "DSPy",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Programs language models instead of prompting them — optimisers compile prompts against a metric.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (MIT)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install dspy",
      "url": "https://dspy.ai",
      "tags": [
        "prompt-optimisation",
        "research",
        "evaluation"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "haystack",
      "name": "Haystack",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Production RAG and agent pipelines from deepset, with strong evaluation and deployment tooling.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (Apache 2.0)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install haystack-ai",
      "url": "https://haystack.deepset.ai",
      "tags": [
        "rag",
        "pipelines",
        "production"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "letta",
      "name": "Letta",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Stateful agents with long-term memory that manage their own context window (formerly MemGPT).",
      "free_limit": "Open source (Apache 2.0); free cloud sandbox available",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install letta",
      "url": "https://docs.letta.com",
      "tags": [
        "memory",
        "stateful",
        "context-management"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "semantic-kernel",
      "name": "Semantic Kernel",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Microsoft's enterprise agent SDK for Python, .NET and Java with planners and process framework.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (MIT)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "dotnet",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install semantic-kernel",
      "url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/semantic-kernel/overview/",
      "tags": [
        "enterprise",
        "dotnet",
        "java",
        "planners"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "mastra",
      "name": "Mastra",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "TypeScript agent framework with workflows, evals, RAG and local dev playground.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (Apache 2.0)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "npm create mastra@latest",
      "url": "https://mastra.ai",
      "tags": [
        "typescript",
        "workflows",
        "evals"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "vercel-ai-sdk",
      "name": "Vercel AI SDK",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "The standard TypeScript toolkit for streaming UI plus agents, with unified provider interfaces.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (Apache 2.0)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "npm install ai @ai-sdk/openai",
      "url": "https://sdk.vercel.ai",
      "tags": [
        "typescript",
        "streaming",
        "ui",
        "frontend"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "litellm",
      "name": "LiteLLM",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "One OpenAI-shaped interface over 100+ providers, with a proxy that adds budgets, keys and tracing.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (MIT)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install litellm",
      "url": "https://docs.litellm.ai",
      "tags": [
        "gateway",
        "proxy",
        "multi-provider",
        "cost-tracking",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The cleanest way to stack several free tiers behind one endpoint and fail over automatically when one 429s."
    },
    {
      "id": "n8n",
      "name": "n8n",
      "category": "orchestrator",
      "description": "Node-based automation with native AI agent nodes, MCP trigger and hundreds of integrations.",
      "free_limit": "Self-hosted Community Edition is free forever (fair-code licence)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows",
        "web"
      ],
      "install": "npx n8n",
      "url": "https://n8n.io",
      "tags": [
        "automation",
        "visual",
        "mcp",
        "self-host",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Running the Docker image on a free-tier VM is the cheapest credible production agent host in this list."
    },
    {
      "id": "dify",
      "name": "Dify",
      "category": "orchestrator",
      "description": "LLMOps platform for building chat agents, workflows and RAG apps with a visual editor and API output.",
      "free_limit": "Self-hosted Community Edition free; cloud sandbox free tier",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows",
        "web"
      ],
      "url": "https://dify.ai",
      "tags": [
        "llmops",
        "visual",
        "rag",
        "self-host"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "langflow",
      "name": "Langflow",
      "category": "orchestrator",
      "description": "Visual drag-and-drop builder that compiles to LangChain-based flows and exposes each as an API.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (MIT)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "uvx langflow",
      "url": "https://www.langflow.org",
      "tags": [
        "visual",
        "langchain",
        "prototyping"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "flowise",
      "name": "Flowise",
      "category": "orchestrator",
      "description": "Low-code LLM orchestration with agent flows, tools and embeddable chat widgets.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (Apache 2.0)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "npx flowise start",
      "url": "https://flowiseai.com",
      "tags": [
        "visual",
        "low-code",
        "chat-widgets"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "activepieces",
      "name": "Activepieces",
      "category": "orchestrator",
      "description": "Open-source Zapier alternative with AI pieces and MCP support, MIT-licensed rather than fair-code.",
      "free_limit": "Self-hosted Community Edition free (MIT)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows",
        "web"
      ],
      "url": "https://www.activepieces.com",
      "tags": [
        "automation",
        "visual",
        "mit",
        "self-host"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "mempalace",
      "name": "MemPalace",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Local-first memory for agents that stores conversations verbatim in ChromaDB and organises them into wings, halls and rooms instead of letting an LLM decide what is worth keeping.",
      "free_limit": "Free — MIT licensed, runs locally with zero API calls",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "MIT",
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install mempalace && mempalace init",
      "url": "https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace",
      "stars": 59259,
      "tags": [
        "memory",
        "rag",
        "local-first",
        "mit",
        "mcp",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "Co-created by Milla Jovovich and Ben Sigman.",
        "Often quoted as \"100% on benchmarks\" — that is the hybrid pipeline with cloud reranking, which the authors themselves flagged as tuned on failing questions. The defensible numbers are 96.6% R@5 raw on LongMemEval with zero API calls and a 98.4% held-out hybrid score.",
        "The project publicly walked back an overstated \"30x lossless compression\" claim; its experimental AAAK mode actually regresses to 84.2%."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "cognee",
      "name": "Cognee",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Open-source memory platform that builds a self-hosted knowledge graph from your data, giving agents persistent long-term memory across sessions.",
      "free_limit": "Free — self-hosted, runs with local extraction and embedding models",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install cognee",
      "url": "https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee",
      "stars": 30958,
      "tags": [
        "memory",
        "knowledge-graph",
        "rag",
        "self-host",
        "local",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Runs end to end without an OpenAI or Anthropic key by using local extraction and embedding models, which is unusual for knowledge-graph memory. A hosted tier exists for teams that would rather not self-host."
    },
    {
      "id": "mem0",
      "name": "Mem0",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Drop-in memory layer for agents that extracts and stores salient facts between sessions, with the widest framework support of any memory library.",
      "free_limit": "Free open-source self-host; hosted tier includes 10K memories",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install mem0ai",
      "url": "https://github.com/mem0ai/mem0",
      "stars": 65934,
      "tags": [
        "memory",
        "rag",
        "framework-integrations",
        "self-host",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The most-starred memory project by a wide margin. Extraction-based like its benchmarks measure against — it summarises rather than storing verbatim, so recall depends on the extraction step. The hosted platform is a paid product beyond the free allowance."
    },
    {
      "id": "nanobrowser",
      "name": "Nanobrowser",
      "category": "orchestrator",
      "description": "Open-source Chrome extension that runs multi-agent web workflows — extract, compare and fill forms — inside your own browser, on your own keys.",
      "free_limit": "Free — Apache-2.0 extension, works with any provider including Ollama and Groq",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "language": "typescript",
      "platforms": [
        "web"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/nanobrowser/nanobrowser",
      "stars": 13827,
      "tags": [
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "byok",
        "ollama",
        "chrome-extension",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The pitch is \"open-source alternative to OpenAI Operator\", and its real advantage is BYOK: pair it with Ollama for a fully local browser agent, or with a free Groq/Gemini key. Chrome-family browsers only."
    },
    {
      "id": "freebuff",
      "name": "Freebuff",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Coding agent funded by terminal advertising — desktop, CLI, web and chat clients all backed by frontier models at no cost, in exchange for text ads.",
      "free_limit": "Free with ad support; no subscription",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": false,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "url": "https://freebuff.dev",
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "ad-supported",
        "free",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "degraded",
      "notes": "Marked degraded rather than active because the business model is the product: the vendor sells terminal ad impressions to fund inference, so model access and the ad load can both change without notice. Closed source, and the \"unlimited\" wording is marketing — throughput is throttled in practice. Do not point anything production-critical at it."
    },
    {
      "id": "kiss-agent-framework",
      "name": "KISS Sorcar",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Local-first agent framework that runs as a VS Code extension plus web and mobile clients, routing to any of hundreds of models across nine provider categories.",
      "free_limit": "Free framework (Apache-2.0) — pay only your model provider",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows",
        "web"
      ],
      "install": "pip install kiss-agent-framework",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/kiss-agent-framework/",
      "tags": [
        "local-first",
        "byok",
        "vscode",
        "multi-provider",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The \"KISS\" in the name is the design brief. Provider counts and third-party agent integrations move quickly in this project, so treat any specific number (661 models, 43 agents) as a snapshot rather than a spec."
    },
    {
      "id": "readyagents-core",
      "name": "ReadyAgents Core",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Self-hosted workflow engine and MCP toolkit that records agent runs so you can replay them offline, fork a run, diff two runs, or freeze one into a regression test.",
      "free_limit": "Free — self-hosted, bring your own provider keys",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install readyagentsdev",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/readyagentsdev/",
      "tags": [
        "workflow",
        "mcp",
        "replay",
        "testing",
        "self-host",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The record/replay/diff loop is the genuinely unusual part — most agent frameworks still have no first-class way to turn a production run into a regression test."
    },
    {
      "id": "nanobot",
      "name": "NanoBot",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Deliberately tiny personal-agent framework from the HKU Data Intelligence lab that reimplements most of a large agent stack in roughly 4K lines.",
      "free_limit": "Free — MIT licensed, bring your own provider keys",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "MIT",
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/HKUDS/NanoBot",
      "stars": 48536,
      "tags": [
        "lightweight",
        "personal-agent",
        "research",
        "hkuds",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Actively developed by a research lab and worth reading end-to-end precisely because it is small. The \"90% of OpenClaw's capabilities\" figure is the project's own framing, not a measured comparison."
    },
    {
      "id": "pincer",
      "name": "Pincer",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Self-hosted personal agent that lives in your messaging apps — WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Signal and email — with a large native tool set plus everything reachable over MCP.",
      "free_limit": "Free — self-hosted via Docker, bring your own keys",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install pincer-agent && pincer init",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/pincer-agent/",
      "tags": [
        "messaging",
        "docker",
        "self-host",
        "mcp",
        "security",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Skill signing and audit logs are the differentiators: an agent wired into your WhatsApp can take real actions on your behalf, so its security posture matters more than a coding agent's."
    },
    {
      "id": "qwenpaw",
      "name": "QwenPaw",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Personal assistant agent that runs fully locally against its own bundled QwenPaw-Flash models, so it needs no API key and no cloud account at all.",
      "free_limit": "Free — local models included (2B/4B/9B)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install qwenpaw",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/qwenpaw/",
      "tags": [
        "local",
        "no-key",
        "memory",
        "multi-channel",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Genuinely key-free out of the box rather than BYOK, which is rare. Connectors skew to Chinese platforms (DingTalk, Lark, WeChat, QQ) alongside Discord, Telegram and iMessage. A 2B-9B local model is a capable assistant, not a frontier-reasoning substitute."
    },
    {
      "id": "tares",
      "name": "Tares",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Self-hostable data plane for always-on agents: ingest events from Prometheus, OpenTelemetry and webhooks, then let an MCP server act on them.",
      "free_limit": "Free — MIT licensed, runs on your own machine",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "MIT",
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install tares",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/tares/",
      "tags": [
        "always-on",
        "mcp",
        "observability",
        "self-host",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Targets the gap between \"an agent that answers\" and one that reacts to what your infrastructure is actually doing."
    },
    {
      "id": "kitaru",
      "name": "Kitaru",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Durable-execution runtime for Python agents from the ZenML team: record, replay and improve agent runs in production.",
      "free_limit": "Free — Apache-2.0, self-hosted",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install kitaru",
      "url": "https://github.com/zenml-io/kitaru",
      "stars": 293,
      "tags": [
        "durable-execution",
        "production",
        "python",
        "replay",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Submitted as \"ZenML/Kitaru\"; the canonical repository is zenml-io/kitaru. Built by the team behind ZenML, which is the main reason to trust it at this age."
    },
    {
      "id": "nexora",
      "name": "Nexora",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Self-hosted orchestration platform where agents get personas, skills and tools, with sub-agent delegation, RAG and semantic memory.",
      "free_limit": "Free — MIT licensed self-hosted core",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "MIT",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows",
        "web"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/ParendumOU/Nexora",
      "stars": 21,
      "tags": [
        "orchestration",
        "personas",
        "multi-agent",
        "self-host",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Early-stage (tens of stars, commits this month). Useful if you want a self-hosted multi-agent UI today; audit it before pointing it at anything sensitive."
    },
    {
      "id": "automatos-ai",
      "name": "Automatos AI",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Apache-2.0 multi-agent orchestration platform built around RAG and vector embeddings, able to route through free provider tiers including NVIDIA's.",
      "free_limit": "Free — Apache-2.0, bring your own keys",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows",
        "web"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/AutomatosAI/automatos-ai",
      "stars": 46,
      "tags": [
        "multi-agent",
        "rag",
        "byok",
        "self-host",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Judge it as a multi-agent orchestration stack; the \"neural field theory\" framing is not an evaluable claim."
    },
    {
      "id": "aigate",
      "name": "aigate",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Single-compose self-hosted AI platform bundling inference, tool use, browser automation, image generation, speech synthesis, transcription and object storage.",
      "free_limit": "Free — self-hosted; bundled providers have their own free tiers",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "linux"
      ],
      "install": "docker compose up",
      "url": "https://github.com/psyb0t/aigate",
      "stars": 14,
      "tags": [
        "docker",
        "self-host",
        "all-in-one",
        "inference",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Small project with a wide attack surface — one compose file exposing inference, storage and code execution. Read the compose file before exposing it beyond localhost."
    },
    {
      "id": "miii-cli",
      "name": "miii-cli",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Offline coding agent for the terminal that runs entirely on Ollama, positioned as a local alternative to Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot.",
      "free_limit": "Free forever — MIT licensed, no keys, no cloud",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "MIT",
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/maruakshay/miii-cli",
      "stars": 35,
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "cli",
        "local",
        "ollama",
        "offline",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Small but actively developed. Output quality tracks whichever local model you point it at, so pair it with a decent coding model rather than a 3B."
    },
    {
      "id": "pawwork",
      "name": "PawWork",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Desktop agent for macOS and Windows with free models bundled in, aimed at office files, web search and scheduled automations rather than code.",
      "free_limit": "Free — Apache-2.0, bundled models need no API key",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "windows"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/Astro-Han/pawwork",
      "stars": 199,
      "tags": [
        "desktop",
        "no-key",
        "office",
        "automation",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The no-key, no-terminal framing makes it a genuine on-ramp for non-developers. Bundled free models change without notice, since they depend on upstream providers."
    },
    {
      "id": "code-buddy",
      "name": "Code Buddy",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Local-first coding agent that reads your repo, writes code and runs commands, with terminal, HTTP and optional desktop interfaces plus fleet collaboration.",
      "free_limit": "Free — runs at $0 with Ollama; optional ChatGPT subscription integration",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "npm install @phuetz/code-buddy",
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/@phuetz/code-buddy",
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "local",
        "ollama",
        "terminal",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The Ollama path is the supported free route and is why this is listed. Its optional ChatGPT-subscription mode routes through a consumer account rather than an API, which is outside that provider's terms — use the local path."
    },
    {
      "id": "browseros",
      "name": "BrowserOS",
      "category": "orchestrator",
      "description": "Open-source agentic browser — a Chromium-based alternative to ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity Comet and Dia, with agents built into the browser rather than bolted on.",
      "free_limit": "Free — AGPL-3.0, bring your own model keys",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "AGPL-3.0",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS",
      "stars": 13741,
      "tags": [
        "browser",
        "agentic-browser",
        "chromium",
        "byok",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The submission pointed at a one-star fork (gHashTag/BrowserOS); this is the upstream project. AGPL-3.0 matters if you plan to redistribute a modified build."
    },
    {
      "id": "ui-tars-desktop",
      "name": "UI-TARS Desktop",
      "category": "orchestrator",
      "description": "ByteDance's multimodal GUI agent stack that drives a real desktop — clicking, typing and navigating native apps — from screenshots and instructions.",
      "free_limit": "Free — Apache-2.0, run the model locally or bring a key",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "windows",
        "linux"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/ByteDance/UI-TARS-desktop",
      "stars": 39105,
      "tags": [
        "gui-agent",
        "computer-use",
        "desktop",
        "multimodal",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "One of the few computer-use stacks with real industrial backing and a permissive licence. A GUI agent that can click anything on your screen is a large security decision — run it in a VM or on a spare machine."
    },
    {
      "id": "open-cowork",
      "name": "Open Cowork",
      "category": "orchestrator",
      "description": "Desktop agent for Windows and macOS that installs Claude Code and MCP tooling in one click and runs the agent in a sandbox.",
      "free_limit": "Free — MIT licensed, bring your own keys",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "MIT",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "windows"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/OpenCoworkAI/open-cowork",
      "stars": 2169,
      "tags": [
        "desktop",
        "sandbox",
        "mcp",
        "multi-model",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Sandbox isolation is the feature that matters here — the whole point of this class of tool is letting an agent act on your machine, and the sandbox is what bounds the blast radius."
    },
    {
      "id": "abu-cowork",
      "name": "Abu-Cowork",
      "category": "orchestrator",
      "description": "Local-first desktop agent with self-evolving skills and multi-model support, built as a privacy-preserving alternative to hosted coworking agents.",
      "free_limit": "Free — open source, bring your own keys",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "windows"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/PM-Shawn/Abu-Cowork",
      "stars": 383,
      "tags": [
        "desktop",
        "local-first",
        "privacy",
        "multi-model",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Mid-sized community project. \"Self-evolving skills\" means it writes new skills for itself over time — keep an eye on what it accumulates."
    },
    {
      "id": "hyperdesk",
      "name": "HyperDesk",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Desktop coding workbench where the agent reads the project, runs commands, drives a browser and coordinates subagents — asking before it changes anything.",
      "free_limit": "Free — open source, bring your own keys",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "typescript",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "npm install hyperdesk",
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/hyperdesk",
      "tags": [
        "desktop",
        "coding-agent",
        "subagents",
        "browser",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The confirm-before-changing behaviour is the right default for a tool with this much reach. Young project — check the package's own release notes before trusting it with a large repo."
    },
    {
      "id": "alice-memory",
      "name": "Alice Memory",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Local-first continuity layer that lets agents resume interrupted work, track open loops and recall decisions with provenance, exposed over MCP, HTTP and CLI.",
      "free_limit": "Free — MIT licensed, local, no API keys",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "MIT",
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "uvx alice-memory mcp",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/alice-memory/",
      "tags": [
        "memory",
        "mcp",
        "provenance",
        "local-first",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Provenance — remembering why a decision was made, not just what it was — is the part most memory layers skip. The 79.4% LongMemEval figure is the project's own reported number, not independently reproduced here."
    },
    {
      "id": "mazu",
      "name": "Mazu",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Coding-agent CLI with a memory and checkpoint layer: it keeps a queryable record of project decisions, conventions and past mistakes across sessions.",
      "free_limit": "Free — open source, bring your own keys",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install mazu",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/mazu/",
      "tags": [
        "memory",
        "coding-agent",
        "cli",
        "checkpoints",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Pair it with any of the free coding models catalogued here. As with every local memory store, the retrieval quality matters more than the storage format."
    },
    {
      "id": "pi-coding-agent",
      "name": "pi-coding-agent",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Minimal, inspectable coding agent that persists project facts to a plain .pi/memory.md file instead of a hidden database, with self-review and autonomous tool use.",
      "free_limit": "Free — open source, multi-provider",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install pi-coding-agent",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/pi-coding-agent/",
      "tags": [
        "coding-agent",
        "memory",
        "markdown",
        "transparent",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Storing memory as readable Markdown you can edit and review is the whole appeal — no opaque vector store to debug when recall goes wrong."
    },
    {
      "id": "mengram-ai",
      "name": "mengram-ai",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Human-like memory layer for agents with auto-save, auto-recall and a cognitive profile, split across semantic, episodic and procedural memory and exposed as MCP tools.",
      "free_limit": "Free — open source, runs locally",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install mengram-ai",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/mengram-ai/",
      "tags": [
        "memory",
        "mcp",
        "cognitive",
        "claude-code",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Splitting memory into semantic, episodic and procedural stores is a more honest model of how agents actually benefit from memory than a single flat vector index. Actively released and includes Claude Code hooks."
    },
    {
      "id": "haiku-rag",
      "name": "haiku.rag",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Agentic RAG that runs locally by default, using Ollama-hosted open models for the full pipeline — ingestion, embeddings, retrieval and generation.",
      "free_limit": "Free — open source; the default pipeline needs no external API key",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "MIT",
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install haiku.rag",
      "url": "https://github.com/ggozad/haiku.rag",
      "tags": [
        "rag",
        "local",
        "ollama",
        "no-key",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Scales from a laptop to a server without changing the stack, and the no-key default is the reason it belongs in this catalogue rather than in a generic RAG list."
    },
    {
      "id": "pinakes",
      "name": "Pinakes",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Portable, agent-first knowledge base where one directory holds the corpus, retrieved with SQLite FTS5 lexical search plus local embeddings and local reranking.",
      "free_limit": "Free — no API key needed to search or re-index",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install pinakes",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/pinakes/",
      "tags": [
        "rag",
        "bm25",
        "sqlite",
        "local",
        "embeddings",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Combining BM25 with embeddings is more robust than either alone — lexical search catches exact identifiers that pure vector search misses, and re-indexing costs nothing."
    },
    {
      "id": "arc-rector",
      "name": "Arc Rector",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Agentic RAG stack assembled entirely from open-source components, with nine swappable layers so you can replace any piece without touching the rest.",
      "free_limit": "Free — open source, no API keys, no vendor bills",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/dev48v/arc-rector",
      "tags": [
        "rag",
        "modular",
        "self-host",
        "no-key",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Worth reading as a reference architecture even if you do not adopt it — the swappable-layer structure is a clean answer to RAG stacks that hard-code one vendor."
    },
    {
      "id": "local-rag-assistant",
      "name": "local-rag-assistant",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Chat with any codebase locally: AST-aware chunking, Ollama embeddings and a Chroma vector store, with no code leaving your machine.",
      "free_limit": "Free — fully local, no API keys",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/lalith0087/local-rag-assistant",
      "tags": [
        "rag",
        "codebase",
        "ast",
        "ollama",
        "local",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "AST-aware chunking beats naive line splitting on code, because a function is the unit you actually want retrieved. Small community project — read before you run."
    },
    {
      "id": "pleias-slm-rag",
      "name": "Pleias SLM RAG",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "On-device RAG API built on a ~300M-parameter model small enough to run on a Raspberry Pi 5, with no GPU and no external API calls.",
      "free_limit": "Free — Apache-2.0 model weights",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/PleIAs/Pleias-SLM-RAG",
      "tags": [
        "rag",
        "on-device",
        "small-model",
        "edge",
        "raspberry-pi",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Genuinely edge-sized, which is rare for anything labelled RAG. A 300M model is for retrieval and grounded short answers, not general reasoning."
    },
    {
      "id": "hol-guard",
      "name": "HOL Guard",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Antivirus and runtime protection layer for agent tooling — plugins, skills and MCP servers — that sits between your agent and the code it is about to run.",
      "free_limit": "Free — runs locally, no account",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install hol-guard",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/hol-guard/",
      "tags": [
        "security",
        "mcp",
        "runtime-protection",
        "local",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Installing an MCP server means running someone else's code with your credentials in reach; this is one of the few tools treating that as the security boundary it is. Integrates with the major agent CLIs."
    },
    {
      "id": "agent-bom",
      "name": "agent-bom",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Scanner and self-hosted control plane for AI infrastructure — sweeps agent configs, MCP servers, instruction files, containers, cloud estate and model artefacts.",
      "free_limit": "Free — open source, self-hosted",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install agent-bom",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/agent-bom/",
      "tags": [
        "security",
        "sbom",
        "mcp",
        "scanner",
        "self-host",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The agent-specific targets — instruction files and MCP configs — are what distinguish it from a generic container scanner. Actively released."
    },
    {
      "id": "panguard",
      "name": "PanGuard",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "One-command monitoring and guarding for agents and MCP servers, aimed at catching what an agent does rather than what it was asked to do.",
      "free_limit": "Free — MIT licensed, 100% open source",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "MIT",
      "language": "typescript",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "npm install panguard",
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/panguard",
      "tags": [
        "security",
        "monitoring",
        "mcp",
        "mit",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Deliberately low-friction — one command and it starts watching, which is the right trade for teams that will not stand up a full security stack."
    },
    {
      "id": "bawbel-scanner",
      "name": "Bawbel Scanner",
      "category": "cli",
      "description": "Security scanner for MCP servers and AI skill files that scores findings against OWASP's AIVSS rubric and ships an open vulnerability database with a public API.",
      "free_limit": "Free — open source",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install bawbel-scanner",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/bawbel-scanner/",
      "tags": [
        "security",
        "mcp",
        "owasp",
        "scanner",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Scoring MCP servers against a published rubric is useful because it makes two servers comparable. AIVSS is still evolving, so treat scores as guidance rather than verdicts."
    },
    {
      "id": "nightona",
      "name": "Nightona",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Community continuation of Daytona: elastic sandbox infrastructure for running AI-generated code and agent workflows in isolation.",
      "free_limit": "Free — AGPL-3.0, self-hosted",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "AGPL-3.0",
      "platforms": [
        "linux",
        "macos"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/nightona-co/nightona",
      "tags": [
        "sandbox",
        "code-execution",
        "self-host",
        "daytona",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Forked from Daytona's last AGPL-3.0 release after that project changed direction, so the licence is what makes the continuation legitimate — and it means you inherit the maintenance burden rather than a vendor's."
    },
    {
      "id": "capka",
      "name": "Capka",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Self-hosted sandbox for AI agents, built as a community alternative to hosted coworking sandboxes.",
      "free_limit": "Free — open source, self-hosted",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/LyoSU/capka",
      "tags": [
        "sandbox",
        "self-host",
        "isolation",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Young project — verify the isolation boundary yourself before trusting it with untrusted code, since that is precisely the promise being made."
    },
    {
      "id": "coder-eval",
      "name": "coder-eval",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Agent-agnostic framework for evaluating and benchmarking coding agents and skills, with support for comparing different agent harnesses head to head.",
      "free_limit": "Free — open source",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "language": "python",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "install": "pip install coder-eval",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/coder-eval/",
      "tags": [
        "evaluation",
        "benchmarking",
        "coding-agent",
        "testing",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Agent-agnostic is the valuable property: you can A/B your own agent against a reference harness instead of trusting a vendor's self-reported score."
    },
    {
      "id": "openmcp",
      "name": "OpenMCP",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Self-hosted benchmarking harness for computer-use agents acting through MCP, letting you measure tool-using agents reproducibly.",
      "free_limit": "Free — open source, self-hosted",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/AguLeon/OpenMCP",
      "tags": [
        "evaluation",
        "mcp",
        "computer-use",
        "benchmark",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Computer-use evaluation is the least standardised corner of agent testing, so any harness that makes results reproducible is worth knowing about. Early-stage project."
    },
    {
      "id": "agent-eval",
      "name": "agent-eval",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Evaluation framework that auto-generates test tasks for an agent, executes them and scores results across several dimensions.",
      "free_limit": "Free — open source",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/OrrisTech/agent-eval",
      "tags": [
        "evaluation",
        "testing",
        "automation",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Auto-generated tasks solve the blank-page problem in agent testing, but they measure what the generator thought to ask — combine with your own regression cases."
    },
    {
      "id": "benchclaw",
      "name": "BenchClaw",
      "category": "framework",
      "description": "Multi-dimensional agent evaluation that scores runs across ten dimensions and visualises the spread as radar charts.",
      "free_limit": "Free — MIT licensed",
      "requires_card": false,
      "open_source": true,
      "license": "MIT",
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "windows"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/Agnuxo1/benchclaw",
      "tags": [
        "evaluation",
        "benchmarking",
        "visualisation",
        "mit",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Multi-dimensional scoring is more informative than a single pass/fail number. The advertised \"17-judge AI tribunal\" and deception detection are separate LLM calls judging output — treat their verdicts as signal, not ground truth."
    }
  ],
  "free-tiers": [
    {
      "id": "vercel",
      "name": "Vercel",
      "category": "hosting",
      "description": "Static and serverless hosting with preview deployments per branch and AI Gateway included.",
      "free_limit": "Hobby: 100GB bandwidth/mo, 100h serverless, $5/mo AI credit",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://vercel.com",
      "tags": [
        "deploy",
        "edge",
        "serverless",
        "nextjs",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Hobby is explicitly non-commercial. Fine for a side project, against ToS for a paid product."
    },
    {
      "id": "netlify",
      "name": "Netlify",
      "category": "hosting",
      "description": "Static hosting, edge functions and form handling with per-branch deploy previews.",
      "free_limit": "100GB bandwidth/mo, 300 build minutes/mo",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://netlify.com",
      "tags": [
        "deploy",
        "static",
        "edge"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "cloudflare-pages",
      "name": "Cloudflare Pages",
      "category": "hosting",
      "description": "Unlimited-bandwidth static hosting that pairs with Workers, D1 and R2 on the same free account.",
      "free_limit": "Unlimited requests and bandwidth; 500 builds/month",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://pages.cloudflare.com",
      "tags": [
        "deploy",
        "static",
        "unlimited-bandwidth",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The best free host for this site's own architecture: static output, no egress billing, global CDN."
    },
    {
      "id": "cloudflare-workers",
      "name": "Cloudflare Workers",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "V8-isolate serverless functions with cron triggers and durable objects, plus a free Workers AI binding.",
      "free_limit": "100,000 requests/day, 10ms CPU per request",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://workers.cloudflare.com",
      "tags": [
        "serverless",
        "edge",
        "cron",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The free tier's 10ms CPU limit is generous for API orchestration and tight for anything doing real compute."
    },
    {
      "id": "github-pages",
      "name": "GitHub Pages",
      "category": "hosting",
      "description": "Static hosting straight from a repository, with a custom domain and HTTPS included.",
      "free_limit": "1GB site size, 100GB/mo soft bandwidth, 10 builds/hour",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://pages.github.com",
      "tags": [
        "deploy",
        "static",
        "github",
        "zero-config"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "render",
      "name": "Render",
      "category": "hosting",
      "description": "Container and web-service hosting with managed Postgres and cron jobs.",
      "free_limit": "750 instance-hours/mo; services spin down after 15 min idle",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "high",
      "url": "https://render.com",
      "tags": [
        "deploy",
        "containers",
        "cold-starts"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The 15-minute spin-down makes cold starts of 30-60s. Fine for demos, painful for a live agent endpoint."
    },
    {
      "id": "railway",
      "name": "Railway",
      "category": "hosting",
      "description": "Fast deploys from a repo or Dockerfile with databases attached, billed by usage.",
      "free_limit": "Trial credits on signup; $5/mo Hobby credit afterwards",
      "requires_card": true,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://railway.com",
      "tags": [
        "deploy",
        "containers",
        "databases"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "fly-io",
      "name": "Fly.io",
      "category": "hosting",
      "description": "Runs Docker containers close to users with persistent volumes and private networking.",
      "free_limit": "Limited free VM allowance for small machines (no managed databases)",
      "requires_card": true,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://fly.io",
      "tags": [
        "deploy",
        "containers",
        "global",
        "volumes"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "koyeb",
      "name": "Koyeb",
      "category": "hosting",
      "description": "Serverless container platform with a small always-on free instance and GPU options.",
      "free_limit": "One free web service instance (0.1 vCPU / 512MB)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "medium",
      "url": "https://koyeb.com",
      "tags": [
        "deploy",
        "containers",
        "always-on"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "deno-deploy",
      "name": "Deno Deploy",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "Edge TypeScript runtime with KV storage, queues and cron built in — no build step.",
      "free_limit": "1M requests/mo, 100GB bandwidth/mo",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://deno.com/deploy",
      "tags": [
        "serverless",
        "edge",
        "typescript",
        "kv"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "oracle-cloud-always-free",
      "name": "Oracle Cloud Always Free",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "The only genuinely free-forever VPS with usable specs — 2 Arm Ampere cores and 12GB RAM running 24/7, as one VM or split in two.",
      "free_limit": "2 ARM OCPUs + 12GB RAM, 200GB storage, 10TB egress/mo, forever",
      "requires_card": true,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/",
      "tags": [
        "arm",
        "capacity-scarce",
        "vm",
        "always-free",
        "self-host",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "Oracle halved this allowance on 15 June 2026 — 4 OCPU/24GB became 2 OCPU/12GB — with no announcement, only a quiet docs edit.",
        "Instances above the new limit were terminated after 18 August 2026.",
        "The pool is tenancy-wide, not per-instance.",
        "Idle instances are reclaimed: under 20% 95th-percentile CPU, network and memory across a seven-day window.",
        "Signup rejections are routine, and ARM capacity is scarce enough that launches frequently fail with \"Out of capacity\"; Pay As You Go accounts reportedly keep the old 4/24 allowance for free."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "aws-free-tier",
      "name": "AWS Free Tier",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "Twelve months of t4g.small, Lambda allowances and 5GB S3, plus always-free Lambda and DynamoDB caps.",
      "free_limit": "12-month credits for new accounts; perpetual Lambda/DynamoDB allowances",
      "requires_card": true,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/free/",
      "tags": [
        "cloud",
        "aws",
        "credits"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "gcp-free-tier",
      "name": "Google Cloud Free Tier",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "e2-micro VM, Cloud Run and Firestore allowances, plus the $300 new-account credit.",
      "free_limit": "Always-free e2-micro VM + Cloud Run/Speech/BigQuery monthly quotas",
      "requires_card": true,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://cloud.google.com/free",
      "tags": [
        "cloud",
        "gcp",
        "always-free"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "huggingface-spaces",
      "name": "Hugging Face Spaces",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "Free Docker or Gradio container hosting with a permanent public URL — 2 vCPU and 16GB RAM on the CPU Basic tier, enough for a real service rather than a toy demo.",
      "free_limit": "2 vCPU / 16GB RAM / 50GB ephemeral disk, unlimited Spaces",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "high",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/spaces",
      "docs_url": "https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-overview",
      "tags": [
        "demos",
        "gradio",
        "docker",
        "ml",
        "no-card",
        "free-forever"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "One of the most generous free CPU containers available, and it needs no card at any point.",
        "Spaces sleep after inactivity and cold-start on the next visit, so this is not an always-on host without a keep-alive.",
        "The 50GB disk is ephemeral and resets on every restart; persistent /data storage is a paid upgrade from $5/mo for 20GB. Back state up to a Storage Bucket or dataset repo instead.",
        "Private Spaces are restricted on the free tier, so treat a free Space as public."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "google-colab",
      "name": "Google Colab",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "Free hosted Jupyter with a T4 GPU — the cheapest path to fine-tuning or running a large model.",
      "free_limit": "Free GPU sessions (T4), subject to availability and session limits",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "high",
      "url": "https://colab.research.google.com",
      "tags": [
        "gpu",
        "notebooks",
        "fine-tuning",
        "free-gpu"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Free GPU availability is not guaranteed at peak times and sessions die after idle periods — not a deploy target."
    },
    {
      "id": "kaggle-notebooks",
      "name": "Kaggle Notebooks",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "Free GPU/TPU notebooks with 30 hours of weekly GPU quota and persistent datasets.",
      "free_limit": "30 GPU hours/week (P100 or T4x2), 20 TPU hours/week",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "medium",
      "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/docs/notebooks",
      "tags": [
        "gpu",
        "tpu",
        "notebooks",
        "fine-tuning"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "modal",
      "name": "Modal",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "Serverless Python with GPU-per-second billing — good for embedding jobs and batch inference.",
      "free_limit": "$30/month of included compute on the free plan",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "medium",
      "url": "https://modal.com",
      "tags": [
        "gpu",
        "serverless",
        "batch",
        "python"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "$30/month covers a lot of embedding generation; it does not cover sustained GPU inference."
    },
    {
      "id": "e2b",
      "name": "E2B",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "Sandboxed cloud VMs built for agent code execution, with filesystem and process control.",
      "free_limit": "$100 of sandbox credit on signup",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://e2b.dev",
      "tags": [
        "sandbox",
        "code-execution",
        "agent-infra"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "val-town",
      "name": "Val Town",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "Write and deploy TypeScript functions in the browser with cron, SQLite and secrets included.",
      "free_limit": "Free tier with 100K daily function runs",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://val.town",
      "tags": [
        "serverless",
        "cron",
        "typescript",
        "sqlite"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "supabase",
      "name": "Supabase",
      "category": "database",
      "description": "Postgres with auth, storage, realtime and pgvector in one free project — the default agent backend.",
      "free_limit": "500MB database, 1GB file storage, 50K MAU auth",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "medium",
      "url": "https://supabase.com",
      "tags": [
        "postgres",
        "auth",
        "storage",
        "pgvector",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Free projects pause after 7 days of inactivity. Set up a weekly keep-alive ping or accept the cold start."
    },
    {
      "id": "neon",
      "name": "Neon",
      "category": "database",
      "description": "Serverless Postgres with copy-on-write branching — a database branch per feature or per agent run.",
      "free_limit": "0.5GB storage, 10 branches, 190 compute hours/mo",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "medium",
      "url": "https://neon.com",
      "tags": [
        "postgres",
        "branching",
        "serverless",
        "pgvector"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "turso",
      "name": "Turso",
      "category": "database",
      "description": "Edge SQLite with embedded replicas — sub-millisecond reads next to your function, plus native vector search.",
      "free_limit": "5GB storage, 500M row reads/mo",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://turso.tech",
      "tags": [
        "sqlite",
        "edge",
        "vector",
        "low-latency"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "cloudflare-d1",
      "name": "Cloudflare D1",
      "category": "database",
      "description": "SQLite at the edge, bound directly to Workers with no connection pooling to manage.",
      "free_limit": "5GB storage, 5M rows read/day",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/",
      "tags": [
        "sqlite",
        "edge",
        "workers",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "cockroachdb-basic",
      "name": "CockroachDB Basic",
      "category": "database",
      "description": "Distributed SQL with automatic replication across regions and standard Postgres wire protocol.",
      "free_limit": "10GB storage, 50M request units/mo",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://www.cockroachlabs.com/product/",
      "tags": [
        "distributed",
        "postgres-compatible",
        "multi-region"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "mongodb-atlas",
      "name": "MongoDB Atlas",
      "category": "database",
      "description": "Managed document database with a permanent M0 cluster, including Atlas Vector Search.",
      "free_limit": "M0 cluster: 512MB storage, shared vCPU",
      "requires_card": true,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://www.mongodb.com/atlas",
      "tags": [
        "document",
        "vector",
        "nosql"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Card verification is required even for M0 in most regions now — the one free database that usually asks."
    },
    {
      "id": "firebase-firestore",
      "name": "Firebase Firestore",
      "category": "database",
      "description": "Realtime document database with offline sync and client SDKs for every platform.",
      "free_limit": "1GiB storage, 50K document reads/day",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://firebase.google.com/products/firestore",
      "tags": [
        "document",
        "realtime",
        "mobile"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "aiven-free",
      "name": "Aiven",
      "category": "database",
      "description": "Managed Postgres, MySQL, Valkey and OpenSearch on a single always-free plan.",
      "free_limit": "One 1GB managed service (Postgres, MySQL, Valkey or OpenSearch)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://aiven.io/free-tier",
      "tags": [
        "postgres",
        "mysql",
        "valkey",
        "managed"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "convex",
      "name": "Convex",
      "category": "database",
      "description": "Reactive backend with TypeScript queries, mutations, scheduled functions and vector search.",
      "free_limit": "0.5GB storage, 1M function calls/mo",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://convex.dev",
      "tags": [
        "reactive",
        "typescript",
        "backend",
        "functions"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "upstash-redis",
      "name": "Upstash Redis",
      "category": "database",
      "description": "Serverless Redis with per-request pricing and a REST API — no connection limit problems from serverless functions.",
      "free_limit": "500K commands/mo, 256MB",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://upstash.com",
      "tags": [
        "redis",
        "cache",
        "serverless",
        "rate-limiting",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "pocketbase",
      "name": "PocketBase",
      "category": "database",
      "description": "Single-binary backend with SQLite, auth, file storage, realtime and an admin UI — self-host anywhere.",
      "free_limit": "Unlimited (self-hosted, MIT)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://pocketbase.io",
      "tags": [
        "sqlite",
        "self-host",
        "backend",
        "auth",
        "single-binary"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "cloudflare-r2",
      "name": "Cloudflare R2",
      "category": "storage",
      "description": "S3-compatible object storage with zero egress fees — the reason to store agent artefacts here.",
      "free_limit": "10GB storage, 1M Class A ops/mo, free egress",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/",
      "tags": [
        "object-storage",
        "s3-compatible",
        "no-egress-fees",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "backblaze-b2",
      "name": "Backblaze B2",
      "category": "storage",
      "description": "Cheap S3-compatible object storage with free egress through Cloudflare's bandwidth alliance.",
      "free_limit": "10GB storage, 1GB/day download free",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage",
      "tags": [
        "object-storage",
        "backup",
        "s3-compatible"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "qdrant-cloud",
      "name": "Qdrant Cloud",
      "category": "vector-db",
      "description": "The best free vector tier: a real cluster with payload filtering, no card required.",
      "free_limit": "1GB cluster free forever (0.5 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 4GB disk)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://qdrant.tech",
      "tags": [
        "vector",
        "rag",
        "filtering",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "1GB holds roughly 250K vectors at 384 dimensions — enough for a serious RAG prototype."
    },
    {
      "id": "pinecone-starter",
      "name": "Pinecone Starter",
      "category": "vector-db",
      "description": "Fully managed vector database with the least operational overhead of any option here.",
      "free_limit": "2GB storage, 2M write units and 1M read units/mo, 5 indexes",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://www.pinecone.io",
      "tags": [
        "vector",
        "managed",
        "serverless",
        "hybrid-search"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Free indexes are pinned to AWS us-east-1 — latency from India or Europe is noticeable."
    },
    {
      "id": "weaviate-cloud",
      "name": "Weaviate Cloud",
      "category": "vector-db",
      "description": "Open-source vector database with hybrid keyword+vector search and built-in vectoriser modules.",
      "free_limit": "Free sandbox: 100K objects, 1GB memory, 1 collection",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "medium",
      "url": "https://weaviate.io",
      "tags": [
        "vector",
        "hybrid-search",
        "oss",
        "rag"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "zilliz-cloud",
      "name": "Zilliz Cloud",
      "category": "vector-db",
      "description": "Managed Milvus with strong performance at scale and a genuine free cluster.",
      "free_limit": "Free tier: 5GB storage, 2.5M vector compute units/mo",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://zilliz.com",
      "tags": [
        "vector",
        "milvus",
        "managed",
        "scale"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "upstash-vector",
      "name": "Upstash Vector",
      "category": "vector-db",
      "description": "Serverless vector database over REST — no connection management, pairs with Upstash Redis on one key.",
      "free_limit": "10K vectors, 150K query units/day",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://upstash.com/docs/vector/overall/getstarted",
      "tags": [
        "vector",
        "serverless",
        "rest-api",
        "low-volume"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "chroma-cloud",
      "name": "Chroma Cloud",
      "category": "vector-db",
      "description": "Managed version of the most developer-friendly embedded vector store, with $5 of starter credit.",
      "free_limit": "$5 starter credit; Chroma OSS remains free to self-host",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://www.trychroma.com",
      "tags": [
        "vector",
        "oss",
        "embedded",
        "simple"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "For anything under a few hundred thousand vectors, self-hosted Chroma on the same box as your app is simpler and free."
    },
    {
      "id": "neo4j-auradb",
      "name": "Neo4j AuraDB Free",
      "category": "vector-db",
      "description": "Managed graph database with native vector indexes — a knowledge graph and a vector store in one.",
      "free_limit": "Free instance: 200K nodes, 400K relationships, no card required",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://neo4j.com/cloud/aura-free/",
      "tags": [
        "graph",
        "vector",
        "knowledge-graph",
        "rag"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "pgvector",
      "name": "pgvector",
      "category": "vector-db",
      "description": "Postgres extension that turns the database you already run into a vector store — no second system to operate.",
      "free_limit": "Free (extension; self-hosted or on any Postgres free tier)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector",
      "tags": [
        "postgres",
        "vector",
        "self-host",
        "no-vendor"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Available out of the box on Supabase and Neon free tiers — the pragmatic default for a small agent."
    },
    {
      "id": "lancedb",
      "name": "LanceDB",
      "category": "vector-db",
      "description": "Embedded vector database on the Lance columnar format — runs in-process, no server, no account.",
      "free_limit": "Open source (Apache 2.0); $100 one-time cloud credit",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://lancedb.com",
      "tags": [
        "vector",
        "embedded",
        "local",
        "columnar"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "clerk",
      "name": "Clerk",
      "category": "auth",
      "description": "Drop-in authentication with prebuilt UI components, organisations and webhooks.",
      "free_limit": "50,000 monthly retained users",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://clerk.com",
      "tags": [
        "auth",
        "users",
        "ui-components",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "workos-authkit",
      "name": "WorkOS AuthKit",
      "category": "auth",
      "description": "Auth with enterprise SSO, SCIM and directory sync built in from day one.",
      "free_limit": "Free up to 1M monthly active users on AuthKit",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://workos.com/authkit",
      "tags": [
        "auth",
        "sso",
        "enterprise",
        "saml"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The 1M MAU number makes this the strongest free option if you might later need enterprise SSO."
    },
    {
      "id": "auth0",
      "name": "Auth0",
      "category": "auth",
      "description": "Mature identity platform with social logins, MFA and rules/extensibility.",
      "free_limit": "25,000 MAU on the free plan",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://auth0.com",
      "tags": [
        "auth",
        "mfa",
        "social-login"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "logto",
      "name": "Logto",
      "category": "auth",
      "description": "Open-source auth alternative to Auth0 with a clean developer experience and a free cloud tier.",
      "free_limit": "50,000 MAU on free cloud; self-hosted is unlimited",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://logto.io",
      "tags": [
        "auth",
        "open-source",
        "self-host"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "better-auth",
      "name": "Better Auth",
      "category": "auth",
      "description": "TypeScript-first authentication library that lives inside your app — no third party in the request path.",
      "free_limit": "Free (MIT, self-hosted in your own codebase)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://www.better-auth.com",
      "tags": [
        "auth",
        "typescript",
        "library",
        "no-vendor",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "For an agent app, a library beats a hosted auth service: no MAU cliff, no extra vendor."
    },
    {
      "id": "keycloak",
      "name": "Keycloak",
      "category": "auth",
      "description": "Red Hat's battle-tested identity server — full OIDC/SAML with self-hosting on a free VM.",
      "free_limit": "Free (Apache 2.0, self-hosted)",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://www.keycloak.org",
      "tags": [
        "auth",
        "self-host",
        "oidc",
        "saml",
        "enterprise"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "upstash-qstash",
      "name": "Upstash QStash",
      "category": "queue",
      "description": "HTTP-based message queue and scheduler — the simplest way to add durable background jobs to serverless agents.",
      "free_limit": "1,000 messages/day",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://upstash.com/docs/qstash/overall/getstarted",
      "tags": [
        "queue",
        "cron",
        "webhooks",
        "durable",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "inngest",
      "name": "Inngest",
      "category": "queue",
      "description": "Durable workflow engine with steps, retries and fan-out — long-running agents that survive restarts.",
      "free_limit": "50K executions/mo, 5 concurrent steps",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://inngest.com",
      "tags": [
        "workflows",
        "durable",
        "retries",
        "agents",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The most direct fix for 'my agent died halfway through': each step is checkpointed and retried."
    },
    {
      "id": "trigger-dev",
      "name": "Trigger.dev",
      "category": "queue",
      "description": "Background jobs as code with long-running tasks, realtime progress and observability.",
      "free_limit": "$5/mo of included compute",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://trigger.dev",
      "tags": [
        "jobs",
        "background",
        "long-running",
        "typescript"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ably",
      "name": "Ably",
      "category": "queue",
      "description": "Realtime pub/sub and presence for streaming agent output to a browser.",
      "free_limit": "6M messages/mo, 200 peak concurrent connections",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://ably.com",
      "tags": [
        "realtime",
        "pubsub",
        "websockets",
        "streaming"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "pusher",
      "name": "Pusher Channels",
      "category": "queue",
      "description": "Managed WebSockets with channels, presence and client events.",
      "free_limit": "200K messages/day, 100 concurrent connections",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://pusher.com/channels",
      "tags": [
        "realtime",
        "websockets",
        "notifications"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "novu",
      "name": "Novu",
      "category": "queue",
      "description": "Notification infrastructure that fans out one event to email, in-app, chat and push channels.",
      "free_limit": "30K events/mo on free cloud; self-hosted is unlimited",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://novu.co",
      "tags": [
        "notifications",
        "multi-channel",
        "open-source"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "cloudamqp",
      "name": "CloudAMQP",
      "category": "queue",
      "description": "Managed RabbitMQ on a small always-free instance — proper AMQP when QStash is not enough.",
      "free_limit": "Little Lemur plan: 1M messages/mo, 20 connections",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://www.cloudamqp.com",
      "tags": [
        "rabbitmq",
        "amqp",
        "queue",
        "managed"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "langfuse",
      "name": "Langfuse",
      "category": "observability",
      "description": "Open-source LLM tracing, prompt management and evaluation — the default for debugging agent runs.",
      "free_limit": "50K observations/mo on free cloud; self-hosted is unlimited",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://langfuse.com",
      "tags": [
        "llm-observability",
        "tracing",
        "evals",
        "prompts",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Self-hosting on the Oracle always-free ARM VM gives you unlimited tracing for $0."
    },
    {
      "id": "helicone",
      "name": "Helicone",
      "category": "observability",
      "description": "One-line proxy that logs every LLM request with cost, latency and caching.",
      "free_limit": "10,000 requests/mo on free plan",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://helicone.ai",
      "tags": [
        "llm-observability",
        "proxy",
        "cost-tracking",
        "caching"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "sentry",
      "name": "Sentry",
      "category": "observability",
      "description": "Error tracking with stack traces, releases, session replay and an official MCP server.",
      "free_limit": "5,000 errors/mo, 50 session replays, 1 user",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://sentry.io",
      "tags": [
        "errors",
        "apm",
        "replay",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "grafana-cloud",
      "name": "Grafana Cloud",
      "category": "observability",
      "description": "Metrics, logs and traces with a permanent free tier plus 14-day retention.",
      "free_limit": "10K metrics series, 50GB logs, 50GB traces, 3 users",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://grafana.com/products/cloud/",
      "tags": [
        "metrics",
        "logs",
        "traces",
        "dashboards"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "axiom",
      "name": "Axiom",
      "category": "observability",
      "description": "Log analytics built for high-cardinality events, with dashboards and alerts.",
      "free_limit": "0.5TB ingest/mo, 30-day retention",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://axiom.co",
      "tags": [
        "logs",
        "analytics",
        "high-volume"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "0.5TB/month free is unusually large — useful if you log every agent step and tool call."
    },
    {
      "id": "posthog",
      "name": "PostHog",
      "category": "analytics",
      "description": "Product analytics, session replay, feature flags and experiments in one SDK.",
      "free_limit": "1M events/mo, 5K replays, 1M feature-flag requests",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://posthog.com",
      "tags": [
        "analytics",
        "funnels",
        "flags",
        "experiments"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "better-stack",
      "name": "Better Stack",
      "category": "observability",
      "description": "Uptime monitoring, status pages, on-call alerting and log management.",
      "free_limit": "10 monitors at 3-min checks, 1 status page, 3GB logs",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://betterstack.com",
      "tags": [
        "uptime",
        "monitoring",
        "status-page",
        "alerts"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "uptimerobot",
      "name": "UptimeRobot",
      "category": "observability",
      "description": "Simple external uptime checks with Slack and email alerts — the guardrail for 'is my agent alive'.",
      "free_limit": "50 monitors at 5-minute intervals",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://uptimerobot.com",
      "tags": [
        "uptime",
        "monitoring",
        "alerts",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "plausible",
      "name": "Plausible Analytics",
      "category": "analytics",
      "description": "Privacy-first, cookie-free web analytics — no consent banner needed, GDPR-compliant by design.",
      "free_limit": "30-day trial on cloud; self-hosted Community Edition is free forever",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://plausible.io",
      "tags": [
        "analytics",
        "privacy",
        "no-cookies",
        "gdpr"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "This project's own site should self-host Plausible or Umami — a cookie banner would violate the 'no dark patterns' principle."
    },
    {
      "id": "umami",
      "name": "Umami",
      "category": "analytics",
      "description": "Lightweight, open-source, cookie-free analytics with a simple dashboard.",
      "free_limit": "Free (MIT, self-hosted); managed cloud has a small free allowance",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://umami.is",
      "tags": [
        "analytics",
        "privacy",
        "open-source",
        "self-host"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "resend",
      "name": "Resend",
      "category": "email",
      "description": "Transactional email API with React Email templates and good deliverability.",
      "free_limit": "3,000 emails/mo, 100/day",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://resend.com",
      "tags": [
        "email",
        "transactional",
        "api",
        "essential"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "brevo",
      "name": "Brevo",
      "category": "email",
      "description": "Transactional email plus marketing campaigns and SMS on one generous free plan.",
      "free_limit": "300 emails/day (9,000/mo), unlimited contacts",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://www.brevo.com",
      "tags": [
        "email",
        "marketing",
        "sms"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "mailtrap",
      "name": "Mailtrap",
      "category": "email",
      "description": "Email sandbox for testing plus a small sending allowance — stops agents spamming real inboxes in dev.",
      "free_limit": "1,000 emails/mo sending; free sandbox for testing",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://mailtrap.io",
      "tags": [
        "email",
        "testing",
        "sandbox"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "algolia",
      "name": "Algolia",
      "category": "search",
      "description": "Hosted search with typo tolerance, synonyms and instant-search UI libraries.",
      "free_limit": "10K search requests/mo, 1M records",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://www.algolia.com",
      "tags": [
        "search",
        "instant-search",
        "docs"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "docsearch",
      "name": "DocSearch",
      "category": "search",
      "description": "Free Algolia-powered documentation search for open-source projects, including crawl and the search UI.",
      "free_limit": "Free for open-source and developer documentation",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://docsearch.algolia.com",
      "tags": [
        "search",
        "docs",
        "open-source",
        "free"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Requires your docs to be public and crawlable — this project's site qualifies."
    },
    {
      "id": "typesense-cloud",
      "name": "Typesense Cloud",
      "category": "search",
      "description": "Open-source (GPL) search engine with typo tolerance and vector search, self-hostable or managed.",
      "free_limit": "Self-hosted is free; cloud offers trial clusters",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://typesense.org",
      "tags": [
        "search",
        "open-source",
        "vector",
        "self-host"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@seed-import",
      "status": "degraded",
      "notes": "The managed cloud often lacks a permanent free cluster now — budget to self-host on the free Oracle VM."
    },
    {
      "id": "actian-vectorai",
      "name": "Actian VectorAI DB (Community Edition)",
      "category": "vector-db",
      "description": "Embedded vector database from Actian that runs on a laptop with no service to deploy, built for agent memory and local RAG prototypes.",
      "free_limit": "5,000 vectors, free forever",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://www.actian.com/databases/vectorai-db/",
      "docs_url": "https://docs.actian.com/",
      "tags": [
        "vector",
        "local",
        "embedded",
        "no-card",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Community Edition needs no billing setup and no account. It is an embedded engine, not a hosted service, so there is no cold start or idle shutdown to worry about. Past 5,000 vectors the licence blocks writes but never blocks deletes, so you can always bring a database back into compliance. LangChain and LlamaIndex integrations are published."
    },
    {
      "id": "wikidata-vectordb",
      "name": "Wikidata Vector Database",
      "category": "vector-db",
      "description": "Wikimedia Deutschland's public vector database over Wikidata — roughly 30 million knowledge-graph entities exposed as embeddings for RAG grounding in verifiable, open data.",
      "free_limit": "Free public access, no account",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://wd-vectordb.wmcloud.org/",
      "docs_url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Vector_Database",
      "tags": [
        "vector",
        "knowledge-graph",
        "open-data",
        "rag",
        "research",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Covers the ~30M Wikidata items that have at least one Wikipedia article, and the current embeddings are built from the September 2024 dump, so treat it as stable-but-not-live data. An API key is still required today; Wikimedia has said future versions will drop that requirement. Pairs with the community Wikidata MCP server at wd-mcp.wmcloud.org."
    },
    {
      "id": "opik",
      "name": "Opik",
      "category": "observability",
      "description": "Comet's open-source LLM observability stack — tracing, evaluation, prompt management and production monitoring for agents and RAG pipelines.",
      "free_limit": "Free — Apache-2.0, self-host the full platform",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://github.com/comet-ml/opik",
      "docs_url": "https://www.comet.com/docs/opik/",
      "tags": [
        "observability",
        "evaluation",
        "tracing",
        "self-host",
        "apache",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The whole platform is Apache-2.0 and self-hostable, so the free tier is not a trimmed demo. Comet also sells a hosted version with a usage allowance if you would rather not run the stack yourself."
    },
    {
      "id": "free-llm-gateway",
      "name": "free-llm-gateway",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "Self-hosted OpenAI-compatible gateway that fronts more than a dozen free LLM providers behind one endpoint and falls through to the next provider on failure.",
      "free_limit": "Free — self-hosted, bring your own free provider keys",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://github.com/MrFadiAi/free-llm-gateway",
      "tags": [
        "gateway",
        "fallback",
        "self-host",
        "openai-compatible",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The repository documents 14+ free providers rather than the 24+ that circulates in listicles. It is a small community project (low hundreds of stars) — read the code before putting it in front of real traffic. Pair it with the free tiers already catalogued here (Groq, Gemini, Cerebras, Cloudflare) and the fallback chain rarely runs dry."
    },
    {
      "id": "clawmetry",
      "name": "ClawMetry",
      "category": "observability",
      "description": "Real-time observability for a long list of agent runtimes — OpenClaw, NVIDIA NemoClaw, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Goose, opencode, Qwen Code, Aider and more — from one dashboard.",
      "free_limit": "Free — open-source app, install locally",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/clawmetry/",
      "tags": [
        "observability",
        "tracing",
        "self-host",
        "multi-runtime",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Submitted as \"12 agent runtimes\" and, in an earlier batch, \"14\". The package itself currently advertises 32, which is typical for this category: the runtime count is a marketing surface, not a spec. Verify your runtime is covered before adopting."
    },
    {
      "id": "agent-observability",
      "name": "agent-observability",
      "category": "observability",
      "description": "Local-first tracing for agents that records every tool call, error and dollar spent, and works with Claude, Cursor and any MCP-compatible agent.",
      "free_limit": "Free forever — local, no account",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://github.com/KryptosAI/agent-observability",
      "tags": [
        "observability",
        "tracing",
        "cost-tracking",
        "mcp",
        "local",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Cost tracking per tool call is the feature most local agents still lack. Small community project — read it before wiring it into anything that touches credentials."
    },
    {
      "id": "claw-insights",
      "name": "claw-insights",
      "category": "observability",
      "description": "Read-only observability sidecar that tails log files and CLI output, so you get agent tracing with no SDK, no code changes and no network calls.",
      "free_limit": "Free — open source",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/claw-insights",
      "tags": [
        "observability",
        "log-tailing",
        "no-sdk",
        "local",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The zero-instrumentation approach is the whole point: for agents you did not write, or cannot modify, log tailing is the only observation point available."
    },
    {
      "id": "omniroute",
      "name": "OmniRoute",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "Self-hosted AI router that fans one endpoint out across hundreds of providers, with multiple routing strategies, compression and MCP/A2A support.",
      "free_limit": "Free — open source, self-hosted; route to providers' free tiers",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/omniroute",
      "tags": [
        "gateway",
        "router",
        "self-host",
        "fallback",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Listed in the submission as \"160+ providers\" and \"~1.51B free tokens/month\"; the package itself currently advertises 352 providers. Both figures are the vendor's own marketing and the second is not something a gateway can guarantee — it depends entirely on the upstream free tiers, which change without notice."
    },
    {
      "id": "agentgateway",
      "name": "agentgateway",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "Agentic proxy built on the MCP and A2A protocols, adding authentication, observability and governance in front of agents and MCP servers.",
      "free_limit": "Free — open source, self-hosted",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://github.com/agentgateway/agentgateway",
      "docs_url": "https://agentgateway.dev/",
      "tags": [
        "gateway",
        "mcp",
        "a2a",
        "governance",
        "linux-foundation",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "A Linux Foundation project with real adoption around MCP, which makes it the most durable entry in this batch. Useful specifically when you need one place to enforce auth and policy across many MCP servers."
    },
    {
      "id": "summoned-gateway",
      "name": "summoned-gateway",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "OpenAI-compatible gateway with routing, fallback, caching, guardrails and budget limits, with first-class support for Indian providers and INR cost tracking.",
      "free_limit": "Free — self-hosted console, bring your own keys",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/@summoned/gateway",
      "tags": [
        "gateway",
        "fallback",
        "caching",
        "guardrails",
        "india",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Built-in budget enforcement is the differentiator — a gateway that cannot stop a runaway agent is only half a gateway. Very early project (0.1.x), so expect rough edges."
    },
    {
      "id": "fsrouter",
      "name": "fsrouter",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "Self-hosted gateway that puts one OpenAI-compatible endpoint in front of many providers, with automatic fallback, load balancing and key rotation.",
      "free_limit": "Free — self-hosted",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/@fudrouter/fsrouter",
      "tags": [
        "gateway",
        "load-balancing",
        "key-rotation",
        "self-host",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Submitted as \"FSRouter\"; the package resolves to @fudrouter/fsrouter, whose own description reads \"9Router v2 — Monorepo\". The naming does not line up cleanly, so verify the package is what you expect before trusting it with provider keys — a gateway holds all of them at once."
    },
    {
      "id": "n9router",
      "name": "n9router",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "Self-hosted OpenAI-compatible routing gateway for dozens of providers, shipped as a Docker image and usable as a drop-in base URL for the major coding agents.",
      "free_limit": "Free — self-hosted via Docker",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://hub.docker.com/r/nightwalker8x/n9router",
      "tags": [
        "gateway",
        "docker",
        "self-host",
        "coding-agents",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "The submission's repository path (nightwalker8x/n9router) does not exist on GitHub, but the Docker Hub image and npm package both resolve. Prefer the npm release over pulling an unversioned image."
    },
    {
      "id": "google-ai-studio-starter",
      "name": "Google AI Studio Starter Tier",
      "category": "hosting",
      "description": "No-card deployment path from AI Studio: prompt an app, click Publish, and get a live Cloud Run URL backed by Firestore or Cloud SQL plus Firebase Auth.",
      "free_limit": "Two full-stack apps, no time limit, no billing account",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "medium",
      "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/billing",
      "docs_url": "https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/the-starter-tier-for-google-ai-studio-explained",
      "tags": [
        "paas",
        "no-card",
        "cloud-run",
        "firebase",
        "postgres",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "The single best no-card full-stack path in this catalogue — a Google Account is genuinely enough, with no billing account created.",
        "Hard limits: two active apps, 1GiB stored data, 10GiB egress/month, 40K writes and 50K reads a day, one locked-in region, and no BigQuery or Pub/Sub.",
        "You are ineligible if you have ever held a Google Cloud billing account.",
        "Cloud Run scales to zero, so expect a cold start on the first request."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "huggingface-zerogpu",
      "name": "Hugging Face ZeroGPU",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "Shared on-demand GPU for Spaces, allocated per request rather than held for the lifetime of the Space — so a demo can use real GPU acceleration without paying hourly.",
      "free_limit": "Free daily quota of GPU time, per-user",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "medium",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-zerogpu",
      "docs_url": "https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-gpus",
      "tags": [
        "gpu",
        "serverless",
        "shared",
        "quota",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "The quota is measured in minutes of GPU time per day and is small (sources report roughly 3.5 minutes authenticated against 2 unauthenticated), so this is for demos and short inference, not training or long-running agents.",
        "Submission claimed the hardware is an RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell; other sources report H200.",
        "Treat the exact GPU as variable — Hugging Face rotates the pool, and the quota is the part that actually constrains you."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "databricks-free-edition",
      "name": "Databricks Free Edition",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "A permanently free Databricks workspace for personal use — notebooks, SQL warehouse, the AI assistant, a GenAI playground and agent-builder tooling, with no cloud account.",
      "free_limit": "Forever free, one serverless workspace with daily usage limits",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://www.databricks.com/learn/free-edition",
      "tags": [
        "notebooks",
        "spark",
        "llm-playground",
        "no-card",
        "free-forever",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Replaced the retired Community Edition in January 2026 and has no expiry. Non-commercial use only, with a personal email rather than a work one, and Databricks explicitly reserves the right to train on your data — do not put anything proprietary here. No GPUs and no classic compute; it is one serverless workspace with fair-use limits and locked enterprise features."
    },
    {
      "id": "toolforge",
      "name": "Toolforge",
      "category": "hosting",
      "description": "Wikimedia's shared cloud for community bots: web servers, scheduled jobs and managed access to Wikimedia data, free for anyone with a Wikimedia account.",
      "free_limit": "Free web servers and job scheduling for Wikimedia tooling",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://toolforge.org/",
      "docs_url": "https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge",
      "tags": [
        "bots",
        "scheduled-jobs",
        "wikimedia",
        "free-forever",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "A genuinely hidden free tier that most lists miss. The scope is the catch: it exists for tools that serve the Wikimedia projects, not as general-purpose hosting, and your tool must comply with Wikimedia's tool policies. For a scheduled bot that reads or maintains wiki data, nothing else here comes close on price."
    },
    {
      "id": "zeabur",
      "name": "Zeabur",
      "category": "hosting",
      "description": "Deploy from a repository or a Dockerfile with services and databases wired together, on a free plan that needs no credit card.",
      "free_limit": "Free plan — sign up and deploy, no card",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "medium",
      "url": "https://zeabur.com/docs/en-US/pricing/free-plan",
      "tags": [
        "paas",
        "docker",
        "no-card",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "Two claims in the submission were wrong in opposite directions, both worth knowing.",
        "Zeabur's free plan requires NO credit card (the submission said it did), and it DOES auto-sleep after inactivity (the submission said it did not) — the wake-up request pays a cold-start penalty.",
        "There is also no SLA on the free plan and no automated database backup, which matters if you treat it as production.",
        "The $5/mo figure quoted as a free credit is actually the price of the paid Dev plan."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "amd-developer-cloud",
      "name": "AMD Developer Cloud",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "Access to AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs with 192GB of HBM3 — enough to run 70B+ parameter models on a single instance without model parallelism — for ROCm and vLLM work.",
      "free_limit": "$100 in credits for AMD AI Developer Program members",
      "requires_card": true,
      "cold_start_risk": "medium",
      "url": "https://devcloud.amd.com/",
      "docs_url": "https://developer.amd.com/ai-developer-program/",
      "tags": [
        "gpu",
        "mi300x",
        "rocm",
        "trial",
        "vllm",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "Listed as a `trial`, not a free tier.",
        "The submission described this as simply \"free\" with no card; in fact a valid credit card is required at account creation, the $100 is a one-off credit rather than a rechargeable tier, and the credit hours expire (AMD's own pages disagree — 30 days on the current page, 10 days in older guidance).",
        "Credits apply only to MI300X instances, and you are billed for powered-off instances until you destroy them.",
        "Qualifies under OQ-3 (>= $100 and >= 30 days) and is excluded from every no-card filter."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "yotta-shakti-studio",
      "name": "Yotta Shakti Studio",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "India-hosted serverless GPU platform with NVIDIA H100 and L40S instances billed per minute and scaling to zero, plus OpenAI-compatible AI endpoints and LoRA fine-tuning.",
      "free_limit": "₹10,000 in credits on signup (about $115)",
      "requires_card": true,
      "cold_start_risk": "medium",
      "url": "https://www.yotta.com/",
      "docs_url": "https://www.yotta.com/shakti-studio/",
      "tags": [
        "gpu",
        "h100",
        "india",
        "serverless",
        "trial",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Listed as a `trial`. The credit runs against standard pay-as-you-go rates for 30 days from activation, so nothing is billed at a fake trial price — what you measure is what production would cost. Hosted entirely in India, which makes it the strongest option here for teams with data-residency requirements. Verify current card requirements at signup: the credit is granted after verification."
    },
    {
      "id": "github-student-pack",
      "name": "GitHub Student Developer Pack",
      "category": "compute",
      "description": "One verified student account that unlocks a bundle of cloud credits and services, including $200 of DigitalOcean credit, $100 of Azure credit, a free domain and Copilot.",
      "free_limit": "Bundled credits and services for verified students",
      "requires_card": false,
      "cold_start_risk": "low",
      "url": "https://education.github.com/pack",
      "tags": [
        "students",
        "credits",
        "digitalocean",
        "azure",
        "hidden-gem"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "A single entry rather than the five separate ones submitted, because the value is the bundled offer and the individual partners change without notice. Verification is by student email or proof of enrolment and is usually quick. Azure for Students in particular requires no credit card. Worth listing precisely because it is under-used: many students never claim it."
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "id": "anthropics-skills",
      "name": "Anthropic Agent Skills",
      "provider": "Anthropic",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "Anthropic's official skills repository — first-party packs that teach Claude Code and other agents house workflows: document handling, spreadsheet and slide authoring, PDF work and more.",
      "skill_count": 19,
      "url": "https://github.com/anthropics/skills",
      "install": "npx skills add anthropics/skills",
      "license": "See repository (per-skill licences)",
      "open_source": true,
      "stars": 177887,
      "compatible_with": [
        "claude-code",
        "codex",
        "cursor",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "catalog",
        "documents",
        "essential",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "The repository tree holds 19 skills plus a template directory; the largest skills project by a wide margin and the reference implementation of the format.",
        "`npx skills add anthropics/skills` was verified by running it — the skills CLI lists and installs this pack like any other source.",
        "Individual skills carry their own licences, so check the subfolder rather than assuming the repository licence covers everything."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-skills",
      "name": "OpenAI Skills Catalog",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "OpenAI's curated Codex skills catalog — 39 maintained skills covering PDFs, GitHub CI repair, Playwright automation, deployment to Vercel, Cloudflare, Netlify and Render, Notion, Linear, Figma and security review. Superseded by openai/plugins, but still installable.",
      "skill_count": 39,
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills",
      "open_source": true,
      "stars": 27599,
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex",
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "catalog",
        "devops",
        "security",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "deprecated",
      "notes": [
        "Deprecated by OpenAI: the repository README now directs new work to openai/plugins. The 39 curated skills still install and the repository is not archived — it was last pushed 2026-09-08.",
        "All 39 entries under skills/.curated/ were checked one by one on 2026-09-24 and every SKILL.md resolves, including figma-use, migrate-to-codex, hatch-pet, winui-app and playwright-interactive.",
        "skills/.system/ holds five further skills that ship with Codex and install automatically: imagegen, openai-docs, plugin-creator, skill-creator and skill-installer.",
        "Skills widely listed online as OpenAI's — a .docx editor, a spreadsheet skill, Sora video and a web-game skill — exist at no path in this catalogue. Image generation does exist, but as the imagegen system skill above rather than a curated one."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "superpowers",
      "name": "Superpowers",
      "provider": "obra (Jesse Vincent)",
      "category": "community",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "An agentic skills framework and software-development methodology — a structured approach to planning, implementing and reviewing work with an agent, published as installable skills.",
      "skill_count": 15,
      "url": "https://github.com/obra/superpowers",
      "install": "npx skills add obra/superpowers",
      "open_source": true,
      "stars": 290953,
      "compatible_with": [
        "claude-code",
        "codex",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "methodology",
        "workflow",
        "community",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "15 skills read from the repository tree, and `npx skills add obra/superpowers` was verified by running it.",
        "OpenAI ships this methodology as a plugin of its own inside openai/plugins — an unusual case of a community project being blessed upstream. One of the most-starred repositories on GitHub; treat the stars as the reason to look, not the reason to trust."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "clawhub",
      "name": "ClawHub",
      "provider": "OpenClaw",
      "category": "registry",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "The skills and plugins registry for OpenClaw — 942 skills from verified publishers in the feed ClawHub publishes, sitting in front of a much larger open catalogue of community uploads.",
      "skill_count": 942,
      "url": "https://clawhub.ai/",
      "docs_url": "https://clawhub.ai/skills",
      "compatible_with": [
        "openclaw",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "registry",
        "marketplace",
        "openclaw",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "The 942 counted here are the entries in ClawHub's own feed at /v1/feeds/skills (edition of 2026-09-24), which covers skills from verified publishers. It is the figure the registry publishes.",
        "The open catalogue behind that feed is far larger and is not counted here: walking the site's listing API passed 12,892 unique slugs without finishing, and that endpoint is disallowed by the site's own robots.txt — so the open catalogue has no permitted, enumerable source and gets no number.",
        "Skills install with `openclaw skills install @owner/slug`, verified against OpenClaw's documentation.",
        "A skill URL cannot be checked with a status code: every /skills/<slug> page answers HTTP 200, invented slugs included. Checking one by hand works through the API instead — /api/v1/skills/<slug> returns 404 when a slug does not exist, 409 AMBIGUOUS_SKILL_SLUG when several owners share it, which is why @owner/slug is the only unambiguous reference.",
        "Size and usage are different numbers: the top packages sit in the 100k–480k download range and most listings show none at all.",
        "Includes a large Chinese-language catalogue alongside English packages."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "skills-sh",
      "name": "skills.sh",
      "provider": "Vercel Labs",
      "category": "registry",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "A web directory for agent skills with a CLI installer, built to make discovering and adding a skill a single command.",
      "url": "https://skills.sh/",
      "docs_url": "https://skills.sh/docs",
      "install": "npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills",
      "compatible_with": [
        "claude-code",
        "codex",
        "cursor",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "registry",
        "directory",
        "vercel",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "Moved from degraded to active: the registry has a public search API at skills.sh/api/search?q= that returns skill ids with install counts, which is how every skills.sh entry in this file was verified. The site's own pages still return HTTP 200 for any path, so only the API can confirm a skill exists.",
        "/api/v1/skills requires a Vercel OIDC token, so the search endpoint is the usable one.",
        "The CLI that powers it is open source (vercel-labs/skills, 32,380 stars) and `npx skills add <source> --skill <name>` was verified by running it against seven sources, including packs outside Vercel's own.",
        "Install counts are lopsided: vercel-labs/skills/find-skills showed 3,539,754 installs against roughly 7,000 for CrewAI's four skills and a few hundred for smaller packs."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "skillsmp",
      "name": "SkillsMP",
      "provider": "SkillsMP",
      "category": "registry",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "An agent-skills marketplace indexing Codex and Claude skills, with browsing by creator and occupation.",
      "url": "https://skillsmp.com/",
      "docs_url": "https://skillsmp.com/docs",
      "compatible_with": [
        "claude-code",
        "codex",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "registry",
        "marketplace",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "Moved from degraded to active: its current URL scheme returns honest 404s. /creators/<owner>/<repo>/<skill> resolves for real skills and 404s for invented ones, in both cases tested.",
        "The older /skills/<slug> URLs that circulate in aggregator posts are dead — they return a page titled 'Legacy skill URL not found'.",
        "The site advertises 200,000+ skills. That is its own claim: there is no public API and the catalogue is not enumerable in a way we could count, so no skill_count is stated here.",
        "Much of what it indexes mirrors public GitHub repositories, so the canonical copy usually lives on GitHub rather than here."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "exa-agent-skills",
      "name": "Exa Agent Skills",
      "provider": "Exa",
      "category": "vendor-pack",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "Official skills for the Exa API — teaching an agent to call Exa's search and contents endpoints with cURL or raw HTTP when it already has URLs to read.",
      "skill_count": 5,
      "url": "https://github.com/exa-labs/agent-skills",
      "install": "npx skills add exa-labs/agent-skills",
      "open_source": true,
      "stars": 54,
      "compatible_with": [
        "claude-code",
        "codex",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "vendor",
        "search",
        "web-extraction",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Five skills, counted from the repository tree; `npx skills add exa-labs/agent-skills` verified by running it. Exa's own API has a free allowance, so the skill and the service it drives are both usable at zero cost."
    },
    {
      "id": "neon-agent-skills",
      "name": "Neon Agent Skills",
      "provider": "Neon",
      "category": "vendor-pack",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "Official skills for operating Neon serverless Postgres from an agent — branch creation, connection handling and database workflow tasks.",
      "skill_count": 17,
      "url": "https://github.com/neondatabase/agent-skills",
      "install": "npx skills add neondatabase/agent-skills",
      "open_source": true,
      "stars": 90,
      "compatible_with": [
        "claude-code",
        "codex",
        "cursor",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "vendor",
        "postgres",
        "database",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "17 SKILL.md files counted from the repository tree, though the skills CLI lists 8 of them — the rest sit in layouts it does not traverse.",
        "Pairs with Neon's free tier, which is already catalogued — a useful combination because the free plan's branching model is the part agents get wrong without guidance."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "weaviate-agent-skills",
      "name": "Weaviate Agent Skills",
      "provider": "Weaviate",
      "category": "vendor-pack",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "Official skills covering vector search, semantic and hybrid retrieval, data import, RAG cookbook patterns, agentic RAG and multimodal PDF search.",
      "skill_count": 2,
      "url": "https://github.com/weaviate/agent-skills",
      "install": "npx skills add weaviate/agent-skills",
      "open_source": true,
      "stars": 104,
      "compatible_with": [
        "claude-code",
        "codex",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "vendor",
        "vector-db",
        "rag",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Only two skills, counted from the tree — the smallest vendor pack here. It teaches retrieval strategy rather than an API surface, and hybrid search and chunking decisions are where RAG systems actually fail."
    },
    {
      "id": "apify-agent-skills",
      "name": "Apify Agent Skills",
      "provider": "Apify",
      "category": "vendor-pack",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "Official Apify skills for web scraping, data extraction and browser automation through Apify's actor platform.",
      "skill_count": 5,
      "url": "https://github.com/apify/agent-skills",
      "install": "npx skills add apify/agent-skills",
      "open_source": true,
      "stars": 2398,
      "compatible_with": [
        "claude-code",
        "codex",
        "cursor",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "vendor",
        "scraping",
        "automation",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": "Five skills, counted from the tree. Apify has a monthly free credit allowance that covers light scraping; for a purely free path with no account, pair it with Firecrawl's free tier or the Playwright skill instead."
    },
    {
      "id": "microsoft-agent-skills",
      "name": "Microsoft Agent Skills",
      "provider": "Microsoft",
      "category": "vendor-pack",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "Microsoft's skills, plugins and custom-agent definitions for building on Azure SDKs and Microsoft Foundry — generated per service and language, alongside MCP-builder, documentation and workspace tooling.",
      "skill_count": 204,
      "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/skills",
      "install": "npx skills add microsoft/skills",
      "open_source": true,
      "stars": 3051,
      "compatible_with": [
        "vscode",
        "claude-code",
        "codex",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "vendor",
        "azure",
        "dotnet",
        "enterprise",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "The repository now lives at microsoft/skills; the older microsoft/agent-skills path redirects to it, which is the link most aggregator lists still carry.",
        "Counted from the tree: 204 SKILL.md files, 191 under .github/plugins and 13 under .github/skills. The README separately advertises 175 skills, so the two figures do not agree and the tree is the one we can check.",
        "Scope is Azure SDKs and Microsoft Foundry, not the Bot Framework or Cognitive Services as aggregator descriptions have it. Marked work in progress by Microsoft; `npx skills add microsoft/skills` verified by running it."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "intellectronica-agent-skills",
      "name": "Intellectronica Agent Skills",
      "provider": "Intellectronica",
      "category": "community",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "A maintained personal collection of agent skills, best known for a Notion REST API skill that drives workspaces with curl and jq rather than a vendor SDK.",
      "skill_count": 44,
      "url": "https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills",
      "install": "npx skills add intellectronica/agent-skills",
      "open_source": true,
      "stars": 293,
      "compatible_with": [
        "claude-code",
        "codex",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "community",
        "notion",
        "api",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "44 SKILL.md files counted from the tree; the skills CLI lists 22, so the difference is layout rather than content we could see.",
        "Its notion-api skill is one of the most-installed skills anywhere in this category — 78,501 installs in the skills.sh registry, second only to Vercel's find-skills among the packs measured here.",
        "Single-maintainer project. The curl-and-jq approach works with any agent that can run shell commands, but the Notion API it targets changes independently of the skill."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-aspnet-core",
      "name": "ASP.NET Core",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "framework",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Build, review, refactor, or architect ASP.NET Core web applications using current official guidance for .NET web development.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/aspnet-core",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill aspnet-core",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "framework"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-chatgpt-apps",
      "name": "ChatGPT Apps",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "framework",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Build, scaffold, refactor, and troubleshoot ChatGPT Apps SDK applications that combine an MCP server and widget UI.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/chatgpt-apps",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill chatgpt-apps",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "framework"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-cli-creator",
      "name": "CLI Creator",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "engineering",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Build a composable CLI for Codex from API docs, an OpenAPI spec, existing curl examples, an SDK, a web app, an admin tool, or a local script.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/cli-creator",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill cli-creator",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "engineering"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-cloudflare-deploy",
      "name": "Cloudflare Deploy",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "devops",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Deploy applications and infrastructure to Cloudflare using Workers, Pages, and related platform services. Use when the user asks to deploy, host, publish, or set up a project on Cloudflare.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/cloudflare-deploy",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill cloudflare-deploy",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "devops"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-define-goal",
      "name": "Define Goal",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "productivity",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Helps the user state a concrete, measurable goal before work starts — invoked when someone asks to set an objective or create a goal.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/define-goal",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill define-goal",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "productivity"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-figma",
      "name": "Figma",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "design",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Use the Figma MCP server to fetch design context, screenshots, variables, and assets from Figma, and to translate Figma nodes into production code.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/figma",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill figma",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "design"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-figma-code-connect-components",
      "name": "Figma Code Connect",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "design",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Connects Figma design components to code components using Code Connect mapping tools. Use when user says \"code connect\", \"connect this component to code\", \"map this component\", \"link component to code\", \"create…",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/figma-code-connect-components",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill figma-code-connect-components",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "design"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-figma-create-design-system-rules",
      "name": "Figma Design System Rules",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "design",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Generates custom design system rules for the user's codebase. Use when user says \"create design system rules\", \"generate rules for my project\", \"set up design rules\", \"customize design system guidelines\", or wa…",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/figma-create-design-system-rules",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill figma-create-design-system-rules",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "design"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-figma-create-new-file",
      "name": "Figma Create File",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "design",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Create a new blank Figma file. Use when the user wants to create a new Figma design or FigJam file, or when you need a new file before calling use_figma. Handles plan resolution via whoami if needed.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/figma-create-new-file",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill figma-create-new-file",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "design"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-figma-generate-design",
      "name": "Figma Generate Design",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "design",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Use this skill alongside figma-use when the task involves translating an application page, view, or multi-section layout into Figma.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/figma-generate-design",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill figma-generate-design",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "design"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-figma-generate-library",
      "name": "Figma Generate Library",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "design",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Build or update a professional-grade design system in Figma from a codebase. Use when the user wants to create variables/tokens, build component libraries, set up theming (light/dark modes), document foundation…",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/figma-generate-library",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill figma-generate-library",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "design"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-figma-implement-design",
      "name": "Figma Implement Design",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "design",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Translates Figma designs into production-ready application code with 1:1 visual fidelity. Use when implementing UI code from Figma files, when user mentions \"implement design\", \"generate code\", \"implement compo…",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/figma-implement-design",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill figma-implement-design",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "design"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-figma-use",
      "name": "Figma Use",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "design",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Mandatory prerequisite before any use_figma tool call — the Figma MCP workflow for pulling design context and translating nodes into code.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/figma-use",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill figma-use",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "design"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-gh-address-comments",
      "name": "GitHub Address Comments",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "devops",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Help address review/issue comments on the open GitHub PR for the current branch using gh CLI; verify gh auth first and prompt the user to authenticate if not logged in.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/gh-address-comments",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill gh-address-comments",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "devops"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-gh-fix-ci",
      "name": "GitHub Fix CI",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "devops",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Use when a user asks to debug or fix failing GitHub PR checks that run in GitHub Actions; use `gh` to inspect checks and logs, summarize failure context, draft a fix plan, and implement only after explicit appr…",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/gh-fix-ci",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill gh-fix-ci",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "devops"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-hatch-pet",
      "name": "Hatch Pet",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "media",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Create, repair, validate, visually QA, and package Codex-compatible animated pets and pet spritesheets from character art, generated images, company or prospect brand cues, or visual references.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/hatch-pet",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill hatch-pet",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "media"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-jupyter-notebook",
      "name": "Jupyter Notebook",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "engineering",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Use when user asks to create, scaffold, or edit Jupyter notebooks (`.ipynb`) for experiments, explorations, or tutorials;",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/jupyter-notebook",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill jupyter-notebook",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "engineering"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-linear",
      "name": "Linear",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "productivity",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Manage issues, projects & team workflows in Linear. Use when the user wants to read, create or updates tickets in Linear.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/linear",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill linear",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "productivity"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-migrate-to-codex",
      "name": "Migrate to Codex",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "engineering",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Migrate supported instruction files, skills, agents, and MCP config into Codex project and global files.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/migrate-to-codex",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill migrate-to-codex",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "engineering"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-netlify-deploy",
      "name": "Netlify Deploy",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "devops",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Deploy web projects to Netlify using the Netlify CLI (`npx netlify`). Use when the user asks to deploy, host, publish, or link a site/repo on Netlify, including preview and production deploys.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/netlify-deploy",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill netlify-deploy",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "devops"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-notion-knowledge-capture",
      "name": "Notion Knowledge Capture",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "productivity",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Capture conversations and decisions into structured Notion pages; use when turning chats/notes into wiki entries, how-tos, decisions, or FAQs with proper linking.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/notion-knowledge-capture",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill notion-knowledge-capture",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "productivity"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-notion-meeting-intelligence",
      "name": "Notion Meeting Intelligence",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "productivity",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Prepare meeting materials with Notion context and Codex research; use when gathering context, drafting agendas/pre-reads, and tailoring materials to attendees.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/notion-meeting-intelligence",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill notion-meeting-intelligence",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "productivity"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-notion-research-documentation",
      "name": "Notion Research Documentation",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "productivity",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Research across Notion and synthesize into structured documentation; use when gathering info from multiple Notion sources to produce briefs, comparisons, or reports with citations.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/notion-research-documentation",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill notion-research-documentation",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "productivity"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-notion-spec-to-implementation",
      "name": "Notion Spec to Implementation",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "productivity",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Turn Notion specs into implementation plans, tasks, and progress tracking; use when implementing PRDs/feature specs and creating Notion plans + tasks from them.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/notion-spec-to-implementation",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill notion-spec-to-implementation",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "productivity"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-openai-docs",
      "name": "OpenAI Docs",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "engineering",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Answers questions about building with OpenAI products and APIs, Codex surfaces, and current official documentation.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/openai-docs",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill openai-docs",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "engineering"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-pdf",
      "name": "PDF",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "documents",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Use when tasks involve reading, creating, or reviewing PDF files where rendering and layout matter;",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/pdf",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill pdf",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "documents"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-playwright",
      "name": "Playwright",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "automation",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Use when task requires automating a real browser from the terminal (navigation, form filling, snapshots, screenshots, data extraction, UI-flow debugging) via `playwright-cli` or the bundled wrapper script.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/playwright",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill playwright",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "automation"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-playwright-interactive",
      "name": "Playwright Interactive",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "automation",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Persistent browser and Electron interaction through `js_repl` for fast iterative UI debugging.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/playwright-interactive",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill playwright-interactive",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "automation"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-render-deploy",
      "name": "Render Deploy",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "devops",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Deploy applications to Render by analyzing codebases, generating render.yaml Blueprints, and providing Dashboard deeplinks.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/render-deploy",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill render-deploy",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "devops"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-screenshot",
      "name": "Screenshot",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "automation",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Use when user explicitly asks for a desktop or system screenshot (full screen, specific app or window, or a pixel region), or when tool-specific capture capabilities are unavailable and an OS-level capture is n…",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/screenshot",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill screenshot",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "automation"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-security-best-practices",
      "name": "Security Best Practices",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "security",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Perform language and framework specific security best-practice reviews and suggest improvements.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/security-best-practices",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill security-best-practices",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "security"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-security-ownership-map",
      "name": "Security Ownership Map",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "security",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Analyze git repositories to build a security ownership topology (people-to-file), compute bus factor and sensitive-code ownership, and export CSV/JSON for graph databases and visualization.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/security-ownership-map",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill security-ownership-map",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "security"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-security-threat-model",
      "name": "Security Threat Model",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "security",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Repository-grounded threat modeling that enumerates trust boundaries, assets, attacker capabilities, abuse paths, and mitigations, and writes a concise Markdown threat model.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/security-threat-model",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill security-threat-model",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "security"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-sentry",
      "name": "Sentry Issue Triage",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "devops",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Use when user asks to inspect Sentry issues or events, summarize recent production errors, or pull basic Sentry health data via the Sentry CLI; perform read-only queries using the `sentry` command.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/sentry",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill sentry",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "devops"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-speech",
      "name": "Speech",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "media",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Use when user asks for text-to-speech narration or voiceover, accessibility reads, audio prompts, or batch speech generation via the OpenAI Audio API;",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/speech",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill speech",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "media"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-transcribe",
      "name": "Transcribe",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "media",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Transcribe audio files to text with optional diarization and known-speaker hints. Use when a user asks to transcribe speech from audio/video, extract text from recordings, or label speakers in interviews or mee…",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/transcribe",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill transcribe",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "media"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-vercel-deploy",
      "name": "Vercel Deploy",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "devops",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Deploy applications and websites to Vercel. Use when the user requests deployment actions like \"deploy my app\", \"deploy and give me the link\", \"push this live\", or \"create a preview deployment\".",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/vercel-deploy",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill vercel-deploy",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "devops"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-winui-app",
      "name": "WinUI App",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "framework",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Bootstrap, develop, and design modern WinUI 3 desktop applications with C# and the Windows App SDK using official Microsoft guidance, WinUI Gallery patterns, Windows App SDK samples, and CommunityToolkit compon…",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/winui-app",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill winui-app",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "framework"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-yeet",
      "name": "Yeet (stage, commit, PR)",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "devops",
      "parent": "openai-skills",
      "description": "Stages, commits, pushes and opens a GitHub pull request in one flow with the GitHub CLI, only when explicitly asked.",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/yeet",
      "install": "npx skills add openai/skills --skill yeet",
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "codex",
        "curated",
        "devops"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "crewai-design-agent",
      "name": "Design Agent",
      "provider": "CrewAI",
      "category": "vendor-pack",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "framework",
      "parent": "crewai-skills",
      "description": "CrewAI agent design and configuration — role, goal and backstory, LLM choice, tool assignment, max_iter/max_rpm/max_execution_time tuning, planning and code execution, delegation, knowledge sources, guardrails, and agents in YAML versus code.",
      "url": "https://skills.sh/crewaiinc/skills/design-agent",
      "install": "npx skills add crewaiinc/skills --skill design-agent",
      "compatible_with": [
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "vendor",
        "crewai",
        "framework"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "7,053 installs in the skills.sh registry at check time."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "crewai-design-task",
      "name": "Design Task",
      "provider": "CrewAI",
      "category": "vendor-pack",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "framework",
      "parent": "crewai-skills",
      "description": "CrewAI task design — writing descriptions and expected_output, chaining tasks with context, output formats (pydantic, JSON, file), guardrails for validation, human_input, async execution and markdown output.",
      "url": "https://skills.sh/crewaiinc/skills/design-task",
      "install": "npx skills add crewaiinc/skills --skill design-task",
      "compatible_with": [
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "vendor",
        "crewai",
        "framework"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "6,911 installs in the skills.sh registry at check time."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "crewai-getting-started",
      "name": "Getting Started",
      "provider": "CrewAI",
      "category": "vendor-pack",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "framework",
      "parent": "crewai-skills",
      "description": "CrewAI architecture decisions and project scaffolding — choosing between LLM.call(), Agent.kickoff(), Crew.kickoff() and Flow, scaffolding with `crewai create flow`, YAML config, the @CrewBase crew.py pattern and conversational Flows.",
      "url": "https://skills.sh/crewaiinc/skills/getting-started",
      "install": "npx skills add crewaiinc/skills --skill getting-started",
      "compatible_with": [
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "vendor",
        "crewai",
        "framework"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "7,102 installs in the skills.sh registry at check time."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "crewai-ask-docs",
      "name": "Ask Docs",
      "provider": "CrewAI",
      "category": "vendor-pack",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "framework",
      "parent": "crewai-skills",
      "description": "A docs-aware assistant for CrewAI framework questions, answering from the current documentation rather than from model memory.",
      "url": "https://skills.sh/crewaiinc/skills/ask-docs",
      "install": "npx skills add crewaiinc/skills --skill ask-docs",
      "compatible_with": [
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "vendor",
        "crewai",
        "framework"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "6,937 installs in the skills.sh registry at check time."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "vercel-find-skills",
      "name": "Find Skills",
      "provider": "Vercel Labs",
      "category": "vendor-pack",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "engineering",
      "parent": "vercel-agent-skills",
      "description": "Discovers and installs skills from the skills.sh registry from inside an agent session, so an agent can extend itself mid-task instead of the user installing files by hand.",
      "url": "https://skills.sh/vercel-labs/skills/find-skills",
      "install": "npx skills add vercel-labs/skills --skill find-skills",
      "compatible_with": [
        "claude-code",
        "codex",
        "cursor",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "discovery",
        "registry",
        "engineering"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "3,539,754 installs in the registry API at check time — the most-installed agent skill we have measured anywhere. It is the bootstrap skill of the skills.sh ecosystem: install it once and it can fetch others."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dedalus-machines",
      "name": "Dedalus Machines",
      "provider": "Dedalus Labs",
      "category": "vendor-pack",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "devops",
      "description": "Sets up and operates Dedalus Machines: a persistent Linux sandbox an agent can reach over SSH, run remote code in, or host a temporary service from, including CLI authentication and API base URL configuration.",
      "url": "https://docs.dedaluslabs.ai/.well-known/skills/dedalus-machines/SKILL.md",
      "install": "npx skills add https://docs.dedaluslabs.ai/.well-known/skills/dedalus-machines/SKILL.md",
      "compatible_with": [
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "vendor",
        "sandbox",
        "devops"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "Published on the vendor docs domain through a .well-known endpoint rather than a Git repository — the skills CLI discovers it there, which we confirmed by running the install command with --list.",
        "The lowercase path redirects to SKILL.md; the filename is case-sensitive, so use the URL exactly as written."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "clawhub-pdf-generation",
      "name": "PDF Generation",
      "provider": "@bartok9",
      "category": "registry",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "documents",
      "parent": "clawhub",
      "description": "Generates PDFs from agent output, including layout and pagination, without leaving the session.",
      "url": "https://clawhub.ai/bartok9/skills/pdf-generation",
      "install": "openclaw skills install @bartok9/pdf-generation",
      "compatible_with": [
        "openclaw"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "community",
        "clawhub",
        "documents"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "1,500 downloads and 47 installations in the ClawHub registry at check time.",
        "The slug \"pdf-generation\" is shared by 2 packages on ClawHub; this is the most-downloaded one, so install it by ref to get this exact package rather than whichever came first."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "clawhub-skill-creator",
      "name": "Skill Creator",
      "provider": "@chindden",
      "category": "registry",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "engineering",
      "parent": "clawhub",
      "description": "Guides the creation of new skills — structure, metadata and the parts of a skill that change agent behaviour rather than just adding prose.",
      "url": "https://clawhub.ai/chindden/skills/skill-creator",
      "install": "openclaw skills install @chindden/skill-creator",
      "compatible_with": [
        "openclaw"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "community",
        "clawhub",
        "engineering"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "101,702 downloads and 3,498 installations in the ClawHub registry at check time.",
        "The slug \"skill-creator\" is shared by 7 packages on ClawHub; this is the most-downloaded one, so install it by ref to get this exact package rather than whichever came first."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "clawhub-skill-vetter",
      "name": "Skill Vetter",
      "provider": "@spclaudehome",
      "category": "registry",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "security",
      "parent": "clawhub",
      "description": "Security-first vetting for a skill before it is installed: what a skill can reach, what it writes, and what it should not be trusted with.",
      "url": "https://clawhub.ai/spclaudehome/skills/skill-vetter",
      "install": "openclaw skills install @spclaudehome/skill-vetter",
      "compatible_with": [
        "openclaw"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "community",
        "clawhub",
        "security"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "274,297 downloads and 12,215 installations in the ClawHub registry at check time.",
        "The slug \"skill-vetter\" is shared by 4 packages on ClawHub; this is the most-downloaded one, so install it by ref to get this exact package rather than whichever came first."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "clawhub-openai-whisper",
      "name": "OpenAI Whisper",
      "provider": "@steipete",
      "category": "registry",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "media",
      "parent": "clawhub",
      "description": "Speech-to-text transcription driven through Whisper, wired up for an agent that receives audio.",
      "url": "https://clawhub.ai/steipete/skills/openai-whisper",
      "install": "openclaw skills install @steipete/openai-whisper",
      "compatible_with": [
        "openclaw"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "community",
        "clawhub",
        "media"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "88,606 downloads and 2,973 installations in the ClawHub registry at check time.",
        "The slug \"openai-whisper\" is shared by 4 packages on ClawHub; this is the most-downloaded one, so install it by ref to get this exact package rather than whichever came first."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "clawhub-skill-security-scan",
      "name": "Skill Scanner",
      "provider": "@sudhindrat",
      "category": "registry",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "security",
      "parent": "clawhub",
      "description": "Scans a skill for known risky behaviour — static analysis across backdoors, cryptomining and data-exfiltration patterns.",
      "url": "https://clawhub.ai/sudhindrat/skills/skill-security-scan",
      "install": "openclaw skills install @sudhindrat/skill-security-scan",
      "compatible_with": [
        "openclaw"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "community",
        "clawhub",
        "security"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "910 downloads and 40 installations in the ClawHub registry at check time.",
        "The slug \"skill-security-scan\" is shared by 2 packages on ClawHub; this is the most-downloaded one, so install it by ref to get this exact package rather than whichever came first.",
        "Published by @sudhindrat. Lists circulating online attribute this skill to Alibaba Cloud; the registry lists no such owner."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "clawhub-prompt-injection-defense",
      "name": "Prompt Injection Defense",
      "provider": "ClawHub",
      "category": "registry",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "security",
      "parent": "clawhub",
      "description": "Hardens an agent session against prompt injection arriving through untrusted content: search results, email, downloaded files and PDFs.",
      "url": "https://clawhub.ai/skills/prompt-injection-defense",
      "install": "openclaw skills install prompt-injection-defense",
      "compatible_with": [
        "openclaw"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "community",
        "clawhub",
        "security"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "841 downloads and 18 installations in the ClawHub registry at check time."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "clawhub-agent-guardrails",
      "name": "Agent Guardrails",
      "provider": "@olmmlo-cmd",
      "category": "registry",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "security",
      "parent": "clawhub",
      "description": "Implements guardrails for an agent — what it may do unattended and where it must stop and ask.",
      "url": "https://clawhub.ai/olmmlo-cmd/skills/agent-guardrails",
      "install": "openclaw skills install @olmmlo-cmd/agent-guardrails",
      "compatible_with": [
        "openclaw"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "community",
        "clawhub",
        "security"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "1,573 downloads and 49 installations in the ClawHub registry at check time.",
        "The slug \"agent-guardrails\" is shared by 2 packages on ClawHub; this is the most-downloaded one, so install it by ref to get this exact package rather than whichever came first."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "clawhub-systematic-debugging",
      "name": "Systematic Debugging",
      "provider": "@ivansslo",
      "category": "registry",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "engineering",
      "parent": "clawhub",
      "description": "A staged debugging methodology: reproduce, isolate, hypothesise, then verify — instead of pattern-matching on the first plausible cause.",
      "url": "https://clawhub.ai/ivansslo/skills/systematic-debugging",
      "install": "openclaw skills install @ivansslo/systematic-debugging",
      "compatible_with": [
        "openclaw"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "community",
        "clawhub",
        "engineering"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "1,452 downloads and 2 installations in the ClawHub registry at check time.",
        "The slug \"systematic-debugging\" is shared by 5 packages on ClawHub; this is the most-downloaded one, so install it by ref to get this exact package rather than whichever came first."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "clawhub-code-review",
      "name": "Code Review",
      "provider": "@wpank",
      "category": "registry",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "engineering",
      "parent": "clawhub",
      "description": "Reviews a diff the way a careful colleague does, separating correctness problems from style preferences.",
      "url": "https://clawhub.ai/wpank/skills/code-review",
      "install": "openclaw skills install @wpank/code-review",
      "compatible_with": [
        "openclaw"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "community",
        "clawhub",
        "engineering"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "18,744 downloads and 553 installations in the ClawHub registry at check time.",
        "The slug \"code-review\" is shared by 8 packages on ClawHub; this is the most-downloaded one, so install it by ref to get this exact package rather than whichever came first."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "clawhub-refactoring",
      "name": "Refactoring",
      "provider": "ClawHub",
      "category": "registry",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "engineering",
      "parent": "clawhub",
      "description": "A deep refactoring workflow built on characterisation tests, small incremental steps, behaviour preservation and verification after each step.",
      "url": "https://clawhub.ai/skills/refactoring",
      "install": "openclaw skills install refactoring",
      "compatible_with": [
        "openclaw"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "community",
        "clawhub",
        "engineering"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "1,519 downloads and 29 installations in the ClawHub registry at check time."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "clawhub-threat-modeling",
      "name": "Threat Modeling",
      "provider": "ClawHub",
      "category": "registry",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "security",
      "parent": "clawhub",
      "description": "Structured threat modelling with STRIDE, attack trees and risk scoring to find and prioritise threats in a system design.",
      "url": "https://clawhub.ai/skills/threat-modeling",
      "install": "openclaw skills install threat-modeling",
      "compatible_with": [
        "openclaw"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "community",
        "clawhub",
        "security"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "1,958 downloads and 54 installations in the ClawHub registry at check time."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-plugins",
      "name": "OpenAI Plugins",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "category": "catalog",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "OpenAI's current home for Codex skills and plugins — 62 plugin packages holding 536 skills, from first-party tooling to integrations published by Adobe, Atlassian, Canva, Cloudflare, Datadog, Figma, GitHub, Linear, Notion, Sentry, Stripe, Supabase, Vercel and more.",
      "skill_count": 536,
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/plugins",
      "stars": 7141,
      "compatible_with": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "catalog",
        "plugins",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "Successor to openai/skills. Read from the repository tree on 2026-09-24: 62 directories under plugins/, containing 536 SKILL.md files.",
        "Heaviest packages: twilio-developer-kit (55 skills), vercel (54), zoom (53), life-science-research (50), public-equity-investing (23), shopify (20), build-web-data-visualization (18), data-analytics (18), ngs-analysis (18).",
        "Layout is one directory per plugin with skills, commands, agents, hooks.json and an .mcp.json, not a flat skills/ tree — the generic skills CLI does not traverse it, so these install through Codex.",
        "No repository-level licence; each plugin carries its own LICENSE.txt."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "crewai-skills",
      "name": "CrewAI Skills",
      "provider": "CrewAI",
      "category": "vendor-pack",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "Official CrewAI skills for building multi-agent systems — agent and task design, project scaffolding, and a docs-aware helper for framework questions.",
      "skill_count": 4,
      "url": "https://github.com/crewaiinc/skills",
      "install": "npx skills add crewaiinc/skills",
      "stars": 42,
      "compatible_with": [
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "vendor",
        "framework",
        "crewai",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "Four skills, all four independently present in the skills.sh registry with roughly 6,900–7,100 installs each. Small repository, but it teaches design decisions (role, goal, guardrails, task dependencies) rather than API calls."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "vercel-agent-skills",
      "name": "Vercel Agent Skills",
      "provider": "Vercel",
      "category": "vendor-pack",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "Vercel's official skills for React and Next.js work and for shipping to Vercel: React best practices, composition patterns, view transitions, React Native, deployment, optimising cost and performance, plus web design and writing guidelines.",
      "skill_count": 9,
      "url": "https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-skills",
      "install": "npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills",
      "stars": 31497,
      "compatible_with": [
        "claude-code",
        "codex",
        "cursor",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "vendor",
        "react",
        "deployment",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "Nine skills, including react-best-practices, web-design-guidelines, vercel-optimize, deploy-to-vercel and vercel-cli-with-tokens.",
        "The same lab builds the skills.sh registry and its CLI, so these are the reference example of a vendor pack that installs cleanly through `npx skills add`."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "browserbase-skills",
      "name": "Browserbase Skills",
      "provider": "Browserbase",
      "category": "vendor-pack",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "Browserbase's official skills for reaching the web from an agent — search without a browser session, fetch a URL, drive a full browser, convert a browser flow into an API call, trace sessions, run adversarial UI tests and research a company.",
      "skill_count": 18,
      "url": "https://github.com/browserbase/skills",
      "install": "npx skills add browserbase/skills",
      "stars": 3731,
      "compatible_with": [
        "claude-code",
        "codex",
        "cursor",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "vendor",
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "Eighteen skills read from the repository tree. The pack distinguishes cheap paths (search, fetch) from expensive ones (full browser sessions), which is the cost decision agents usually get wrong."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "browse-sh",
      "name": "browse.sh",
      "provider": "Browserbase",
      "category": "registry",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "An open catalogue of browser-automation skills keyed by site: each entry names a domain, a skill and the method that reaches it, so an agent can ask what is already known about a site before writing a scraper from scratch.",
      "url": "https://browse.sh/",
      "install": "npm i -g browse",
      "compatible_with": [
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "registry",
        "browser",
        "automation",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "Published by the Browserbase team; the CLI is the npm package `browse` (\"Unified Browserbase CLI for browser automation and cloud APIs\"), which we confirmed exists under Browserbase maintainers.",
        "No count is claimed here: the catalogue is not exposed by a public API and the page does not state a size, so unlike the other registries in this file there is nothing to verify against.",
        "Entries read like `sam.gov · contract-opportunity-search · api` — a domain, the job and how to reach it."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "exa-contents",
      "name": "Exa Contents",
      "provider": "Exa",
      "category": "vendor-pack",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "web",
      "parent": "exa-agent-skills",
      "description": "Calls the Exa Contents endpoint with cURL or raw HTTP when an agent already has URLs and needs page text, highlights, summaries, links, subpages or per-URL status without an SDK.",
      "url": "https://github.com/exa-labs/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/exa-contents",
      "install": "npx skills add exa-labs/agent-skills --skill exa-contents",
      "compatible_with": [
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "vendor",
        "web",
        "scraping"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "One of five skills in the Exa pack. 673 installs in the skills.sh registry. Exa has a free allowance, so both the skill and the API it drives are usable at no cost."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "figma-skills",
      "name": "Figma Agent Skills",
      "provider": "Figma",
      "category": "vendor-pack",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "Figma's own skill pack for working with design files through its MCP server — implementing designs as code, connecting components with Code Connect, generating design libraries and diagrams, and building Figma slides, FigJam boards, shaders and motion.",
      "skill_count": 30,
      "url": "https://github.com/figma/mcp-server-guide/tree/main/skills",
      "docs_url": "https://developers.figma.com/docs/figma-mcp-server/",
      "install": "claude plugin install figma@claude-plugins-official",
      "stars": 2016,
      "compatible_with": [
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "vscode",
        "gemini-cli",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "vendor",
        "design",
        "figma",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "30 skills counted from the repository tree on 2026-09-24: 14 under skills/, the same 14 mirrored under skills-figquery/ for the Figma query variant, and 2 workflow skills. Distribute through Figma's plugins rather than a bare skills/ directory.",
        "Figma marks these a Beta feature, and the pack ships with no repository licence file — check the developer terms before depending on it.",
        "The pack is what the OpenAI curated figma-* skills wrap: same job, published by the vendor whose API it drives."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "alirezarezvani-claude-skills",
      "name": "Alireza Rezvani Claude Skills",
      "provider": "alirezarezvani",
      "category": "community",
      "kind": "pack",
      "description": "A large community skill library spanning engineering, marketing, product, compliance, finance and C-level advisory work — 388 skills plus custom agents, commands and references, installable across a dozen coding agents.",
      "skill_count": 388,
      "url": "https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills",
      "install": "npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills",
      "license": "MIT",
      "open_source": true,
      "stars": 26387,
      "compatible_with": [
        "claude-code",
        "codex",
        "cursor",
        "gemini-cli",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "community",
        "library",
        "engineering",
        "skills"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "388 skills, being the 846 SKILL.md files in the repository tree minus 458 that are mirrors under .gemini/ — 369 skill names appear twice for that reason. The README says '380+' and the skills CLI lists 367, so the true figure sits in that range; 388 is the number the tree supports once mirrors are excluded.",
        "MIT licensed, 26,387 stars, and actively maintained — the largest community pack here after obra/superpowers.",
        "Breadth is the point and also the risk: 388 skills in one repository means most of them are not for you, and a pack this size is a lot of third-party instruction to hand an agent. Install individual skills (--skill <name>) rather than the whole library."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "a11y-audit",
      "name": "A11y Audit",
      "provider": "alirezarezvani",
      "category": "community",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "testing",
      "parent": "alirezarezvani-claude-skills",
      "description": "An accessibility audit pipeline over WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA: scan, fix and verify, with per-framework fix code and a compliance report. Covers React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Svelte and plain HTML, and can run the checks in CI.",
      "url": "https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/tree/main/engineering-team/a11y-audit/skills/a11y-audit",
      "install": "npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill a11y-audit",
      "compatible_with": [
        "claude-code",
        "cursor",
        "gemini-cli",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "community",
        "accessibility",
        "testing"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "934 installs in the skills.sh registry, where it is the second-most-installed result for its name.",
        "Listed on ClawHub in the source dossier but absent there under that slug. This is the real one — verified in the skills.sh registry and in the repository tree, where the skill lives at engineering-team/a11y-audit/skills/a11y-audit alongside a mirrored copy."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "notion-api",
      "name": "Notion API",
      "provider": "Intellectronica",
      "category": "community",
      "kind": "skill",
      "domain": "database",
      "parent": "intellectronica-agent-skills",
      "description": "Drives a Notion workspace through the REST API with curl and jq rather than a vendor SDK or connector: query a database, create and update pages, and walk blocks, from any agent that can run shell commands.",
      "url": "https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/notion-api",
      "install": "npx skills add intellectronica/agent-skills --skill notion-api",
      "compatible_with": [
        "claude-code",
        "codex",
        "any"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "skill",
        "community",
        "notion",
        "database"
      ],
      "verified": "2026-09-24",
      "verified_by": "@hidden-gems-import",
      "status": "active",
      "notes": [
        "78,501 installs in the skills.sh registry — the second-highest of any skill measured for this catalogue, behind only Vercel's find-skills at 3,539,754.",
        "The pack publishes this skill twice, at skills/notion-api/ and plugins/notion-api/skills/, so the CLI's copy and the tree's copy are not the same path."
      ]
    }
  ]
}