Best Codex plugins for research
We found 21 listings for research that work with Codex. 7 of them are in OpenAI's official curated catalog (Consensus, Granola, Life Science Research, Notion, Product Design, Public Equity Investing, Zotero), so they install from the built-in marketplace. 14 are community repos that pass our quality filter (not tested by us).
How this list was made: every listing in the CodexStacks catalog whose name or description mentions research, papers, citations or literature. "Best" here means "available and documented", not a ranking: we haven't benchmarked these, and there are no paid placements in this list. Order: official OpenAI curated listings first (A–Z), then community repos by GitHub stars at last sync. This is not a quality ranking.
Comparison
| Name | Source | Type | Skills | MCP servers | One-line install |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consensus | Official OpenAI curated | Plugin | – | 1 | Yes |
| Granola | Official OpenAI curated | Plugin | – | 1 | Yes |
| Life Science Research | Official OpenAI curated | Plugin | 50 | – | Yes |
| Notion | Official OpenAI curated | Plugin | 4 | 1 | Yes |
| Product Design | Official OpenAI curated | Plugin | 10 | – | Yes |
| Public Equity Investing | Official OpenAI curated | Plugin | 23 | – | Yes |
| Zotero | Official OpenAI curated | Plugin | 1 | – | Yes |
| hyperresearch | Community | Plugin | – | – | Yes |
| Google Maps CLI | Community | Plugin | – | – | Yes |
| Story Skills | Community | Plugin | – | – | Yes |
| Refero | Community | Plugin | – | – | Yes |
| paper-collage-video | Community | Plugin | – | – | Yes |
| AutoSciRub | Community | Plugin | – | – | Yes |
| Journal Cover Letter | Community | Plugin | – | – | See README |
| codex-latex-editor | Community | Plugin | – | – | Yes |
| qiongli | Community | Plugin | – | – | See README |
| Thermal-Fluid Research Workflow | Community | Plugin | – | – | See README |
| ArcKit | Community | Plugin | – | – | Yes |
| research-skill | Community | Plugin | – | – | Yes |
| Research Workflow | Community | Plugin | – | – | See README |
| Corbis Literature Starter Kit | Community | Plugin | – | – | Yes |
Skills and MCP server counts come from the plugin's own files (official catalog) or its manifest (community). "–" means none found or not published in a manifest we can read.
All 21 listings
Consensus
Consensus is the go-to MCP for academic research. Connect directly to 220M+ peer-reviewed papers to search, synthesize, and build structured research outputs from within your conversation. Run literature reviews, build boolean search strategies, generate bibliographies, identify research gaps, and draft cited content — grounded in studies from PubMed, Semantic Scholar, and ArXiv. Pre-built workflows handle complex tasks in minutes: systematic reviews, curriculum reading lists, grant research with novelty analysis, and clinical evidence synthesis. Built for researchers, students, faculty, and clinicians across biomedical, social science, STEM, and all academic disciplines.
Granola
Granola MCP connects your meeting history to Codex so your assistant can pull real context from past conversations while you work. Use MCP when you're already working on something bigger: - Writing PRDs or proposals: Pull customer feedback, stakeholder input, and decisions from relevant meetings directly into your draft - Building presentations or reports: Combine insights from multiple conversations with your other research and data - Coding with context: Give your AI the project background, requirements, and technical decisions discussed in planning meetings - Strategic analysis: Merge meeting insights with documents, data, and other sources for comprehensive analysis How it works: Your AI assistant can search your Granola meetings by topic, person, company, or timeframe - then cite specific conversations in its responses. No more switching tabs to find "what the customer said" or "when we decided that." The difference: Instead of copy-pasting meeting notes into prompts, your AI pulls exactly what it needs from your meeting history automatically. You stay focused on the work, not the research or context.
Life Science Research
Internal life-science research workflows that help Codex interpret a user's research question, normalize the relevant entities, choose the right skills, and synthesize evidence-backed answers across public resources. The plugin spans human genetics, functional genomics, expression, pathways, protein structure, chemistry, pharmacology, literature, clinical evidence, and public study discovery, with a research-router entrypoint for broad tasks and optional subagent-assisted parallel work when evidence lanes are independent.
Notion
Notion workflows for turning specs into implementation plans, synthesizing research into structured documentation, preparing meeting materials with workspace context, and capturing decisions or conversations into durable knowledge pages.
Product Design
Turn early ideas into prototypes teams can review. Explore product directions, audit user flows, research user friction, prototype from a live URL, and make static screenshots interactive. Start with a written brief, URL, screenshot, or existing design, then compare visual directions before building. Use available browser, Figma, Canva, image generation, and hosting tools to gather references, create concepts, review the result, and carry the work forward with your team.
Public Equity Investing
Public equity investing workflows for long-only investors, long/short hedge funds, sell-side equity research teams, ETF/index and constituent diligence, event-driven equity investors, and sector/thematic listed-equity research teams. Outputs should surface what is mispriced, what is priced in, what proves or kills the thesis, what to do next, and what evidence is missing. Use Credit Markets for credit instruments, creditworthiness, restructuring, distressed, recovery, spreads, yields, covenants, and debt security analysis.
Zotero
Connect Codex to your Zotero desktop library so it can find saved papers, export BibTeX, add citation keys to drafts, read indexed attachment text when you ask, and import new reference records into Zotero with your approval.
hyperresearch
Deep research skill for Codex and Claude Code. Bootstraps the hyperresearch CLI and hands off to its 16-step research pipeline with a persistent, searchable source vault.
Google Maps CLI
Use Google Maps for place research, travel planning, and local SEO through focused Skills and a standalone CLI—no MCP setup required.
Story Skills
A suite of cross-referenced skills and CLI maintenance tools for end-to-end fiction writing in markdown, in English or any other language. Covers premise development, story initialization, character management, worldbuilding, plot structure, theme, scene craft, outlined and discovery drafting, chapter writing, interactive fiction with branching paths, series and sequels, verse, genre craft, voice and style, line editing, revision passes, continuity, pacing and fair-play checks, beta-reader feedback and simulated reader panels, editorial review, research, query letters and submission tracking, publishing and print production, adaptation, validation, reporting, indexing, word counts, and manuscript export.
Refero
Research real product interfaces and design with evidence from Refero.
paper-collage-video
基于 Remotion 的配置驱动纸片分层视频流水线与 Codex 插件，支持人工审批、断点恢复、预览渲染和技术验收。
AutoSciRub
Learning to Evaluate Before Improving: Automatic Rubric Induction for Automatic Research Agents
Journal Cover Letter
Writes journal cover letters with separate Research, Review, and Bibliometrics workflows.
codex-latex-editor
Your LaTeX workspace in the ChatGPT app sidebar, powered by Codex. Open a paper, add annotations, and review changes—all beside your chat.
qiongli
穷理证澈 Academic Research Skills: Plan the work, search the literature, draft and review manuscripts, run research code, and keep the evidence trail in one place.
Thermal-Fluid Research Workflow
Modular thermal-fluid research skills for analysis, writing, proposals, data, slides, editable schematics, mentoring, and manuscript revision.
ArcKit
Enterprise architecture governance, procurement, research, and delivery workflows for Codex.
research-skill
Persistent project-scoped knowledge base for Claude Code and Codex: quick and deep research depths, contrarian pass, source-independence rules measured on DeepResearch Bench II. Tested end to end on Haiku agents and a local 35B under noob-cli. Installs via npx skills add, /plugin install, codex marketplace, or git clone.
Research Workflow
Evidence-aware research mentoring, critique, and resumable project checkpoints.
Corbis Literature Starter Kit
Literature review and idea-screening starter kit for Codex, powered by Corbis MCP. Bundles reusable research skills for literature reviews, positioning, idea generation, citation checks, and literature landscapes.