Effect vs Claudity
Claudity is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑20.
Effect is an MCP server published by tim-smart. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Docker MCP Catalog). Claudity is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Daniel May. No marketplace we read lists it any more. As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-21. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |   Effect | |
|---|---|---|
| Docker MCP Catalog | Listed Version: sha256:a0e077abc890 Forks (GitHub): 13 Pulls (Docker Hub): 12 978 Stars (Docker Hub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 238 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Community marketplace danielrmay/claudity | Not listed | Removed on 2026-10-20 Version: 0.3.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 5 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | Effect | Claudityno longer listed · |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 1 | 0 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 238 | 5 |
| Pulls (Docker Hub) (differs) | 12 978 | No figure on Docker Hub |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 13 | 0 |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | On your machine (mcp/effect-mcp) | Installs as a plugin bundle |
| Transport (differs) | stdio | Not stated |
| Tools it declares (differs) | 2 | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | Not published | 3, secrets among them: 0 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | Not a bundle | 13 |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/tim-smart/effect-mcp | github.com/danielrmay/claudity |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 0 | 4 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-15 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.
What to use instead of Claudity
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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Knowledge management, decision discipline, codebase understanding, plan pre-mortems, and release retrospectives for Claude Code
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Verification-first engineering toolkit — 15 skills around a 5-phase spine (Investigate → Design → Implement → Verify → Ship), 8 specialist agents, interactive setup wizard…
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Engineering management layer for Claude Code --- structures your session like a real dev team where you're PM and Claude is EM. Provides session workflows, multi-persona code…
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Story Driven Development workflow for Claude Code. Keeps your documentation and code in sync via status tracking and git-diff-based prompts.
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Evidence-first Claude Code plugin for repeatable, spec-driven development workflows.
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Never re-explain your project to Claude again. devpace remembers context across sessions, manages requirement changes, and ensures quality gates — all automatically. Zero setup…
What each says it does
Effect
Tools and resources for writing Effect code in Typescript.
Claudity
Asks the questions an architect would ask: problem clarification, decision guidance, and failure analysis, recorded as plain markdown in your repo. Derived from Microsoft's Clarity Agent (MIT).
How to run each
Effect As a local MCP server: Docker image
claude mcp add --transport stdio effect-mcp -- docker run -i --rm mcp/effect-mcpClaudity
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
The marketplaces of Claudity publish no list of tools, so we do not compare tools.
Settings each asks for
The marketplaces of Effect publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: Effect · What it can do: Claudity · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the Docker MCP Catalog (desktop.docker.com/mcp/catalog) and Docker Hub. Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.