Hugging Face vs asta-news
asta-news is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑16.
Hugging Face is an MCP server published by docker. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Docker MCP Catalog). asta-news is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Asta Lab. No marketplace we read lists it any more. As of our marketplace pass on 2026-11-04. 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 |  Hugging Face | |
|---|---|---|
| Docker MCP Catalog | Listed Version: not stated No figure published Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Community marketplace astalab/astanews | Not listed | Removed on 2026-10-16 Version: 0.1.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 1 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 | Hugging Face | asta-newsno longer listed · |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 1 | 0 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | No figure on GitHub | 1 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | No figure on GitHub | 0 |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Remote server (huggingface.co/mcp) | Installs as a plugin bundle |
| Transport (differs) | Streamable HTTP | Not stated |
| Tools it declares (differs) | 4 | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | Not a bundle | 3 |
| Licence (differs) | Apache-2.0 | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | Not stated | github.com/astalab/astanews |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-14 |
| Endpoint at the last check (differs) | Responded 6 days ago | no remote endpoint we check |
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 asta-news
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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AI news aggregator that fetches AI industry news from smol.ai RSS and generates structured markdown with intelligent summarization and categorization. Optionally creates beautiful…
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Read, search, cite, comment on and highlight handyai.news: independent weekly AI news.
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AI-industry news for agents: each story once, as a sourced event in a 10/57 taxonomy. No key needed.
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Build source-backed AI-industry briefings from official vendor publications, configured RSS/Atom feeds, GitHub releases, reputable secondary reporting, and user-supplied URLs…
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Trending AI Papers — buy per-query in-session (hfpaperwatch)
Trending AI papers daily: ranks, summaries, repos. Register in-session — free testnet funds.
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TechCrunch AI News — buy per-query in-session (techcrunchai)
AI industry news (TechCrunch): launches, funding, policy. Register in-session — free testnet funds.
What each says it does
Hugging Face
Tools for interacting with Hugging Face models, datasets, research papers, and more.
asta-news
Daily AI full-stack digest: papers, releases, evals, infra, agents, embodied, safety, business, devtools. Community-extensible sources.
How to run each
Hugging Face As a remote MCP server
claude mcp add --transport http hugging-face https://huggingface.co/mcpasta-news
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.
Only Hugging Face has a remote endpoint we check. How we check endpoints
Tools each declares
Neither the marketplaces of asta-news nor its endpoint list any tools, so we do not compare tools.
Settings each asks for
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: Hugging Face · What it can do: asta-news · 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.