Needle vs facebook-skills
Needle is an MCP server published by needle-ai. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Docker MCP Catalog, Official MCP Registry). facebook-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Serge Bulaev. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-11-12. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  Needle | |
|---|---|---|
| Docker MCP Catalog | Listed Version: sha256:d3fd314f40c3 Forks (GitHub): 24 Pulls (Docker Hub): 12 188 Stars (Docker Hub): 1 Stars (GitHub): 104 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Listed Version: 1.0.1 Forks (GitHub): 24 Stars (GitHub): 104 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Community marketplace sergebulaev/facebook-skills | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.0.32 Forks (GitHub): 24 Stars (GitHub): 148 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 | Needle | facebook-skills |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 2 (better) | 1 (worse) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 104 (worse) | 148 (better) |
| Pulls (Docker Hub) (differs) | 12 188 | No figure on Docker Hub |
| Forks (GitHub) | 24 | 24 |
| Last release (differs) | 2026-11-06 | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Remote server or your machine | Installs as a plugin bundle |
| Transport (differs) | stdio, Streamable HTTP | Not stated |
| Tools it declares (differs) | 7 | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | 1, secrets among them: 1 | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | Not a bundle | 8 |
| Licence (differs) | Not stated | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/needle-ai/needle-mcp | github.com/sergebulaev/facebook-skills |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 3 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-11 | 2026-11-05 |
| Endpoint at the last check (differs) | Responded 23 h ago, requires authentication | no remote endpoint we check |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.
What each says it does
Needle
Production-ready RAG service to search and retrieve data from your documents.
facebook-skills
Bundle of 8 Facebook Pages marketing skills for Claude Code and Codex with Facebook-native high-share hook formulas, short punchy and long story Page-post writing, a unified humanizer (rewrite plus `--mode audit` pre-publish check), high-share post hook extraction, comment-reply drafting, a weekly Page content planner, Page optimization, cross-platform repurposing, and a real-data audience-insights read layer (Page stats plus commenters via Apify). Page posts ship via Publora.
How to run each
Needle As a local MCP server: Docker image
claude mcp add --env "NEEDLE_API_KEY=<YOUR_NEEDLE_API_KEY>" --transport stdio needle-mcp -- docker run -i --rm -e NEEDLE_API_KEY mcp/needle-mcpRequires: NEEDLE_API_KEY (secret)
facebook-skills As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add sergebulaev/facebook-skills
/plugin install facebook-skills@facebook-skillsCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Only Needle has a remote endpoint we check. How we check endpoints
Tools each declares
The marketplaces of facebook-skills publish no list of tools, so we do not compare tools.
Settings each asks for
The marketplaces of facebook-skills publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: Needle · What it can do: facebook-skills · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the Docker MCP Catalog (desktop.docker.com/mcp/catalog) and Docker Hub. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. 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.