Sequential Thinking (Reference) vs harness-designing-plugin
Sequential Thinking (Reference) is an MCP server published by modelcontextprotocol. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Docker MCP Catalog). harness-designing-plugin is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by BilLogic. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-12. 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Docker MCP Catalog | Listed Version: sha256:cd3174b2ecf3 Forks (GitHub): 11 780 Pulls (Docker Hub): 420 186 Stars (Docker Hub): 30 Stars (GitHub): 91 180 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Not listed | Listed Version: 3.0.0 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 | Sequential Thinking (Reference) | harness-designing-plugin |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 91 180 (better) | 5 (worse) |
| Pulls (Docker Hub) (differs) | 420 186 | No figure on Docker Hub |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 11 780 (better) | 0 (worse) |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | On your machine (mcp/sequentialthinking) | Remote server (mcp.context7.com/mcp) |
| Transport (differs) | stdio | Streamable HTTP |
| Tools it declares (differs) | 1 | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | Not a bundle | 5 |
| Licence (differs) | NOASSERTION | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers | github.com/billogic/harness-designing-plugin |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-11 |
| Endpoint at the last check (differs) | no remote endpoint we check | not checked yet |
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
Sequential Thinking (Reference)
Dynamic and reflective problem-solving through thought sequences.
harness-designing-plugin
Harness Designing Plugin helps design teams turn their scattered AI setup — Notion prompts, Figma comments, AGENTS.md rules, chat histories — into a five-layer design harness that compounds across sessions and rotations. Four skills walk you through the assembly: • /hd:learn — Q&A about the five-layer concept (Context Engineering, Skill Curation, Workflow Orchestration, Rubric Setting, Knowledge Compounding) • /hd:setup — detects existing harness artifacts, pre-analyzes all five layers in parallel (5× harness-auditor + rubric-recommender), then walks you through link / critique / scaffold / skip per layer • /hd:maintain — captures lessons and promotes them to team rules in AGENTS.md with SHA-256 plan-hash proof-of-consent • /hd:review — audits harness health in a 2-batch parallel dispatch (5 layer-specialist agents + 2–3 context agents); critiques harness artifacts against quality rubrics Ships 9 sub-agents and 14 starter rubrics (distilled from pbakaus/impeccable, Nielsen's 10 heuristics, Material 3, Fluent
How to run each
Sequential Thinking (Reference) As a local MCP server: Docker image
claude mcp add --transport stdio sequentialthinking -- docker run -i --rm mcp/sequentialthinkingharness-designing-plugin
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 harness-designing-plugin publish no list of 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: Sequential Thinking (Reference) · What it can do: harness-designing-plugin · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the Docker MCP Catalog (desktop.docker.com/mcp/catalog) and Docker Hub. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.