Comparison

Zen vs Claudity

Claudity is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑20.

Zen is an MCP server published by BeehiveInnovations. 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 2026-10-20. 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

Where each is published
Marketplace	Zen	Claudity
Docker MCP Catalog	Listed Version: sha256:02cbe1d325db Forks (GitHub): 1 036 Pulls (Docker Hub): 34 962 Stars (Docker Hub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 11 792 Not marked · First seen 2026-10-11	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 2026-10-15

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

Zen vs Claudity
Fact	Zen	Claudityno longer listed · 2026-10-20
Marketplaces that list it (differs)	1	0
Stars (GitHub) (differs)	11 792	5
Pulls (Docker Hub) (differs)	34 962	No figure on Docker Hub
Forks (GitHub) (differs)	1 036	0
Last release	Not published	Not published
Where it runs (differs)	On your machine (mcp/zen)	Installs as a plugin bundle
Transport (differs)	stdio	Not stated
Tools it declares (differs)	18	Not published
Environment variables it asks for (differs)	4, secrets among them: 4	3, secrets among them: 0
Parts of the bundle (differs)	Not a bundle	13
Licence (differs)	NOASSERTION	MIT
Repository (differs)	github.com/beehiveinnovations/zen-mcp-server	github.com/danielrmay/claudity
Changes in the last 7 days (differs)	0	3
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.

aria-knowledge

Knowledge management, decision discipline, codebase understanding, plan pre-mortems, and release retrospectives for Claude Code

by Mike Prasad · Plugin bundle

Listed on: Community GitHub marketplaces · Describes nearly the same job
claudekit

Verification-first engineering toolkit — 15 skills around a 5-phase spine (Investigate → Design → Implement → Verify → Ship), 8 specialist agents, interactive setup wizard…

by duthaho · Plugin bundle

Listed on: Community GitHub marketplaces · Describes nearly the same job
coordinator-claude

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…

by oduffy-delphi · Plugin bundle

Listed on: Claude Code: claude-plugins-community · Describes nearly the same job
sdd

Story Driven Development workflow for Claude Code. Keeps your documentation and code in sync via status tracking and git-diff-based prompts.

by applica-software-guru · Plugin bundle

Listed on: Claude Code: claude-plugins-community · Describes nearly the same job
claude-forge

Evidence-first Claude Code plugin for repeatable, spec-driven development workflows.

by JunghyunRyu · Plugin bundle

Listed on: Claude Code: claude-plugins-community · Describes nearly the same job
devpace

Never re-explain your project to Claude again. devpace remembers context across sessions, manages requirement changes, and ensures quality gates — all automatically. Zero setup…

by paceforge · Plugin bundle

Listed on: Community GitHub marketplaces · Describes nearly the same job

Its card, with similar plugins by marketplace

What each says it does

Zen

In its own words, on Docker MCP Catalog:

Bridges multiple AI models and CLIs, enabling orchestrated workflows across Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, and other AI development tools.

Claudity

In its own words, on Community GitHub marketplaces:

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

Zen As a local MCP server: Docker image

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env "GEMINI_API_KEY=<YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY>" --env "OPENAI_API_KEY=<YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY>" --env "OPENROUTER_API_KEY=<YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY>" --env "XAI_API_KEY=<YOUR_XAI_API_KEY>" --transport stdio zen -- docker run -i --rm -e GEMINI_API_KEY -e OPENAI_API_KEY -e OPENROUTER_API_KEY -e XAI_API_KEY mcp/zen

Requires: GEMINI_API_KEY (secret), OPENAI_API_KEY (secret), OPENROUTER_API_KEY (secret), XAI_API_KEY (secret)

Claudity

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

Only Zen asks for

GEMINI_API_KEY (secret)
OPENAI_API_KEY (secret)
OPENROUTER_API_KEY (secret)
XAI_API_KEY (secret)

Only Claudity asks for

CLAUDITY_PLUGIN_ROOT
PYTHONUNBUFFERED
PYTHONUTF8

Settings as each marketplace publishes them. Asking for fewer is not better in itself.

What it can do: Zen · 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 2026-10-20. We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.