obelus vs paper-preflight
obelus is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑24.
obelus is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Obelus contributors. No marketplace we read lists it any more. paper-preflight is an MCP server published by amos689. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Official MCP Registry, Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-27. 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 |  paper-preflight | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace 4gentic/obelus | Removed on 2026-10-24 Version: 0.1.16 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 8 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.0.0 Downloads/month (PyPI): 787 Downloads/week (PyPI): 287 Forks (GitHub): 10 Stars (GitHub): 108 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 | obelusno longer listed · | paper-preflight |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 2 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 8 | 108 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 0 | 10 |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-10-15 |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (paper-preflight) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 9 | 2 |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/4gentic/obelus | github.com/amos689/paper-preflight |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 2 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-11 |
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 obelus
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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Overleaf MCP server for Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, and Cursor with safe LaTeX editing and review.
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Pull Overleaf review comments into your .tex repo and apply the edits.
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LaTeX editor for AI agents: live PDF preview, PDF comments that drive edits, git history
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Flag hallucinated references, authors and bib items in any paper — your own draft before submitting, or one you are reviewing — and correct badly formatted ones. Resolves every…
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Academic paper review, writing improvement and recommendation-letter skills for Claude Code
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Read, edit, compile, and commit LaTeX in any git-hosted project, plus the bundled skills for project cleanup, citation audits, bibliography normalization and peer review, and the…
What each says it does
obelus
Apply an Obelus review bundle to your paper source. Format-agnostic (LaTeX, Markdown, Typst), offline, minimal-diff.
paper-preflight
Checks every LaTeX reference against Crossref, dblp, arXiv, DataCite, PubMed and OpenAlex. No LLM.
How to run each
obelus
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
paper-preflight As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --transport stdio paper-preflight -- uvx --with "paper-preflight[mcp]==1.0.0" paper-preflight mcpCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: obelus · What it can do: paper-preflight · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.