gate-and-ship vs agent-council
gate-and-ship is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by agent-sh. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). agent-council is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Avyayalaya. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Copilot CLI: github/awesome-copilot, Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-16. 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 |  gate-and-ship |  agent-council |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Listed Version: 0.1.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 1 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Copilot CLI: github/awesome-copilot | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.1.3 Forks (GitHub): 6 Stars (GitHub): 11 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 | gate-and-ship | agent-council |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 1 (worse) | 2 (better) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 1 (worse) | 11 (better) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 0 (worse) | 6 (better) |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs | Installs as a plugin bundle | Installs as a plugin bundle |
| Transport | Not stated | Not stated |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | Not published | 1, secrets among them: 0 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 1 | 8 |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/agent-sh/gate-and-ship | github.com/avyayalaya/agent-council |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 0 | 2 |
| First seen | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-11 |
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
gate-and-ship
Quality gates then ship — chains `/prepare-delivery` and `/ship` in one command. Runs the full pre-ship pipeline (deslop, simplify, agnix, enhance, multi-agent review, delivery validation, docs sync) and only proceeds to commit/push/PR/merge/deploy if every gate passes. If a gate fails, returns to the implementation phase with concrete fix instructions instead of shipping broken code. Designed for the "I'm done; ship it" workflow where you don't want to think about which gates to run — they all run, in the right order, with the right pass criteria.
agent-council
A runtime-portable 5-agent quality gate that adjudicates text artifacts before they ship. Five role-conditioned LLM deliberators run a 2-round async protocol with cross-read rebuttal and return one verdict — SHIP, REVISE, or HOLD — plus a structured revision brief and a full audit transcript.
How to run each
gate-and-ship As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install gate-and-ship@claude-communityagent-council As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add avyayalaya/agent-council
/plugin install agent-council@agent-councilCommands 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
The marketplaces of gate-and-ship publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: gate-and-ship · What it can do: agent-council · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/blob/HEAD/.github/plugin/marketplace.json. 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.