Open Dashboard vs melta UI
Open Dashboard is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by ahpx. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). melta UI is an MCP server published by tsubotax. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Official MCP Registry, npm registry (MCP servers)). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-24. 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 |  melta UI | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace ahpxex/open-dashboard | Listed Version: 0.2.0 Forks (GitHub): 13 Stars (GitHub): 146 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.9.1 Downloads/month (npm): 1 307 Downloads/week (npm): 120 Forks (GitHub): 21 Stars (GitHub): 202 Not marked · First seen |
| npm registry (MCP servers) | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.9.1 Downloads/month (npm): 1 307 Downloads/week (npm): 120 Forks (GitHub): 21 Stars (GitHub): 202 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 | Open Dashboard | melta UI |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 1 (worse) | 2 (better) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 146 (worse) | 202 (better) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 13 (worse) | 21 (better) |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (melta-ds-mcp) |
| 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) | 4 | Not a bundle |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/ahpxex/open-dashboard | github.com/tsubotax/melta-ui |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-15 | 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
Open Dashboard
The full Open Dashboard skill catalogue — the `add-component` skill (a retriever over 35+ UI shapes: forms, lists & tables, kanban/calendar/tree/timeline, detail & pages, display & feedback, RBAC/auth/i18n/billing/search/realtime) plus the operation skills (scaffold-dashboard, add-backend, rebrand). The shapes assume the scaffold-dashboard base (TanStack Start + the platform layer) — run scaffold-dashboard first, then compose the shapes on top.
melta UI
AI-Ready design system MCP: melta UI tokens, component contracts, 107 rules, check_html self-verify
How to run each
Open Dashboard As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add ahpxex/open-dashboard
/plugin install open-dashboard@open-dashboardmelta UI As a local MCP server: npm package
claude mcp add --transport stdio melta-ui -- npx -y melta-ds-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: Open Dashboard · What it can do: melta UI · 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. Package data comes from the public npm registry (registry.npmjs.org). Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.