keryx vs Phone a Friend
keryx is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑16.
keryx is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by ajbarea. No marketplace we read lists it any more. Phone a Friend is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by freibergergarcia. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-19. 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 |  Phone a Friend | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace ajbarea/techne | Removed on 2026-10-16 Version: 0.7.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 0 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Not listed | Listed Version: 4.2.0 Forks (GitHub): 3 Stars (GitHub): 10 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 | keryxno longer listed · | Phone a Friend |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 0 | 10 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 0 | 3 |
| 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 | Not published | Not published |
| Hooks it runs (differs) | 5 | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle | 5 | 5 |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/ajbarea/keryx | github.com/freibergergarcia/phone-a-friend |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 4 | 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 keryx
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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A voice-driven interaction plugin for Claude Code. Local speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and speaker verification — fully offline, fully hands-free.
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voicemode dev.voicemode/voicemode
Natural voice conversations for AI assistants - STT/TTS via MCP
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Professional terminal conversation sharing for Claude Code.
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Drive Codeman from inside a Claude Code session: spawn worker sessions, prompt them, wait for them, read their answers, clean up. Acts only inside a Codeman-managed session.
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Play sounds on Claude Code events. Supports themes, per-project config, and a GitHub-based theme store.
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Claude Skill — teaches Claude when to use sverklo's semantic search, blast-radius, diff review, and persistent memory tools
What each says it does
keryx
Speaks a short gist of each Claude Code reply in a local voice, one voice per terminal, ducking Spotify while it talks. WSL2 on Windows only.
Phone a Friend
Phone a Friend is a CLI relay that lets AI coding agents collaborate by sending prompts and repository context to other AI backends. It supports Claude, Codex, Gemini, and Ollama as relay targets. Agents can get second opinions, run multi-agent sessions with persistent communication, and stream responses in real time. It includes an interactive TUI dashboard, TOML configuration, and agentic orchestration mode for multi-agent collaboration.
How to run each
keryx
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Phone a Friend As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install phone-a-friend@claude-communityCommands 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: keryx · What it can do: Phone a Friend · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. 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.