craft-skills vs hats
craft-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by alexiolan. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). hats is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by deadsimple-xyz. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-21. 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 |  hats | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace alexiolan/craft-skills | Listed Version: 1.3.20 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 17 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Not listed | Listed Version: 5.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 3 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 | craft-skills | hats |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 17 (better) | 3 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) | 0 | 0 |
| 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) | 1 | 4 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 19 | 16 |
| Licence (differs) | GPL-3.0-only | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/alexiolan/craft-skills | github.com/deadsimple-xyz/hats |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 2 | 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
craft-skills
Structured development skills for any project. Provides brainstorming, planning, parallel agent development, browser testing, systematic debugging, and self-improvement workflows.
hats
Your personal AI dev team. Five specialized roles — Manager, Designer, CTO, QA, and Developer — each with isolated context and permissions. The Manager writes Gherkin specs, then each role takes over: Designer creates mockups, CTO picks the stack, QA writes tests from requirements (not implementation), and Developer builds the code. Role separation prevents shared blind spots — the QA can't see Developer instructions and vice versa.
How to run each
craft-skills As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add alexiolan/craft-skills
/plugin install craft-skills@craft-skillshats As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install hats@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: craft-skills · What it can do: hats · 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.