handoff-engineering vs mexus-agent-team
handoff-engineering is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Alireza Rezvani. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). mexus-agent-team is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by yofine. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-29. 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 |  mexus-agent-team | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace alirezarezvani/claude-skills | Listed Version: 2.14.2 Forks (GitHub): 4 016 Stars (GitHub): 28 939 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.1.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 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 | handoff-engineering | mexus-agent-team |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 28 939 (better) | 11 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 4 016 (better) | 0 (worse) |
| Last release (differs) | 2026-10-26 | 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 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 3 | 5 |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills | github.com/yofine/mexus-agent-team |
| 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. 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
handoff-engineering
Conversation-handoff document generator. Compacts the current session into a markdown handoff for a fresh agent — references existing artifacts (PRDs, plans, ADRs, issues, commits) by path/URL instead of duplicating them. Derived from Matt Pocock's MIT-licensed handoff with: (1) 3 stdlib Python tools (template generator tailored to 5 next-session emphases, artifact deduplicator across 5 categories of duplication, skill recommender matching content to 14 skills in this repo), (2) 4 references citing 7-8 sources (handoff structure, deduplication discipline, next-session skill matching, companion tooling), (3) cs-handoff-author persona agent + /cs-handoff slash command. Matt's no-duplication discipline + mktemp convention preserved verbatim per MIT.
mexus-agent-team
Standalone Markdown-only Agent Team plugin for Claude Code and Codex. Coordination happens through ordinary Markdown files in the current project: agent-team/ ├── mission-workflow.md ├── agents.md └── missions/<mission-name>/ ├── mission.md ├── agents.md ├── kanban.md ├── roundtable.md └── squad-lead.md
How to run each
handoff-engineering As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills
/plugin install handoff-engineering@claude-code-skillsmexus-agent-team As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install mexus-agent-team@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: handoff-engineering · What it can do: mexus-agent-team · 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.