research-ops-skills vs agent-council
research-ops-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Alireza Rezvani. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). agent-council is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Avyayalaya. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Copilot CLI: github/awesome-copilot). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-11-07. 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 |  agent-council | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace alirezarezvani/claude-skills | Listed Version: 2.14.6 Forks (GitHub): 4 079 Stars (GitHub): 29 404 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Copilot CLI: github/awesome-copilot | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.1.3 Forks (GitHub): 10 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 | research-ops-skills | agent-council |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 29 404 (better) | 11 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 4 079 (better) | 10 (worse) |
| Last release (differs) | 2026-10-31 | 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) | 15 | 8 |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills | github.com/avyayalaya/agent-council |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 1 | 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
research-ops-skills
Enterprise / cross-functional Research Operations domain — the managed counterpart to the academic research/ domain. v2.9.0 ships 5 skills: orchestrator (context: fork), clinical-research (protocol synopsis, endpoint selection, sample-size/power for means/proportions/survival, phase-gate feasibility), research-finance (R&D budgeting with F&A split, burn/runway, capitalize-vs-expense routing, portfolio ROI), market-research (TAM/SAM/SOM top-down and bottoms-up, survey sampling with FPC, Kotler segmentation), and product-research (goal-matched study design, method-based saturation, insight synthesis flagging single-source anecdotes). Hard rules: outputs are estimates routed to a named clinical or finance owner, market sizes show method + assumptions, product insights require recurrence across independent participants. 24 stdlib Python tools, 12 reference docs. Distinct from ra-qm-team, finance, research/grants, product-team, and marketing-skill.
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
research-ops-skills As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills
/plugin install research-ops-skills@claude-code-skillsagent-council
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Commands 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: research-ops-skills · What it can do: agent-council · 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/github/awesome-copilot/blob/HEAD/.github/plugin/marketplace.json. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.