meta-research vs Sciverse
meta-research is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Alireza Rezvani. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). Sciverse is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Sciverse Platform Team. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Community GitHub marketplaces, npm registry (MCP servers)). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-11-09. 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 |  Sciverse | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace alirezarezvani/claude-skills | Listed Version: 2.14.7 Forks (GitHub): 4 090 Stars (GitHub): 29 522 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| npm registry (MCP servers) | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.0.1 Downloads/month (npm): 1 595 Downloads/week (npm): 1 238 Forks (GitHub): 7 Stars (GitHub): 130 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 | meta-research | Sciverse |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 1 (worse) | 2 (better) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 29 522 (better) | 130 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 4 090 (better) | 7 (worse) |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-11-02 |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (sciverse-mcp-server) |
| 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 | 2 |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills | github.com/opendatalab/sciverse-agent-tools |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 2 | 2 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-11-03 | 2026-10-12 |
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
meta-research
Disciplined multi-source meta-research for high-stakes questions — the heavyweight alternative to the fast research router. 9-phase pipeline (reframe into falsifiable hypotheses, plan, capability discovery, parallel sub-agent fan-out, score & triangulate, synthesize + adversarial pass, verify, refresh targets). Triangulates every thesis against >=3 independent differently-typed sources; per-source files with verbatim quotes; never fabricates a citation. Auditable, reusable folder + delta-update refresh protocol. Contributed via PR #851.
Sciverse
Use when the user needs academic paper retrieval — searching scientific literature and patent/author/source metadata, finding paper chunks for RAG-style citations, or expanding original text around a known paper offset. Provides six Sciverse tools (search_metadata, semantic_search, list_catalog, list_paper_relations, read_content, get_resource) via the sciverse-mcp-server MCP server.
How to run each
meta-research As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills
/plugin install meta-research@claude-code-skillsSciverse As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add opendatalab/sciverse-agent-tools
/plugin install sciverse@sciverseCommands 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: meta-research · What it can do: Sciverse · Compare two other plugins
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