Meticulous vs shaft-skills
Meticulous is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by alwaysmeticulous. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). shaft-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by ShaftHQ. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). 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 |  Meticulous |  shaft-skills |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Listed Version: 1.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 3 Stars (GitHub): 10 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Community marketplace shafthq/shaft_engine | Not listed | Listed Version: not stated Forks (GitHub): 155 Stars (GitHub): 418 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 | Meticulous | shaft-skills |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 10 (worse) | 418 (better) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 3 (worse) | 155 (better) |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Remote server (app.meticulous.ai/api/mcp) | Installs as a plugin bundle |
| Transport (differs) | Streamable HTTP | Not stated |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 8 | 37 |
| Licence (differs) | ISC | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/alwaysmeticulous/skills | github.com/shafthq/shaft_engine |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 0 | 1 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-14 |
| Endpoint at the last check (differs) | Status out of date: last check 47 h ago returned HTTP 405 | no remote endpoint we check |
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
Meticulous
Agent skills for Meticulous visual regression testing — review test runs, investigate replays, debug diffs. Also connects the hosted Meticulous MCP server.
shaft-skills
Official SHAFT agent skills: methodology router, locator strategy, test planning and authoring, MCP-driven recording, failure analysis, and change verification.
How to run each
Meticulous As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install meticulous@claude-communityshaft-skills As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add shafthq/shaft_engine
/plugin install shaft-skills@shafthqCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Only Meticulous has a remote endpoint we check. How we check endpoints
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: Meticulous · What it can do: shaft-skills · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.