meta-research vs Research Scan
meta-research is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑27.
meta-research is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by AmberLJC. No marketplace we read lists it any more. Research Scan is an MCP server published by synectic.org. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-29. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  Research Scan | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace amberljc/meta-research | Removed on 2026-10-27 Version: 1.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 12 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.6.1 Downloads/month (PyPI): 293 Downloads/week (PyPI): 89 Forks (GitHub): 1 Stars (GitHub): 1 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-researchno longer listed · | Research Scan |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 12 | 1 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 0 | 1 |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (research-scan) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/amberljc/meta-research | github.com/synectic-research/research-scan |
| 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. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.
What to use instead of meta-research
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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Semi-automated research assistant with skills for literature review, experiments, analysis, writing, and project knowledge management
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Research workflow framework with 9 specialized agents for discovery, acquisition, synthesis, citation management, GRADE quality assessment, and OAIS-compliant archival.
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The full social-science research pipeline as skills: idea formalization, systematic literature review, theory and hypotheses, research design with power analysis, causal…
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About Comprehensive research co-pilot for Claude Code and claude.ai — 13 skills covering literature review, methodology, ethics review, data analysis, qualitative coding…
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Select & run open-source AI literature-review tools: a curated 70+ catalog plus a launcher (scripts/litrun.py) that installs and runs the top tools and pipelines.
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Academic research toolkit — literature survey, paper reviewing, citation management, and more.
What each says it does
meta-research
Autonomous research workflow agent for AI and scientific research. Guides the full research lifecycle — brainstorming, literature review, experiment design, analysis, and writing.
Research Scan
Research Scan finds and verifies the 5–10 recent papers that matter most for a research question.
How to run each
meta-research
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Research Scan As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --transport stdio research-scan -- uvx research-scanCommands 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: Research Scan · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.