agent-council vs knowledge-mcp
agent-council is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Avyayalaya. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Copilot CLI: github/awesome-copilot, Community GitHub marketplaces). knowledge-mcp is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by David Dunnock. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-24. 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Copilot CLI: github/awesome-copilot | Listed Version: 0.1.3 Forks (GitHub): 7 Stars (GitHub): 11 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Community marketplace ddunnock/claude-plugins | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.1.3 Forks (GitHub): 7 Stars (GitHub): 14 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 | agent-council | knowledge-mcp |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 2 (better) | 1 (worse) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 11 (worse) | 14 (better) |
| Forks (GitHub) | 7 | 7 |
| Last release | Not published | 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 (differs) | 1, secrets among them: 0 | 4, secrets among them: 2 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 8 | 1 |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/avyayalaya/agent-council | github.com/ddunnock/claude-plugins |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-15 |
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
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.
knowledge-mcp
Semantic search over systems engineering standards (IEEE, INCOSE, ISO) with RAG capabilities for grounding specifications in engineering knowledge.
How to run each
agent-council As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add avyayalaya/agent-council
/plugin install agent-council@agent-councilknowledge-mcp As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add ddunnock/claude-plugins
/plugin install knowledge-mcp@ddunnock-claude-pluginsCommands 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
Only agent-council asks for
COUNCIL_CONFIG
Only knowledge-mcp asks for
OPENAI_API_KEY (secret)PYTHONPATHQDRANT_API_KEY (secret)QDRANT_URL
Settings as each marketplace publishes them. Asking for fewer is not better in itself.
What it can do: agent-council · What it can do: knowledge-mcp · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/blob/HEAD/.github/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.