paper-skills vs paper-preflight
paper-skills is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑15.
paper-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Ng Jun Wei. No marketplace we read lists it any more. paper-preflight is an MCP server published by amos689. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Official MCP Registry, Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-25. 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 |  paper-preflight | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace awpbash/paper-skills | Removed on 2026-10-15 Version: 0.1.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 0 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.0.0 Downloads/month (PyPI): 787 Downloads/week (PyPI): 287 Forks (GitHub): 9 Stars (GitHub): 102 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 | paper-skillsno longer listed · | paper-preflight |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 2 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 0 | 102 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 0 | 9 |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-10-15 |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (paper-preflight) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 5 | 2 |
| Licence (differs) | Not stated | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/awpbash/paper-skills | github.com/amos689/paper-preflight |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-14 | 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 paper-skills
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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Understand papers and turn their core contributions into scientific overviews, with built-in detailed visual templates and editable figure reconstruction.
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A growing collection of Claude skills for producing academic work at Nature-journal standard. Covers scientific figures, manuscript polishing, citation retrieval, data…
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Publication figures in TikZ/pgfplots and Python, with reusable serif styling, visual examples, and takeaway-first captions.
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Modular 8-stage paper writing workflow: Planning → Literature → Writing → Citations → Figures → Review → Revision → Submission. Combines nature-skills + ARS + Omniscale best…
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Publication-quality figures, plots, and diagrams for academic papers, with a render-view-fix iteration loop.
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Generate publication-quality academic illustrations (diagrams and statistical plots) for research papers using a multi-agent pipeline with Gemini models. Supports…
What each says it does
paper-skills
Scientific paper writing and figure generation: figure design methodology with render-and-critique loops, dockerized LaTeX builds, verified bibliographies, print-grade assets, posters.
paper-preflight
Checks every LaTeX reference against Crossref, dblp, arXiv, DataCite, PubMed and OpenAlex. No LLM.
How to run each
paper-skills
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
paper-preflight As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --transport stdio paper-preflight -- uvx --with "paper-preflight[mcp]==1.0.0" paper-preflight mcpCommands 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: paper-skills · What it can do: paper-preflight · Compare two other plugins
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