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kanso vs Noosphere

kanso is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑19.

kanso is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Blake Cyze. No marketplace we read lists it any more. Noosphere is an MCP server published by JinNing6. Marketplaces we read that list it: 3 (Official MCP Registry, Claude Code: claude-plugins-community, Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-20. 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

Where each is published
MarketplacekansoNoosphere
Community marketplace blakecyze/kanso Removed on 2026-10-19
Version: 0.6.0
Forks (GitHub): 0
Stars (GitHub): 4
Not marked · First seen
Not listed
Official MCP Registry Not listed Listed
Version: 0.5.1
Downloads/month (PyPI): 334
Downloads/week (PyPI): 104
Forks (GitHub): 3
Stars (GitHub): 18
Not marked · First seen
Claude Code: claude-plugins-community Not listed Listed
Version: 0.10.0
Forks (GitHub): 3
Stars (GitHub): 18
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

kanso vs Noosphere
Factkansono longer listed · Noosphere
Marketplaces that list it (differs)03
Stars (GitHub) (differs)418
Forks (GitHub) (differs)03
Last releaseNot publishedNot published
Where it runs (differs)Installs as a plugin bundleOn your machine (noosphere-mcp)
Transport (differs)Not statedstdio
Tools it declaresNot publishedNot published
Environment variables it asks for (differs)Not published3, secrets among them: 1
Hooks it runs11
Parts of the bundle (differs)125
Licence (differs)MITApache-2.0
Repository (differs)github.com/blakecyze/kansogithub.com/jinning6/noosphere
Changes in the last 7 days (differs)40
First seen (differs)2026-10-142026-10-11

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 kanso

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    by qodo-ai · Plugin bundle

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  • inflight

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Its card, with similar plugins by marketplace

What each says it does

kanso

In its own words, on Community GitHub marketplaces:

Claude Code skills that keep AI-written code short and honest. Delete before you add, earn every line.

Noosphere

In its own words, on Official MCP Registry:

Community of Consciousness MCP Server — upload and explore collective wisdom via GitHub.

How to run each

kanso

No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.

Noosphere As a local MCP server: PyPI package

Claude Code
claude mcp add --env "GITHUB_TOKEN=<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN>" --transport stdio noosphere -- uvx noosphere-mcp

Requires: GITHUB_TOKEN (secret)

Commands 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

The marketplaces of kanso publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.

What it can do: kanso · What it can do: Noosphere · 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. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.

Where the data comes from: how the catalog is built