agent-flywheel vs AgentForge
agent-flywheel is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑18.
agent-flywheel is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by burningportra. No marketplace we read lists it any more. AgentForge is an MCP server published by sciscale.org. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-19. 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 |  AgentForge | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace burningportra/agent-flywheel-plugin | Removed on 2026-10-18 Version: 3.20.1 Forks (GitHub): 1 Stars (GitHub): 3 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.1.4 Downloads/month (npm): 126 Downloads/week (npm): 19 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 2 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-flywheelno longer listed · | AgentForge |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 3 | 2 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 1 | 0 |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (agentforge-mcp) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | Not published | 2, secrets among them: 1 |
| Hooks it runs (differs) | 7 | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 74 | Not a bundle |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/burningportra/agent-flywheel-plugin | github.com/sciscale-studio/agentforge-mcp |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 8 | 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 agent-flywheel
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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Endor Labs workflow agents and setup for Claude Code.
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Multi-agent autonomous building pipeline (Elira, Steven, Alba, David, Vex). Decomposes a goal into floors, builds real working code, validates and self-fixes.
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AI Dev Kit is a complete plugin-oriented developer workspace for AI coding assistants. It ships everything needed to run professional-grade engineering workflows — TDD, code…
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Create and upgrade a self-improving Claude Code harness (self-healing failure ledger, per-file lesson memory, regression evals, small-model elevation, safety hooks) in any project…
What each says it does
agent-flywheel
Multi-agent coding flywheel for Claude Code
AgentForge
Turn rough requests into rigorously structured prompts, for any coding agent.
How to run each
agent-flywheel
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
AgentForge As a local MCP server: npm package
claude mcp add --env "AGENTFORGE_API_KEY=<YOUR_AGENTFORGE_API_KEY>" --transport stdio agentforge-mcp -- npx -y agentforge-mcpRequires: AGENTFORGE_API_KEY (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 agent-flywheel publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: agent-flywheel · What it can do: AgentForge · 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.