rtfm vs PinRAG
rtfm is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑15.
rtfm is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Canlin Zhang. No marketplace we read lists it any more. PinRAG is an MCP server published by ndjordjevic. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Official MCP Registry, Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). 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
| Marketplace |  PinRAG | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace canlin-zhang/rtfm | Removed on 2026-10-15 Version: 0.7.1 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 1 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.9.27 Downloads/month (PyPI): 239 Downloads/week (PyPI): 28 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 2 Not marked · First seen |
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 0 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 | rtfmno longer listed · | PinRAG |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 2 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 1 | 2 |
| Forks (GitHub) | 0 | 0 |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (pinrag) |
| 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 |
| Parts of the bundle | 2 | 2 |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/canlin-zhang/rtfm | github.com/ndjordjevic/pinrag |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 4 | 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 rtfm
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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Read-only local-first MCP server for private Markdown, PDF, and Tika-backed search on Windows.
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Indexes your project — code, markdown, PDFs, legal text, research notes into a local SQLite file. Claude searches it before grepping. No API keys, no cloud, nothing leaves your…
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Read-only local-first MCP server for private Markdown, PDF, and Tika-backed search on Windows.
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Section-level doc search for .md, .rst, .adoc, .ipynb, .html, .yaml, .json, and OpenAPI specs.
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Read-only MCP server for the OrchestKit docs: full-text search + Markdown fetch. No auth.
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Streamable HTTP MCP server for DevExpress documentation search and retrieval.
What each says it does
rtfm
Read The Full Manual — local document-corpus search.
PinRAG
MCP RAG: index PDFs, repos, YouTube, Discord, text; optional YouTube vision; query with citations.
How to run each
rtfm
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
PinRAG As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --env "OPENROUTER_API_KEY=<YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY>" --transport stdio pinrag -- uvx --refresh pinrag pinragRequires: OPENROUTER_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 rtfm publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: rtfm · What it can do: PinRAG · 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.