carbone-skill vs Glif
carbone-skill is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by carboneio. Marketplaces we read that list it: 3 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-official, Claude: knowledge-work-plugins, Community GitHub marketplaces). Glif is an MCP server published by glif.app. Marketplaces we read that list it: 3 (Official MCP Registry, Docker MCP Catalog, Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-18. 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 |  carbone-skill |   Glif |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-official | Listed Version: 1.6.1 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 6 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Claude: knowledge-work-plugins | Listed Version: 1.6.1 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 6 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.0.1 Forks (GitHub): 33 Stars (GitHub): 215 Not marked · First seen |
| Docker MCP Catalog | Not listed | Listed Version: sha256:3f93ddceeb99 Forks (GitHub): 33 Pulls (Docker Hub): 19 695 Stars (Docker Hub): 2 Stars (GitHub): 215 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 | carbone-skill | Glif |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 3 | 3 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 6 (worse) | 215 (better) |
| Pulls (Docker Hub) (differs) | No figure on Docker Hub | 19 695 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 0 (worse) | 33 (better) |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | Remote server or your machine |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Tools it declares (differs) | Not published | 10 |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | Not published | 3, secrets among them: 1 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 1 | 11 |
| Licence (differs) | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/carboneio/carbone-skill | github.com/glifxyz/glif-mcp-server |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 0 | 2 |
| First seen | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-11 |
| Endpoint at the last check (differs) | no remote endpoint we check | Responded 31 h ago |
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
carbone-skill
Official Carbone skill — complete templating language reference covering tags, loops, conditions, formatters, aggregators, and all output formats (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODT, HTML, Markdown, PDF)
Glif
Generate images, video, and audio with Glif's media-generation agent
How to run each
carbone-skill As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin install carbone-skill@claude-plugins-officialGlif As a remote MCP server
claude mcp add --transport http glif https://glif.app/api/mcpCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Only Glif has a remote endpoint we check. How we check endpoints
Tools each declares
The marketplaces of carbone-skill publish no list of tools, so we do not compare tools.
Settings each asks for
The marketplaces of carbone-skill publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: carbone-skill · What it can do: Glif · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. 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 Docker MCP Catalog (desktop.docker.com/mcp/catalog) and Docker Hub. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.