carto-skills vs Orchestrate
carto-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by cartodb. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). Orchestrate is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Cursor. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Cursor: cursor/plugins). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-15. 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 |  carto-skills | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace cartodb/agent-skills | Listed Version: not stated Forks (GitHub): 3 Stars (GitHub): 6 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Cursor: cursor/plugins | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.1.0 Forks (GitHub): 1 133 Stars (GitHub): 11 569 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 | carto-skills | Orchestrate |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 6 (worse) | 11 569 (better) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 3 (worse) | 1 133 (better) |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs | Installs as a plugin bundle | Installs as a plugin bundle |
| Transport | Not stated | Not stated |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 23 | 1 |
| Licence (differs) | Not stated | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/cartodb/agent-skills | github.com/cursor/plugins |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 2 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-11 |
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
carto-skills
CARTO skills bundle: utility tier (basics, connect/query/explore datawarehouse) + platform tier (import-export, workflows, find-spatial-data, manage-platform, builder-maps, render-inline-map, preview-builder-map) + use-case patterns (hotspot, GWR, geocoding, routing, site-selection, territory, trade-area, composite-scoring, spatial-enrichment, spatial-autocorrelation).
Orchestrate
Fan large tasks out across parallel cloud agents with planners, workers, verifiers, and structured handoffs.
How to run each
carto-skills As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add cartodb/agent-skills
/plugin install carto-skills@carto-agent-skillsOrchestrate
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
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
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: carto-skills · What it can do: Orchestrate · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/cursor/plugins/blob/HEAD/.cursor-plugin/marketplace.json. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.