streaming-skills-plugin vs kafka-skills
streaming-skills-plugin is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by confluentinc. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-official, Community GitHub marketplaces). kafka-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Lenses.io. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-29. 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 |  streaming-skills-plugin | |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-official | Listed Version: 1.4.0 Forks (GitHub): 11 Stars (GitHub): 59 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Community marketplace lensesio/agentic-engineering-for-apache-kafka | Not listed | Listed Version: 2.4.0 Forks (GitHub): 19 Stars (GitHub): 66 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 | streaming-skills-plugin | kafka-skills |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 2 (better) | 1 (worse) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 59 (worse) | 66 (better) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 11 (worse) | 19 (better) |
| Last release (differs) | 2026-10-16 | 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) | 11 | 10 |
| Licence (differs) | Not stated | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/confluentinc/agent-skills | github.com/lensesio/agentic-engineering-for-apache-kafka |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 0 | 2 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-26 |
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
streaming-skills-plugin
Skills for streaming application developers, covering Kafka and Flink client libraries and Schema Registry
kafka-skills
Eight Kafka skills (topic audit, consumer lag, perf review, schema, security, connectors, DLQ, python client scaffold) powered by the Lenses MCP server
How to run each
streaming-skills-plugin As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin install streaming-skills-plugin@claude-plugins-officialkafka-skills As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add lensesio/agentic-engineering-for-apache-kafka
/plugin install kafka-skills@lensesioCommands 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: streaming-skills-plugin · What it can do: kafka-skills · 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 public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.