xiao vs Shelly Smart Home
xiao is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by dacrypt. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). Shelly Smart Home is an MCP server published by Buggy1111. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-16. 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 |  xiao |  Shelly Smart Home |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Listed Version: 0.1.2 Forks (GitHub): 1 Stars (GitHub): 2 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.1.3 Downloads/month (PyPI): 157 Downloads/week (PyPI): 34 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 | xiao | Shelly Smart Home |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 2 (better) | 0 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 1 (better) | 0 (worse) |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-10-16 |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (shelly-mcp) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 1 | Not a bundle |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/dacrypt/xiao | github.com/buggy1111/shelly-mcp |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 0 | 1 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-12 | 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
xiao
Control a Xiaomi Robot Vacuum X20+ (model xiaomi.vacuum.c102gl) via the xiao CLI. Full vacuum control — start, stop, pause, dock, find, room cleaning, zone cleaning, base-station (mop wash/dry, dust collect, tray eject), consumable tracking, and settings (fan speed, water level, DND window). Agent-ready: ships with AGENTS.md, llms.txt, --json output on read commands, and canonical exit codes (2 = not configured, 77 = auth failed) for autonomous error recovery.
Shelly Smart Home
Local-first MCP server for Shelly smart-home devices (Gen1-Gen4): control, energy, automation.
How to run each
xiao As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install xiao@claude-communityShelly Smart Home As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --transport stdio shelly-mcp -- uvx shelly-mcpCommands 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: xiao · What it can do: Shelly Smart Home · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. 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.