duckdb-skills vs frugal-memory
duckdb-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by duckdb. Marketplaces we read that list it: 3 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-official, Community GitHub marketplaces, Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). frugal-memory is an MCP server published by komakeule57-maker. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-22. 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 |  duckdb-skills |  frugal-memory |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-official | Listed Version: 0.2.4 Forks (GitHub): 37 Stars (GitHub): 609 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Listed Version: 0.2.4 Forks (GitHub): 37 Stars (GitHub): 609 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.1.5 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 1 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 | duckdb-skills | frugal-memory |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 3 (better) | 1 (worse) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 609 (better) | 1 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 37 (better) | 0 (worse) |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-10-22 |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (frugal-memory) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | Not published | 2, secrets among them: 0 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 9 | Not a bundle |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/duckdb/duckdb-skills | github.com/komakeule57-maker/frugal-memory |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 0 | 4 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-19 |
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
duckdb-skills
DuckDB-powered skills for Claude Code: read any data file, attach and query DuckDB databases, search DuckDB/DuckLake docs, search past session logs, and install/update DuckDB extensions.
frugal-memory
Memory for AI assistants in one SQLite file: full-text search, no vectors, no embeddings.
How to run each
duckdb-skills As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin install duckdb-skills@claude-plugins-officialfrugal-memory As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --transport stdio frugal-memory -- uvx frugal-memoryCommands 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 duckdb-skills publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: duckdb-skills · What it can do: frugal-memory · 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. 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.