CAST — Claude Agent Specialist Team vs io.github.npupko/agency-mcp-server
CAST — Claude Agent Specialist Team is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑23.
CAST — Claude Agent Specialist Team is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by ek33450505. No marketplace we read lists it any more. io.github.npupko/agency-mcp-server is an MCP server published by npupko. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-24. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  io.github.npupko/agency-mcp-server | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace ek33450505/claude-agent-team | Removed on 2026-10-23 Version: 10.6.1 Forks (GitHub): 1 Stars (GitHub): 8 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.2.2 Downloads/month (npm): 276 Downloads/week (npm): 50 Forks (GitHub): 1 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 | CAST — Claude Agent Specialist Teamno longer listed · | io.github.npupko/agency-mcp-server |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 8 | 1 |
| Forks (GitHub) | 1 | 1 |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (agency-mcp-server) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | Not published | 4, secrets among them: 0 |
| Hooks it runs (differs) | 27 | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 75 | Not a bundle |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/ek33450505/claude-agent-team | github.com/npupko/agency-mcp-server |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 2 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.
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What each says it does
CAST — Claude Agent Specialist Team
Multi-agent control plane for Claude Code: curated specialist agents, hook-enforced quality gates, and SQLite observability.
io.github.npupko/agency-mcp-server
On-demand access to 150+ specialist AI agent templates — search, browse, and spawn agents
How to run each
CAST — Claude Agent Specialist Team
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
io.github.npupko/agency-mcp-server As a local MCP server: npm package
claude mcp add --transport stdio agency-mcp-server -- npx -y agency-mcp-serverCommands 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 CAST — Claude Agent Specialist Team publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: CAST — Claude Agent Specialist Team · What it can do: io.github.npupko/agency-mcp-server · Compare two other plugins
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