vulcan vs Macro & Commodities Desk
vulcan is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Ellipsis-Labs. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). Macro & Commodities Desk is an MCP server published by predictionmarketspicks.com. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-18. 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 |  vulcan |   Macro & Commodities Desk |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Listed Version: 0.5.0 Forks (GitHub): 6 Stars (GitHub): 20 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.2.0 Forks (GitHub): 1 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 | vulcan | Macro & Commodities Desk |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 20 (better) | 0 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 6 (better) | 1 (worse) |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-10-13 |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | Remote server (predictionmarketspicks.com/api/mcp-commodities/mcp) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | Streamable HTTP |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | 2, secrets among them: 1 | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 21 | Not a bundle |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/ellipsis-labs/vulcan-cli | github.com/predictionmarketspicks/mcp |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 0 | 1 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-11 |
| Endpoint at the last check (differs) | no remote endpoint we check | Responded 39 h ago |
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
vulcan
Agent and human-friendly CLI for trading Phoenix perpetual futures on Solana.
Macro & Commodities Desk
Kalshi macro: Fed rate odds, gold, silver, oil and bitcoin edges, 15-min markets, Kelly sizing.
How to run each
vulcan As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install vulcan@claude-communityMacro & Commodities Desk
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.
Only Macro & Commodities Desk has a remote endpoint we check. How we check endpoints
Tools each declares
Neither the marketplaces of vulcan nor its endpoint list any tools, so we do not compare tools.
Settings each asks for
The marketplaces of Macro & Commodities Desk publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: vulcan · What it can do: Macro & Commodities Desk · 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.