grainulator vs io.github.wei-ai-lab/clinical-trial-design
grainulator is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by grainulation. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). io.github.wei-ai-lab/clinical-trial-design is an MCP server published by wei-ai-lab. 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Listed Version: 1.7.1 Forks (GitHub): 7 Stars (GitHub): 86 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.0.12 Downloads/month (npm): 163 Downloads/week (npm): 31 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 2 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 | grainulator | io.github.wei-ai-lab/clinical-trial-design |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 86 (better) | 2 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 7 (better) | 0 (worse) |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Remote server (mcp.deepwiki.com/mcp) | On your machine (clinical-trial-design) |
| Transport (differs) | Streamable HTTP | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | 1, secrets among them: 0 | 2, secrets among them: 0 |
| Hooks it runs (differs) | 3 | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 26 | Not a bundle |
| Licence | Not stated | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/grainulation/grainulator | github.com/wei-ai-lab/clinical-trial-design |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-11 |
| Endpoint at the last check (differs) | Responded 2 days ago | no remote endpoint we check |
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
grainulator
Research sprint orchestrator for Claude Code. Ask a question, get a decision-ready brief — every finding is tracked as a typed claim, adversarially challenged, confidence-graded, and compiled into self-contained HTML output. Zero dependencies, MIT licensed.
io.github.wei-ai-lab/clinical-trial-design
Phase 2/3 clinical trial design via gsDesign / gsDesign2: sample size, GS boundaries, multiplicity
How to run each
grainulator As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install grainulator@claude-community
io.github.wei-ai-lab/clinical-trial-design As a local MCP server: npm package
claude mcp add --transport stdio clinical-trial-design -- npx -y clinical-trial-design
Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Only grainulator has a remote endpoint we check. How we check endpoints
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Only grainulator asks for
SILO_STORE
Only io.github.wei-ai-lab/clinical-trial-design asks for
DESIGNR_LAUNCHERDESIGNR_RSCRIPT
Settings as each marketplace publishes them. Asking for fewer is not better in itself.
What it can do: grainulator · What it can do: io.github.wei-ai-lab/clinical-trial-design · 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.