patristic vs Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine
patristic is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by logospatrum. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine is an MCP server published by Alfanous-team. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-23. 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 |  patristic |  Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Listed Version: 0.1.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 0 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.9.4 Downloads/month (PyPI): 801 Downloads/week (PyPI): 133 Forks (GitHub): 90 Stars (GitHub): 286 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 | patristic | Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 0 (worse) | 286 (better) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 0 (worse) | 90 (better) |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Remote server (logospatrum.com/api/mcp) | On your machine (alfanous3-mcp) |
| Transport (differs) | Streamable HTTP | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 3 | Not a bundle |
| Licence | Not stated | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/logospatrum/patristic-plugin | github.com/alfanous-team/alfanous |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-11 |
| Endpoint at the last check (differs) | Responded 5 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
patristic
Search and cite the Russian Orthodox patristic corpus (azbyka.ru) from any MCP-capable agent. Indexes ~2,100 works by 86 Church Fathers and ascetic writers (726K paragraphs, 1.98M bge-m3 embedding windows) in a Postgres + pgvector backend. Ships: - HTTP MCP server with 6 tools: read_passage, lexical_search, semantic_search, list_authors, list_works, expand_concept (Church-Slavonic / archaic synonym expansion). - "teo-search" subagent — restricted to search tools, returns candidate citations with snippets so the main agent can't quote without verifying. - "theology-router" skill — auto-activates on patristic/theological questions and enforces the search-then-read pattern. All passages return verbatim with canonical slugs of the form author/work/chapter/paragraph, linked back to azbyka.ru. Self-hostable — swap the MCP URL to your own backend.
Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine
Search and explore the Holy Qur'an with Arabic text, transliteration, and advanced search support.
How to run each
patristic As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install patristic@claude-communityAlfanous - Quranic Search Engine As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --transport stdio alfanous -- uvx -m alfanous_mcp.mcp_server alfanous3-mcpCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Only patristic 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
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: patristic · What it can do: Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine · Compare two other plugins
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