patristic vs Bible Study
patristic is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by logospatrum. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). Bible Study is an MCP server published by mctx-ai. 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 |  patristic | |
|---|---|---|
| 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: 1.11.3 No figure published 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 | Bible Study |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 0 | No figure on GitHub |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 0 | No figure on GitHub |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Remote server (logospatrum.com/api/mcp) | Remote server (bible-study.mctx.ai/v1.11.3) |
| Transport (differs) | Streamable HTTP | SSE |
| 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/mctx-ai/bible-study |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-11 |
| Endpoint at the last check (differs) | Responded 3 days ago | Not responding since 2026-10-15 |
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.
Bible Study
Study the Bible in its original languages, trace themes across both testaments, and compare five tra
How to run each
patristic As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install patristic@claude-communityBible Study As a remote MCP server
claude mcp add --transport sse bible-study https://bible-study.mctx.ai/v1.11.3Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Only the endpoint of patristic responded at the last daily 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: Bible Study · Compare two other plugins
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