NVIDIA Skills vs Perceptdot Core
NVIDIA Skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by NVIDIA. Marketplaces we read that list it: 3 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-official, Claude Code: claude-plugins-community, Community GitHub marketplaces). Perceptdot Core is an MCP server published by perceptdot. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-15. 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 |  NVIDIA Skills | |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-official | Listed Version: 1.4.0 Forks (GitHub): 441 Stars (GitHub): 3 600 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Listed Version: 1.4.0 Forks (GitHub): 441 Stars (GitHub): 3 600 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.1.0 Downloads/month (npm): 131 Downloads/week (npm): 35 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 | NVIDIA Skills | Perceptdot Core |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 3 (better) | 1 (worse) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 3 600 | No figure on GitHub |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 441 | No figure on GitHub |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (@perceptdot/core) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 1 | Not a bundle |
| Licence (differs) | Apache-2.0 AND CC-BY-4.0 | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/nvidia/skills | Not stated |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 2 | 0 |
| First seen | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-11 |
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
NVIDIA Skills
Find the right NVIDIA skill for GPU acceleration, CUDA, AI agents, data loading, training, inference, robotics, Physical AI, Omniverse, simulation, and other NVIDIA-powered workflows.
Perceptdot Core
B2A2H MCP server — AI agent app store. Auto-discover and recommend MCP servers for any project.
How to run each
NVIDIA Skills As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin install nvidia-skills@claude-plugins-officialPerceptdot Core As a local MCP server: npm package
claude mcp add --transport stdio core -- npx -y @perceptdot/coreCommands 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
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: NVIDIA Skills · What it can do: Perceptdot Core · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. 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.