railguard vs com.gitkraken/gk-cli
railguard is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by railyard-dev. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). com.gitkraken/gk-cli is an MCP server published by gitkraken.com. Marketplaces we read that list it: 3 (Official MCP Registry, Claude Code: claude-plugins-official, Claude: knowledge-work-plugins). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-14. 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 |  railguard |  com.gitkraken/gk-cli |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Listed Version: 0.5.1 Forks (GitHub): 5 Stars (GitHub): 39 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 3.1.77 Downloads/month (npm): 111 154 Downloads/week (npm): 25 086 Forks (GitHub): 371 Stars (GitHub): 461 Not marked · First seen |
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-official | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 0 Not marked · First seen |
| Claude: knowledge-work-plugins | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 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 | railguard | com.gitkraken/gk-cli |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 1 (worse) | 3 (better) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 39 (worse) | 461 (better) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 5 (worse) | 371 (better) |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-10-14 |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (@gitkraken/gk) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Hooks it runs (differs) | 3 | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 3 | 1 |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/railyard-dev/railguard | github.com/gitkraken/gk-cli |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 0 | 1 |
| 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
railguard
Railguard is a safer, context-aware alternative to --dangerously-skip-permissions for Claude Code. Instead of choosing between approving every command manually or giving Claude unrestricted access, Railguard sits in the middle. It intercepts every tool call — Bash, Write, Edit, Read — and makes policy-based decisions: allow safe commands instantly, block dangerous ones automatically, and ask for human approval when it's not sure. Out of the box, Railguard comes with 29 default rules covering destructive operations like terraform destroy, rm -rf, DROP TABLE, and git force-push. It detects evasion attempts (base64 encoding, chr construction, variable substitution, shell wrapping), restricts file access with path fencing (blocking ~/.ssh, ~/.aws, /etc), snapshots every file write for one-click rollback, and logs every decision to a structured audit trail. Everything is customizable through a simple railguard.yaml file in your project directory.
com.gitkraken/gk-cli
The GitKraken MCP Server for managing repos, PRs, issues across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and more.
How to run each
railguard As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install railguard@claude-communitycom.gitkraken/gk-cli As a local MCP server: npm package
claude mcp add --transport stdio gk-cli -- npx -y @gitkraken/gk mcpCommands 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: railguard · What it can do: com.gitkraken/gk-cli · 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. 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/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.