shipwright-brain vs brain-mcp
shipwright-brain is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by shipwright-ai. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). brain-mcp is an MCP server published by debashishthakur. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-20. 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 |  shipwright-brain |  brain-mcp |
|---|---|---|
| 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: 0.5.2 Downloads/month (npm): 1 211 Downloads/week (npm): 568 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 1 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 | shipwright-brain | brain-mcp |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 0 (worse) | 1 (better) |
| Forks (GitHub) | 0 | 0 |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-10-18 |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (debawho-brain-mcp) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | 2, secrets among them: 0 | Not published |
| Hooks it runs (differs) | 1 | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 3 | Not a bundle |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/shipwright-ai/shipwright-brain | github.com/debashishthakur/brain-mcp |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 0 | 3 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-12 | 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
shipwright-brain
Persistent memory for Claude Code. Markdown files, no database. Brain remembers ideas, decisions, features, and progress across sessions so Claude doesn't start from zero every time.
brain-mcp
Your Obsidian vault as private, searchable memory for Claude, Cursor, Hermes and any MCP client
How to run each
shipwright-brain As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install shipwright-brain@claude-communitybrain-mcp As a local MCP server: npm package
claude mcp add --transport stdio brain-mcp -- npx -y debawho-brain-mcp --stdioCommands 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
The marketplaces of brain-mcp publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: shipwright-brain · What it can do: brain-mcp · 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.