shipwright-brain vs Total Agent Memory
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). Total Agent Memory is an MCP server published by vbcherepanov. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Official MCP Registry, Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-27. 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 |  Total Agent Memory |
|---|---|---|
| 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: 14.9.0 Downloads/month (PyPI): 1 668 Downloads/week (PyPI): 292 Forks (GitHub): 18 Stars (GitHub): 73 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 | Total Agent Memory |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 1 (worse) | 2 (better) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 0 (worse) | 73 (better) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 0 (worse) | 18 (better) |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-10-15 |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (total-agent-memory) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | 2, secrets among them: 0 | 2, secrets among them: 0 |
| Hooks it runs (differs) | 1 | 9 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 3 | 12 |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/shipwright-ai/shipwright-brain | github.com/vbcherepanov/total-agent-memory |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| 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.
Total Agent Memory
Persistent local memory for coding agents: temporal knowledge graph, procedural and episodic recall
How to run each
shipwright-brain As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install shipwright-brain@claude-communityTotal Agent Memory As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --transport stdio total-agent-memory -- uvx total-agent-memoryCommands 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
Only shipwright-brain asks for
CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATANODE_PATH
Only Total Agent Memory asks for
MEMORY_ASYNC_ENRICHMENTMEMORY_MODE
Settings as each marketplace publishes them. Asking for fewer is not better in itself.
What it can do: shipwright-brain · What it can do: Total Agent Memory · 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 public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.