BLEA vs paper-preflight
BLEA is an MCP server published by Nitmi. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Official MCP Registry, Copilot CLI: github/awesome-copilot). paper-preflight is an MCP server published by amos689. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Official MCP Registry, Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-18. 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 |  BLEA |  paper-preflight |
|---|---|---|
| Official MCP Registry | Listed Version: 0.7.0 Downloads/month (PyPI): 423 Downloads/week (PyPI): 51 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 11 Not marked · First seen |
Listed Version: 1.0.0 Downloads/month (PyPI): 787 Downloads/week (PyPI): 958 Forks (GitHub): 9 Stars (GitHub): 75 Not marked · First seen |
| Copilot CLI: github/awesome-copilot | Listed Version: 0.6.1 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 11 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
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 | BLEA | paper-preflight |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 2 | 2 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 11 (worse) | 75 (better) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 0 (worse) | 9 (better) |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-10-15 |
| Where it runs (differs) | On your machine (blea) | On your machine (paper-preflight) |
| Transport | stdio | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle | 2 | 2 |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/nitmi/blea | github.com/amos689/paper-preflight |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 0 | 4 |
| 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
BLEA
Safe BLE diagnostics, evidence workflows, and guarded automation for AI agents.
paper-preflight
Checks every LaTeX reference against Crossref, dblp, arXiv, DataCite, PubMed and OpenAlex. No LLM.
How to run each
BLEA As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --transport stdio blea -- uvx blea mcppaper-preflight As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --transport stdio paper-preflight -- uvx --with "paper-preflight[mcp]==1.0.0" paper-preflight 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: BLEA · What it can do: paper-preflight · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/blob/HEAD/.github/plugin/marketplace.json. 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.