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State of MCP & Codex Plugins: November 2026
Every month we count what changed in the PickAPlugin catalog of open-source Codex plugins, Claude Code plugins and MCP servers. All numbers below come from our own catalog and public GitHub data. Nothing is surveyed or estimated.
- 161 new plugins joined the catalog in November 2026 (month to date, through 2026-11-14), taking it from 380 to 550 listings.
- The busiest category for new plugins was Agent Workflows (26 new, 16%), then Docs, Content & SEO (25).
- The 370 repos we tracked since 2026-10-31 gained 8,252 GitHub stars combined (104,932 → 113,184). 147 of them gained at least one.
- Most stars gained: claude-seo (+4,322). Fastest growth among repos that started with 25+ stars: Nightshift (80 → 451, +464%).
- New plugins start small: the median new listing had 2 stars. 52 of 161 (32%) had no copyable install command in their README.
- The ecosystem is busy: 277 of 516 non-archived repos (54%) got a push in the 7 days to 2026-11-14, and 77% in the last 30.
New plugins by category
Notable launches
The most-starred plugins that joined the catalog this month.
| Plugin | Category | Stars | License | Added |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e2e Write, run, and debug end-to-end tests for web and mobile apps with agent skills and an MCP server. | Review & Testing | 13,867 | Apache-2.0 | 2026-11-11 |
| stack-diagram Agent skill that turns a one-sentence description of your stack into an architecture diagram with official logos. | Docs, Content & SEO | 2,495 | MIT | 2026-11-04 |
| Poki Open-source local MCP server and agent that lets AI assistants operate a real iPhone through the accessibility tree, with no jailbreak or extra hardware. | Messaging & Remote | 1,211 | AGPL-3.0 | 2026-11-05 |
| Kubai Icons Claude skill that draws dynamic icons in one consistent style, with hover motion or as static SVG. | Design & Frontend | 825 | none | 2026-11-03 |
| Muse4AI Local Windows bridge that hands your Muse session to ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex or n8n over REST, MCP or OAuth so agents can make pictures and videos. | Design & Frontend | 808 | MIT | 2026-11-04 |
| sandbox-mcp MCP server and CLI that automate Windows Sandbox, giving your coding agent fresh, throwaway Windows machines to test apps in. | Review & Testing | 428 | MIT | 2026-11-09 |
| auto-ontology-mcp NVIDIA Auto Ontology's semantic layer plus a personal knowledge base as an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients, no LLM API key needed. | Memory & Context | 405 | Apache-2.0 | 2026-11-09 |
| ztd charts Library of 33 animated, accessible React charts in pure SVG, with a CLI and MCP server so AI agents can emit chart JSON specs. | Design & Frontend | 319 | MIT | 2026-11-05 |
Fastest-growing by GitHub stars
Biggest percentage jumps (repos that started with 25+ stars)
| Plugin | Category | Stars | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nightshift | Other | 80 → 451 | +464% |
| SysKnife | Other | 117 → 258 | +120% |
| Research Agent Skills | Agent Workflows | 83 → 129 | +55% |
| /call-me | Messaging & Remote | 29 → 44 | +52% |
| Codex Auto Resume | Usage & Quotas | 66 → 93 | +41% |
| Generative Media Skills | Design & Frontend | 30 → 42 | +40% |
| Mobile Dev (Callstack) | Design & Frontend | 170 → 237 | +39% |
| UIZZE | Design & Frontend | 78 → 101 | +30% |
How new plugins install
Read from the install command in each README. A plugin with no copyable command takes more work to try.
Licenses on new plugins
MIT: 97, No license file: 42, Apache-2.0: 16, AGPL-3.0: 4, GPL-3.0: 1, MPL-2.0: 1. Across the whole catalog: MIT 394, No license file 86, Apache-2.0 57, AGPL-3.0 7, MPL-2.0 2, GPL-3.0 2.
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PickAPlugin, State of MCP & Codex Plugins, November 2026 (data through 2026-11-14). https://pickaplugin.com/reports/2026-11
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Methodology
- Catalog: PickAPlugin collects open-source Codex plugins, Claude Code plugins, skills packs and MCP servers daily from public lists (like awesome-codex-plugins) and maker submissions. It isn't every plugin in existence, just the ones we've found and listed.
- "New" means the listing's first-seen date in our catalog falls in November 2026. That's when we found it, not necessarily when the repo was created. The catalog count on 2026-10-31 (380) comes from our git history; 9 hand-added listings dated Oct 29 joined after that snapshot, which is why start + new doesn't add up exactly to 550.
- Stars come from the GitHub API at each daily refresh. Growth compares the catalog committed on 2026-10-31 (commit f318d92) with the latest refresh on 2026-11-14, for the 370 repos that have a star count in both. Stars measure attention, not quality.
- Activity uses each repo's last push date, for listings that aren't archived and have GitHub data.
- Install method is read from the first install command in the README (mcp add, /plugin, codex plugin, npx skills add).
- Regenerated by script (
scripts/make_report.py) from the catalog. This is a month-to-date edition; the final numbers land at the start of next month.
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