Flowy vs Cross AI Tools
Flowy and Cross AI Tools, now at claudemarketplaces.com, are both directories of the Claude Code ecosystem. Cross AI Tools ranks skills, MCP servers and marketplaces by real installs. Flowy’s Auto-invoked listings add a hook that runs on every prompt and puts a FLOW.md routing table in front of the model, so the skills you install get used.
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At a glance
Read 2026-10-26
Read by us from the rival’s own pages (sources below). We build one of the two, so read the rows as our reading and check them yourself.
| Flowy | Cross AI Tools | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A crawler-fed index of the Claude Code plugin ecosystem, with an auto-invocation overlay | A directory of skills, MCP servers and plugin marketplaces, with an editor |
| How it ranks | By signal. Paid rows lead the list and are labelled | By real installs, stars and registry signals (its About page) |
| After install | On Auto-invoked listings a hook runs on every prompt (the UserPromptSubmit event) and puts the FLOW.md routing table in front of the model | No hook that fires a skill is mentioned on its home page or its About page |
| Money | Free to read and install. Placement is paid, labelled, and never changes a listing’s merit | Sponsor cards marked Sponsored. Its About page says a small set of sponsors funds the editor |
Flowy indexes 4,258 Claude Code plugins. 80,172 components ship inside them: 56,497 skills, 11,428 agents, 11,195 commands and 1,052 MCP servers. 99 of those plugins fire themselves.Counted
Where Flowy is different
A skill with a million installs still sits unused until the model chooses it. Claude reads each installed skill’s description and decides per prompt, and that choice can fade over a long session. Flowy’s Auto-invoked listings ship a FLOW.md router and a hook that re-asserts it on every prompt, so the table is in front of the model each time. The plain upstream install stays one click away on the same listing.
Who each is for
Flowy
You want installed skills to be routed on every prompt, with the creator credited, for free.
Cross AI Tools
You want skills, MCP servers and marketplaces ranked by real installs.
Try the one that fires
Free and open source. Install the engine once, add any Flow.
Install the Flowy plugin
> /plugin marketplace add flowy-sh/flowy-core> /plugin install flowy-core> /plugin install flowy-superpowers> /flowy-superpowers:activate
FAQ
What is the difference between Flowy and Cross AI Tools?
Cross AI Tools, now claudemarketplaces.com, ranks skills, MCP servers and marketplaces by real installs. Flowy’s Auto-invoked listings add a hook that runs on every prompt and a FLOW.md router, so a routing table is in front of the model each time and the skills you install get used.
Is Flowy a Cross AI Tools alternative?
For one need, yes: if you want installed skills to be routed on every prompt, Flowy is the alternative.
Did Cross AI Tools change its name?
crossaitools.com now redirects (HTTP 301) to claudemarketplaces.com, where the site calls itself Claude Marketplaces. We keep the name Cross AI Tools here because that is what people search.
Is Flowy affiliated with Anthropic?
No. Neither Flowy nor Cross AI Tools is affiliated with Anthropic.
Keep reading
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- Plugin alternatives
Sources read 2026-10-26: Cross AI Tools home page, Cross AI Tools About page. Prefer plain text? Read this page as Markdown.