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Sota Anchor
Sota Anchor: Sota-anchor is an MCP server and Claude Code plugin that finds recent papers, repositories, and packages before coding agents rebuild existing work.
Sota-anchor is an MCP server and plugin that helps coding agents check the last year of published papers, repositories, and packages before assuming a tool or library does not exist. It prevents agents from writing redundant code or failing tasks by searching arXiv, Hugging Face, GitHub, npm, crates.io, and the web for recent updates released after the model's training. The system inverts assumptions, searches with a 60-second budget, and weighs dated evidence to reuse existing solutions or confirm genuine gaps. It is designed for developers using AI coding assistants who need up-to-date dependency checks and active model identifiers. Supported integrations include Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code with GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI.
Sota Anchor at a glance
- Best for: Software engineer
- Runs on: Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, API, CLI
- Pricing: Free
- Released: October 2026
- Category: AI coding tool
- Website: github.com/luckmanqasim/sota-anchor
Key features
- Checks recent papers, repositories, and packages
- Runs automatically in Claude Code sessions
- Provides the check-what-exists skill
- Includes a /sota-check command for on-demand use
- Syncs current model IDs into project instruction files
- Searches arXiv, Hugging Face, GitHub, npm, and crates.io
- Cites dated sources for every claim
Use it for
- Checking for newly published libraries before writing custom parsers
- Finding independent file format readers instead of reverse-engineering
- Locating benchmarked multimodal models for specific engineering drawings
- Retrieving currently served model API IDs for project configurations
Companions
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