Tech Radar

Tech Radar — Claude Code plugin & marketplace

AI-powered technology scout for Claude Code: monitors news and research across the web for topics you configure, scores and stores them with semantic search, and renders an interactive HTML dashboard.

This repository is both a Claude Code marketplace (.claude-plugin/marketplace.json) and the plugin it ships (plugin/).

Install

/plugin marketplace add sergesha/claude-tech-radar
/plugin install tech-radar@tech-radar

Or auto-enable per project in .claude/settings.json:

{
  "enabledPlugins": { "tech-radar@tech-radar": true },
  "extraKnownMarketplaces": {
    "tech-radar": { "source": { "source": "github", "repo": "sergesha/claude-tech-radar" }, "autoUpdate": true }
  }
}

Prerequisites

• Docker — the plugin ships its own stack (plugin/docker-compose.yaml: SearXNG + Dragonfly cache) and starts it on session start via a hook (using ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}), so it is self-contained.
• python3 (standard library only — used by the render/export/show scripts).
• The redis-memory-mcp server (semantic memory) self-installs on first use.

Commands

• /tech-radar:configure-topic — create or edit a topic to monitor
• /tech-radar:collect-news — collect fresh news → canonical reports/radar-<ts>.json
• /tech-radar:render-dashboard — build the interactive HTML dashboard (Alpine + Tailwind)
• /tech-radar:show-result — show a stored run as JSON / YAML / HTML (latest or closest to a date)

Topics

The plugin ships an example topic at plugin/examples/local-llm.yaml. Your own topics live in your project's topics/*.yaml (not in this repo). Each topic defines its description, keywords, queries, languages, optional preferred sources, research_keywords (adjacent theory), and optional positioning (for competitive stance classification).

Versioning

Releases are automated with release-please: Conventional Commits on main drive the version bump + CHANGELOG, and merging the release PR tags vX.Y.Z and updates both plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json and .claude-plugin/marketplace.json.