GitHub Hot Board MCP Server

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GitHub Hot Board is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 31 Oct 2026.

GitHub hot-repo leaderboards: snapshots, movers, rank history. Read-only JSON, hourly batches.

Uptime history 15 days of history · worst day 0%

15 days agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

1635 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 31 Oct 2026

What changed 3

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 25 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

25 Oct 3 tool descriptions were rewritten get_board, get_board_movers, get_repo_history

GitHub Hot Board does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 59.3% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add github-hot-board --transport http https://git.vaiox.xyz/api/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://git.vaiox.xyz/api/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.github-hot-board]
url = "https://git.vaiox.xyz/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github-hot-board": {
      "url": "https://git.vaiox.xyz/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "github-hot-board": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://git.vaiox.xyz/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

board

get_board

Top-N rows of one leaderboard (rank, stars, forks, issues, language, description). Refreshes every ~6 hours; generatedAt is the batch stamp (fetch once per sync cycle).

get_board_movers

Repositories that genuinely moved rank on a board within the last 24 hours, from our own snapshot series (the same data as the on-site movers strip). Positive climb = went up.

repo

get_repo

Library record for one repository: stars, forks, description in up to 16 UI languages (keys are locale codes), current overall-board rank if listed, pushedAt, and asOf freshness stamps. Served from our own dataset (no live GitHub API call); repos outside the library return not-in-library.

get_repo_history

Time series of one repository on one board (default overall): rank + star points at our sync cadence (~6h) from our own snapshot series — denser than the daily archives others publish. Empty result means the repo was not tracked in the window.

boards

list_boards

The 10 leaderboards on GitHub Hot Board: what each ranks, its canonical page URL and its JSON API endpoint.

library

search_library

Search repositories tracked by this site, by owner/name (exact wins) or by keyword over descriptions (16 languages). Library-only: repos never listed on a board are not here. No live GitHub calls.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://git.vaiox.xyz/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	1635 ms	3 min ago

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GitHub Hot Board — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can GitHub Hot Board do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_board, get_board_movers, get_repo, get_repo_history, list_boards, search_library. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

What is GitHub Hot Board mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around board and repo. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is GitHub Hot Board working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 92 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 1635 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists GitHub Hot Board as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect GitHub Hot Board?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does GitHub Hot Board need an API key?

No. GitHub Hot Board completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

Is GitHub Hot Board open source?

We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript, 3 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.