RepoAlerts MCP Server

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not responding

RepoAlerts is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 4 tools.

Rising GitHub repos with fake stars filtered out: search, trending, repo pages, alternatives.

Uptime history 19 days of history · worst day 0%

19 days agonow

1.1%

Uptime 24h

1 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

1008 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

RepoAlerts does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.8% 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 0 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add radar --transport http https://repoalerts.com/mcp

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

https://repoalerts.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.radar]
url = "https://repoalerts.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "radar": {
      "url": "https://repoalerts.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "radar": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://repoalerts.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

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

alternatives

find_alternatives

Open-source alternatives to an app, product or service ("Photoshop", "Notion", "Heroku", "Postman"), from the GitHub repos RepoAlerts tracks, with real star counts and growth. Optionally for a platform or constraint ("Mac", "self-hosted"). Repos whose own page lists that app as something they replace come first.

repo

get_repo

Everything RepoAlerts knows about one GitHub repository (owner/name or URL): what it is and who it's for, stars and recent growth, a summary of its star curve, licence, last push, the apps it can replace, Hacker News stories and similar repos. Use it to check a repo before recommending or installing it. If the repo isn't in the directory, it says so (it may be unknown or excluded for fake stars).

repos

search_repos

Find real, actively growing open-source GitHub repositories for a need described in plain words ("a calendar MCP server", "free Photoshop alternative for Mac", "self-hosted analytics"). Semantic search over the RepoAlerts directory, which leaves out repos with fake (bought or farmed) stars. Use it instead of recalling package or repo names from memory, whenever the user asks for a tool, library, app, framework or MCP server. Returns for each repo: what it is, who it's for, stars and stars gained in 24 hours and 7 days, licence, last push, its RepoAlerts page and GitHub URL.

trending

trending_repos

What's rising on GitHub right now: the repos that gained the most stars today, this week or this month, with star farms filtered out. Optionally only one topic (agents, models, infra, creative, desktop, web) or one kind (app, mcp_server, library…). Use it when the user asks what's new, hot, trending or taking off in open source.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://repoalerts.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	87 ms	0 min ago

Alternatives to RepoAlerts

same job, measured the same way

SrcLog

by srclog

Search GitHub repos, find alternatives, browse topics and rank top developers and orgs. No auth.

7 tools answering

RepoTrending

by sinhgiang

Read-only GitHub trending data: top repos by stars gained today, this week or this month.

5 tools answering

dep-rank

by j7an

Rank a GitHub repo's dependents by stars or trust heuristic, and search their code

1 001 installs/wk local only

Github MCP Connector

by ferhatdundar

MCP server for GitHub: repos, files, issues, PRs, search. Single Go binary.

local only

MCP Github

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GitHub for AI agents — repos, files, code search, issues, PRs, commits. Read-only default.

47 installs/wk local only

GitHub

by abhishekkumar2021

GitHub via MCP: search, repos, issues, PRs, files, notifications. OAuth device flow or token.

70 installs/wk local only

Fossick

by lipdog

Search all of GitHub from your AI agent — find libraries, drill into repos, find code patterns.

134 installs/wk local only

MCP Github Enterprise

by dockndevai

Govern GitHub Enterprise orgs, repos, rulesets, security alerts & Actions for AI agents.

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RepoAlerts — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can RepoAlerts do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_alternatives, get_repo, search_repos, trending_repos. 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 →

Is RepoAlerts working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 1 of 92 checks got a reply (1.1%), average response time 1008 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists RepoAlerts 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 RepoAlerts?

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 RepoAlerts need an API key?

No. RepoAlerts completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is RepoAlerts?

It answers our handshake in 1008 ms on average, which is faster than 4% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.