RepoAlerts

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

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to repoalerts.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http repoalerts https://repoalerts.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

What it can do

The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.

• search_repos — Find real, actively growing open-source GitHub repositories for a need described in plain words ("a calendar MCP server", "free Photoshop al
• 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. Option
• 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
• find_alternatives — Open-source alternatives to an app, product or service ("Photoshop", "Notion", "Heroku", "Postman"), from the GitHub repos RepoAlerts tracks

KitScout test notes

Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.

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