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Rising GitHub repos per topic, ranked by star velocity, plus repos spotted early. Free, read-only.
Remote server: your requests and data go to upstar.dev. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http upstar https://upstar.dev/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
emerging — Small GitHub repositories (under 1,000 stars a week ago, at least 30 days old) gaining stars at least twice as fast as in a usual week, by tget_collection — A collection's ranking (score = momentum and health with the collection's weights) and its rising newcomers under 90 days old: the same listget_repo — One GitHub repository as Upstar sees it, the same facts as its Upstar page: stars and gains, its usual week, its star total week by week ovelist_collections — Upstar's collections: open-source tools that do one job, or alternatives to one product, each ranked by momentum and health. Use a slug withlist_topics — Lists the topics Upstar ranks GitHub repositories in (emulation, self-hosted, Rust, MCP…): slug, name, category, description and how many research — Upstar's search, the same as the site's search bar: topics by whole words (a name, slug, GitHub tag, language or keyword equal to the query,spotted_early — Repositories whose stars at least doubled since Upstar first ranked them in a topic, at any rank: when, in which topic and at which rank it topic_ranking — Ranks a topic's GitHub repositories by star velocity (stars gained ÷ √stars before) over the last 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days, with the startrending — The fastest-rising GitHub repositories across every topic Upstar tracks, by star velocity or by stars gained, over 24 hours, 7 days or 30 daNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.