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HotRepo MCP

HotRepo MCP provides AI assistants with live access to GitHub trending boards, full project reviews, and history. It allows agents to query trending repositories, search by keywords or topics, retrieve detailed reviews with stats and Hacker News threads, and access monthly reports on open-source project performance.

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HotRepo MCP logo, by HotRepoVendor evidenceStreamable HTTPAPI keyEndpoint checked 2026-11-01Operated by HotRepo
You need:Sign in with GitHub or Google.Create an API key on your account page.Add HotRepo to your AI client.
MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)
https://hotrepo.ai/mcp
Vendor documentation

What you can do with it

  • Query daily, weekly, or monthly GitHub trending repositories
  • Retrieve full reviews and stats for specific repositories
  • Search reviewed projects by keywords or topics
  • Access monthly reports on biggest gainers and topic leaders

Source and maintenance

Vendor evidenceRegistry 1.0.0
mcp-registry: ai.hotrepo/hotrepo@1.0.0Project website

Protocol and capabilities

Server
HotRepo 1.1.0
MCP protocol
2025-06-18
Tools
7 advertised
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Server-advertised capabilities
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HotRepo (https://hotrepo.ai) tracks GitHub Trending (daily, weekly, monthly) plus its own board of fast-growing new repositories, and publishes an AI-written review for trending projects: what problem it solves, what is different, who should try it, requirements and limitations, and a verdict. Use these tools to discover notable open-source projects, check what is trending in a language, read HotRepo's review of a specific repository, or list the projects the user has favorited on hotrepo.ai. Board dates are UTC days. Reviews are based on each project's own docs and may miss nuance; link users to the HotRepo page (url) or the GitHub repository for details.

Tools

7 advertised

get_trending
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
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Get a HotRepo trending board: the repositories on GitHub Trending (or HotRepo's new-repository board) for one UTC day, ranked by stars gained in the period, each with HotRepo's one-line review when available. GitHub does not order strictly by stars gained, so GitHub's own position can differ from rank. On weekly, monthly and language boards each item has best_github_rank_that_day: the best position it reached on GitHub's page for this board across that day's scrapes. On the all-languages daily board and the new-repository board it has best_github_daily_rank instead: the best position it has ever reached on GitHub's all-languages daily Trending page up to this board's date. Both are null when unknown (no real positions before 2026-10-24).

get_trending input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "get_trendingArguments",
  "properties": {
    "date": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "title": "Date",
      "default": null,
      "description": "UTC day YYYY-MM-DD; omit for the latest board"
    },
    "lang": {
      "enum": [
        "en",
        "zh"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Lang",
      "default": "en",
      "description": "Language of reviews and topic names"
    },
    "period": {
      "enum": [
        "daily",
        "weekly",
        "monthly",
        "new"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Period",
      "default": "daily",
      "description": "daily/weekly/monthly = GitHub Trending for that window; new = HotRepo's board of repositories created in the last 14 days, ranked by average stars per day (every repository found by searches in the last 24 hours)"
    },
    "language": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Language",
      "default": "",
      "description": "Programming-language board slug such as 'python', 'typescript', 'rust'. Empty string = all languages"
    }
  }
}
get_trending output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "get_trendingDictOutput",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
get_trending annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false
}
get_repo
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Read HotRepo's full review of a repository (Markdown), with its stats, topic, daily trending history (the all-languages board; each day's best_github_rank_that_day is the best position it reached on GitHub's page that day, null before 2026-10-24) and Hacker News threads that link to it. Only repositories that have trended and been reviewed are available.

get_repo input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "get_repoArguments",
  "required": [
    "full_name"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "lang": {
      "enum": [
        "en",
        "zh"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Lang",
      "default": "en",
      "description": "Language of reviews and topic names"
    },
    "full_name": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Full Name",
      "description": "GitHub repository as owner/repo (a github.com URL also works)"
    }
  }
}
get_repo output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "get_repoDictOutput",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
get_repo annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false
}
search_repos
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
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Search repositories that HotRepo has reviewed, newest reviews first. Use get_repo for the full review.

search_repos input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "search_reposArguments",
  "properties": {
    "lang": {
      "enum": [
        "en",
        "zh"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Lang",
      "default": "en",
      "description": "Language of reviews and topic names"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "title": "Limit",
      "default": 20,
      "maximum": 50,
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Query",
      "default": "",
      "maxLength": 200,
      "description": "Keywords matched against repository name, HotRepo's one-line review and GitHub topics; every word must match. Empty = newest reviews"
    },
    "topic": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "title": "Topic",
      "default": null,
      "description": "Topic slug from list_topics to filter by"
    }
  }
}
search_repos output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "search_reposDictOutput",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
search_repos annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false
}
list_topics
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

List HotRepo's topics (each reviewed project belongs to exactly one, by what it helps people do) with the number of reviewed projects in each.

list_topics input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "list_topicsArguments",
  "properties": {
    "lang": {
      "enum": [
        "en",
        "zh"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Lang",
      "default": "en",
      "description": "Language of reviews and topic names"
    }
  }
}
list_topics output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "list_topicsDictOutput",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
list_topics annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false
}
get_topic
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

List reviewed repositories in one topic, most recently trending first.

get_topic input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "get_topicArguments",
  "required": [
    "slug"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "lang": {
      "enum": [
        "en",
        "zh"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Lang",
      "default": "en",
      "description": "Language of reviews and topic names"
    },
    "slug": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Slug",
      "maxLength": 40,
      "description": "Topic slug from list_topics"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "title": "Limit",
      "default": 30,
      "maximum": 100,
      "minimum": 1
    }
  }
}
get_topic output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "get_topicDictOutput",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
get_topic annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false
}
get_monthly_report
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Get a HotRepo monthly report: the repositories that gained the most stars on the daily trending board during a month, the most notable new repositories, and leaders per topic, with an editorial introduction.

get_monthly_report input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "get_monthly_reportArguments",
  "properties": {
    "lang": {
      "enum": [
        "en",
        "zh"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Lang",
      "default": "en",
      "description": "Language of reviews and topic names"
    },
    "month": {
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "null"
        }
      ],
      "title": "Month",
      "default": null,
      "description": "YYYY-MM (a finished UTC month); omit for the latest report"
    }
  }
}
get_monthly_report output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "get_monthly_reportDictOutput",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
get_monthly_report annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false
}
list_favorites
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Advertised read-only

List the repositories the API key's owner has favorited on hotrepo.ai, most recently favorited first, with HotRepo's one-line review when one is published. Use get_repo for the full review. Favorites are added on the website's project pages, not through this server.

list_favorites input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "list_favoritesArguments",
  "properties": {
    "lang": {
      "enum": [
        "en",
        "zh"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Lang",
      "default": "en",
      "description": "Language of reviews and topic names"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "title": "Limit",
      "default": 50,
      "maximum": 200,
      "minimum": 1
    }
  }
}
list_favorites output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "list_favoritesDictOutput",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
list_favorites annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false
}

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30-day availability

Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.

Successful checks
1 of 1 (100%)
Average latency
1994 ms
95th percentile latency
1994 ms

Maintenance history

Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.
Claude Code configuration
claude mcp add --transport http hotrepo-mcp https://hotrepo.ai/mcp

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).
Codex configuration
codex mcp add hotrepo-mcp --url https://hotrepo.ai/mcp

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable hotrepo-mcp in your MCP settings.
Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hotrepo-mcp": {
      "url": "https://hotrepo.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).
Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hotrepo-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://hotrepo.ai/mcp",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start hotrepo-mcp and inspect its tools.
VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "hotrepo-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://hotrepo.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.
Gemini CLI configuration
gemini mcp add --transport http hotrepo-mcp https://hotrepo.ai/mcp

Claude Desktop

Merge this into claude_desktop_config.json (macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\), then restart Claude Desktop.
Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hotrepo-mcp": {
      "url": "https://hotrepo.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.
Windsurf configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hotrepo-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://hotrepo.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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