INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

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.

repoalerts.comnone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://repoalerts.com/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for get_repo and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

{}

Risk classification

Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

A tool name or description suggests retrieving external content.

Parent server

repoalerts.com

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

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

Claude Code

.mcp.json

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

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: repoalerts
Remote MCP URL: https://repoalerts.com/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

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

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

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

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "repoalerts",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://repoalerts.com/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Related tools

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").
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.
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.