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

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Healthy
Uptime
100.0% over the last 24 hours
Last Tested
Transport
Streamable HTTP · MCP 2025-11-25
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ChatGPT
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A4/5.0

Scored across 4 tools

Disambiguation3/5

get_repo and trending_repos have clearly distinct purposes, but find_alternatives and search_repos overlap heavily—both find repos for a described need, and the descriptions even share the same 'free Photoshop alternative for Mac' example. The distinction (curated 'X replaces Y' versus general semantic search) is real but subtle enough that an agent could easily pick the wrong one.

Naming Consistency4/5

Three of four names follow a clean verb_noun pattern (find_alternatives, get_repo, search_repos), while trending_repos is noun-only and omits the verb. This is a minor deviation that leaves the set readable and predictable overall.

Tool Count5/5

Four tools is well-scoped for a repo discovery and alert service, with each tool earning its place: search, single-repo lookup, alternatives, and trending. Nothing feels redundant or padded.

Completeness4/5

The surface covers need-based search, time-based trending, single-repo detail, and alternatives, which is solid lifecycle coverage for discovery. Minor gaps remain—no explicit browse/list-by-topic or repo-to-repo comparison—but agents can work around these via search_repos and get_repo.

Available Tools

4 tools
find_alternativesFind open-source alternativesA
Read-onlyIdempotent
Inspect

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.

Inputs: to (required), kind, limit, topic, +2 more. Returns: notes, repos, total, attribution

get_repoGet a repo's RepoAlerts pageA
Read-onlyIdempotent
Inspect

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).

Inputs: repo (required), locale. Returns: repo, found, attribution

search_reposSearch GitHub reposA
Read-onlyIdempotent
Inspect

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.

Inputs: query (required), kind, limit, topic, +4 more. Returns: notes, repos, total, attribution

trending_reposTrending GitHub reposA
Read-onlyIdempotent
Inspect

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.

Inputs: kind, limit, topic, locale, +1 more. Returns: notes, repos, total, period, +2 more

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