# `dev.upstar/upstar` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/dev.upstar/upstar
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/dev.upstar/upstar
- Version: 1.0.1 (active)
- Publisher: dev.upstar (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-11-03T20:17:38.210Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Upstar
Rising GitHub repos per topic, ranked by star velocity, plus repos spotted early. Free, read-only.
```

Scanned 2026-11-03T19:18:22.218Z over streamable-http.

**9 tools: 4 change things and 5 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 4 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 5 | allow |

## Exfil surface

No private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound path in this server alone: no tool is tagged untrusted-input or outbound.

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | `mcp__upstar__get_repo` `mcp__upstar__list_topics` `mcp__upstar__search` |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | none |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | none |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (4)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `emerging`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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 that ratio; optionally in one topic.
```

### `spotted_early`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Repositories Upstar ranked before they took off: when and in which topic it first ranked them, their stars then and now. Most grown first.
```

### `topic_ranking`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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 stars each gained. Ranks are the topic's own: when one is skipped, left_out says how many repositories Upstar does not show there and why. Page with offset (next_offset).
```

### `trending`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The fastest-rising GitHub repositories across every topic Upstar tracks, by star velocity or by stars gained, over 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days; new_only keeps repositories created in the last 7 days.
```

## Only reads (5)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `get_collection`

- The name "get_collection" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
A collection's ranking (score = momentum and health with the collection's weights) and its rising newcomers under 90 days old.
```

### `get_repo`

- The name "get_repo" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The name "get_repo" says "get" and "repo": it reads repositories. The description's first sentence says "repository": it reads repositories. The input names a repo (input.repo), and the tool reads: it reads repositories.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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 over 12 weeks, its topics and ranks, when Upstar spotted it, its latest release, license, activity and collections. Answers for every repository with an Upstar page, blocked or kept-out ones apart.
```

### `list_collections`

- The name "list_collections" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Upstar's collections: open-source tools that do one job, or alternatives to one product, each ranked by momentum and health. Use a slug with get_collection.
```

### `list_topics`

- The name "list_topics" says "list": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "list" and "repository": it reads repositories.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Lists the topics Upstar ranks GitHub repositories in (emulation, self-hosted, Rust, MCP…): slug, name, category, description and how many repositories rank in each this week. Use a slug with topic_ranking or emerging.
```

### `search`

- The name "search" says "search": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "repository": it reads repositories.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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, then every word of it in the topic's name, category or description) and every repository with an Upstar page (by name, description, GitHub topics and language; blocked or kept-out ones apart); plain matching, no AI. Repositories: exact name first, then the most stars gained this week.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `upstar`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__upstar__get_collection",
      "mcp__upstar__get_repo",
      "mcp__upstar__list_collections",
      "mcp__upstar__list_topics",
      "mcp__upstar__search"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__upstar__emerging",
      "mcp__upstar__spotted_early",
      "mcp__upstar__topic_ranking",
      "mcp__upstar__trending"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

Capability tags behind the rules (a read tagged outbound is asked about):

- `mcp__upstar__get_repo`: private-data
- `mcp__upstar__list_topics`: private-data
- `mcp__upstar__search`: private-data