Hotin MCP server

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hotin — the whole field, ranked. With receipts.

hotin.ai

One command, one ranked list of what's actually hot in AI today: trending repos, models, papers and news, ranked daily by cross-source consensus. Numbers are receipts, badges are verdicts. Want the same thing in a browser? The live hotin board is what's trending in AI today, updated daily.

Every row shows why it is there: how fast it is growing, who backed it, where else it surfaced. Nothing ranks on a single source's say-so.

It works two ways, from one install.

Your model's training data has a cutoff and a web search returns marketing. Ask an agent what is worth using in AI this week and it guesses. Point it at hotin and it answers with the same ranked evidence you would have read yourself.

What it does

The zero-key core combines GitHub Trending, curated growth momentum, Hacker News, and npm velocity with no configuration. Add an optional key to unlock Reddit and YouTube (ScrapeCreators, or the official YouTube Data API v3), including curated repo-roundup channels. A “smart money” signal (repos the AI Insiders are backing) is included on a best-effort basis, and an AI-newsletter feed adds an editorial signal. Sources can be temporarily unavailable without taking down the CLI.

Beyond repos, hotin surfaces trending AI models (hotin models) and papers (hotin papers) as their own views, and a short daily hotin brief of what's happening across all of them. Run hotin refresh on a schedule and hotin records a time series, so the board can flag what's genuinely rising and viral (velocity, not just a snapshot) — not just what's big right now.

Install

pip install hotin

hotin has zero dependencies, so a plain pip install is safe (nothing to conflict with). Prefer an isolated install, or don't want to install at all?

uvx hotin              # run without installing (needs uv)
uv tool install hotin  # persistent command via uv
pipx install hotin     # persistent command via pipx
npx hotinai            # from the npm ecosystem (launcher; runs uvx/pipx under the hood)

No package manager, just Python? Grab the single-file hotin.pyz from the latest release and run it:

python hotin.pyz

Developing on a checkout: pip install -e ..

Use it from your AI agent (MCP)

The same board, callable by Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, or anything else that speaks MCP. Pick whichever line is least work for you.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.