HN Hiring Trends
PYPI · HN-HIRING-TRENDS-MCP
Skill demand trends, salaries and job search from Hacker News Who is hiring threads. No API keys.
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Last scanned (1 day ago)
Scores higher than 89% of PyPI servers
Category CRM and Sales
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security100
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- Runs hatchling.build at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it. View diagnostics → Pass
- 1 of 31 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency45
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 33 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability85
- 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).Pass
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 519 tokens (~103/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management100
- No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.Pass
Tool Coverage90
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 65% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
- Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 6 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 31 Oct 26 +1
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 30 Oct 26 +15
- Malware scan: unverified → pass ▲ security
- 29 Oct 26 −14
- Malware scan: pass → unverified ▼ security
- 28 Oct 26 +15
- Malware scan: unverified → pass ▲ security
- 27 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 25 Oct 26 −14
- Malware scan: pass → unverified ▼ security
- 24 Oct 26 +15
- Malware scan: unverified → pass ▲ security
- 23 Oct 26 −14
- Malware scan: pass → unverified ▼ security
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 4 Nov 2026 · Analysed pypi/hn-hiring-trends-mcp@0.1.0
Provenance No attestation
The registry publishes no build provenance for this version, so there is nothing to verify.
| Result | No attestation |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | pypi |
| Reason | No attestation published |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Install scripts 1 script
| Hook | Tier | Command |
|---|---|---|
| build_backend | allowlisted | hatchling.build |
Background: Why install scripts are a supply-chain risk →
Dependencies 31 packages
| Packages resolved | 31 |
|---|---|
| No linked repository | 1 |
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
hiring_snapshot ~81
One month at a glance: number of job posts, remote/hybrid/onsite and visa shares, the most requested skills, and salary ranges where posts state them.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| month | string | – | 'YYYY-MM' or 'latest'. |
| response_format | string | – | 'markdown' (default) or 'json'. |
| top | integer | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
hiring_threads ~58
List the monthly 'Who is hiring?' threads available, with comment counts and links.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| months | integer | – | How many monthly threads to read, newest first. |
| response_format | string | – | 'markdown' (default) or 'json'. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
rising_skills ~70
Which skills gained or lost demand: compares the share of posts mentioning ~70 known skills in the recent half of the period with the earlier half.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| months | integer | – | – |
| response_format | string | – | 'markdown' (default) or 'json'. |
| top | integer | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
search_jobs ~117
Find job posts that mention all the given terms, optionally remote-only or visa-sponsoring. Returns company, the post's header line, salary if stated, and a link.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | – |
| months | integer | – | Search the newest N monthly threads. |
| remote_only | boolean | – | – |
| response_format | string | – | 'markdown' (default) or 'json'. |
| terms | array | yes | All must appear, e.g. ['Rust', 'embedded']. |
| visa_only | boolean | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
skill_demand ~101
Month-by-month share of job posts that mention each skill, with the change from the oldest to the newest month read.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| months | integer | – | How many monthly threads to read, newest first. |
| response_format | string | – | 'markdown' (default) or 'json'. |
| skills | array | yes | Skills or phrases, e.g. ['Rust', 'Go', 'LLM']. Any word works; known skills use tuned matching. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
How do I install the HN Hiring Trends MCP server?
HN Hiring Trends runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx hn-hiring-trends-mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
pypi · hn-hiring-trends-mcp
claude mcp add alialtunar-hn-hiring-trends-mcp -- uvx hn-hiring-trends-mcp
What is the HN Hiring Trends MCP server?
HN Hiring Trends is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.alialtunar/hn-hiring-trends-mcp. Skill demand trends, salaries and job search from Hacker News Who is hiring threads. No API keys. This page covers its PyPI package (hn-hiring-trends-mcp).
Is the HN Hiring Trends MCP server safe to use?
HN Hiring Trends scores 86 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 4 November 2026. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the HN Hiring Trends MCP server expose?
HN Hiring Trends exposes 5 tools: hiring_threads, hiring_snapshot, skill_demand, rising_skills, search_jobs. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 427 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the HN Hiring Trends MCP server still maintained?
HN Hiring Trends is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.
What licence is the HN Hiring Trends MCP server under?
HN Hiring Trends declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.