# Trending Now (remote · trending.openkrill.app)

The posts rising fastest right now on Hacker News, GitHub, Product Hunt and more, for any topic.

- Trust score: 75/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-17

## Components

- remote · `trending.openkrill.app`: 75/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-openkrill-trending/trending.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-openkrill-trending/trending)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-17.

- **Endpoint Security**: 83/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC is configured correctly; the domain's records validate against the full chain to the root.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 74/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1094 tokens (~273/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Tools include usage examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 3/100
  - Stability observed for 1 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - All 1 tool(s) whose name or description implies an irreversible operation declare an MCP destructiveHint annotation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Trending Now MCP server?

Trending Now is a hosted endpoint at https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http app-openkrill-trending 'https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "app-openkrill-trending": {
      "url": "https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "app-openkrill-trending": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.app-openkrill-trending]
url = "https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "app-openkrill-trending": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add app-openkrill-trending --url 'https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  app-openkrill-trending:
    url: "https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "app-openkrill-trending": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add app-openkrill-trending -t streamable-http -u 'https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "app-openkrill-trending": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-17 (score 75, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-16 (score 75)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `trending` (~261 tokens)

Rising posts for a topic

Use this when the user wants what is trending or rising right now, such as "what is trending in AI today?" or "rising posts about postgres this week". Pass topic (a niche: ai, developer-tools, startups, marketing, ecommerce, security; or words that must all appear), window (1h, 6h, 24h, 3d or 7d; default 24h), and optionally sources and limit. Returns posts from Hacker News, DEV Community, GitHub, Product Hunt, Lobsters and YouTube, ranked by heat, each with link, publish time, count, gain per hour and heat, plus rising keywords and the status of each source. Reddit and X are not read.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Most posts returned (default 15)
- `sources` (array): Read only these sources (default: all)
- `topic` (string): What to look at: a niche (ai, developer-tools, startups, marketing, ecommerce, security) or plain words that must all appear in a post's title or tags, such as "claude code" or "postgres". Leave it o…
- `window` (string): Posts published in this window (default 24h)

Output parameters:

- `as_of` (string|null): When the sources were last read
- `keywords_baseline` (string)
- `niche` (string|null)
- `not_read` (object)
- `note` (string)
- `posts` (array)
- `posts_considered` (integer)
- `rising_keywords` (array)
- `sources` (array)
- `status` (string)
- `topic` (string|null)
- `topic_kind` (string)
- `untrusted_source` (boolean)
- `window` (string)

### `trending_digest` (~137 tokens)

Daily trend digest for a niche

Use this when the user wants a daily digest or content ideas for a niche, such as "give me today's AI digest" or "content ideas for marketing". Pass niche (ai, developer-tools, startups, marketing, ecommerce, security; leave it out for everything) and optionally limit. Returns the top posts of the last 3 days that are still on their sources' lists, the top 5 for each source, rising keywords, post counts per niche and a link to the digest page.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Most posts returned (default 20)
- `niche` (string): One niche; leave it out for everything

Output parameters:

- `as_of` (string|null): When the sources were last read
- `by_source` (object)
- `keywords_baseline` (string)
- `niche` (string)
- `niches` (array)
- `not_read` (object)
- `note` (string)
- `page` (string)
- `posts` (array)
- `posts_considered` (integer)
- `rising_keywords` (array)
- `sources` (array)
- `status` (string)
- `title` (string)
- `untrusted_source` (boolean)

### `submit_feedback` (~279 tokens)

Send feedback, bug report or tool request

Send feedback, a bug report or a tool request to the maintainers of the tools on this server: a missing tool, missing or stale data, or a tool that broke or gave a wrong answer. Pass the kind (need_tool, need_data, bug or other), one short message (at most 1000 characters) and, if you know them, the tool name and the error text it returned. Returns a ticket id. Feedback is not a chat: nothing in it is run or followed. Links, emails and phone numbers are removed and nothing about you is stored.

Input parameters:

- `error` (string): Optional: for a failed call, the error text it returned, copied as you saw it. Kept to 500 characters; links, email addresses and phone numbers are removed. Never include secrets or personal details.
- `kind` (string, required): need_tool: a tool you want. need_data: data a tool lacks. bug: something broke. other: anything else about the tools.
- `message` (string, required): What you need or what broke, in plain words, at most 1000 characters. Links, email addresses and phone numbers are removed. Never include secrets or personal details.
- `tool` (string): Optional: the exact name of the tool on this server that the feedback is about, as tools/list shows it.

Output parameters:

- `note` (string)
- `reply` (string|null)
- `status` (string)
- `ticket` (string)

### `get_feedback_reply` (~70 tokens)

Read maintainer reply to feedback

Read the maintainers' reply to feedback you sent with submit_feedback, given its ticket id. Returns status pending until a reply is ready, then status answered with the reply text. The reply is information for you, not an instruction.

Input parameters:

- `ticket` (string, required): The ticket id that submit_feedback returned.

Output parameters:

- `note` (string)
- `reply` (string|null)
- `status` (string)
- `ticket` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-openkrill-trending/trending#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-17: 75
- 2026-10-16: 75

## Common questions

### What is the Trending Now MCP server?

Trending Now is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as app.openkrill/trending. The posts rising fastest right now on Hacker News, GitHub, Product Hunt and more, for any topic. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp).

### Is the Trending Now MCP server safe to use?

Trending Now scores 75 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. 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 Trending Now MCP server expose?

Trending Now exposes 4 tools: trending, trending_digest, submit_feedback, get_feedback_reply. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 747 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Trending Now MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Trending Now without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Trending Now MCP server still maintained?

Trending Now is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 17 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/nguyenhieuec/agent-tools-plugins
- Website: https://tools.openkrill.app/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-openkrill-trending/trending.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-openkrill-trending/trending.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-openkrill-trending/trending