# Real Alpha (remote · realalpha.app)

What AI founders and researchers said in long interviews: quotes, speakers, dates and links to cite.

- Trust score: 74/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `realalpha.app`: 74/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-realalpha-moments/realalpha.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-realalpha-moments/realalpha)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://realalpha.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 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - 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.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 60/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1671 tokens (~278/item across 6 items; 6 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 43/100
  - Stability observed for 13 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.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 7 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 Real Alpha MCP server?

Real Alpha is a hosted endpoint at https://realalpha.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-realalpha-moments 'https://realalpha.app/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "app-realalpha-moments": {
      "url": "https://realalpha.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

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

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.app-realalpha-moments]
url = "https://realalpha.app/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

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

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  app-realalpha-moments:
    url: "https://realalpha.app/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

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

### Vellum

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

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "app-realalpha-moments": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://realalpha.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.

### 2026-11-03 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-01 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 27 to 30. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 8 days of observed history at the previous scan, 9 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-30 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-28 (score 71, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-27 (score 70, 0)

- [cosmetic] “what_did_they_say” reworded the description of “topic”

### 2026-10-26 (score 70, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-24 (score 69, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-23 (score 68)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (6)

### `search_moments` (~265 tokens)

Search what AI leaders said

Search the moments Real Alpha cut from long interviews with the people building AI. Matches the words of `query` against what each moment is about, the speaker's quote and its takeaways, best match first. Filter by who is talking (`person`), a company (someone from it talking, or it being discussed), a show, or how recent. Each result has the speaker, what they do, the show, the date, their quote, and the moment's page to cite.

Input parameters:

- `company` (string): Only moments from someone at this company, or about it: "Anthropic", "Nvidia"
- `limit` (integer): How many moments to return, 8 if not given, 20 at most
- `person` (string): Only moments where this person is talking, by name: "Sam Altman", "Dario Amodei"
- `query` (string, required): What to look for, in a few words: "AI bubble", "coding agents replacing engineers", "scaling laws"
- `show` (string): Only moments from this show: "Lenny's Podcast", "Dwarkesh Podcast", "No Priors"
- `since` (string): Only episodes out on or after this date, YYYY-MM-DD

### `get_moment` (~105 tokens)

Get one moment

One moment in full, by its slug (from search results) or its realalpha.app/s/ link: the speaker and what they do, the show and date, their quote, the summary and takeaways, its topics, the big questions it answers and how, and the episode's other best minutes.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): The moment's slug, like "ai-is-widening-the-gap-between-startups-and-incumbents", or its page's link

### `what_did_they_say` (~311 tokens)

What did they say?

What one person said in the interviews Real Alpha cut, newest first: every moment where they are talking, or only those on a topic, best match first. Also says who they are and links their page on Real Alpha, which lists all of it.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): How many moments to return, 10 if not given, 20 at most
- `person` (string, required): Their name: "Jensen Huang", "Demis Hassabis", or a surname when only one person has it
- `topic` (string): A topic or a few words: one of Real Alpha's topics (Frontier models, Open-weight models, Reasoning & RL, Scaling laws, AGI & superintelligence, Interpretability, Evals & benchmarks, Training data, Wo…

### `answers_to` (~602 tokens)

How AI leaders answer a big question

How the people building AI answer one of the big questions people ask about it, from the moments Real Alpha cut: grouped by which way they answer, the biggest group first, each with what the speaker says, who they are, the show and date. The questions: is-ai-a-bubble (Is AI a bubble?); which-jobs-will-ai-replace (Which jobs will AI replace, and which are safe?); will-ai-replace-software-engineers (Will AI replace software engineers?); will-ai-replace-doctors (Will AI replace doctors?); will-ai-replace-lawyers (Will AI replace lawyers?); is-saas-dead (Is SaaS dead?); when-will-we-get-agi (When will we get AGI?); is-openai-profitable (How does OpenAI make money, and is it profitable?); ai-predictions (What will AI look like in the next few years?); are-ai-agents-ready (Are AI agents ready for real work?); is-ai-paying-off (Is AI paying off for companies?); is-ai-dangerous (Is AI dangerous?); will-ai-make-cyberattacks-worse (Will AI make cyberattacks worse?); can-anyone-compete-with-nvidia (Can anyone compete with Nvidia?); is-there-a-gpu-shortage (Is there still a GPU shortage?); is-there-enough-power-for-ai (Is there enough power for AI?); is-moores-law-dead (Is Moore’s law dead?); is-ai-progress-slowing (Is AI progress slowing down?); is-open-source-ai-catching-up (Is open-source AI catching up?); is-china-catching-up-in-ai (Is China catching up in AI?); is-ai-overhyped (Is AI overhyped?); will-ai-replace-google-search (Will AI replace Google search?); is-vibe-coding-the-future (Is vibe coding the future?); is-a-computer-science-degree-worth-it (Is a computer science degree still worth it?); are-ai-wrappers-a-real-business (Are AI wrappers a real business?); how-do-ai-companies-make-money (How do AI companies make money?); should-ai-be-regulated (Should AI be regulated?); will-ai-cure-diseases (Will AI cure diseases?); when-will-humanoid-robots-be-useful (When will humanoid robots be useful?); are-self-driving-cars-safe (Are self-driving cars safe?); will-ai-boost-…

Input parameters:

- `question` (string, required): The question's id, like "is-ai-a-bubble"

### `transcript_excerpt` (~142 tokens)

Read a minute of an episode

About a minute of an episode's transcript, from a second into the video, for an episode Real Alpha cut: the lines with their times and, where the transcript says, who is talking, plus the link that plays the episode from there. Use it to check the exact words around a moment's quote (a moment's `episode_url` has the video id and second).

Input parameters:

- `second` (number, required): Seconds into the video: 1910 for 31:50
- `video` (string, required): The YouTube video id, like "dQw4w9WgXcQ", or a realalpha.app/v/ or YouTube link

### `latest_moments` (~71 tokens)

Latest moments

The newest moments Real Alpha cut, newest episode first: each episode's best minutes, from every show or only one.

Input parameters:

- `n` (integer): How many, 10 if not given, 20 at most
- `show` (string): Only from this show: "Lenny's Podcast"

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 74
- 2026-11-04: 74
- 2026-11-03: 74
- 2026-11-02: 73
- 2026-11-01: 73
- 2026-10-31: 72
- 2026-10-30: 72
- 2026-10-29: 71
- 2026-10-28: 71
- 2026-10-27: 70
- 2026-10-26: 70
- 2026-10-25: 69
- 2026-10-24: 69
- 2026-10-23: 68

## Common questions

### What is the Real Alpha MCP server?

Real Alpha is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as app.realalpha/moments. What AI founders and researchers said in long interviews: quotes, speakers, dates and links to cite. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://realalpha.app/mcp).

### Is the Real Alpha MCP server safe to use?

Real Alpha scores 74 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 Real Alpha MCP server expose?

Real Alpha exposes 6 tools: search_moments, get_moment, what_did_they_say, answers_to, transcript_excerpt, latest_moments. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,496 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Real Alpha MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Real Alpha MCP server still maintained?

Real Alpha is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 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://realalpha.app/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/rushabhsheth/realalpha-mcp
- Website: https://realalpha.app/mcp/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-realalpha-moments/realalpha.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-realalpha-moments/realalpha.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-realalpha-moments/realalpha