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upstash/context7

upstash/context7 is a developer tool that RepoRadar is tracking in its Developer Productivity section, currently rated Gold tier with a 'try now' verdict. Its strongest signal is workflow potential, scored 9.6 out of 10.

Score8.1
Popularity91.0
Riskconditional
TierGold
Score breakdown
Usefulness8.0
Novelty7.0
Momentum8.0
Maturity8.3
Open-source/build8.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential9.6
Setup ease6.2

Popularity is tracked separately. Support, ads, sponsorships, and tips never affect these signals.

Why it matters

Useful for AI coding agent builders, developer-tools teams, and prompt engineers who need an MIT-licensed MCP server that serves up-to-date, version-specific code documentation and code examples directly into LLM prompts and AI code editors, so AI coding agents stop hallucinating API signatures and stop pinning to stale training-data snippets when they answer questions about any library or

Who should use it

developer tooling teams AI coding workflow builders agent operators documentation maintainers

Who should skip it

Consider upstash/context7 lower priority if you already have a working solution in this category.

About this signal

upstash/context7 is tracked by RepoRadar as a developer tool in the Developer Productivity section. First seen 2026-06-18; the source record was last checked on 2026-06-18. The current verdict is 'try now' with a Gold tier and intermediate setup difficulty. Across RepoRadar's eight signals, upstash/context7 is strongest on workflow potential (9.6) and open-source/build quality (8.4) and weakest on setup ease (6.2) — a profile worth weighing against your own priorities. This page summarizes the public evidence on the linked source page and states where additional review is still needed.

How this item is evaluated

The upstash/context7 record combines a 8.1/10 composite score with separate popularity (91.0), risk (conditional), and setup (intermediate) signals. See the scoring methodology for the current weights and evidence definitions.

Putting this into practice? Read How to evaluate an AI tool before you adopt it for the checklist behind this score.

Risk explanation

External docs indexing can surface outdated or partial metadata; keep deterministic validation in codegen toolchains.

Evidence links
Closest alternatives / related signals
docs-retrieval llm-ops agentic-coding developer-tooling context
Verification record

What RepoRadar actually verified

Discovered

Automated discovery and source capture. Last checked 2026-08-13T20:20:15Z.

No editorial or hands-on review is claimed. This record remains at Discovered.

Verification sources

Longitudinal intelligence

How this decision record is moving

Raw history JSON →

47 dated snapshots retained from 2026-06-18 through 2026-08-13; see the snapshot index for explicit coverage gaps. Stars, version, release, pricing, integration, risk, maintenance, verdict, score, and momentum fields remain explicit even when a source has not reported them. Repository momentum is a normalized 0–10 RepoRadar signal; GitHub stars appear only where the popularity monitor retained exact timestamped observations.

RepoRadar score8.1 current · +0.0 net
Repository momentum9.6 current · +1.6 net
GitHub stars (observed)60,692 current · +1,665 net
GitHub stars60,692 exact observation
Version@upstash/[email protected]
Last release2026-08-11T16:30:20Z
Maintenanceactive
Current riskconditional
Current verdicttry now
Pricing baselineNo structured commercial pricing baseline
Pricing checkedNot applicable or not recorded
Pricing freshnessNo dated commercial pricing review
Integrations baselineModel Context Protocol

Recent dated points

DateScoreMomentumStarsRiskVerdictMaintenance
2026-08-138.19.660,692conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-128.19.660,651conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-118.19.660,585conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-108.19.660,529conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-098.19.660,469conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-088.19.660,411conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-078.19.660,186conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-068.18.0Not recordedconditionaltry nownot recorded
2026-08-058.18.0Not recordedconditionaltry nownot recorded
2026-08-048.19.660,186conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-038.19.660,186conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-028.19.660,144conditionaltry nowactive

Why the record changed

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Stars changed: 60651 → 60692.

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Stars changed: 60108 → 60144.

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Source-observed stars changed: 60089 → 60108. This reports the retained observation delta and does not infer why the upstream change occurred.

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Stars changed: 59885 → 59947.