# demandscope

> demandscope — baobabcat-demandscope. Use this tool when you need to validate digital product and development tool ideas by scanning demand signals from various sources. Demandscope provides a comprehensive view of trends, download counts, and repository signals from GitHub, Hacker News, npm, and PyPI through a JSON-RPC interface. It enables agents to query and analyze data to inform product development decisions.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/baobabcat-demandscope  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/baobabcat-demandscope

## Description

MCP server that provides demand-signal scanning tools from GitHub, Hacker News, npm, and PyPI to validate digital-product and dev-tool ideas. Enables agents to query repo signals, trends, and download counts via stdio JSON-RPC.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.69
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-08-28

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** version-control
- **Updated:** 2026-08-28

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/gtbyc5vlpl)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/baobabcat/demandscope>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "baobabcat-demandscope"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/baobabcat-demandscope` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/baobabcat-demandscope/pull`

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