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Sideways MCP Server

com.aribadernatal/sideways
not responding

Sideways is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check.

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Uptime history 39 hours of history · worst hour 0%
39 hours agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 184 checks
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Tools
hidden behind auth
745 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add sideways --transport http https://sideways.aribadernatal.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sideways": {
      "url": "https://sideways.aribadernatal.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.sideways]
url = "https://sideways.aribadernatal.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sideways": {
      "url": "https://sideways.aribadernatal.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sideways": {
      "url": "https://sideways.aribadernatal.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://sideways.aribadernatal.com/mcp streamable-http answering 745 ms 0 min ago
https://sideways.aribadernatal.com/sse sse answering 875 ms 0 min ago

Sideways — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Is Sideways working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 184 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 745 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Sideways as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Sideways?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Sideways need an API key?
No. Sideways completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.