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Sideways MCP Server

by aribadernatal Your server? Claim it
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Sideways is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check.

Unexpected questions and lateral thinking prompts to break through mental blocks. 86 strategies.

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 0%
91 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 184 checks
—
Tools
hidden behind auth
234 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Sideways does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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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
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
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
{
  "servers": {
    "sideways": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://sideways.aribadernatal.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This server publishes 1 more address. The block above uses the one we reach during checks; the full list is under Endpoints below, and the author may intend a particular one for your client.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://sideways.aribadernatal.com/mcp streamable-http answering 234 ms 0 min ago
https://sideways.aribadernatal.com/sse sse answering 218 ms 0 min ago

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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 234 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 in the form 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.