Sideways
Actively maintained
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Use
- For
- Developers and writers stuck on technical or creative problems while working with an AI assistant
- Activity
- Actively maintainedrelease 8 days ago
- Used for
- Rethink a slow test suite from a new angle
- Question assumptions while debugging stubborn code
- Decide where to split an overloaded function
- On the web since 2025, older than 60% of its shelfINITE Atlas
- Has an MCP server (1 in the registry)public registry →
- Publishes llms.txt, a file written for AI assistantsusesideways.com ↗
- MCP servercom.usesideways/sidewaysverified in the MCP registry
- Stateanswers, 6 toolschecked 2026-10-25
- Address to connectusesideways.com/mcp
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Sign in to leave a noteWhat is Sideways?
Serves lateral-thinking prompts to an AI assistant, sorted into reframe, reduce, expand, disrupt, embody and pause categories. It is listed in the Atlas under Agents.
Who is Sideways for?
Developers and writers stuck on technical or creative problems while working with an AI assistant
Do people use Sideways?
Little sign of use.
Is Sideways still maintained?
Actively maintained: release 8 days ago.
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