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Make the Bed - An MCP sanity checker for vibe coding

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Mtb – An MCP sanity checker for vibe coding

by dbravender·Feb 17, 2026·3 points·2 comments
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Stops AI from reinventing wheels: consult, deps, stats, checklist for sanity-checked projects.

Strengths
  • •Directly addresses the real problem of AI agents hallucinating or ignoring existing solutions.
  • •MCP integration means agents can adopt this without code changes, genuine accessibility.
  • •Demonstrated working examples showing meaningful behavioral change in Claude's responses.
Weaknesses
  • •Limited to MCP ecosystem; only helps if your agent/IDE integrates it.
  • •Socratic effectiveness depends on LLM quality—garbage in, garbage out.
Target Audience

Software engineers and AI agents using Claude/MCP tools

Similar To

Continue.dev (IDE code completion with project awareness) · GitHub Copilot with custom instructions · Architectural Decision Records (ADR) tooling

Post Description

I originally conceived of Make the Bed (named after the Calvin & Hobbes strip where Calvin spends all day building a bed-making robot that never works instead of making his bed) as a tongue-in-cheek response to some of the vibe coded projects I've seen recently. To my surprise it works as intended and prompts users to consider many factors (existing solutions, maintenance costs, etc.) before starting a new project or feature. It also shows complexity metrics via scc.

Check out the demo prompts and responses listed in the README: https://github.com/dbravender/mtb?tab=readme-ov-file#demonst...

Note: Sometimes you have to explicitly ask the LLM to consult mtb but it often does this on its own after reading the tool descriptions.

The dogfooding section shows the results of mtb's tools run on itself: https://github.com/dbravender/mtb?tab=readme-ov-file#eating-...

Contributions are welcome but I'm looking to keep this as light as possible.

And yes, mtb was itself vibe coded. The irony is not lost on me.

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