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Vibe Check is a tool that provides mentor-like feedback to AI Agents, preventing tunnel-vision, over-engineering and reasoning lock-in for complex and long-horizon agent workflows. KISS your over-eager AI Agents goodbye! Effective for: Coding, Ambiguous Tasks, High-Risk tasks
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| 2026-07-24 | 501 |
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| 2026-07-28 | 501 |
| 2026-07-30 | 501 |
| 2026-08-06 | 503 |
Today
+2 stars today
This week
+2 stars this week
This month
— stars this month
Momentum
10.0
growth rate 0.40%/day
# Vibe Check MCP
> **This project is in maintenance mode.** Active feature development has ended; only maintenance patches (security and bug fixes) are published. v2.9.0 is the latest maintenance release. The server remains fully functional. Community forks and contributions are welcome under the MIT license.
<p align="center"><b>KISS overzealous agents goodbye. Plug & play agent oversight tool.</b></p>
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<b>Based on research:</b><br/>
In our study agents calling Vibe Check improved success +27% and halved harmful actions -41%
</p>
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<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394946231_Do_AI_Agents_Need_Mentors_Evaluating_Chain-Pattern_Interrupt_CPI_for_Oversight_and_Reliability?channel=doi&linkId=68ad6178ca495d76982ff192&showFulltext=true">
<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Research-CPI%20%28MURST%29-blue?style=flat-square" alt="CPI Research">
</a>
<a href="https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Anthropic%20MCP-featured-111?labelColor=111&color=555&style=flat-square" alt="Anthropic MCP: listed"></a>
<a href="https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP%20Registry-listed-555?labelColor=111&style=flat-square" alt="MCP Registry"></a>
<a href="https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/pv-bhat-vibe-check">
<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/PulseMCP-Most%20Popular%20(Oct 2025)-0b7285?style=flat-square" alt="PulseMCP: Most Popular (this week)">
</a>
<a href="https://github.com/PV-Bhat/vibe-check-mcp-server/actions/workflows/ci.yml"><img src="https://github.com/PV-Bhat/vibe-check-mcp-server/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg" alt="CI passing"></a>
<a href="LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-0b7285?style=flat-square" alt="MIT License"></a>
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<sub> Featured on PulseMCP “Most Popular (This Week)” • 5k+ monthly calls on Smithery.ai • research-backed oversight • STDIO + streamable HTTP transport</sub>
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<img width="500" height="300" alt="Gemini_Generated_Image_kvdvp4kvdvp4kvdv" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ff4d9efa-2142-436d-b1df-2a711a28c34e" />
[](https://github.com/PV-Bhat/vibe-check-mcp-server)
[](https://archestra.ai/mcp-catalog/pv-bhat__vibe-check-mcp-server)
[](CONTRIBUTING.md)
*Plug-and-play mentor layer that stops agents from over-engineering and keeps them on the minimal viable path — research-backed MCP server keeping LLMs aligned, reflective and safe.*
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<a href="https://github.com/PV-Bhat/vibe-check-mcp-server">
<img src="https://unpkg.com/@lobehub/icons-static-svg@latest/icons/github.svg" width="40" height="40" alt="GitHub" />
</a>
<a href="https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io">
<img src="https://unpkg.com/@lobehub/icons-static-svg@latest/icons/anthropic.svg" width="40" height="40" alt="Anthropic MCP Registry" />
</a>
<a href="https://smithery.ai/server/@PV-Bhat/vibe-check-mcp-server">
<img src="https://unpkg.com/@lobehub/icons-static-svg@latest/icons/smithery.svg" width="40" height="40" alt="Smithery" />
</a>
<a href="https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/pv-bhat-vibe-check">
<img src="https://www.pulsemcp.com/favicon.ico" width="40" height="40" alt="PulseMCP" />
</a>
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<em>Trusted by developers across MCP platforms and registries</em>
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## Quickstart (npx)
Run the server directly from npm without a local installation. Requires Node **>=20**. Choose a transport:
### Option 1 – MCP client over STDIO
```bash
npx -y @pv-bhat/vibe-check-mcp start --stdio
```
- Launch from an MCP-aware client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.).
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Would you bet a product on this? Bounded 0–100 and slow moving.
matched fp:f093da8c057ae6d0, topic:mcp, topic:model-context-protocol, topic:mcp-server
matched fp:f093da8c057ae6d0, topic:ai-agents, topic:agentic-ai, topic:agentic-workflow