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Sideways

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usesideways

Provides random lateral thinking prompts across six categories to help break through creative blocks and generate new perspectives on problems.

Lateral thinking prompts to break through mental blocks and spark creative problem-solving

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What it does

  • Get reframe strategies to shift perspective on problems
  • Generate reduce strategies to simplify complex situations
  • Access expand strategies to explore more possibilities
  • Retrieve disrupt strategies to break out of safe patterns
  • Find embody strategies to connect abstract ideas to physical experience
  • Pull pause strategies to gain clarity through stepping back

Best for

Creative professionals stuck on projectsProblem solvers facing mental blocksTeams needing fresh approaches to challenges
Six distinct thinking strategy categoriesRandom prompts prevent predictable patterns

About Sideways

Sideways is an official MCP server published by usesideways that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. Sideways: Lateral thinking prompts to break mental blocks and spark creative problem-solving quickly.

How to install

You can install Sideways in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server supports remote connections over HTTP, so no local installation is required.

License

Sideways is released under the MIT license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.