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Reality Check — Anti-Sycophancy Idea Validator
A Claude Code plugin that pressure-tests your idea instead of praising it.
Sole authorJune 2026DevTools
// why: AI yes-men let you waste weeks on a one-hour-bad idea.
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TL;DR
- Kills bad ideas fast: pressure-test before you build
- Market + failure scan: what exists, how it dies
- Structured verdict: go / no-go with reasons
// what does it do?
npm Claude Code plugin (@mrinallsamal-byte/reality-check) that turns AI assistants from yes-men into critics: market scan, failure modes, go/no-go verdict.
// why this project?
Coding assistants tend to agree with whatever you show them, so builders sink weeks into ideas an honest critic would have killed in an hour.
// what broke / learned
Built after watching assistants praise a clearly broken idea.
// results
- Plugs into Claude Code as a skill/hook pack: pressure-tests assumptions, scans the market for existing solutions, lists failure modes, and returns a structured go/no-go verdict. Versioned and distributed as an npm-scoped package.
npm-scoped Claude Code pluginMarket scan, failure modes, structured verdict
Tech stack
TypeScriptNode.jsnpmClaude Code Plugins