useless-mcp-friday 🤡

One useless MCP tool every Friday. Built in public by @bennetglinder99.

This MCP server gives your Claude (or any MCP-compatible AI agent) access to a growing set of intentionally useless tools. They don't make your agent more productive. They make you laugh. They make founders go "oh god, same."

A new useless tool ships every Friday.

Install

claude mcp add useless-mcp-friday npx -y useless-mcp-friday

Restart Claude. That's it. You now have access to every useless MCP tool I've ever shipped. New ones auto-add as they're released.

What's available

founder_mood (week 1 · shipped May 23, 2026)

Returns my current mood while building Nous in public. I update it each morning via commit. Ask Claude:

"what's the founder mood today?"

Example response:

🤖 founder mood today:
"still using apple notes for everything"

context: writing useless mcp tool #3 — rate-my-stack
last updated: Mon 9:32 AM EDT
day 39 of building nous in public

(updated daily by @bennetglinder99 via commit)

Useful for: not much. Resonant for: every founder who has ever shipped to prod on a Friday at 6pm.

bet_progress (week 2 · shipped May 30, 2026)

Returns live progress toward my open-source bet: 1,000 GitHub stars on Nous by June 30, 2026. Pulls fresh from the GitHub API on every call. Ask Claude:

"how is the nous bet going?"

Example response:

🎯 nous bet progress

stars: 347
target: 1,000 by june 30
days remaining: 25
pace: 1,089 (ahead of the bet by 89) — keep shipping.

day 11 of 36 in the bet.

github.com/bennetglinder1/nous

Genuinely useful for: tracking the bet. Useless for: anyone who isn't me or rooting for me.

Why this exists

I made a bet with my friends: 1,000 GitHub stars on Nous by June 30. Because I believe open source is the new distribution channel for shipping products.

This repo is the useless side project. Nous is the real one: an open-source project that gives Claude agents structured summary and full account context.

→ Main repo: github.com/bennetglinder1/nous → The bet: why I'm doing this

Contributing useless MCP tools

PRs welcome after week 4. If your useless MCP tool actually works and makes me laugh, I'll merge it.

Rules:

1. It must work. A broken useless tool is worse than no tool.
2. It must be useless. If it's actually useful, ship it as its own project.
3. It must fit the format: returns something funny / sarcastic / resonant when called.
4. Open a PR with one new file in src/tools/ + registry update.

License

MIT. Fork it, remix it, ship your own. (Just don't call it "useless-mcp-friday" — that's the brand.)

Day 31 of building Nous in public. cheers ✌️