Tidewave
Hacker ApprovedRanked 8 of 21 MCP servers by recommenders
Lets AI coding agents inspect and debug your running Elixir app, so they can test changes with runtime feedback. People say it is quick to add as one dependency.
Lets AI coding agents inspect and debug your running Elixir app, so they can test changes with runtime feedback. People say it is quick to add as one dependency.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 12
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 12 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Agent tests and debugs running app
“The agent basically is living inside your running app with access to databases, endpoints etc. It's awesome.”
Comment from 16 Mar 2026 in “Let your Coding Agent debug the browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP” “It's able to proactively debug and get runtime feedback on your modular code as it's being written.”
Comment from 25 Jan 2026 in “150k lines of vibe coded Elixir: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” “In my experience it's a huge leap in terms of the agent being able to test and debug functionality.”
Comment from 24 Feb 2026 in “Software 3.1? – AI Functions” Single dependency, easy setup
“Tidewave runs as a dependency in the framework and you just navigate to a url, it's quite refreshing actually.”
Comment from 7 Nov 2025 in “You should write an agent” “you just pull tidewave in as a single dependency, instead of downloading a bunch of scripts”
Comment from 25 Jan 2026 in “150k lines of vibe coded Elixir: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” “Just so quick and easy, and the LLM seems to get things right quite often.”
Comment from 10 Jun 2026 in “DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation” Works with Credo and Dialyzer
“The tooling for inspecting and enforcing style (tidewave, credo, dialyzer, Dan's "vibe" ecosystem tools) is far beyond what I see in other ecosystems”
Comment from 26 May 2026 in “Use Boring Languages with LLMs” “The combination of credo, dialyzer, and tidewave means you have an iterative feedback loop”
Comment from 8 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Craftplan – Elixir-based micro-ERP for small-scale manufacturers” Smooth agent loop with hot reload
“Elixir hot-reloading with Tidewave works well for agent loops”
Comment from 3 May 2026 in “Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML” “the agent + tidewave loop is a joy to use!”
Comment from 18 Jul 2026 in “Elixir-lang.org has a new design”
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| TidewaveThis page | 12 | 0 | 100% | 7 | — | Approved |
What people said
All 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the agent + tidewave loop is a joy to use!”
“I'd argue that it's one of the best, especially with Tidewave”
“Just so quick and easy, and the LLM seems to get things right quite often.”
“The tooling for inspecting and enforcing style (tidewave, credo, dialyzer, Dan's "vibe" ecosystem tools) is far beyond what I see in other ecosystems”
“Elixir hot-reloading with Tidewave works well for agent loops”
“The agent basically is living inside your running app with access to databases, endpoints etc. It's awesome.”
“There is a tool called Tidewave that allows you to point and click at an issue and it will pass the DIV or ID or something to the LLM so it knows exactly what you are talking about.”
“In my experience it's a huge leap in terms of the agent being able to test and debug functionality.”
“The combination of credo, dialyzer, and tidewave means you have an iterative feedback loop”
“you just pull tidewave in as a single dependency, instead of downloading a bunch of scripts”
“It's able to proactively debug and get runtime feedback on your modular code as it's being written.”
“It's made Claude code so much more functional. It provides mcp servers to”
“finally made it start using the tidewave MCP for elixir development well”
“Tidewave runs as a dependency in the framework and you just navigate to a url, it's quite refreshing actually.”
“which gives a much better experience”
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