Claude CodeCodexCursorGemini CLIOpenCode for shippinga feature in 2 hours.an MVP in one evening.a fix in 45 minutes.a landing page over lunch.a demo by the deadline.

Set the timer. One skill gives your agent a clock, one locked deliverable, and a gate that says no to everything else until a stranger can click a URL. The Habitat night, inside the editor you already build with.

Works in Claude Code Codex Cursor Gemini CLI OpenCode and any agent that reads a SKILL.md.

Set up the bunny Watch a 2-hour sprint

600+ people · 200+ MVPs · 8 cities · 4 countries · free, open source, local

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#	Hop	What happened	Gate

the timer has not started2:00:00

Two hours, replayed live · every hop gated · nothing leaves your machine

Why a timer

Focus is a container, not a trait.

If you do your best work when a clock is running and someone is waiting to see the result (hi, ADHD brains), this is that container, taken from 200+ Habitat nights and put inside your agent. You pick the timer. The bunny does the rest.

2 hours · 45 minutes · an evening · a hackathon deadline. Any window works.

One deliverable

One sentence a friend can repeat

You lock one sentence. Everything else that comes up mid-build is parked in backlog.md, not lost. The backlog remembers so you do not have to.

A clock that talks

Four hops, one window

The bunny splits your window into lock, build, ship and roast, and speaks up when you drift or go quiet. "Behind pace" is a fact, not a feeling.

Done is a URL

localhost does not count

Not "almost", not a demo on your machine. When the timer ends, either a stranger can click it or it did not ship. Then the roast says what was true, and what one move comes next.

One skill, every hop

One skill. Every hop.

Say it in plain words. The agent builds, the bunny paces, and the gate says no where a prompt would have said sure. Each card is one thing you can say mid-build and what happens next.

›grill me

Who exactly, and where do you find 10 of them this week?

"developers"✕ gate 2: ICP

indie iOS devs who got a review rejection this month✓

Next: one sentence a friend can repeat back.

grilling · one question at a time

›can we add dark mode?

Is dark mode in the locked one-liner?

no→ .habitat/backlog.md

Parked. Not forgotten. Not tonight.

build hop · 48m leftback to the one-liner

check-scope · parked, not built

›picasso this sentence

We help modern app teams easily fix their App Store rejections faster with AI.state 1

Fix your App Store rejection faster.state 2

Paste your rejection. Get the fix.

14 words → 6 · nothing loststate 3 · the bull

picasso · delete, check, delete

›ship localhost:3000

http://localhost:3000✕ refused

A stranger cannot click that. Deploy it.

https://review-fix.vercel.app✓ live

Recorded in ships.md. Next hop: roast.

ship · a URL a stranger can click

›roast it

Idea · sharp person, sharp momentstrong

Product · proves the one-liner in 10sok

Potential · would a stranger ask to try it?weakest

Tomorrow, 30 min: put the paste box above the fold. Then DM 3 iOS devs.

roast · promise vs artifact

›(quiet for 20 minutes)

build hop · 0:41:00 leftclock

You went quiet. What is the next commit?

Behind pace. Cut one thing from the flow, not from the deploy.

ship hop opens in 41mon it

pace · the clock talks when you do not

›/today

No evening, no container. One sentence for today.

"work on the onboarding"mush

new users see their first result without signing up✓

Take that sentence to a URL before you stop.

today · one hop, already mid-build

›we're at a hackathon

Paste the brief: theme, rules, deadline, judging.

clock= submission deadline 21:00

grill= fit against the theme

roast= the judging criteria

event mode · one line for every participant

›and the gate underneath

8 MCP tools

lock_idea · rejects a vague ICP
ship · refuses localhost
next_hop · will not skip a hop
check_scope · parks it in backlog.md
sprint_status · on pace · behind · overtime
start_sprint · solo · team · event · any hours
roast · rubric, event addendum
ship_log · everything that hit a URL
lock_idea · rejects a vague ICP
ship · refuses localhost
next_hop · will not skip a hop
check_scope · parks it in backlog.md
sprint_status · on pace · behind · overtime
start_sprint · solo · team · event · any hours
roast · rubric, event addendum
ship_log · everything that hit a URL

local MCP · no account · no API key · npm →

Why it works

The container, not the advice.

AI removed the barrier to building, not to finishing. Agents are infinitely patient and infinitely agreeable, so they help you build forever. At Habitat nights the magic was never the advice. It was a timer, a locked scope, and a room waiting to see what you made.

agent alone

Still building.

one more feature · one more refactor · never a URL

Infinitely agreeable. Says yes to dark mode. Calls localhost a demo.

agent + bunny

A URL when the timer ends.

lock

build

ship

roast

Four hops, one clock. Says no to dark mode. Refuses localhost.

The burrow

Always one hop ahead.

Everything the bunny knows lives in .habitat/ next to your code: the sprint, the backlog, the ship log. Human-readable markdown. Delete the folder and the bunny forgets everything.

What it costs

No cohort. No retainer. No equity.

The ritual that made 200+ people ship in one evening is a set of markdown files and a tiny local server. It runs where your agent already runs, and it does not phone home.

what "someone who keeps you honest" usually costs

Founder coach$300 / hr
Startup cohort$2,500
Accelerator7% equity
Accountability app$19 / mo
Hackathon mentorfully booked
A system prompt that says "be strict"ignored by hop 2

with habitat-bunny

free · MIT · local

No backend, no account, no API key. Nothing leaves your machine.

Event mode · for organizers

Run your whole hackathon on a tool every participant installs in one line.

Tell the bunny you are at an event and paste the brief. From then on the ritual bends to your event, not the other way around.

The clock is the deadline.

Not four hours from now. The real submission time, split into hops that end before it.

The grill checks the theme.

Ideas get locked against the brief, so nobody spends the night on something the judges cannot score.

Ship checks the requirements.

Repo link, demo video, team slide: the ship hop refuses to close until every submission item is there.

The roast uses your rubric.

Impact, feasibility, demo, originality: whatever your criteria are, the roast scores against them, honestly.

Talk to us about your event Come to a Habitat night

Set up

Give your agent a timer.

Paste one line into the agent you already build with. It reads the setup notes, installs the skills, runs /setup-habitat, and hands you back three things to try. Then name a timer and one deliverable.

$set up habitat-bunny — habitat.md/llms.txt

What happens: the agent picks the skill route for your editor, never installs both, runs /setup-habitat once in your repo, and asks before adding the optional MCP gate. Nothing is sent anywhere. Then say "ship sprint, 2 hours, one feature".

Claude Code

plugin

A managed bundle of exactly the promoted skills. Type both lines.

/plugin marketplace add ycanerden/habitat-bunny
/plugin install habitat-bunny

Codex, Cursor, others

skills.sh

Writes files you own and edit. Keep setup-habitat selected.

npx skills@latest add ycanerden/habitat-bunny

The MCP gate

optional

Makes the no a tool, not a suggestion. Sits next to either route.

# Claude Code
claude mcp add habitat-bunny -- npx -y habitat-bunny

The two skill routes are exclusive: pick one. Then run /setup-habitat once per repo. Add the gate to Cursor

One hop at a time.

Set the timer, lock the sentence, ship the URL, take the roast. Then do it again tomorrow. That is the whole ritual, and it fits in the editor you already have open.

Set up the bunny Join the next Habitat night

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