Vibe Coder
Readiness Check
You built it with an AI agent. This tells you, honestly, what is still missing before real people and real money touch it. Nine dimensions, 45 questions, about 15 minutes. Your full result is free.
Find out what your build is missing
Most guides tell you how to build. Almost nothing tells you what to check before you ship. This scores the nine things that decide whether an AI-built app survives contact with real users.
45 scored questions plus 4 setup questions · roughly 12 to 15 minutes · no signup, nothing saved · your full result is free
Reading your build practice
All of this happens in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Where your build actually stands
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Your build stage
Your first safety session: 3 quick wins
How it works
Answer 45 questions about how you actually build
Four quick setup questions first, then nine short sections. Real situations, not trivia, with an "I have not done this" option on every one so you never have to guess. Back navigation keeps your answers. About 12 to 15 minutes, no account and no email.
Get your readiness score and nine dimension scores
A 0 to 100 score, your band, and a nine-point radar covering everything from product definition to compliance. Your two weakest dimensions are called out, with three fixes you can finish today. All of it free, on screen, computed in your browser.
Optionally get the manual, the checklist and the agent instructions
A fillable PDF manual with a 124-item production readiness checklist, plus one drop-in file of 26 numbered coding agent instructions for your repository. Your score, band and all nine dimension scores are printed onto its cover and results page, and your reading path is ordered by your weakest areas.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Best Answer Hub Vibe Coder Readiness Check?
The Best Answer Hub Vibe Coder Readiness Check is a free 45-question assessment for people building apps with AI coding agents. It scores nine dimensions, from product definition through to compliance, and shows a radar of your weakest areas. It takes about 15 minutes, needs no signup, and answers never leave your browser.
Is vibe coding safe?
Vibe coding is safe for prototypes and risky for anything holding real user data. A December 2025 benchmark ran 200 real feature requests through a coding agent: 61 percent of its solutions worked, but only 10.5 percent were secure. Working and safe are different bars, and the gap between them is where apps get hurt.
Can a vibe-coded app go to production without a security review?
It can, but access control is usually where it breaks. Broken Access Control is number one in the OWASP Top 10:2025, and it is the exact failure mode in AI-built apps: pages that check nothing, and records reachable by changing an ID in the address bar. Run the cross-user test before launch.
What should I check before launching a web app?
Check five things first. Spend caps armed at every provider. Secrets out of your code and out of your repository. A cross-user test proving one account cannot read another account’s records. A backup you have actually restored once. A privacy policy if you hold any personal data, including an email list.
Can Claude Code or Cursor delete my files or database?
Yes, and it has happened repeatedly. Documented 2025 and 2026 cases include a deleted production database, a wiped D drive, and 100GB removed from a C drive after a file path was mis-parsed. Cursor staff put it plainly: auto-run executes terminal commands without confirmation, and guardrails are best-effort.
Is it safe to turn on skip-permissions or YOLO mode?
Those modes remove the confirmation step before an agent runs a command, which is the step that stops a destructive one. Every documented agent-destruction case involved an agent running without approval. If you use them, run against a throwaway copy or a sandbox, never against production and never as your only backup.
How do I stop my agent asking for permission every time?
Approve categories rather than switching approval off. Allow read-only and test commands, keep destructive ones such as delete, drop, force push and deploy on ask-every-time, and enforce the rest with automatic checks. A hook that blocks a commit is stronger than an instruction an agent can talk itself out of.
What is prompt injection and how do I prevent it?
Prompt injection is when text your agent reads becomes an instruction it follows. A web page, an issue, a README or a cloned repository’s config file can all carry one. Treat anything the agent did not write as untrusted, inspect unknown repositories before opening them, and never let external content trigger an unreviewed action.
How do I hide API keys in a frontend app?
You cannot. Anything shipped to a browser is readable, so a key in frontend code is public no matter how it is stored. Keys belong in server-side environment variables or your host’s encrypted settings, with the call made from a server route. If a key has ever been in frontend code, rotate it.
Should I commit my .env file?
Never. Add .env to .gitignore before the first commit and keep a .env.example holding placeholder names only. GitGuardian recorded 28.65 million hardcoded secrets added to public GitHub during 2025. Note that GitHub secret scanning is free on public repositories, so a private repo does not get that safety net.
What does "RLS disabled in public" mean in Supabase?
It means a table in your public schema has no Row Level Security, so anyone holding your public key can read or write it. Supabase enables RLS by default for tables created in the Table Editor, but not for tables created through the SQL editor. The free Security Advisor in your dashboard lists them.
How do I know if my app is production ready?
Production ready is evidence, not confidence. You can say where every secret lives, you have watched one restore from backup succeed, a second account cannot reach the first account’s data, spend caps are armed, and errors reach you rather than the customer. If none of that can be demonstrated, it is not ready.
Why did my cloud bill suddenly jump?
Usually an unrestricted key, a misconfigured service, or real traffic meeting a per-request price. Documented cases include 4,676 dollars in six weeks on Cloud Run with no traffic. Vercel spend management is opt-in, and its own documentation says setting a spend amount does not automatically stop usage.
Do I need a privacy policy for my app?
If you collect personal data, including just an email address, you need one. It should say what is collected, why, how long it is kept, who it is shared with, and how someone requests deletion. A newsletter form counts. So does an analytics tool that stores an identifier against a visitor.
How do I validate my app idea before building?
Write one sentence naming who it is for and what breaks without it, then test that sentence before writing code. Set a pass mark in advance, run a landing page test or talk to potential buyers, and honour the result. The pass mark exists so a weak signal ends the project cheaply.
What people check with it
Built on Lovable, Bolt, v0 or Replit
No repository to scan
Scanners need a repo or a live URL, so a builder mid-project has nothing to point one at. The check scores the practice instead, and skips the wins that assume you own the repo.
Running Claude Code, Cursor or Codex
Agent control is its own dimension
Checkpoints, approval settings, untrusted repositories and what the agent may run without asking. Documented cases include deleted databases and wiped drives.
About to put it in front of real users
Nine dimensions, scored 0 to 100
A demo proves the idea works. It does not prove the product is safe to run. This is the gap between the two, written as things you can check today.
Shipped, with users and maybe payments
Weakest areas first
If something is already wrong, order matters. Your two weakest dimensions come first, and the cross-user test is the one to run before you read anything else.
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