A design-knowledge API and MCP server for AI agents and developers. 324 aesthetics, plus tools to compose briefs, grade UI, and export tokens.
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Without a browser: after escalated curl fails, use GET https://www.mcpbundles.com/?q=<query> with Accept: text/markdown for ranked results.
Hub MCP (connected session): discover_mcp_servers — same filter semantics as search_mcp_servers.
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OpenAPI: https://www.mcpbundles.com/api/directory/v1/openapi.json
Guide: https://www.mcpbundles.com/guides/mcpbundles-directory-api
For MCP client apps (human connect):
MCP connect URL: https://aestheta.ai/mcp
Skill page: https://www.mcpbundles.com/skills/aestheta-mcp-cffa9d1822
Explore capabilities (24)
read 12
write 1
other 11
Get
7
List
4
Compose
3
Other capabilities
10
List Aesthetics
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list_aesthetics
List the design encyclopedia (203+ aesthetics: brands, YC companies, app design languages, styles, color themes). Returns slug/name/kind/summary; palettes via get_design_brief. Optionally filter by kind.
List Aesthetics — List the design encyclopedia (203+ aesthetics: brands, YC companies, app design languages, styles, color themes). Returns slug/name/kind/summary; palettes via get_design_brief. Optionally filter by kind.
Search Aesthetics — Search aesthetics by free text across name, slug, and summary (e.g. "warm editorial serif", "fintech", "playful gradient"). Returns the best matches with palettes.
Semantic Search — Hybrid retrieval over the encyclopedia: structured facet FILTERS (kind, theme dark/light, hue family, type serif/sans/mono/display) combined with lexical ranking across summary, voice, principles and palette names. Use this (not search_aesthetics) when an agent needs aesthetics matching real criteria, e.g. {query:"trustworthy fintech", theme:"dark"}. Returns ranked matches with derived facets + palettes.
Compose Brief — THE synthesis tool: produce a UNIQUE, buildable starter design spec for a request by blending the best-matching encyclopedia aesthetics. Retrieves matching design DNA, harmonizes a token scaffold (bg/surface/ink/muted/accent with verified contrast), unions principles and avoid-lists, and attaches the craft taste-kit + conditional craft skills + a critique checklist. Set variants 1-3 for alternative directions. Output is a starter to FINALIZE (abstract, do not lift) then build via add_aesthetic o
Grade Ui — THE output-QA tool: grade a webpage's design quality. Pass a URL or raw HTML; it renders the page (desktop + mobile), runs accessibility (axe) + computed-style + craft checks, and returns a 0-100 score, per-dimension scores (BRAND/A11Y/HIER/TYPO/COMP/RESP/POLISH), and a ranked list of SPECIFIC fixes. Optionally pass a brief (a compose_brief result) to grade BRAND-match against its intended tokens. The companion to compose_brief: generate → grade → fix → regrade. Renders in a headless browser so
Lint Against Brief — Grade a page (url or html) AGAINST a brief and return brand-adherence plus token-swap fixes (which off-brand colors to replace with which brand tokens). The autonomous generate → grade → fix → regrade primitive. Pass a compose_brief result (or {specs:[{tokens,...}]}) as `brief`.
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What is the Aestheta: Design taste, as an API MCP server?
A design-knowledge API and MCP server for AI agents and developers. 324 aesthetics, plus tools to compose briefs, grade UI, and export tokens.
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Use the MCP endpoint listed on this page in your MCP client configuration. One-click install pills support Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and other hosts. Copy the remote MCP URL if your client needs a manual entry.
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Export Tokens — Paste-ready design tokens for any encyclopedia aesthetic by slug: CSS custom properties, a Tailwind theme.extend block, and W3C DTCG JSON, plus palette + fonts.
Shader Background — Get a drop-in, self-contained animated WebGL shader-gradient background (shadergradient.co vibe) with a vibrant palette. Pass a preset name (miami-neon, aurora, sunset-fire, plasma, electric-candy, ultraviolet, lava-citrus, deep-space, mint-magenta, tropic) OR a custom colors array of 2 to 4 hex strings. Returns paste-ready code (a <canvas> plus inline GLSL, no frameworks or build). Use it to give a hero or landing page a bold, modern animated background. Keep text contrast over it (overlay a tr
List Visual Recipes — List the VISUAL-RECIPE library: paste-ready generative hero backgrounds an agent can drop into a page (one real-3D Three.js lit surface + five vanilla-WebGL GLSL drop-ins). Returns each recipe's slug, name, family (surface-3d/gradient/flow/particles/raymarch), engine (webgl | three@0.160.0), perf (light/medium/heavy), palette_arity, default_token_map, and tunable params. Call this first, then get_visual_recipe for a paste-ready snippet, or compose_hero_visual to let the encyclopedia pick + theme
Get Visual Recipe — Get a SELF-CONTAINED, paste-ready generative-visual snippet (a <canvas> plus inline GLSL, or a <script type=module> + pinned three@0.160.0 importmap for the 3D recipe) for a given recipe slug (from list_visual_recipes). Resolve colors from any ONE of: an explicit `colors` hex array, an `aesthetic` slug (pulls that aesthetic's encyclopedia tokens), or a `brief` (a compose_brief result; uses specs[0].tokens). Numeric `params` are clamped server-side. Every snippet ships a filmic grain/vignette fin
Compose Hero Visual — THE one-call hero-visual composer: describe the page in plain words (`request`) and it composes a design brief from the encyclopedia, reads its facets (theme/hue/temp), HEURISTICALLY PICKS the best-fit recipe (dark+premium → lit silk surface; liquid/futuristic desktop → raymarch blob; data/network language → particle field; printed/editorial → ember dither; bright/light → aurora or mesh gradient), fills the colors from the brief's tokens, and returns the emitted paste-ready snippet PLUS { recipe
List Craft Skills — List the taste/craft layer: the constant kit (always applied for taste), conditional skills (triggered by request/facets), and the critique checklist. Each with a when-to-apply line. These add craft on top of an aesthetic; fetch full rules via get_craft_skill.
Get Craft Skill — Full rules markdown for one craft/critique skill (names come from compose_brief.craft or list_craft_skills). Apply while finalizing a spec to keep it on-craft and not-slop.
Get Design Brief — THE extraction tool: everything needed to produce new work in an aesthetic — exact color palette (names + hexes), fonts, the full design-skill markdown (worldview, rules, avoid-list), and paths/URLs of reference pages. Use this before mass-producing anything in a given design language.
Get Palette — Just the color palette ({name, hex} list) for one aesthetic.
List Doc Templates — List the canonical DESIGN-DOCUMENT templates Aestheta can scaffold (PRD, design brief, UI spec, design-system docs, brand guidelines, component spec, RFC, UX research plan, content guide, a11y spec, design review, vibe/aesthetic brief). Returns slug/name/when_to_use/section-headings. Call this first when you need to write any design doc.
Get Doc Template — Full structure of one design-doc template: every section with its purpose, guidance (LLM-followable prompts), and a worked example. Use to write the doc yourself, or call compose_design_doc to also pre-fill the design foundation from the encyclopedia.
Compose Design Doc — Generate a fill-ready markdown design doc: the chosen template's section scaffold PLUS a "Design foundation" pre-filled with REAL encyclopedia values (palette, design tokens, type, principles) matched to your brief, so you never invent colors/fonts. You then write each section. The best starting point whenever an agent needs to produce a design doc.
Get Skill Markdown — Raw skills/<slug>.md design-skill document (frontmatter + prose worldview). The canonical design doc for the aesthetic.
Get Page Source — Raw HTML source of an aesthetic's page — a complete reference implementation of the design language. file: "showcase" (landing page built IN the aesthetic), "docs" (catalog: swatches/type/rules), or "onboarding" (apps).
Random Aesthetic — A random design brief, optionally filtered by kind — for mass-production pipelines that want variety ("give me a style to build the next page in").
Add Aesthetic — Create or update an aesthetic in the encyclopedia (idempotent by slug). Requires: slug (kebab-case), name, kind (brand|yc|app|style|theme|component), summary (40-500 chars), palette (3-16 {name,hex}), files {"index.html": full self-contained showcase HTML, "docs.html": catalog HTML, optional "onboarding.html"}, optional skill_md prose (NO frontmatter — generated server-side). Pages must be fully static, built IN the aesthetic, anti-slop. On success the entry is live in the Orrery immediately.
Delete Aesthetic — Remove an aesthetic from the encyclopedia entirely (pages, skill doc, manifest, Orrery). Irreversible.
Encyclopedia Stats — Counts by kind + service health of the ingest API.
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