frontend-inspo-mcp
A local MCP server that hands AI coding agents paste-ready component code from 13 UI galleries instead of dead links.
- Domain
- Agent tooling
- Built with
- TypeScript, MCP, Node.js
- Source
- github.com/notsointresting/frontend-inspo-mcp
The problem
Component galleries like shadcn, Aceternity and Magic UI are built for people clicking in a browser. AI coding agents asking for a component usually get a link they cannot use.
How it works
- A TypeScript MCP server over stdio for Node 18+, with six tools: list_sources, list_categories, search_resources, search_all, get_resource and get_code.
- 13 pluggable source adapters covering registry JSON, HTML parsing, jsDelivr and the GitHub API.
- In-memory caching, polite per-host rate limits and parallel search across every source.
- A smoke test that parses all 13 live sources and asserts on the results.
Where it landed
Returns paste-ready React/TSX, Tailwind and HTML/CSS/JS components. Documented for Claude Desktop, Cursor and Claude Code. MIT licensed.
Stack
- TypeScript
- MCP
- Node.js
- cheerio
- zod