Candor UI docs

Name: Candor UI docs
Author: MethodicDev

by MethodicDevversion 1.9.0i★ –iRuns in the cloud

Registry namecom.themethodic/candor

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Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Candor UI docs and component suggestions. Read-only, no key, never serves paid source.

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UsageiEarly★ –

What you can do with it

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Connection: Runs in the cloud
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Category: Other

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

Basic checks: 2 of 3 passed
Runs on the maker’s server: what you ask it goes through their server.
Can do 9 things (tools) search_docs, get_component_docs, suggest_components, list_components …
The registry lists no key to fill in.

You need

Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Works in Claude on the web, desktop and mobile:

Open Settings → Connectors
Press Add custom connector
Paste the address below and press Add
If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker

https://candor.themethodic.com/mcp

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http candor https://candor.themethodic.com/mcp

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "candor": {
      "url": "https://candor.themethodic.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "candor": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://candor.themethodic.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

ChatGPT connects only to servers on the internet:

Open ChatGPT on the web → Settings → Connectors (Apps)
Press Create or Add (some plans need Developer mode under Advanced first)
Paste the address below, give it a name and save
If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker

https://candor.themethodic.com/mcp

Menu names can differ slightly by plan and over time.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

Tool names and descriptions exactly as the server reported them on Nov 8, 2026. The maker wrote them, not us; we show them as plain text.

search_docs
Search Candor UI's components, hooks, blocks and patterns by what they do ("approve a tool call", "cost estimate", "session list"). Returns names, tiers and one-line descriptions; read one with get_component_docs.
get_component_docs
Read one item's docs as Markdown: what it is, its tier and install command, an example with the import paths an app uses, every prop, function, type, and the LocaleProvider string keys.
suggest_components
Describe the screen or feature you're building; get the Candor UI items that fit, why, the matching patterns, and one install command. Read each suggestion's docs before using it.
list_components
List every item by group (Chat, Agent work, App shell, …), or one group's items with descriptions.
get_pattern
Read a pattern as Markdown: a common problem in agent UIs (approvals, traces, cost guards, …) and the components that solve it.
get_started
How to install Candor UI in a React or Next.js app, render a chat, connect an agent SDK, add licensed items and keep them updated.
get_brief
One item's brief to hand to the coding agent that builds the screen: the same Markdown the docs page's "Copy for a coding agent" button copies (what the item is, its tier and install command, an example with the import paths an app uses, every prop, the string keys, and the rules
get_design
The design system as Markdown: every colour role and what it's for, the type scale, radius, shadows, motion, density and themes, read from the shipped CSS; how an app re-tokens for its brand; and how to build the screens around Candor components (surfaces, rhythm, writing, do and
get_review_checklist
The checklist to run after each screen where an AI agent acts, before moving on: one line per check, each tied to a rule (model output is text, unknown stays unknown, a locked control says why, nothing pre-selected, approve the exact change, reasoning is believed, the app names t

Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 8, 2026

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Maker matches the repo
The publisher (themethodic.com) is not the repo owner (MethodicDev); someone else may have listed it
… Not checked yet
Still maintained
We have not read this repo from GitHub yet
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Has a licence
We have not read this repo from GitHub yet
✓ Pass
Endpoint responds
Responded in 329 ms (HTTP 200)
– Not applicable
Sign-in with OAuth
No sign-in needed
✓ Pass
No hidden instructions in tool descriptions
Read 9 tool descriptions and found no hidden instructions to the AI

Compared with others in Otheri

More stars than 0% of the other 18475 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 100% of the other 18475 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 36% of the other 18475 servers in this category

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Common questions

Is Candor UI docs safe?

It passed 2 of 3 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs in the maker’s cloud. Connect over the internet with nothing to install, but what you send passes through the maker’s servers.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (1.9.0) reached the registry today.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

What can I use instead?

In the same category: Spec Driven Development, Remote Desktop Commander, Tethered Trust

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README from the maker

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Candor UI: the free tier

Interface components for agent apps: a thread, messages, a composer, tool calls, reasoning and citations, the building blocks under them, a light, dark and high-contrast theme, and adapters for the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK and AG-UI. Built on shadcn, installed with its CLI, MIT licensed.

This repo is the source of Candor UI's 54 free items (version 1.9.0), the skill and plugins for coding agents and a starter app. Docs and live examples: https://candor.themethodic.com.

Install

npx candor-ui init

npx candor-ui add thread message composer

candor-ui init adds the @candor registry to components.json and the theme to your CSS; in a project without shadcn yet it runs shadcn's setup first (--yes sets it up with Radix and shadcn's nova preset, no questions). Or add the registry by hand: "@candor": "https://candor.themethodic.com/r/{name}.json". If shadcn asks to overwrite a primitive such as ui/button.tsx, answer yes: Candor's button styles locked actions; without a terminal, pass --overwrite.

For coding agents

llms-install.md tells an agent how to set Candor up in a project by itself: the CLI, the docs MCP server, the skill and the honesty rules to keep. The skill alone:

npx skills add MethodicDev/candor

installs two skills: skills/candor-ui (which component fits which job, the adapters, and the rules the components keep, with a design-system reference read from the shipped CSS) and skills/candor-agent-ui (design fundamentals for screens where an AI agent acts, with a review checklist to run after each screen; it works with or without Candor).

The plugins install the skill and the docs MCP server together. Claude Code: claude plugin marketplace add MethodicDev/candor, then claude plugin install candor-ui@candor (or, in a session, /plugin install candor-ui --marketplace MethodicDev/candor). GitHub Copilot CLI: copilot plugin marketplace add MethodicDev/candor, then copilot plugin install candor-ui@candor. VS Code installs candor-ui from this repo's URL; Cursor reads .cursor-plugin/marketplace.json; the Codex package is plugins/codex/candor-ui.

The MCP server at https://candor.themethodic.com/mcp serves docs and component suggestions only: read-only, no key, never paid source. .mcp/server.json describes it for the MCP registry. Agents can also read https://candor.themethodic.com/llms.txt.

Starter

starter/ is a Next.js app with a working agent chat built from these components:

npx degit MethodicDev/candor/starter my-agent-app

What's here

theme: Candor's default theme: light, dark and high contrast, contrast-checked. Import styles/candor.css after Tailwind.
font-inter: Inter, Candor's default typeface, self-hosted (OFL-1.1). Optional: without it the theme uses the system font. Import styles/candor-font-inter.css next to candor.css.
ag-ui: Turns AG-UI events into Candor messages, waiting approvals and usage, with AG-UI 1.0's shared state and activities.
ai-sdk: Vercel AI SDK (v7) UI messages to Candor messages: text, reasoning, tool calls, sources and data cards.
claude-agent-sdk: Turns Claude Agent SDK events into Candor messages, waiting approvals (and the agent's questions), usage and sources, and a person's answer back into the SDK's result.
claude-agent-server: The server half of the Claude Agent SDK adapter: stream a run to useClaudeAgent, keep its permission requests in a store your own route can answer, and let a browser re-attach to a run after a reload.
use-ag-ui: Wires an AG-UI agent to Candor: messages for / , props for , and the interrupts waiting on a person.
use-candor-chat: Wires a useChat() result to Candor: messages for / , props for , and the tool calls waiting on a person.
use-claude-agent: Wires a Claude Agent SDK server route to Candor: messages for / , props for , and the tool calls waiting on a person, re-attaching to a run after a reload.
copy-field: A value a person copies somewhere else (a callback URL, a scope list).
degraded-panel: Something couldn't be done.
locale: The interface's words, language and direction.
locked: The honest-state rule: a control that cannot be used says why.
relative-time: A time as people say it ("5 minutes ago"), with the exact time on hover, safe to render on the server.
status-dot: How many times the status reached done or failed from an unfinished one while the dot was on screen; zero when it mounted finished, so nothing moves for a change the reader never saw.
step-list: How many times status has reached succeeded or failed from an unfinished status while this component was on screen.
streaming-text: Text that is still arriving.
surface: Candor's card: a plain, muted, bordered or floating surface, so no screen hand-rolls its own.
terms: The app's words for its own concepts, so components read like the product: one app says "org", another "project" or "workspace".
agent-avatar: An agent's glyph and hue by role, so people can tell agents apart at a glance.
ai-disclosure: A plain notice that the person is interacting with an AI system: a first line in the thread (variant="line") or a compact "AI" badge for a thread header (variant="badge") that opens to the app's own explanation.
attachment-preview: A file waiting to be sent, as a chip in the composer: its name, then upload progress, an error, or its size, and a remove button.
card-registry: A card an agent's reply can carry.
citation: An inline [n] that opens its source in a popover, so evidence is one step away without leaving the thread.
composer: Where a person writes to the agent: @ mentions attach things as references, / starts a known action, and the scope says where the ask runs.
context-meter: What fills the model's context budget, as a ring in the composer that opens to a breakdown: system, instructions, Know, the thread, tools, files.
entity-chip: A thing in the user's system (a table, a record, a flow) as a chip with its kind's icon, that can open it.
folded-turns: A run of turns folded into one line, for long agent work a reader doesn't need to see step by step: "Drafted three versions and compared them".
message-actions: Copy, retry and rate under an agent's reply.
message-content: A message's typed blocks (paragraphs, lists, code, tool calls, cards), rendered as text, never as markdown or HTML.
message: One message in a thread.
payload: A block of code or query text from the agent: a query it ran, code it wrote, a config file.
permission-prompt: A tool call waiting for a person's go-ahead: what it will do, why it reached them, and the permission mode the run is in.
prompt-suggestions: Prompts to start from.
reasoning: The agent's stated reasoning above its answer.
thread-divider: A rule across the thread with a label in the middle: a day ("Today", "Yesterday", "5 Nov 2026") or a chapter of the conversation ("Drafting", "Review").
thread-event: A quiet, centred line in a thread for something that happened rather than something said: "Sam joined", "Switched to the staging environment", "Run stopped by a guardrail".
thread: The scrolling message column.
tool-call: One tool call as a compact row: what it did in plain words, its status, and how long it took.
chat: The data a Candor thread renders.
highlight: A small syntax highlighter for code an agent shows: it splits text into typed tokens (keyword, string, comment…), and Payload renders each as a span.
know: The data behind the agents' knowledge base and agent settings.
mcp-input: MCP's "input required" results (spec 2026-07-28, multi round-trip requests) as Candor data: a server's form becomes questions for ClarifyingQuestions, a plain confirmation or a link to open becomes a two-answer Decision for ApprovalDecision, and the person's answers become the inputResponses the client sends when it retries the call.
render-prop: Lets Candor's Radix-based primitives also take Base UI's render prop.
safe-markdown: Reads model text as safe markdown: paragraphs, lists and fenced code.
status: The status vocabulary every Candor agent component shares.
use-copy: Copy text and report what actually happened.
use-shortcut: The keys of a combo as they should be printed: "mod+k" → ["⌘", "K"] on a Mac and ["Ctrl", "K"] elsewhere.
use-virtual-list: Render only the items of a long list that are in or near view, for Thread's and SessionList's virtualize.
button: shadcn's button in Candor's theme, with a locked state for (dimmed, and says why).
collapsible: shadcn's collapsible (Radix) in Candor's theme.
popover: shadcn's popover (Radix) in Candor's theme.
skeleton: A loading placeholder in the shape of what's coming.
tooltip: shadcn's tooltip (Radix) in Candor's theme.

Pro and Premium

Plans, approvals, diffs, runs, evals, the app shell, admin screens, full-stack blocks and templates are in the paid tiers: https://candor.themethodic.com/#pricing.

Contributing

This repo is generated from Candor UI's main repo on each release. Issues are welcome here; pull requests are read and applied upstream by hand, so they show up in the next release rather than being merged directly.

Licence

MIT, © Methodic LLC. See LICENSE. It covers this repository's free items; Candor UI's paid items are under the Candor UI Commercial Licence.

Candor UI docs

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Otheri

Common questions

Alternatives

Spec Driven Development

Remote Desktop Commander

Tethered Trust

README from the maker

Candor UI: the free tier

Install

For coding agents

Starter

What's here

Pro and Premium

Contributing

Licence