Design Lounge

What you can do with it

We have not written a plain-language summary for this one yet. Below are the facts we read from the registry.

• Connection: Computer or cloud
• Transport: stdio, Streamable HTTP
• Category: Design, images & audio

Install

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

You need

• Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet
• npmNode.js installed (for the npx command)

Which app do you use?

https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "design-lounge": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "design-lounge-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DESIGN_LOUNGE_SKILL_INSTALL": "your-value",
        "DESIGN_LOUNGE_HISTORY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

claude mcp add --transport http design-lounge https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp

claude mcp add design-lounge --env DESIGN_LOUNGE_SKILL_INSTALL=your-value --env DESIGN_LOUNGE_HISTORY=your-value -- npx -y design-lounge-mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "design-lounge": {
      "url": "https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "design-lounge": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "design-lounge-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DESIGN_LOUNGE_SKILL_INSTALL": "your-value",
        "DESIGN_LOUNGE_HISTORY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "design-lounge": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "design-lounge": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "design-lounge-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DESIGN_LOUNGE_SKILL_INSTALL": "your-value",
        "DESIGN_LOUNGE_HISTORY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp

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

Values you fill in

• DESIGN_LOUNGE_SKILL_INSTALL env
  Set to off to stop the server installing the Design Lounge skill into ~/.agents/skills on start.
• DESIGN_LOUNGE_HISTORY env
  Where recent design picks are kept. Default ~/.design-lounge/history.jsonl.

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 7, 2026. The maker wrote them, not us; we show them as plain text.

• start_design

  Call first for any new website, app, screen, or UI. Reads their request the way the method does (flow, mode, named style, calm words), ranks the recipes, reads the project folder and the recent picks, and returns the brief to fill and the steps, each naming the tool to use.

• get_recipe

  A recipe (start) with its directions: each a complete look (theme, pairing, family, hero, effect, work, footer). Each direction says whether the recent history blocks it.

• pick_direction

  Apply rules 3 to 5 of Pick a direction and the Recent picks check: calm words narrow to quiet, editorial, or sharp families; the history blocks recent directions, heroes, and effects; the group check blocks two-of-three matches; the name number breaks the tie. You judge which dir

• check_pick

  The uniqueness check from Recent picks: direction, hero, and effect against this recipe; two of hero, work, footer against the related group; hero shape against the last two; frame against the last three. Returns problems and the Unlike line for the sheet.

• search_pieces

  Search 600+ piece briefs by words (job, component, style, tag) and filters. Returns ids, summaries, and demo links. Then get_piece for the brief.

• get_piece

  The spec for one piece, with a picture of its demo: structure, counts, sizes, motion timing, states, hit targets, acceptance checklist. By default stops at "Optional below this line"; full=true adds the demo's exact paint and motion notes. demo=true adds the demo's HTML source, t

• browse_library

  List themes, pairings, families, recipes, piece categories, collections, or kinds. Themes and pairings can be ranked by a mood ("warm craft", "editorial serif", "dark technical").

• get_theme

  A theme's full CSS (primary, secondary, tertiary, feedback, surfaces, link) and its pair for the other mode. Colour only: fonts come from the pairing, radius and shadow from the family.

• get_pairing

  A pairing's CSS (Google Fonts import, --font-display, --font-text, mono if any), its numbers face, and any caution to say before you write.

• get_family

  A family's rules: radius, button style, density, shadow, and the sentences that lock them. The family wins over a brief for radius, shadow, button, and density.

• get_icons

  SVG for Lounge Icons by name (24px, stroke 1.75). With no names, lists them by group. Missing names come back as missing: then follow Icon and nav in components.md, never an emoji.

• search_wada

  Sanzo Wada's 348 combinations, by colour or material word (russet, slate, "dark warm") or nearest to a hex. Only for Free colour, a brand board no theme fits, or colours they asked for. Take one line whole; the header says how to map it to roles.

• read_guide

  Read a method file or one section of it. Files: SKILL.md, app.md, brief.md, components.md, examples.md, flows.md, locale.md, native.md, practice.md, reference.md, search.md, show.md, styles.md, taste.md, website.md. Give a heading ("Look", "Write the idea", "Recent picks") to get

• name_number

  The tie-break from rule 5 of Pick a direction: the sum of each letter's place in the alphabet, mod the number of fitting directions.

• review_page

  The all-in-one check for a built page: AI giveaways and kit drift (the Look fails), SEO, AEO, GEO, and, when Chromium is available, a rendered pass at 1280×800 and 390×844 with axe accessibility, measured labels, faces, primaries, tap targets, and saved screenshots. Returns score

• audit_slop

  Design only: the tells of a generated page (stock copy, em dashes, buzzwords, icon-card trios, gradients, the indigo palette, emoji icons, numbered eyebrows, placeholder copy, made-up numbers) and drift from the locked kit (faces, colours, radius, shadow). Static by default; rend

• audit_search

  Whether search engines can index the page and show it well (SEO), answer engines can lift a direct answer (AEO), and AI engines can reach it, read it without JavaScript, and name the entity (GEO): title, description, headings, alt, share card and its 1200×630 image, canonical, ro

• suggest_schema

  JSON-LD for the page built only from facts on it: the entity (Organization, LocalBusiness subtypes, Person, Product, SoftwareApplication) with name, url, description, image, phone, email, address, sameAs; and FAQPage from its own questions. Lists the fields it could not find. Nev

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

• ✓ Pass

  Maker matches the repo

  The registry name was verified with the GitHub account SusanAcharya, which owns the repo

• … Not checked yet

  Still maintained

  We have not read this repo from GitHub yet

• … Not checked yet

  Has a licence

  We have not read this repo from GitHub yet

• ✓ Pass

  Endpoint responds

  Responded in 188 ms (HTTP 200)

• – Not applicable

  Sign-in with OAuth

  No sign-in needed

• ✓ Pass

  No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

  Read 18 tool descriptions and found no hidden instructions to the AI

Compared with others in Design, images & audioi

• More stars than 0% of the other 2800 servers in this category
• Published to the registry more recently than 93% of the other 2800 servers in this category
• Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 2800 servers in this category

Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.

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README from the maker

claude mcp add design-lounge --scope user -- npx -y design-lounge-mcp@latest

{

{ "servers": { "design-lounge": { "type": "stdio", "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "design-lounge-mcp@latest"] } } }

[mcp_servers.design-lounge]

pnpm test                              # unit tests and a stdio round trip