MCP Dashboards

MCP Dashboards

Your AI can talk about data. Now it can show it.

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The problem

We use AI for everything - analysis, reports, strategy. But when it comes to actually *seeing* the story in your data, you're stuck copying numbers into a spreadsheet and building charts yourself. The conversation has the insight. The visualization is somewhere else.

The solution

MCP Dashboards renders interactive charts, dashboards, and KPI widgets directly inside your AI conversation. 32 chart tools covering 45+ chart subtypes (bar has stacked/drilldown, hero has 11 variants, flowchart has 6 node kinds + 5 edge styles, etc.), 21 themes, 4 visual discovery catalogs, live polling, PNG/PPT/A4 export - all from a single MCP server. No browser tabs, no copy-paste, no context switching.

Works in

ChatGPT and claude.ai need a remotely hosted endpoint (Streamable HTTP mode below); the desktop clients spawn the server locally.

[!IMPORTANT]

The only official npm package is mcp-dashboards, published from this repository. Similarly named packages are not ours: mcp-dashboards-shared was malware (see OSSF advisory MAL-2026-4296, removed by npm security in May 2026). Install only mcp-dashboards.

Quick Start

Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{

"mcpServers": { "dashboard": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-dashboards", "--stdio"] } } }

Claude Code / VS Code

claude mcp add dashboard -- npx -y mcp-dashboards --stdio

Remote (Streamable HTTP)

npx mcp-dashboards

Server starts on http://127.0.0.1:3001/mcp

Bound to localhost by default. See Configuration if you need to expose it on your network or allow browser access from a non-localhost origin.

Supported clients

Works in any MCP Apps-compatible client: Claude Desktop, Claude Web, VS Code (GitHub Copilot), Goose, Postman, MCPJam. ChatGPT support is rolling out.

Just ask

No API to learn. Describe what you want in plain English:

• *"Compare Q1 vs Q2 revenue by region as a bar chart"*
• *"Show my portfolio allocation as a donut chart with the boardroom theme"*
• *"Build a dashboard with monthly sales KPIs and a trend line"*
• *"Visualize website traffic by country on a world map"*
• *"Track Bitcoin price live, updating every 30 seconds"*
• *"Show the conversion funnel from signup to purchase"*
• *"Rank the team by performance using a radar chart"*
• *"Diagram my multi-agent pipeline as a flowchart and let me step through it"*

The AI picks the right tool, formats your data, and renders the chart inline. Click any data point to ask follow-up questions.

Don't know where to start? Ask *"show me the catalog"* - opens a master dashboard with one live visual tile per customization dimension (a real bar chart for charts, a pie for themes, a progress ring for hero variants, a neon-glowing card for effects). Click any tile, hit Ask, and you'll drill into that sub-catalog.

Interactive charts, not images

Every chart is interactive HTML rendered directly in your conversation:

• Explore in-chat - hover tooltips, click-to-select (feeds back to the AI), drill-down with breadcrumbs, scroll-zoom up to 12x on maps and heatmaps
• Editable flowcharts - drag nodes, multi-select, rename via right-click, minimap + node list to navigate, step-through playback of the flow, then sync your layout back to the AI to save it
• Live polling - real-time charts that auto-update from any API on a timer
• Export anywhere - PPT (16:9 slides), A4 (paginated with smart page breaks), PNG, CSV

All Tools

Discovery / Catalogs - visual entry points for browsing what's available:

Typography is still configurable on every chart via typography= (8 options listed under Themes) - it just doesn't have its own catalog because all 8 options were visually identical without per-card font loading, which wasn't worth the build for one preview tool.

Which chart should I use?

Themes

21 built-in themes. Pass theme to any tool.

Mix-and-match with palette, typography (8 options: system, mono, professional, editorial, bold, techno, cyberpunk, luxury), and effects (5 presets: none, subtle, shimmer, neon, energetic).

Live Polling

Real-time charts that auto-update from any API. The live chart polls data via poll_http, which supports two modes:

Secure presets (authenticated APIs)