Design Engine is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 7 tools.
AI data-center design engine: size, validate & lay out Rubin-era data centers. Korea live.
What changed 4
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 2 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
Design Engine does not always answer
Over the last week it answered 7.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.
claude mcp add design-engine --transport http https://aidc-ai.io/api/mcphttps://aidc-ai.io/api/mcp[mcp_servers.design-engine]
url = "https://aidc-ai.io/api/mcp"{
"mcpServers": {
"design-engine": {
"url": "https://aidc-ai.io/api/mcp"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"design-engine": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://aidc-ai.io/api/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 7
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
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Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://aidc-ai.io/api/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 74 ms | 7 min ago |
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Design Engine — questions
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