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Backgrounds MCP Server

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Backgrounds is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. 71 installs a week from npm. It exposes 6 tools.

Deterministic procedural SVG/PNG backgrounds: 58 generators, curated palettes, brand kits.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Installs per day peak 601 · avg 28 · -84% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 16 days of history · worst day 97%
16 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
1020 ms
Response time
average over 24h
71
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

Backgrounds missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add backgrounds --transport http https://api.creatica.app/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "backgrounds": {
      "url": "https://api.creatica.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.backgrounds]
url = "https://api.creatica.app/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "backgrounds": {
      "url": "https://api.creatica.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "backgrounds": {
      "url": "https://api.creatica.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

backgrounds
list_backgrounds
Browse the catalog of background structures. Optionally filter by a free-text query, tag or mood word. Returns name, one-line summary, mood, use cases and a preview URL for each.
brand
list_brand_kits
Saved brand palettes on this account. Pass a kit's slug as `brand` to generate_background to render on-brand without repeating hex colours.
describe
describe_background
Full style card for one structure: what it looks like, mood, where text can go, tips, and every parameter it honours with ranges, defaults and the visual effect of low/high values. Also returns the JSON Schema for a generate request.
generate
generate_background
Render a background as SVG or PNG. Deterministic: the same structure, options and seed always give the same image, so store the returned seed. Returns a permanent, cacheable image URL you can use directly in <img>/CSS, plus an inline PNG preview. Call describe_background first to learn which shape options the structure honours.
palettes
list_palettes
Built-in curated colour palettes with their hex colours and derived mood tags (dark, pastel, vivid, warm, cool…). Pass the id as palette.palette to generate_background.
suggest
suggest_backgrounds
Rank structures for a natural-language brief ("dark aurora glow for an AI landing page"). Returns why each matched, matching built-in palettes, and a ready-to-run example request for generate_background.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://api.creatica.app/mcp streamable-http answering 780 ms 5 min ago

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Backgrounds — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Backgrounds do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: describe_background, generate_background, list_backgrounds, list_brand_kits, list_palettes, suggest_backgrounds. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Backgrounds working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 1020 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is Backgrounds still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
How do I connect Backgrounds?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Backgrounds need an API key?
No. Backgrounds completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Backgrounds?
It answers our handshake in 1020 ms on average, which is faster than 10% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Backgrounds?
The npm package @creatica/mcp was installed 71 times in the last week. Week over week that is -84%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.