Backgrounds MCP Server

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Backgrounds is answering right now. Last checked 40 min ago. 68 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 28 · avg 9 · -37% w/w

a month agotoday

Uptime history 63 days of history · worst day 97%

63 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

23 of 23 checks

Tools

read from the server

589 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Installs / week

npm and PyPI

This one has been quiet for a while

Quiet is not dead — but it is worth knowing when it wakes up, or when someone else takes it over. We watch the repository and tell you either way.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 40 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add backgrounds --transport http https://api.creatica.app/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

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

{
  "servers": {
    "backgrounds": {
      "type": "http",
      "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

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.creatica.app/mcp	streamable-http	answering	522 ms	40 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 23 of 23 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 589 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 in the form 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 589 ms on average, which is faster than 18% 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 68 times in the last week. Week over week that is -37%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.