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CSS Crème MCP Server

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CSS Crème is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 12 tools. Last commit 14 Sep 2026.

Give your agent a real design system: tokens, measured WCAG contrast, and rules to follow.

Uptime history 7 days of history · worst day 77%
7 days agonow
79.1%
Uptime 24h
72 of 91 checks
12
Tools
read from the server
319 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 14 Sep 2026

What changed 4

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 19 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

19 Sep a tool changed version2 times that day
19 Sep a tool appeared css_feature
19 Sep a tool description was rewritten css_feature
and 1 more, back to 19 September 2026

CSS Crème does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 92.4% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

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

Available tools 12

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

decode
decode_site
Read a sample of pages from one site (from its sitemap.xml, or the homepage links when there is no sitemap) and report what is CONSISTENT across them: which declared tokens, colours, font stacks, radii and spacing values appear on every page read, and which appear on only some. One page shows what a page uses; a design system is a claim about consistency, and only a sample can test it. Returns counts and the pages actually read, never a score. Use when the user asks whether a site is really on a system, or wants the system rather than one page of it.
decode_url
Fetch a public site's HTML and stylesheets and return what its CSS declares: named custom properties that look like design tokens, the colours it uses most, its font stacks, border radii, spacing values, and the framework it appears to be built with. Also returns a "drop" report: roughly how many words a web-to-markdown reader would carry away from this page, against the design decisions it would discard, because markdown is defined by throwing the design layer away. It reads CSS and does not render the page, so it reports a confidence ("tokens" when named properties were found, "derived" when only compiled CSS was available) and flags a JavaScript shell rather than pretending every site is equally legible. Use when the user wants to match a site that is not in the catalogue, or has fetched a page as markdown and needs what that markdown lost.
design
get_design_md
Fetch the full DESIGN.md for one theme: semantic colour roles, the complete shadcn token set in light and dark, typography, radius, spacing, MEASURED WCAG contrast ratios, and numbered rules the generated UI must follow. Read this before writing any UI. Save it at the repo root as DESIGN.md so it applies to every session.
get_design_md_for_url
Read the stylesheets of a public site and return a full DESIGN.md: semantic roles with the token each came from, measured WCAG contrast pairs, the tokens the site itself declares (framework internals counted separately), font families, the type scale with the ratio between steps, colour frequency, gradients, corner radii, spacing, an elevation ladder of shadows, breakpoints, the z-index ladder, interaction-state rule counts, motion, and whether a dark theme is declared. This is the artefact to hand a coding agent before it writes UI that should match a site. It reads declared CSS and does not execute JavaScript, so it reports what the stylesheets say rather than what the page renders.
themes
list_themes
Browse the full catalogue of curated themes and templates. Use when the user wants to see options rather than search for one.
search_themes
Find a design system by describing what you are building ("dark developer tool", "calm fintech dashboard", "playful consumer app"). Returns matching themes with their DESIGN.md URL and shadcn install command. Call this first when the user has no design system defined.
agent
get_agent_rules
Return a short standing-instructions block that makes every future session read DESIGN.md before touching UI. Paste it whole into CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or .cursor/rules/design.mdc. It points at the DESIGN.md rather than restating it, and carries the token fingerprint so drift is detectable.
css
css_feature
Answers two questions about a modern CSS feature with data instead of recall. First, its Baseline status (widely available, newly available, or limited availability), the date, and which core browsers lack it, read from the open web-features dataset at build time. Second, how many of CSS Crème's curated, decoded showcase sites ship it, which ones, how many of them guard it with @supports, and the exact @supports conditions they test. Also returns a fallback note where we have one, any name the feature has shipped under before (an agent that learned the old name will otherwise write it), and the documented limits that catch people out, each cited to the page it was read on. Call it before writing CSS that uses container queries, :has(), anchor positioning, @scope, view transitions, oklch(), color-mix(), light-dark(), subgrid, scroll-driven animations, @property, text-wrap and similar, so the CSS you write is accurate for today rather than for your training date. With no feature given it returns the Ship Gap: features that are safe and mostly ignored, and features that are early and shipped anyway.
how
how_to_use
Explains where a DESIGN.md belongs for a given coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Codex, Lovable) so the design rules apply to every session rather than one message.
install
get_install_command
Return the exact `npx shadcn@latest add <url>` command that installs one theme into a shadcn/ui project, plus the registry URL it reads. Use when the user says "install it" and you already know the id.
theme
get_theme_tokens
Get the shadcn/ui registry item (OKLCH tokens, light and dark) plus the paste-ready CSS variables for one theme, and the one-line command that installs it for real. Use after get_design_md when you are ready to write the tokens into globals.css.
verify
verify_design_md
Every DESIGN.md carries a Fingerprint line. Pass the id and that fingerprint; the server answers whether the copy matches the current token set, and if not, returns the current tokens so the agent can update the file instead of following a stale one. Call this at the start of a session when a DESIGN.md is already in the repo.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://csscreme.com/mcp streamable-http answering 232 ms 10 min ago

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CSS Crème — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can CSS Crème do?
It exposes 12 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: css_feature, decode_site, decode_url, get_agent_rules, get_design_md, get_design_md_for_url and 6 more. 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 →
What is CSS Crème mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around decode, design and themes. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is CSS Crème working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 72 of 91 checks got a reply (79.1%), average response time 319 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect CSS Crème?
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 CSS Crème need an API key?
No. CSS Crème completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 12 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is CSS Crème?
It answers our handshake in 319 ms on average, which is faster than 53% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is CSS Crème open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.