Sidekick for InDesign MCP Server

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Sidekick for InDesign runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 197 installs a week from npm.

Lets Claude (or any other AI assistant) work in your open Adobe InDesign documents.

Installs per day peak 181 · avg 21 · +1662% w/w

a month agotoday

197

Installs / week

npm · indesign-sidekick

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Stars

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Last commit

4 releases in 90 days

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License

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Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Sidekick for InDesign every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add indesign -- npx -y indesign-sidekick

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "indesign": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "indesign-sidekick"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.indesign]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "indesign-sidekick"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "indesign": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "indesign-sidekick"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "indesign": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "indesign-sidekick"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Sidekick for InDesign — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Sidekick for InDesign?

Sidekick for InDesign runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package indesign-sidekick was installed 197 times last week.

How do I connect Sidekick for InDesign?

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 runs locally, so the command pulls indesign-sidekick straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Sidekick for InDesign?

The npm package indesign-sidekick was installed 197 times in the last week. Week over week that is +1662%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.