Gradients Studio MCP Server

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Gradients Studio is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 3 tools. Last commit 27 Oct 2026.

Gradient backgrounds with real grain, pixel and dither finishes. Free previews, no key needed.

Uptime history 48 days of history · worst day 0%

48 days agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

247 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 27 Oct 2026

Gradients Studio does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% 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 13 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://www.gradients.studio/mcp

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

https://www.gradients.studio/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://www.gradients.studio/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://www.gradients.studio/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.gradients.studio/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

palettes

list_palettes

Palettes to start from: the studio's sixteen, the ones behind product sites people admire (Linear, Stripe, Raycast, …), the account's saved palettes (with an API key), and six tuned starting points for common jobs (website hero, launch post, deck slide, product screenshot, integrations grid, App Store shot) with their full settings. Pass any of these to render_gradient. No key needed.

render

render_gradient

Render a gradient background image (website hero, OG image, launch post, slide, wallpaper) with Gradients Studio's renderer: blobs, stripes or clouds, real grain, pixel and dither finishes, shape overlays. Workflow: start from suggest_settings or list_palettes, call this WITHOUT `size` for a free 960px preview (returned inline, no API key needed), adjust the `settings` you get back, and pass `size` (exact pixels, e.g. [1200, 630] for an OG image, [2560, 1440] for a hero) once the person is happy. A sized export needs an API key; it uses one of the account's monthly exports (5 free, unlimited on Pro) and returns a URL that is valid for 24 hours; asking for the same export again within that time returns the same URL for free. Every result includes `settings` (send them back to iterate) and `studioUrl` (open it to take over in the browser). Use `overlaySvg` with the raw text of a logo SVG to draw it as concentric outlines over the gradient. For the soft mesh look keep blur at 700–900 and contrast at 130; saturated mid-tone colors render best, muddy ones come out dull.

suggest

suggest_settings

Turn a plain-language brief ('dark, premium, fintech hero, a bit retro') into two or three starting settings for render_gradient. Understands jobs (hero, launch post, slide, screenshot, integrations, app store), moods and colors, product names (Linear, Stripe, Raycast…), styles (blobs, stripes, clouds) and finishes (retro/pixel, print/dither, terminal/glyph dither, film/grain, smooth). You are the taste layer: preview the candidates and adjust. No key needed.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://www.gradients.studio/mcp	streamable-http	answering	247 ms	13 min ago

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Gradients Studio — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Gradients Studio do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: list_palettes, render_gradient, suggest_settings. 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 Gradients Studio working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 247 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Gradients Studio as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect Gradients Studio?

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 Gradients Studio need an API key?

No. Gradients Studio completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

Is Gradients Studio open source?

We cannot say either way: 0 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.