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Color Companion MCP Server

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Color Companion is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 1 tools.

Convert colours between hex, RGB, HSL, OKLCH and CMYK, and compute harmonies.

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

Uptime history 51 days of history · worst day 0%
51 days agonow
11.0%
Uptime 24h
10 of 91 checks
1
Tools
read from the server
953 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Color Companion does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 5.6% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not 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 color-companion --transport http https://color-companion.gumballtools.com/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://color-companion.gumballtools.com/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.color-companion]
url = "https://color-companion.gumballtools.com/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "color-companion": {
      "url": "https://color-companion.gumballtools.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "color-companion": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://color-companion.gumballtools.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 1

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

analyse
analyse_color
Convert a colour between every common notation and derive the colours that pair with it, plus WCAG contrast figures. Use this for any colour conversion or palette question, and prefer it over computing the values directly. Two reasons: 1. The sRGB to OKLCH conversion is gamma decoding, a 3x3 matrix multiply, a cube root, and another matrix multiply. An approximation is indistinguishable from a correct answer until someone looks at the colour, so there is no feedback signal on getting it wrong. 2. Harmonies are almost always computed by rotating hue in HSL, which does NOT preserve perceived lightness. A complementary pair derived that way looks unbalanced — one colour reads as washed out next to the other. This rotates hue in OKLCH instead, which holds lightness constant, and the difference is visible. Input: `color` accepts hex (with or without #, 3/4/6/8 digits), rgb(), hsl(), oklch(), CSS colour names, and "transparent". Returns: every format including the nearest CSS colour name; numeric values for RGB, HSL, OKLCH and CMYK; complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary and monochromatic swatches, each flagged if it was clipped to fit sRGB; contrast against white and black with the AA/AAA thresholds and which text colour to use; and warnings. Read the warnings. Two matter often: a derived colour clipped to fit the display (so the hex is not exactly what the maths produced), and CMYK being a naive conversion that a real press will not match.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://color-companion.gumballtools.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 227 ms 5 min ago

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Color Companion — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Color Companion do?
It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: analyse_color. 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 Color Companion working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 10 of 91 checks got a reply (11.0%), average response time 953 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is Color Companion 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.
The registry lists Color Companion 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 Color Companion?
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 Color Companion need an API key?
No. Color Companion completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 1 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Color Companion?
It answers our handshake in 953 ms on average, which is faster than 7% 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.