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Diagrams MCP is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. 132 installs a week from pypi. It exposes 9 tools. Last commit 27 Sep 2026.

Generate cloud architecture diagrams, flowcharts, and sequence diagrams.

Installs per day peak 64 · avg 24 · -12% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 0%
91 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 91 checks
9
Tools
read from the server
185 ms
Response time
average over 24h
132
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

What the code does

We read the source, 5 d ago · tools taken from the live server · rules 995398eba69f

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

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This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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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 1 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add diagrams-mcp-server --transport http https://diagrams-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://diagrams-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.diagrams-mcp-server]
url = "https://diagrams-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "diagrams-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://diagrams-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "diagrams-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://diagrams-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 9

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

render
render_diagram
Render a mingrammer/diagrams Python snippet to PNG and return the image. The code must be a complete Python script using `from diagrams import ...` imports and a `with Diagram(...)` context manager block. Use search_nodes to verify node names and get correct import paths before writing code. Read the diagrams://reference/diagram, diagrams://reference/edge, and diagrams://reference/cluster resources for constructor options and usage examples. Args: code: Full Python code using the diagrams library. filename: Output filename without extension. format: Output format — ``"png"`` (default), ``"svg"``, or ``"pdf"``. download_link: If True, return a temporary download URL path (/images/{token}) that expires after 15 minutes; if False, return inline image bytes. Defaults to True (URL) — set ``DIAGRAMS_INLINE_DEFAULT=true`` on the server to flip the default. SVG/PDF and PNGs larger than the inline limit always use a download link.
render_mermaid
Render a Mermaid diagram definition and return the image with metadata. The definition should be valid Mermaid syntax (e.g. flowchart, sequence, class, ER, state, or Gantt diagram). Returns a list of content blocks: the rendered image plus a JSON text block with metadata including a mermaid.live edit link for opening the diagram in a browser editor. Args: definition: Mermaid diagram definition text. filename: Output filename without extension. format: Output format — ``"png"`` (default), ``"svg"``, or ``"pdf"``. download_link: If True, return a temporary download URL path (/images/{token}) that expires after 15 minutes; if False, return inline image bytes. Defaults to True (URL) — set ``DIAGRAMS_INLINE_DEFAULT=true`` on the server to flip the default. SVG/PDF and PNGs larger than the inline limit always use a download link.
render_plantuml
Render a PlantUML diagram definition and return the image. The definition should be valid PlantUML syntax wrapped in @startuml/@enduml (sequence, class, component, activity, state, deployment, etc.). Args: definition: PlantUML diagram definition text. filename: Output filename without extension. format: Output format — ``"png"`` (default) or ``"svg"``. PDF is not supported (requires Batik/FOP). download_link: If True, return a temporary download URL path (/images/{token}) that expires after 15 minutes; if False, return inline image bytes. Defaults to True (URL) — set ``DIAGRAMS_INLINE_DEFAULT=true`` on the server to flip the default. SVG and PNGs larger than the inline limit always use a download link.
nodes
list_nodes
List available node classes for a provider.service combo. Args: provider: Provider name (e.g. 'aws', 'gcp', 'k8s'). service: Service category (e.g. 'compute', 'database', 'network'). Returns: List of nodes with keys: name, import, alias_of (optional).
search_nodes
Search for diagram nodes by keyword across all providers and services. For targeted browsing when you know the provider, use list_providers -> list_services -> list_nodes instead. Args: query: Search term (case-insensitive substring match). Returns: List of matching nodes with keys: node, provider, service, import, alias_of (optional). Sorted by relevance: exact match first, then prefix, then substring.
categories
list_categories
List all infrastructure role categories with their mapped nodes. Use this to browse all available equivalence mappings, or to disambiguate node names when find_equivalent reports ambiguity. Returns a list of category dicts, each with: category (str): Category identifier (e.g. 'virtual_machine'). description (str): Human-readable description. providers (list[str]): Providers covered by this category. nodes (dict): Mapping of provider → list of node names in that category.
equivalent
find_equivalent
Find cross-provider equivalents for a diagram node by infrastructure role. Given a node name (e.g. 'EC2', 'Lambda', 'ComputeEngine'), returns the infrastructure role category it belongs to and the equivalent nodes from other providers. If a node name is ambiguous, use list_categories to see all mapped roles and pick a provider-specific node name. Args: node: Node class name to look up (case-insensitive, e.g. 'EC2', 'lambda'). target_provider: Optional provider to filter equivalents to (e.g. 'gcp', 'azure', 'aws'). If omitted, all equivalents across all other providers are returned. Returns: A dict with keys: category (str): Infrastructure role category name. description (str): Human-readable description of the category. source (dict): The matched node with keys node, provider, service, import. equivalents (list[dict]): Equivalent nodes, each with keys node, provider, service, import.
providers
list_providers
List all available diagram providers (aws, gcp, azure, k8s, onprem, etc.). Use list_providers -> list_services -> list_nodes to browse available node types for a specific provider.
services
list_services
List service categories for a provider (e.g. 'aws' -> ['compute', 'database', ...]). Args: provider: Provider name from list_providers (e.g. 'aws', 'gcp', 'k8s').

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://diagrams-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp streamable-http answering 185 ms 1 min ago

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Diagrams MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Diagrams MCP do?
It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_equivalent, list_categories, list_nodes, list_providers, list_services, render_diagram and 3 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 Diagrams MCP mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around render and nodes. 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 Diagrams MCP 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 185 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Diagrams MCP 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 Diagrams MCP?
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 Diagrams MCP need an API key?
No. Diagrams MCP completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How many people use Diagrams MCP?
The pypi package diagrams-mcp-server was installed 132 times in the last week. Week over week that is -12%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Diagrams MCP open source?
We cannot say either way: written in Python and 3 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.