Overflow Design MCP Server

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Overflow Design is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Search and fetch hand-drawn icons, illustrations and isometric drawings. The free set needs no key.

Uptime history 34 days of history · worst day 98%

34 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

717 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 5

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 18 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

1 Nov a tool changed the parameters it asks for get_drawings

18 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for3 times that day get_drawings

18 Oct a tool description was rewritten get_drawings

and 2 more, back to 18 October 2026

Overflow Design missed 2 checks this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of 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 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://www.overflow.design/api/mcp/

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

https://www.overflow.design/api/mcp/

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://www.overflow.design/api/mcp/"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://www.overflow.design/api/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.overflow.design/api/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.

drawings

get_drawings

Returns Overflow drawings by id, up to 20 at a time, as SVG or JSX. Icons and isometric stills of up to 32 KB come back inline as markup. Illustrations, larger isometric drawings and animated ones come back as a download link that works for fifteen minutes, with a curl command that saves the file; the delivery option returns them inline instead. An isometric drawing comes in any of the set page's six styles, facing right or left, and standing or lying where it has been drawn so. Free drawings need no key; the others, and the isometric Pro styles, need an Overflow Pro licence key sent with the connection. Each result ends with the licence terms.

search_drawings

Searches Overflow Design's hand-drawn drawings by what they show: 1,120 icons, 457 illustrations and 259 isometric drawings. Use it when the user wants an icon, an illustration or an isometric drawing. Every word of the query must match a drawing's name or tags, and "icon", "illustration" or "isometric" in the query narrows the search to that set. Returns each match's id, name, set, category and page link, and marks the drawings this connection cannot fetch because they need an Overflow Pro licence.

sets

list_sets

Lists what Overflow Design has: the three sets with their counts, styles and categories, and what this connection's licence key unlocks.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://www.overflow.design/api/mcp/	streamable-http	answering	846 ms	14 min ago

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Overflow Design — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Overflow Design do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_drawings, list_sets, search_drawings. 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 Overflow Design working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 717 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Overflow Design?

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 Overflow Design need an API key?

No. Overflow Design 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.

How fast is Overflow Design?

It answers our handshake in 717 ms on average, which is faster than 13% 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.