PatternHoop MCP Server

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answering

PatternHoop is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 7 tools.

DMC thread colours, colour matching, cross-stitch pattern sizes and the cross-stitch blog.

Uptime history 9 hours of history

9 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

32 of 32 checks

Tools

read from the server

583 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check PatternHoop 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

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://patternhoop.com/api/mcp

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

https://patternhoop.com/api/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://patternhoop.com/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://patternhoop.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://patternhoop.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

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

dmc

get_dmc_color

Look up a DMC stranded cotton colour by its number ("310", "3865", "Blanc", "B5200"): name, hex and RGB, colour family.

list_dmc_colors

List DMC stranded cotton colours (489 in total), optionally by colour family or by a search in the number and name.

anchor

get_anchor_color

Look up an Anchor stranded cotton colour by its number ("403", "2", "Anchor 403"): name, hex and RGB, colour family.

articles

search_articles

Search PatternHoop blog articles about cross-stitch (choosing photos, Aida fabric, threads) in any of the seven site languages. Returns titles, summaries and links; every article page also answers Accept: text/markdown.

convert

convert_thread

Find the threads of the other brand closest to a DMC or Anchor thread, nearest first, each with its CIEDE2000 colour difference and a rating: same (deltaE below 2), close (below 5), noticeable (below 10) or far. Calculated by colour: approximate, not an official manufacturer equivalent.

nearest

find_nearest_dmc_colors

Find the DMC threads closest to any colour (hex like #ff6600 or rgb(255,102,0)), ranked by CIEDE2000 colour difference, the same matching the pattern maker uses. deltaE below 2 is hard to tell apart; above 10 is clearly a different colour.

pattern

pattern_size

For a cross-stitch pattern of width × height stitches on Aida 11, 14, 16 or 18: the finished size in cm and inches, the piece of fabric to cut (5 cm spare on each side) and how many full stitches one 8 m skein covers with 2 strands.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://patternhoop.com/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	907 ms	0 min ago

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PatternHoop — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can PatternHoop do?

It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: convert_thread, find_nearest_dmc_colors, get_anchor_color, get_dmc_color, list_dmc_colors, pattern_size and 1 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 →

Is PatternHoop working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 32 of 32 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 583 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect PatternHoop?

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 PatternHoop need an API key?

No. PatternHoop completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is PatternHoop?

It answers our handshake in 583 ms on average, which is faster than 19% 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.