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Open Components is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 30 Oct 2026.

Guidelines for UI components with a perfect UX, DX and AX, whether humans or AI agents write them.

Uptime history 23 days of history
23 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
265 ms
Response time
average over 24h
14
Stars
last commit 30 Oct 2026

What changed 55

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 12 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

30 Oct 5 tools changed the parameters they ask for get-contract, get-page, get-reference-implementation and 2 more
27 Oct 5 tools changed the parameters they ask for get-contract, get-page, get-reference-implementation and 2 more
21 Oct 4 tools changed the parameters they ask for get-contract, get-page, list-rules and 1 more
19 Oct 5 tools changed the parameters they ask for9 times that day get-contract, get-page, get-reference-implementation and 2 more
18 Oct 5 tools changed the parameters they ask for get-contract, get-page, get-reference-implementation and 2 more
16 Oct 5 tools changed the parameters they ask for20 times that day get-contract, get-page, get-reference-implementation and 2 more
15 Oct 5 tools changed the parameters they ask for get-contract, get-page, get-reference-implementation and 2 more
12 Oct a tool description was rewritten list-rules
12 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for list-rules
and 19 more, back to 12 October 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Open Components every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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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 7 min ago.

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

Available tools 6

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

components
list-components
Lists what the Open Components standard covers: the components that have shipped (like Button), the foundations every component follows (like Design Tokens), and the components planned on the Roadmap. WHEN TO USE: to check whether a component has a standard yet, to get the name the other tools take for it, or to see what's planned. WHEN NOT TO USE: if you already know the component, call get-contract directly. To find a topic in the docs, use search-docs. Shipped entries come with their page, their contract and how many rules they have. Planned ones have no page, contract or rules yet: hold them to the three layers and Design Tokens, following the Button's structure, as the build-component prompt does.
contract
get-contract
Returns the contract of a component or a foundation, as YAML: its API (props, slots and events), its DOM contract (element, role, states, keyboard and parts), its tokens, and every rule in its checklist, each with a stable ID (like button/keep-focus), a level (must or should), a scope (component, usage or both) and how to check it. It holds every requirement in a fraction of the page's length, and it's the same file as https://opencomponents.dev/raw/docs/<path>.yaml. WHEN TO USE: first, before you build, review or explain a component or its tokens. WHEN NOT TO USE: for some of the rules only (by scope, layer, level or check), use list-rules. For the reasoning or the examples behind a rule, use get-page with its sections.
docs
search-docs
Searches the whole standard, every section of every page and every checklist rule, and returns the best matches: where each one is, a short excerpt, and for rules, their ID, level and scope. WHEN TO USE: to find where a topic is covered when you don't know the page or the section, like "focus after delete", "spinner", "aria-pressed" or "dark mode". Then read a section with get-page, or rules with list-rules. WHEN NOT TO USE: to list a component's rules, use list-rules. To see which components there are, use list-components. Search for a few specific words rather than a whole question.
page
get-page
Reads a docs page as markdown, whole or just the sections you name. Component pages explain why each rule exists, with examples in React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid, Astro and Vanilla: pass a framework to keep only its examples. WHEN TO USE: for the reasoning, an example or the details behind a rule (like the sections ["Loading"] of the button's page), or for a page without a contract, like the introduction or the roadmap. WHEN NOT TO USE: for the requirements alone, use get-contract or list-rules, which are much shorter. To find which page or section covers a topic, use search-docs. A page longer than about 8,000 tokens, like the button's, returns its outline instead: every heading with its anchor and length, so you can ask for the sections you need. So do sections that are too long to return together.
reference
get-reference-implementation
Returns a shipped component's reference implementation: a Vue 3 component that meets every rule in its checklist, the tests that prove it, the helpers it shares with other components and its theme tokens. The live examples on the site run on this code. WHEN TO USE: to build a component that meets the standard, in Vue or by porting it and its tests to another framework, or to see how a rule is met in code. WHEN NOT TO USE: for the requirements, use get-contract. For how the component is used in another framework, use get-page with that framework.
rules
list-rules
Lists checklist rules as records, filtered by component, ID, scope, layer, level or check. Each rule has a stable ID to cite in reviews and commits, its level (must or should), its scope, its requirement, how to check it (like a unit test, a review or axe's button-name rule) and a link to it. WHEN TO USE: to review code rule by rule, to get only the rules that apply to a task, to look rules up by ID, or to find the ones a tool can check. Pass scope ["component", "both"] to build or review a component, and ["usage", "both"] to review a screen that uses it. WHEN NOT TO USE: for a component's API, DOM contract and tokens, use get-contract, which has every rule too. It returns up to 50 rules at a time, and total counts every rule that matches. When there are more, pass nextOffset as offset, with the same filters, to get the next page. A component meets the standard when it meets every must rule. Each should rule is expected unless there's a good reason not to follow it.

Endpoints

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https://mcp.opencomponents.dev/mcp streamable-http answering 160 ms 7 min ago

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Open Components — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Open Components do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get-contract, get-page, get-reference-implementation, list-components, list-rules, search-docs. 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 Open Components 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 265 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Open Components?
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 Open Components need an API key?
No. Open Components completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Open Components?
It answers our handshake in 265 ms on average, which is faster than 54% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Open Components open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in Vue and 14 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at mcp.opencomponents.dev, which runs on its operator's own terms.