# `io.github.KarstenKreh/standby-design-mcp` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.KarstenKreh/standby-design-mcp
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.KarstenKreh/standby-design-mcp
- Version: 0.5.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.KarstenKreh (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/KarstenKreh/Standby.Design
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:17:19.027Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Generate design systems: OKLCH colors, fluid type scales, spacing, shape, icon and motion tokens.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:03:34.736Z over streamable-http.

**10 tools: 7 change things and 3 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 7 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 3 | allow |

## Findings

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `generate_color_palette` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "generate_color_palette" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "generate_color_palette" says "generate": a word for a change.
```

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `generate_type_scale` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "generate_type_scale" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "generate_type_scale" says "generate": a word for a change.
```

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `generate_shape_tokens` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "generate_shape_tokens" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "generate_shape_tokens" says "generate": a word for a change.
```

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `generate_icon_tokens` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "generate_icon_tokens" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "generate_icon_tokens" says "generate": a word for a change.
```

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `generate_space_tokens` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "generate_space_tokens" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "generate_space_tokens" says "generate": a word for a change.
```

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `generate_motion_tokens` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "generate_motion_tokens" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "generate_motion_tokens" says "generate": a word for a change.
```

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `export_design_system` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "export_design_system" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The description's first verb is "generate": a word for a change.
```


## Changes things (7)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `export_design_system`

- The description's first verb is "generate": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Generate the full token code for a design system URL in one format: "css" (CSS custom properties incl. semantic shadcn/ui-compatible tokens), "tailwind" (Tailwind v4 @theme), "design-tokens" (W3C DTCG JSON — typography, spacing & layout, shape, icons and motion; color is not part of it), "llm-briefing" (Markdown brief for AI code generation), or "font-embed" (Fontshare <link> snippet). Optionally restrict to specific sections. Every format carries the standby.design/system share link. Always give that URL to the user alongside the code and keep it as a comment in the theme file of the target project — the link is the deliverable.
```

### `generate_color_palette`

- The name "generate_color_palette" says "generate": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Generate a perceptually uniform OKLCH color palette from a brand color: 18-step scales for brand/surface/error/accents, semantic tokens (shadcn/ui compatible), light+dark modes. Returns a shareable standby.design/system URL and a compact summary. Always give that URL to the user — the link is the deliverable; it opens the live system in the browser. Use export_design_system for full CSS/Tailwind output.
```

### `generate_icon_tokens`

- The name "generate_icon_tokens" says "generate": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Pick an icon set and generate icon sizing tokens (xs–2xl + stroke width). Either select a specific set or state style preferences and get a recommendation. Available sets: material-outlined, material-filled, lucide, phosphor-regular, phosphor-bold, phosphor-thin, phosphor-fill, solar-linear, solar-bold, solar-broken, tabler-outline, tabler-filled, radix. Returns a shareable standby.design/system URL and a summary. Always give that URL to the user — the link is the deliverable.
```

### `generate_motion_tokens`

- The name "generate_motion_tokens" says "generate": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Generate spring-based motion tokens from two brand-character axes: energy (calm → lively, sets the tempo) and material (firm → elastic, sets how much spatial motion overshoots). Returns 6 primitive springs (spatial/effect × fast/default/slow), 11 semantic tokens (press, move, expand, enter, exit, fade, navigate.*, sheet.*, container) and the reduced-motion rule. Start from a preset, then fine-tune with energy/material. Returns a shareable standby.design/system URL and a summary. Always give that URL to the user — the link is the deliverable. Use export_design_system for CSS, design tokens or the LLM briefing; SwiftUI, Compose and Motion (JS) code is exported in the UI at standby.design/motion.
```

### `generate_shape_tokens`

- The name "generate_shape_tokens" says "generate": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Generate shape tokens — radii, shadows, borders, focus rings — in one of four visual styles: "paper" (classic surfaces with layered shadows), "glass" (liquid glass), "neomorph" (soft neumorphism), "neobrutalism" (hard offset shadows). Returns a shareable standby.design/system URL and a summary. Always give that URL to the user — the link is the deliverable.
```

### `generate_space_tokens`

- The name "generate_space_tokens" says "generate": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Generate spacing tokens (3xs–3xl), breakpoints, container widths, prose measure, and aspect ratios. Returns a shareable standby.design/system URL and a summary. Always give that URL to the user — the link is the deliverable.
```

### `generate_type_scale`

- The name "generate_type_scale" says "generate": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Generate a fluid typographic scale (CSS clamp() between 375px and 1920px viewports) with 11 levels (Display, H1–H6, Body L/M/S, Caption), Fontshare fonts, line heights and letter spacing. Returns a shareable standby.design/system URL and a summary table. Always give that URL to the user — the link is the deliverable. Use list_fonts to discover font slugs.
```

## Only reads (3)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `get_design_rules`

- The name "get_design_rules" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Universal design rules for building UI with design tokens: layout, flow (empty, loading and error states, dialogs), shape, surfaces, interaction and keyboard access, forms, content structure, states, typography, color and stack rules for Tailwind/React Native. The tokens say which values exist; these rules say how to use them. Call this before building or reviewing views. Without arguments it returns every rule as one line (62 rules); pass rules (slugs) or a category with detail "full" for the complete text including how to detect violations in code. Rule texts are in German. Categories: Layout, Fluss, Form, Fläche, Bedienung, Formular, Inhalt, Zustand, Typografie, Farbe, Stack.
```

### `get_design_system`

- The name "get_design_system" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Decode a standby.design URL (or raw hash) and return an overview of the full design system: color palette, type scale, spacing & layout, shape tokens, motion springs, and icons — plus per-tool edit links. Always give the standby.design/system URL to the user — the link is the deliverable.
```

### `list_fonts`

- The name "list_fonts" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List Fontshare font slugs usable in generate_type_scale (headingFont/bodyFont/monoFont), grouped by category. This is the bundled seed catalog — any valid Fontshare slug works even if not listed here.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `standby-design`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__standby-design__get_design_system",
      "mcp__standby-design__list_fonts",
      "mcp__standby-design__get_design_rules"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__standby-design__generate_color_palette",
      "mcp__standby-design__generate_type_scale",
      "mcp__standby-design__generate_shape_tokens",
      "mcp__standby-design__generate_icon_tokens",
      "mcp__standby-design__generate_space_tokens",
      "mcp__standby-design__generate_motion_tokens",
      "mcp__standby-design__export_design_system"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```