Generate, validate, and optimize Adaptive Cards for Teams, Outlook, and Copilot.
Generate, validate, and optimize Adaptive Cards for Teams, Outlook, and Copilot. That is what the adaptive mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.
An MCP server that helps AI assistants generate valid, accessible Adaptive Cards for Teams, Outlook, Copilot, and other Microsoft surfaces. 9 tools, 3 guided workflows, 924 tests.
The server publishes 11 tools. What each one is for:
generate_card — Natural language / data → valid Adaptive Card v1.6 JSONvalidate_card — Schema validation + accessibility score + host compatibility + suggested fixesdata_to_card — Auto-select Table / FactSet / Chart / List from data shapeoptimize_card — Improve accessibility, performance, modernize actionstemplate_card — Static card → ${expression} data-bound templatetransform_card — Version upgrade/downgrade, host-config adaptationsuggest_layout — Recommend best layout pattern for a descriptiongenerate_and_validate — Generate + validate + optionally optimize in one callcard_workflow — Multi-step pipeline: generate → optimize → template → transformConfiguration — The Configuration tool exposed by this serverArchitecture — The Architecture tool exposed by this serverInstallation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at adaptive-cards-mcp on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
Configuration is passed through the environment: MCP_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY, AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY, OLLAMA_BASE_URL, POSTHOG_API_KEY, POSTHOG_HOST. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
Plenty of team communication servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Adaptive's toolset — generate_card, validate_card, data_to_card and 8 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by VikrantSingh01; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| generate_card | Natural language / data → valid Adaptive Card v1.6 JSON |
| validate_card | Schema validation + accessibility score + host compatibility + suggested fixes |
| data_to_card | Auto-select Table / FactSet / Chart / List from data shape |
| optimize_card | Improve accessibility, performance, modernize actions |
| template_card | Static card → ${expression} data-bound template |
| transform_card | Version upgrade/downgrade, host-config adaptation |
| suggest_layout | Recommend best layout pattern for a description |
| generate_and_validate | Generate + validate + optionally optimize in one call |
| card_workflow | Multi-step pipeline: generate → optimize → template → transform |
| Configuration | The Configuration tool exposed by this server. |
| Architecture | The Architecture tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"adaptive-cards": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "adaptive-cards-mcp"],
"env": {
"MCP_API_KEY": "your-value",
"ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "your-value",
"OPENAI_API_KEY": "your-value",
"AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY": "your-value",
"OLLAMA_BASE_URL": "your-value",
"POSTHOG_API_KEY": "your-value",
"POSTHOG_HOST": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| MCP_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| ANTHROPIC_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| OPENAI_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| OLLAMA_BASE_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
| POSTHOG_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| POSTHOG_HOST | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Optional |
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