Anima MCP Server

Connect AI coding agents to Anima Playground, Figma, and your design system.

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What is the Anima MCP server?

If you already use Anima, the anima mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. Connect AI coding agents to Anima Playground, Figma, and your design system.

What the server does

The Anima MCP server connects your AI coding assistant directly to Anima Playground, Figma designs, and your team's design system. It bridges the gap between PM prototypes and production code.

  • Handoff Anima playgrounds to coding agents —
  • Figma to code —
  • Design system access (Enterprise) —

Available tools

The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:

  • MCP — compatible AI coding tool:** Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, or other tools that support the Model Context Protocol
  • Requirements — The Requirements tool exposed by this server
  • Cursor — 1. Open Cursor > Settings > Cursor Settings 2. Go to the MCP tab 3. Click + Add new global MCP server 4. Enter the following

Installation

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client.

Credentials and setup notes

  • MCP-compatible AI coding tool: Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, or other tools that support the Model Context Protocol - Anima account: You need access to Anima Playground to share and download projects

Where it fits

Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Anima's toolset — MCP, Requirements, Cursor — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by AnimaApp; 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.

Worth knowing first

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
MCPcompatible AI coding tool:** Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, or other tools that support the Model Context Protocol
RequirementsThe Requirements tool exposed by this server.
Cursor1. Open **Cursor > Settings > Cursor Settings** 2. Go to the **MCP** tab 3. Click **+ Add new global MCP server** 4. Enter the following configuration and save:

Configuration

  • MCP-compatible AI coding tool: Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, or other tools that support the Model Context Protocol - Anima account: You need access to Anima Playground to share and download projects

Example prompts to try

  • Use Anima to MCP.
  • Use Anima to Requirements.
  • Use Anima to Cursor.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Anima to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 3 tools (MCP, Requirements, Cursor) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Anima directly.