A design-style library for AI agents: search real styles, fetch a ready-to-apply design spec.
A design-style library for AI agents: search real styles, fetch a ready-to-apply design spec. That is what the curio — design style library mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.
Connect your AI to Curio — a design-style library built for AI agents. Hundreds of tokenized design styles (real design movements, brands, cultural traditions), each with a machine-readable spec your agent can apply directly to slides, websites, and products.
The server publishes 7 tools. What each one is for:
search_styles — Keyword + facet search over the librarylist_styles — Browse / paginate, filtered by facetsget_style — Metadata + preview image for one styleget_style_spec — Full design spec (DESIGN.md), ready to applyget_quota — Remaining spec fetches for the signed-in userCursor — The Cursor tool exposed by this serverChatGPT — Settings → Apps & Connectors → Developer mode → add https://mcp.designbycurio.com/mcpBecause this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.
Plenty of developer tooling 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. Curio — Design Style Library's toolset — search_styles, list_styles, get_style and 4 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by com.designbycurio; 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 |
|---|---|
| search_styles | Keyword + facet search over the library |
| list_styles | Browse / paginate, filtered by facets |
| get_style | Metadata + preview image for one style |
| get_style_spec | Full design spec (DESIGN.md), ready to apply |
| get_quota | Remaining spec fetches for the signed-in user |
| Cursor | The Cursor tool exposed by this server. |
| ChatGPT | Settings → Apps & Connectors → **Developer mode** → add https://mcp.designbycurio.com/mcp. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"curio": { "url": "https://mcp.designbycurio.com/mcp" }
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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