# Design Lounge (remote · www.designlounge.live)

A UI design library and skill for agents, with a page review for AI giveaways, SEO, AEO, and GEO.

- Trust score: 77/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `www.designlounge.live`: 77/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/susanacharya-design-lounge/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/susanacharya-design-lounge/api-mcp)
- npm · `design-lounge-mcp`: 71/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/susanacharya-design-lounge/design-lounge-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/susanacharya-design-lounge/design-lounge-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.2.6`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 77/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 2705 tokens (~79/item across 34 items; 18 tools + 16 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 33/100
  - Stability observed for 10 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 84/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 52% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 18 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 20 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Design Lounge MCP server?

Design Lounge is a hosted endpoint at https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http susanacharya-design-lounge 'https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "susanacharya-design-lounge": {
      "url": "https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "susanacharya-design-lounge": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.susanacharya-design-lounge]
url = "https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "susanacharya-design-lounge": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add susanacharya-design-lounge --url 'https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  susanacharya-design-lounge:
    url: "https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "susanacharya-design-lounge": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add susanacharya-design-lounge -t streamable-http -u 'https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "susanacharya-design-lounge": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-04 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 27 to 30. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 8 days of observed history at the previous scan, 9 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 76, 0)

- [functional] Server version: 0.2.4 → 0.2.6

### 2026-11-02 (score 76, +1)

- [functional] Server version: 0.2.3 → 0.2.4

### 2026-10-31 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 74, 0)

- [functional] Server version: 0.2.2 → 0.2.3

### 2026-10-28 (score 74, +1)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “search_pieces” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional] Server version: 0.2.1 → 0.2.2

### 2026-10-27 (score 73, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] Server version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1

### 2026-10-26 (score 73)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (18)

### `start_design` (~132 tokens)

Start a design

Call first for any new website, app, screen, or UI. Reads their request the way the method does (flow, mode, named style, calm words), ranks the recipes, reads the project folder and the recent picks, and returns the brief to fill and the steps, each naming the tool to use.

Input parameters:

- `history` (array): Recent pick lines, for a client that keeps its own history. The local server reads ~/.design-lounge/history.jsonl
- `product` (string): The product or brand name, if they gave one
- `request` (string, required): Their message, word for word

### `get_recipe` (~110 tokens)

Get a recipe

A recipe (start) with its directions: each a complete look (theme, pairing, family, hero, effect, work, footer). Each direction says whether the recent history blocks it.

Input parameters:

- `history` (array): Recent pick lines, for a client that keeps its own history. The local server reads ~/.design-lounge/history.jsonl
- `id` (string, required): Recipe id, such as saas, restaurant, portfolio. browse_library what=recipes lists them
- `product` (string)

### `pick_direction` (~200 tokens)

Pick a direction

Apply rules 3 to 5 of Pick a direction and the Recent picks check: calm words narrow to quiet, editorial, or sharp families; the history blocks recent directions, heroes, and effects; the group check blocks two-of-three matches; the name number breaks the tie. You judge which directions fit the subject (rules 1, 2, 4) and pass them as `fitting`.

Input parameters:

- `calm` (boolean): They used a calm word: clean, simple, professional, plain, calm, quiet, corporate, serious, trustworthy
- `fitting` (array): Direction ids whose mood names this subject's world
- `history` (array): Recent pick lines, for a client that keeps its own history. The local server reads ~/.design-lounge/history.jsonl
- `product` (string): Product or brand name, for the name number. Without one, the first noun of their message
- `recipe` (string, required)

### `check_pick` (~195 tokens)

Check a pick against recent sites

The uniqueness check from Recent picks: direction, hero, and effect against this recipe; two of hero, work, footer against the related group; hero shape against the last two; frame against the last three. Returns problems and the Unlike line for the sheet.

Input parameters:

- `direction` (string)
- `effect` (string)
- `footer` (string)
- `frame` (array): [header piece, phone piece or "none", find-us piece]
- `hero` (string)
- `history` (array): Recent pick lines, for a client that keeps its own history. The local server reads ~/.design-lounge/history.jsonl
- `product` (string)
- `recipe` (string, required)
- `reuse` (boolean): Reusing a direction because every fitting one is recent: compares shape, frame, work, and footer only
- `shape` (string)
- `work` (string)

### `search_pieces` (~126 tokens)

Search pieces

Search 600+ piece briefs by words (job, component, style, tag) and filters. Returns ids, summaries, and demo links. Then get_piece for the brief.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): browse_library what=categories lists them
- `images` (boolean): Attach thumbnails of the first six, to compare them by eye
- `limit` (integer)
- `platform` (string)
- `query` (string): Such as "pricing toggle", "sticky mobile cta", "kanban", "footer wordmark"
- `style` (string)

### `get_piece` (~131 tokens)

Get a piece brief

The spec for one piece, with a picture of its demo: structure, counts, sizes, motion timing, states, hit targets, acceptance checklist. By default stops at "Optional below this line"; full=true adds the demo's exact paint and motion notes. demo=true adds the demo's HTML source, the acceptance file. Its colours and fonts are the demo's: translate them onto the locked kit.

Input parameters:

- `demo` (boolean): Add the demo's HTML source
- `full` (boolean)
- `id` (string, required)
- `image` (boolean): Attach the demo's thumbnail (default true)

### `browse_library` (~77 tokens)

Browse the library

List themes, pairings, families, recipes, piece categories, collections, or kinds. Themes and pairings can be ranked by a mood ("warm craft", "editorial serif", "dark technical").

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `mode` (string)
- `mood` (string)
- `what` (string, required)

### `get_theme` (~83 tokens)

Get a theme

A theme's full CSS (primary, secondary, tertiary, feedback, surfaces, link) and its pair for the other mode. Colour only: fonts come from the pairing, radius and shadow from the family.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): Theme id, name, or Lounge link
- `image` (boolean): Attach a board of the theme's roles (default true)

### `get_pairing` (~73 tokens)

Get a type pairing

A pairing's CSS (Google Fonts import, --font-display, --font-text, mono if any), its numbers face, and any caution to say before you write.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): Pairing id, name, or Lounge link
- `image` (boolean): Attach a type specimen (default true)

### `get_family` (~51 tokens)

Get a component family

A family's rules: radius, button style, density, shadow, and the sentences that lock them. The family wins over a brief for radius, shadow, button, and density.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)

### `get_icons` (~67 tokens)

Get Lounge Icons

SVG for Lounge Icons by name (24px, stroke 1.75). With no names, lists them by group. Missing names come back as missing: then follow Icon and nav in components.md, never an emoji.

Input parameters:

- `group` (string)
- `names` (array)

### `search_wada` (~102 tokens)

Search Wada colour combinations

Sanzo Wada's 348 combinations, by colour or material word (russet, slate, "dark warm") or nearest to a hex. Only for Free colour, a brand board no theme fits, or colours they asked for. Take one line whole; the header says how to map it to roles.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `near` (string): A hex like #b14f1c
- `query` (string)

### `read_guide` (~115 tokens)

Read the method

Read a method file or one section of it. Files: SKILL.md, app.md, brief.md, components.md, examples.md, flows.md, locale.md, native.md, practice.md, reference.md, search.md, show.md, styles.md, taste.md, website.md. Give a heading ("Look", "Write the idea", "Recent picks") to get only that section; outline=true lists the headings.

Input parameters:

- `file` (string, required)
- `outline` (boolean)
- `section` (string)

### `name_number` (~52 tokens)

Name number

The tie-break from rule 5 of Pick a direction: the sum of each letter's place in the alphabet, mod the number of fitting directions.

Input parameters:

- `count` (integer)
- `name` (string, required)

### `review_page` (~203 tokens)

Review a page

The all-in-one check for a built page: AI giveaways and kit drift (the Look fails), SEO, AEO, GEO, and, when Chromium is available, a rendered pass at 1280×800 and 390×844 with axe accessibility, measured labels, faces, primaries, tap targets, and saved screenshots. Returns scores, fails first, each with its evidence and fix.

Input parameters:

- `format` (string)
- `html` (string): Raw HTML, when there is no file or URL
- `images` (boolean): Attach the web and phone frames (default true)
- `kit` (object): The locked kit, by id, name, or Lounge link. Read from DESIGN.md when omitted
- `out_dir` (string): Where to save screenshots (default: a temp folder)
- `render` (boolean): Open it in Chromium (default true)
- `url` (string): A public URL, such as https://example.com

### `audit_slop` (~155 tokens)

Find AI giveaways

Design only: the tells of a generated page (stock copy, em dashes, buzzwords, icon-card trios, gradients, the indigo palette, emoji icons, numbered eyebrows, placeholder copy, made-up numbers) and drift from the locked kit (faces, colours, radius, shadow). Static by default; render=true adds the measured checks.

Input parameters:

- `html` (string): Raw HTML, when there is no file or URL
- `kit` (object): The locked kit, by id, name, or Lounge link. Read from DESIGN.md when omitted
- `out_dir` (string)
- `render` (boolean)
- `url` (string): A public URL, such as https://example.com

### `audit_search` (~135 tokens)

Check SEO, AEO, and GEO

Whether search engines can index the page and show it well (SEO), answer engines can lift a direct answer (AEO), and AI engines can reach it, read it without JavaScript, and name the entity (GEO): title, description, headings, alt, share card and its 1200×630 image, canonical, robots.txt for search and AI crawlers, sitemap, JSON-LD, question headings with short answers, server-rendered text.

Input parameters:

- `html` (string): Raw HTML, when there is no file or URL
- `url` (string): A public URL, such as https://example.com

### `suggest_schema` (~147 tokens)

Suggest JSON-LD

JSON-LD for the page built only from facts on it: the entity (Organization, LocalBusiness subtypes, Person, Product, SoftwareApplication) with name, url, description, image, phone, email, address, sameAs; and FAQPage from its own questions. Lists the fields it could not find. Never invents ratings, reviews, or prices.

Input parameters:

- `html` (string): Raw HTML, when there is no file or URL
- `name` (string)
- `type` (string): schema.org type, such as Restaurant, Dentist, Person, SoftwareApplication. Default Organization
- `url` (string): A public URL, such as https://example.com

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/susanacharya-design-lounge/api-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 77
- 2026-11-04: 77
- 2026-11-03: 76
- 2026-11-02: 76
- 2026-11-01: 75
- 2026-10-31: 75
- 2026-10-30: 74
- 2026-10-29: 74
- 2026-10-28: 74
- 2026-10-27: 73
- 2026-10-26: 73

## Common questions

### What is the Design Lounge MCP server?

Design Lounge is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.SusanAcharya/design-lounge. A UI design library and skill for agents, with a page review for AI giveaways, SEO, AEO, and GEO. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp).

### Is the Design Lounge MCP server safe to use?

Design Lounge scores 77 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Design Lounge MCP server expose?

Design Lounge exposes 18 tools: start_design, get_recipe, pick_direction, check_pick, search_pieces, and 13 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,154 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Design Lounge MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Design Lounge without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Design Lounge MCP server still maintained?

Design Lounge is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://www.designlounge.live/api/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/SusanAcharya/Design-Lounge
- Website: https://www.designlounge.live/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/susanacharya-design-lounge/api-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/susanacharya-design-lounge/api-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/susanacharya-design-lounge/api-mcp