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MCP server · Code & DevOps

CSS Crème

Give your agent a real design system: tokens, measured WCAG contrast, and rules to follow.

Checks passed
15 / 22

0 failed · 7 not measured

Median response
467 ms

Median of successful probes over 7 days

30-day uptime
Not measured

Share of countable probes over 30 days, including daily rollups. Auth challenges are excluded.

Discovered tools
13

Tool definitions returned by this server

Independent monitoring

Health & checks

Status history

Responded

The server completed its last measured handshake. This is an observation, not a guarantee.

Last checked
Check summary by test group
Test areaPassedFailedUnmeasured
ConnectionCan a client connect and discover tools?
500
Reliability & speedDoes it respond consistently and quickly?
103
Access & authenticationWhat is required to use this server?
102
Tool qualityAre the tool definitions usable by an agent?
400
Publisher identityCan the publisher be traced to its source?
402

Unmeasured means there is not enough evidence to decide. How these checks work

Inspect individual checks 22 recorded

Core

  • Pass
    Reachable

    Latest probe returned HTTP 200 in 462 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-06-18, serverInfo.name csscreme.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 13 tools.

  • Pass
    Current protocol

    Negotiated 2025-06-18. The bar is 2025-06-18 or newer.

  • Pass
    HTTPS

    The endpoint URL is https.

Performance

  • Not measured
    Fast (p50)

    Median latency 467 ms over 2 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 472 ms over 2 samples in 7 days. The bar is 3000 ms. Need at least 20 samples.

  • Not measured
    Reliable (uptime)

    2 of 2 attempts returned a tool list in 30 days (100%). The bar is 99%. Need at least 30 samples.

  • Pass
    Stable tool list

    No tool was removed and no required parameter was added in the last 30 days.

Access

  • Pass
    Open access

    tools/list succeeded with no credential, and the record declares none.

  • Not measured
    Standard auth

    Auth is not required, so the OAuth metadata check does not apply.

  • Not measured
    Free tier cited

    No publisher quote has been checked.

Tools

  • Pass
    Tools described

    Every tool description is at least 20 characters.

  • Pass
    Valid input schemas

    Every inputSchema is a JSON Schema object.

  • Pass
    Parameters documented

    29 of 31 parameters have a description (94%). The bar is 80%.

  • Pass
    Safety hints

    Every tool sets readOnlyHint or destructiveHint.

Publisher

  • Pass
    Verified namespace

    Listed in the Official MCP Registry.

  • Pass
    Website matches publisher

    The website host matches the reverse-domain namespace.

  • Pass
    Source repo linked

    A repository URL is on file.

  • Not measured
    Repo owner matches

    This namespace is not an io.github login, so the owner comparison does not apply.

  • Pass
    Recently updated

    Updated 2026-09-26T00:52:50.286612Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    The GitHub licence lookup has not returned an OSI result yet.

Start using CSS Crème

Connect to this server

Choose your client, copy the configuration, then enable the server in your client’s MCP settings.

Run this command in your terminal, then restart Claude Code.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http css-cr-me https://csscreme.com/mcp

Capabilities

Tools 13

css_feature

Answers two questions about a modern CSS feature with data instead of recall. First, its Baseline status (widely available, newly available, or limited availability), the date, and which core browsers lack it, read from the open web-features dataset at build time. Second, how many of CSS Crème's curated, decoded showcase sites ship it, which ones, how many of them guard it with @supports, and the exact @supports conditions they test. Also returns a fallback note where we have one, any name the feature has shipped under before (an agent that learned the old name will otherwise write it), and the documented limits that catch people out, each cited to the page it was read on. Call it before writing CSS that uses container queries, :has(), anchor positioning, @scope, view transitions, oklch(), color-mix(), light-dark(), subgrid, scroll-driven animations, @property, text-wrap and similar, so the CSS you write is accurate for today rather than for your training date. With no feature given it returns the Ship Gap: features that are safe and mostly ignored, and features that are early and shipped anyway.

Discovered
decode_site

Read a sample of pages from one site (from its sitemap.xml, or the homepage links when there is no sitemap) and report what is CONSISTENT across them: which declared tokens, colours, font stacks, radii and spacing values appear on every page read, and which appear on only some. One page shows what a page uses; a design system is a claim about consistency, and only a sample can test it. Returns counts and the pages actually read, never a score. Use when the user asks whether a site is really on a system, or wants the system rather than one page of it.

Discovered
decode_url

Fetch a public site's HTML and stylesheets and return what its CSS declares: named custom properties that look like design tokens, the colours it uses most, its font stacks, border radii, spacing values, and the framework it appears to be built with. Also returns a "drop" report: roughly how many words a web-to-markdown reader would carry away from this page, against the design decisions it would discard, because markdown is defined by throwing the design layer away. It reads CSS and does not render the page, so it reports a confidence ("tokens" when named properties were found, "derived" when only compiled CSS was available) and flags a JavaScript shell rather than pretending every site is equally legible. It obeys the site's robots.txt for CSSCremeBot: a disallowed path is refused with ROBOTS_DENIED, which a retry will not change. A bot challenge, a parked or for-sale domain, or a host's default page is refused with NOT_THE_SITE and the evidence, rather than measured as if it were the site. Every error starts with its code and a retry verdict (never, later, with-changes). A read is reused for up to maxAge seconds (default 600, 0 for fresh), and every result carries `work`: the requests it made of the site. Use when the user wants to match a site that is not in the catalogue, or has fetched a page as markdown and needs what that markdown lost.

Discovered
get_agent_rules

Return a short standing-instructions block that makes every future session read DESIGN.md before touching UI. Paste it whole into CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or .cursor/rules/design.mdc. It points at the DESIGN.md rather than restating it, and carries the token fingerprint so drift is detectable.

Discovered
get_design_md

Fetch the full DESIGN.md for one theme: semantic colour roles, the complete shadcn token set in light and dark, typography, radius, spacing, MEASURED WCAG contrast ratios, and numbered rules the generated UI must follow. Read this before writing any UI. Save it at the repo root as DESIGN.md so it applies to every session.

Discovered
get_design_md_for_url

Read the stylesheets of a public site and return a full DESIGN.md: semantic roles with the token each came from, measured WCAG contrast pairs, the tokens the site itself declares (framework internals counted separately), font families, the type scale with the ratio between steps, colour frequency, gradients, corner radii, spacing, an elevation ladder of shadows, breakpoints, the z-index ladder, interaction-state rule counts, motion, and whether a dark theme is declared. This is the artefact to hand a coding agent before it writes UI that should match a site. It reads declared CSS and does not execute JavaScript, so it reports what the stylesheets say rather than what the page renders.

Discovered
get_install_command

Return the exact `npx shadcn@latest add <url>` command that installs one theme into a shadcn/ui project, plus the registry URL it reads. Use when the user says "install it" and you already know the id.

Discovered
get_scene_embed

Returns paste-ready code for a CSS Crème Scene: an interactive 3D meadow (four seasons, dandelion clocks, or a garden of peonies, white roses, lilies, irises, hydrangeas, tulips or daffodils, at any hour) grown by code in the browser, with no models or images to load. Give it the `roles` (and optionally `colors`) from a decode_url result and the three flowers take that site's declared colours, each with its source named; or pass a `palette` of hex values. It reads no URL itself. Returns the <creme-scene> element, an iframe, a full-screen link and the licence line. Free to embed with the visible credit.

Discovered
get_theme_tokens

Get the shadcn/ui registry item (OKLCH tokens, light and dark) plus the paste-ready CSS variables for one theme, and the one-line command that installs it for real. Use after get_design_md when you are ready to write the tokens into globals.css.

Discovered
how_to_use

Explains where a DESIGN.md belongs for a given coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Codex, Lovable) so the design rules apply to every session rather than one message.

Discovered
list_themes

Browse the full catalogue of curated themes and templates. Use when the user wants to see options rather than search for one.

Discovered
search_themes

Find a design system by describing what you are building ("dark developer tool", "calm fintech dashboard", "playful consumer app"). Returns matching themes with their DESIGN.md URL and shadcn install command. Call this first when the user has no design system defined.

Discovered
verify_design_md

Every DESIGN.md carries a Fingerprint line. Pass the id and that fingerprint; the server answers whether the copy matches the current token set, and if not, returns the current tokens so the agent can update the file instead of following a stale one. Call this at the start of a session when a DESIGN.md is already in the repo.

Discovered

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