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Inspo is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Real production websites for coding agents: palettes, fonts, fold autopsies and reference JSX. It has 861 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y inspo-mcp.

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Install Inspo

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "inspo": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "inspo-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TOGETHER_API_KEY": "your-value",
        "INSPO_MAX_TOKENS": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env TOGETHER_API_KEY=your-value --env INSPO_MAX_TOKENS=your-value --transport stdio inspo -- npx -y inspo-mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "inspo": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "inspo-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TOGETHER_API_KEY": "your-value",
        "INSPO_MAX_TOKENS": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "together_api_key",
      "description": "TOGETHER_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "inspo_max_tokens",
      "description": "INSPO_MAX_TOKENS",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "inspo": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "inspo-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TOGETHER_API_KEY": "${input:together_api_key}",
        "INSPO_MAX_TOKENS": "${input:inspo_max_tokens}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code (remote)

claude mcp add --transport http inspo "https://inspomcp.dev/api/mcp"

The same server is also hosted as a remote MCP endpoint, so nothing runs on your machine.

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
TOGETHER_API_KEYsecretNoOptional. Enables query-embedding semantic search; everything else works without it.
INSPO_CATALOGUE_URLNoOptional. Point at a self-hosted catalogue instead of the public CDN.
INSPO_PROFILENoOptional. 'lite' or 'full' tool surface (auto-detected per client by default).
INSPO_IMAGESNoOptional. 'thumbs' or 'none' - whether tool results inline thumbnail image blocks.
INSPO_MAX_TOKENSsecretNoOptional. Token ceiling per tool response (300 to 200000); trims lower-ranked results first.

About Inspo

Real production websites your coding agent can study, over MCP, before it writes UI. inspomcp.dev Same brief, same model, no design skill on either run. The only difference: the page on the right was built with Inspo MCP on the session.

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What is Inspo?

Inspo is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Real production websites for coding agents: palettes, fonts, fold autopsies and reference JSX. It has 861 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y inspo-mcp. The source code is at github.com/Nutlope/inspo.

How do I install the Inspo MCP server?

Add the command npx -y inspo-mcp to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Inspo free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Inspo actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 1, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.