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Curated Design References for AI Agents (Website)

Curated Design References for AI Agents (Website)

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A1 now offers a Model Context Protocol server, allowing AI coding agents to search and ingest design references directly from their development environment.
What: The A1 MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration provides developers with access to over 1,100 curated websites, extracting design tokens, typography, and color palettes as structured data. It works with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
Why it matters: Using MCP to fetch design tokens as structured data allows AI agents to suggest UI components that match existing brand systems rather than hallucinating aesthetic conventions.
Takeaway: Run `/mcp` in your Claude Code or Cursor terminal to connect the A1 server if you need to fetch design tokens for specific UI patterns.
Deep dive
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol): An open standard enabling AI assistants to connect to local and remote data sources for context-aware interactions.
  • Design Tokens: Standardized, atomic units of design—such as hex colors, spacing, and font sizes—that represent the visual design system in code.
  • Optimistic UI: A UX pattern where the interface immediately reflects a user action before the server confirms the result to improve perceived speed.
  • Idempotency Key: A unique token sent with an API request to ensure that retrying the same request does not cause unintended duplicate side effects.
Decoder
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP): A universal standard for connecting AI assistants to external data sources and tools.
Original article

Curated design references, inside your AI agent

Connect your AI coding tool to a curated library of real websites. Search by style, font, technology, and colour — without leaving your editor.

Install A1 MCP

What you can ask

Find minimal SaaS landing pages built with Framer

What fonts are most popular across SaaS sites?

Find sites with a similar feel to Stripe

Who designed the Firecrawl site and what else have they made?

Find dark, expressive portfolio sites

What’s been added to A1 recently?

What fonts are commonly paired with Inter?

How do good pricing pages look?

Find CTA sections from dark, minimal landing pages

17 tools

Reaching 1,146 sites, 3,212 captured sections, 2,812 full-page captures, 568 fonts and 507 creators.

search_websites
Full-text search across site names, descriptions, and design tags.
browse_websites
Filter by type, category, style, technology, font, or colour. Pass multiple slugs to filter by more than one value at once.
get_website
Full detail on one site — fonts, colours, styles, tech stack, screenshot, and all captured sections.
search_sections
Search inside sections — headings, body copy, FAQ questions, pricing, testimonials — not just tags. Returns the screenshot plus the extracted text, structured data, topic tags, and the measured design tokens. Filter by section type, site type, topic, or a brand colour to match.
get_website_sections
All captured sections for one site, in page order — each with its measured design tokens.
search_pages
Full-page captures of one page type across the gallery — pricing, about, careers, changelog, docs and more. Whole pages, not components, so you can see how a company designs one end to end.
get_website_pages
Every sub-page captured for one site — pricing, about, blog, careers, contact, features, work, case studies, login, changelog, integrations, docs.
analyze_section_content
Aggregate content patterns across many sections at once — e.g. what share of portfolio FAQs mention refunds, pricing, or turnaround, and the questions they ask.
analyze_design_tokens
Aggregate the measured design values across many sections — typical heading and body sizes, type scale, section padding, container width, radius, common typefaces and accent colours, reported as quartiles.
get_similar_websites
Sites that share the same category, type, and style as a reference site.
get_recently_added
The most recently added sites, newest first.
browse_fonts
Filter fonts by classification, free/paid status, or by the type of sites that use them.
get_font
Full details on one font — classification, free/paid, and how many gallery sites use it.
find_font_pairings
Real sites that use two specific fonts together.
browse_creators
Designers and studios in the gallery, sorted by number of featured sites.
get_creator
Full profile for one creator — bio, social links, and all their featured sites.
get_design_filters
All available filter values with site counts — types, categories, styles, technologies, colours, font classifications, and section topics.

Common questions

What is MCP?

Model Context Protocol is an open standard that lets AI coding agents call external tools mid-task. Connect A1 once and your agent can look up real websites, fonts, and colour palettes as structured data — without you pasting screenshots or describing what you want.

Does this cost anything?

Free with an A1 account. The first time you connect you’ll sign in — it’s free — and then you get 50 requests a day. A1 Pro raises that to 2,000 a day with a faster per-minute allowance.

Which AI tools support MCP?

Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code (1.99+ with GitHub Copilot), Zed (0.168+), OpenAI Codex, and Claude Desktop. Any tool that implements the Model Context Protocol spec will also work.

What data does it return?

Published website metadata: name, URL, fonts, colours, styles, technologies, and categories. Section screenshots for individual UI components — hero, pricing, features, CTA, footer, and more — each with the design values measured off the live page: palette as hex with roles, heading and body type, spacing, radius and layout, plus the copy read out as structured data, so a pricing section returns its tiers and their prices and an FAQ returns its questions and answers. Full-page captures of sub-pages — pricing, about, careers, docs, changelog and more — for seeing how a whole page is put together rather than one component. Creator profiles: designer and studio names, bios, and social links. No private or unpublished data is accessible.

How do I verify it’s connected in Claude Code?

Run /mcp inside a Claude Code session to list all connected servers and their available tools.

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