Connect VS Code to your design library

Add the save.design MCP server to VS Code and it can search everything you saved, read your boards, browse a curated library of real web design and build new boards for you. You connect it in one click.

Set up in VS Code

One click

Add to VS Code

Server URL

https://save.design/api/mcp
  1. 01Click "Add to VS Code" above to install in one step.
  2. 02Or run MCP: Add Server from the Command Palette → HTTP → paste the Server URL.
  3. 03Authorize with OAuth when prompted.

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "save-design": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://save.design/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

VS Code's own guide: MCP in VS Code

What VS Code can do with it

  • Search your saves

    Find saved websites, sections, images, files and pages by describing them, ranked across your workspaces.

  • Open anything

    Read a page's markdown, a file's contents, or look at the image itself rather than a filename.

  • Read your boards

    Get a whole board as an outline: frames, cards, your notes and the arrows between them.

  • Search real web design

    Search the curated Elements library, parts of real websites, by the look you describe.

  • Build boards

    Lay out a new board of references, grouped into frames with labelled arrows, and hand you the link.

Prompts to try

  • “Find the pricing pages I saved last month and summarise how they handle the annual toggle.”
  • “Build a board for a calm fintech landing page: twelve references, grouped by type, colour and layout.”
  • “Look at my "Client — Arc" folder and write a one-paragraph design brief from it.”

More on what the server does and how it keeps your library safe on the MCP page.

Answers

How do I add an MCP server to VS Code?+

Click "Add to VS Code" above to install in one step. Or run MCP: Add Server from the Command Palette → HTTP → paste the Server URL. Authorize with OAuth when prompted. The save.design server URL is https://save.design/api/mcp.

Do I need an API key?+

No. Signing in is standard OAuth: your tool sends you to save.design, you approve the connection, and it gets a token. You can revoke it any time in Account settings → Integrations.

Can VS Code change or delete my saves?+

No. It can create boards and change or remove what it added itself. Anything you made, it can only read, and nothing in the API deletes a saved item.

Which plan includes it?+

The personal MCP endpoint comes with Individual and Team membership. Access is granted per workspace.

Give VS Code your taste.

Everything you saved, and a library of real web design, one MCP connection away.