principles.listLABSCO SUMMARY
Doctrine your agent can quote, not a linter.
The free half is a retrieval surface — a fixed body of principles and examples the model can pull by slug instead of improvising design advice. The paid half turns that around and scores your work against the same principles. Worth it only if you want that particular doctrine as the standard; it is opinionated by design.
What it is
A public MCP endpoint carrying AI Design Blueprint's doctrine: clusters, principles, worked examples and guides, all retrievable by slug or by search. The same repository ships copy-first rule files for Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot and Gemini CLI for clients that read files rather than call tools.
What you get
- clusters.list and clusters.get — the top-level doctrine map, and one category in full
- principles.list, principles.get and principles.search — a principle by slug when you know it, by query when you do not
- examples.get and examples.search, filterable by principle, difficulty and library
- guides.list, guides.get, guides.search and assets.list for the longer-form material
- signals.report and signals.feedback, which write only the structured fields you pass — never prompts, code or file contents
- me.learning_path, me.coaching_context and me.add_evidence once you are signed in
- architect.validate, design.validate and spec.validate on paid plans — code, rendered frontend and written spec each scored against their own set of laws
- team.summarize for usage across all three validator lenses
Requirements
Nothing for the read tools: point a Streamable HTTP client at https://aidesignblueprint.com/mcp and the retrieval and signal tools work anonymously. The member tools need a signed-in account; the three validators and the team summary need a paid plan. Each validator call can be marked as a private session so the run is not stored.
Setup effort
One command — claude mcp add --transport http aidesignblueprint --scope user https://aidesignblueprint.com/mcp
USE CASES
Grounding an agent's design advice in something stable
Fetch the doctrine map, then pull the principle the current task touches rather than letting the model invent one.
Finding a worked example for the pattern you are building
Search examples by query and narrow by principle, difficulty or library.
Looking something up when you do not know its name
Search principles by description instead of listing everything and paying for the tokens.
Getting agentic code scored before it ships
Send the implementation context and get it graded against the principles, with a review page and badge for the run.
Checking the spec and the surface, not just the code
Run the specification and the rendered frontend through their own validators.
Seeing what a team has been validating
Summarise recent runs across all three lenses and get the assets recommended next.
29 tools
Listed in project docs. Your client may show a different list.
clusters.listprinciples.getclusters.getexamples.getprinciples.searchexamples.searchassets.listguides.listguides.getguides.searchsignals.reportsignals.feedbackme.learning_pathme.coaching_contextme.add_evidencehandoffs.operatorhandoffs.partnershiphandoffs.agencyarchitect.validatearchitect.validate_consensusarchitect.certifydesign.validatespec.validateme.validation_historyme.sessionsme.session_eventme.await_steerteam.summarizeBEFORE YOU INSTALL
What to know first
Tools you get
29 tools named in the project's documentation. An anonymous connection exposes 12 public tools; the other 17 need authentication.
Requires
An AI Design Blueprint account for the 17 member and validator tools, and a paid plan for the validators; the 12 public tools need neither
INSTALLATION
Connect your client
Server setup
Setup
Claude Code: either drop the JSON block below into .mcp.json at the project root (project scope), or run the claude mcp add --transport http ... command (user scope). Do NOT put mcpServers in .claude/settings.json — Claude Code v2.x does not read that key
Verify with claude mcp list — it should show aidesignblueprint ✓ Connected
First proof call: clusters.list(), then examples.search(query="orchestration visibility steering", limit=3)
Codex: run codex mcp add aidesignblueprint --url https://aidesignblueprint.com/mcp, or paste the TOML block [mcp_servers.aidesignblueprint] url = "https://aidesignblueprint.com/mcp" into ~/.codex/config.toml
Cursor: curl -L -o /tmp/cursor-rule-pack.zip https://aidesignblueprint.com/agent-assets/cursor-rule-pack.zip && unzip -o /tmp/cursor-rule-pack.zip -d . (installs .cursor/rules/blueprint-doctrine.mdc and .cursor/mcp.json), then reload Cursor
Any other client: initialize against https://aidesignblueprint.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC 2.0, protocol version 2025-11-25)
claude mcp add
claude mcp add --transport http aidesignblueprint --scope user https://aidesignblueprint.com/mcpHosted endpoint
https://aidesignblueprint.com/mcpAdd this hosted endpoint to your MCP client.
MCP Clients
Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot
{
"mcpServers": {
"aidesignblueprint": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://aidesignblueprint.com/mcp"
}
}
}Gemini CLI
{
"mcpServers": {
"aidesignblueprint": {
"httpUrl": "https://aidesignblueprint.com/mcp"
}
}
}Windsurf
{
"mcpServers": {
"aidesignblueprint": {
"type": "http",
"serverUrl": "https://aidesignblueprint.com/mcp"
}
}
}Codex
codex mcp add aidesignblueprint --url https://aidesignblueprint.com/mcp