MCP Server

The UX reference
your AI assistant can call

Add uxspot to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client, and your assistant answers UX questions from the glossary, tools, checklists and curriculum — citing the source, not guessing. For designers who want a principle without leaving their editor, and anyone vibe-coding with zero UX background.

Install MCP

Claude Code ~/neobank-app

What's an affordance in UX — and where can I read more?

Called uxspot · define_term

An affordance is a visual or physical cue that suggests how an element can be used — like a raised button that looks pressable or an underlined word that looks clickable.

uxspot.io/glossary/affordance

A real answer, drawn from the glossary and cited — not a hallucination.

Diagrams, drawn in your terminal

37 spatial concepts answer with hand-drawn box art — define_term returns the picture, not just the prose. Concepts that need color, motion or interaction point to their live example instead; monospace only shows what it can show honestly.

> define_term("z-pattern")

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                       [ Get started ]
The eye enters top-left and exits
bottom-right — furnish the path.

source: uxspot.io/glossary/z-pattern

How eyes cross a sparse layout — along the top, diagonally down, out through the action.
The tree behind the navigation — and what happens when a page is filed where nobody looks.
The emotional curve of the whole experience, dips included — fix the dip, not the parts already pleasant.
Says, thinks, does, feels — the gaps between the quadrants are where the research lives.
A color budget: one dominant, one secondary, and an accent that stays scarce enough to mean something.

Every answer links back to the page it came from — all 203 glossary terms quoted with their citable URL, never paraphrased from memory

203

Curriculum, glossary, checklists and tools served over MCP — no key, no account

“One endpoint, the whole UX reference — the same pages readers browse, served to your assistant as structured, citable data.”

Soufiane Chraibi, Founder of uxspot.io

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Works with any MCP client

“Add the endpoint once and every conversation gains the reference — Claude, Cursor or any MCP client answers with sources instead of guesses.”

uxspot.io/mcp, one-line install

Curated AI × UX tools across six categories — recommended from the live directory, not from a two-year-old training set

Learn UX curriculum topics from foundations to AI-era practice — every one a linkable page your assistant can open

Ship-ready interactive checklists read item by item — accessibility, design systems, usability, AI products

Read-only MCP tools — search, define, list, checklists, curriculum — median response around 50 milliseconds

uxspot enriches your assistant's answers in real time — adding UX structure, sources and judgment at every layer.

MCP

{
  "tool": "define_term",
  "arguments": { "term": "affordance" },
  "server": "uxspot",
  "auth": "none"
}

Prompts

Ask anything UX. Get cited answers back.

[GLOSSARY]

Define "empathy map"

A plain-English definition, quoted with its citable uxspot.io source.

[GLOSSARY]

Search accessibility terms

Every a11y-related entry in the 203-term glossary, in one answer.

[TOOLS]

List the AI design tools

The current design & prototyping picks from the live directory — never a stale list.

[CHECKLISTS]

Summarise the a11y checklist

The full accessibility checklist read back item by item, mid-build.

[CURRICULUM]

What covers UX research?

The research chapters of the Learn UX curriculum, with linkable topics.

[GLOSSARY]

Explain "information architecture"

The definition plus the exact source page your assistant cites.

Eight tools your assistant can call.

All read-only, backed by the same structured data that powers the site.

▸ SEARCH_GLOSSARY Search 203 UX terms by keyword and return definitions with source URLs.
▸ DEFINE_TERM Look up one UX term — definition, why it matters, honest numbers, an ASCII diagram for spatial concepts, and its source URL.
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```
▸ LIST_UX_TOOLS Browse the AI x UX tools directory (54 tools, 6 categories), by category.
▸ LIST_CHECKLISTS List the 5 interactive checklists with topic and item counts.
▸ GET_CHECKLIST Return one checklist in full — every topic and checkable item.
▸ SEARCH_CURRICULUM Search the Learn UX curriculum (78 topics), with HTML and Markdown URLs.
▸ GET_CURRICULUM Return the full Learn UX syllabus outline — 13 sections, 78 topics.
▸ SPOT_CHECK Play Spot Check — the daily UX vocabulary game: quiz the user on a term with a real-or-fake definition, then reveal.

▸ Ask in your editor

Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client — the reference is one question away, mid-flow.

▸ The server answers

Structured data from the live site — definitions, tools, checklists and topics.

▸ Sources included

Every answer carries the citable uxspot.io URL it was drawn from.

▸ Always current

The tools read the same files the site deploys — no stale training-set copies.

Connect it in 30 seconds

No key, no account. One endpoint: https://uxspot.io/mcp

Pick your client
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Add the server
Run this once in your terminal:
```
claude mcp add --transport http uxspot https://uxspot.io/mcp
```
Open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector and enter:
- Name uxspot
- URL https://uxspot.io/mcp
Add uxspot to your client's mcp.json (for Cursor, ~/.cursor/mcp.json):
{ "mcpServers": { "uxspot": { "url": "https://uxspot.io/mcp" } } }
Run this once in your terminal:
```
codex mcp add uxspot --url https://uxspot.io/mcp
```
Gemini app (Spark) — Settings → Connected apps → add a custom app, and paste the server URL (just the URL — the JSON below is for Antigravity, not here):
```
https://uxspot.io/mcp
```
If Spark shows a credentials step under Advanced, leave it empty — uxspot never asks for a key. Spark validates connections its own way; if it refuses a keyless server, Antigravity below is the guaranteed path.

Antigravity (the IDE and CLI that replaced Gemini CLI) — add this to ~/.gemini/config/mcp_config.json (both share it), then type /mcp in the CLI to confirm:
```
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uxspot": { "serverUrl": "https://uxspot.io/mcp" }
  }
}
```
Gemini Enterprise is the one door that stays closed: it requires an admin-registered OAuth connector, and uxspot is deliberately keyless.
Restart and ask

The uxspot tools appear in the tools or connectors menu. Ask a UX question and your assistant calls uxspot and cites the source.

Questions, answered

Is it free to use?

Yes. There is no key, no account, and no rate limit to sign up for — just point your client at the endpoint.

Which clients does it work with?

Any MCP client that speaks the Streamable HTTP transport: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT, the Gemini app and Google Antigravity, and a growing list of others.

What can it see?

Nothing of yours. Every tool is read-only over the public uxspot.io content — it never accesses your project, files, or account.

Is the content current?

Yes. The server reads the same structured data that powers the live site, so definitions, tools and checklists stay in sync.

Can I use it inside ChatGPT?

You can copy any prompt above straight into ChatGPT. Native MCP tool-calling depends on your client supporting remote MCP servers.

Is the server open source?

Yes. The server code and full tool documentation are public on GitHub at github.com/dockster/uxspot-mcp, under the MIT license.

Point your assistant at uxspot

A UX reference it can actually query — free, and always current.

Or browse the tools directory View the source on GitHub

The UX referenceyour AI assistant can call

A real response from the uxspot MCP

Four ways your assistant puts it to work

Diagrams, drawn in your terminal

One endpoint. The whole UX reference.

One call, annotated — when to reach for the uxspot MCP

Ask anything UX. Get cited answers back.

Define "empathy map"

Search accessibility terms

List the AI design tools

Summarise the a11y checklist

What covers UX research?

Explain "information architecture"

Eight tools your assistant can call.

Connect it in 30 seconds

Pick your client

Add the server

Restart and ask

Questions, answered

Point your assistant at uxspot

The UX reference
your AI assistant can call