lorem-mcp

MCP server for Lorem — the design-first AI slide deck editor. Give a model real tools for making presentations that look designed: decks as diffable code, 21 professionally built layouts, AI imagery, a vision-judged quality loop, live collaboration, and export to native, editable PowerPoint.

Nothing to run or configure: this package connects to the Lorem service.

Setup

Claude Code

claude mcp add lorem -- npx -y lorem-mcp

Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lorem": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "lorem-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

That's it — the first tool call works immediately as a guest, with the same free trial the website gives (a few AI actions, AI images, and decks to try it out). Decks a guest creates stay yours across restarts on the same machine.

Your account and the paywall

The trial has the same limits as trying Lorem in the browser. To go past it:

1. Create an account at lorem.fly.dev — the free plan includes more AI actions, AI-generated images, and decks every month.
2. Mint an API key under Settings → API keys and give it to the MCP server as LOREM_API_KEY:

claude mcp add lorem -e LOREM_API_KEY=lorem_sk_… -- npx -y lorem-mcp

With a key, the agent acts as you: it sees your decks, spends your plan, and edits appear live in any browser tab where a deck is open. When a plan limit is hit, tools return a clear message pointing at lorem.fly.dev/pricing — same limits, same upgrade path as the app.

A key carries the full rights of your account except key management and billing, and is sent only as a Bearer header. Revoke or rotate it any time from the same settings screen.

What a model can do with it

• Decks as code. Every deck round-trips to Lore, a readable deck DSL. Read a slide, edit the source, write it back — read_outline, read_slide, replace_slide, apply_deck, validate.
• The full AI pipeline, end to end. generate_outline runs the art-direction + writing stage; generate_deck builds the deck with imagery and a vision-judge quality loop; edit_deck runs the same agentic review/edit loop the in-app AI panel uses.
• Designed, never free-handed. Models fill typed slots in designed layouts (list_layouts) and pick from complete visual personalities (list_styles) — or invent a new verified style (create_style).
• Live. Every edit goes through the same collaboration room a browser uses. Leave the deck open and watch slides arrive as the model works.
• Real output. export_deck produces native .pptx (text stays text, charts stay charts) or PDF.

Prompts that work

Build me a 6-slide deck on the migration project, then export it as PowerPoint.

Look at my Q3 deck and tell me which slides are carrying too much text.

Do a design pass over this deck: find weak contrast, overflowing text, or flat slides, and fix them.

© Lorem. All rights reserved. This package is the official client for the hosted Lorem service at lorem.fly.dev — see LICENSE.md for the terms of use.