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 wire your taste into every agent

Palato is an agent-agnostic taste profile tool. Capture your design sensibility once — and wire it into every AI coding agent you use so it builds things that feel like you.

Install

npm install palato -D

How it works

Palato drops a PALATO.md into your project — a structured profile of your design sensibilities, cultural references, typography rules, animation preferences, and aesthetic anti-patterns. Each agent gets a copy so it knows what you care about before it writes a single line.

Setup

npx palato init

Detects your installed agents, scaffolds PALATO.md into your project, and wires it into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Paper, and Figma automatically.

Filling in your profile

Write it yourself — open PALATO.md and fill in the sections manually.

Answer two questions — run npx palato interview. Answer two open questions about your life and influences, then optionally answer 5 quick design questions. Claude writes your full profile from your answers.

Drop in visual references — run npx palato generate. Paste URLs — portfolio sites, Are.na boards, product pages, image links. Claude analyses the visuals and writes your profile from what it sees.

Both interview and generate require an Anthropic API key. You'll be prompted on first run and it's saved to .env.

Verify

npx palato doctor

MCP server

Add to ~/.claude/settings.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "palato": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "palato", "server"]
    }
  }
}

| Tool | Description | |------|-------------| | palato_get_profile | Returns your full taste profile | | palato_get_section | Returns a specific section | | palato_update | Appends notes to a section |

Paper

Paper is a connected design canvas — agents read and write directly to your design files, applying your palato profile when generating components.

1. Download Paper desktop
2. Run npx palato init and select Paper
3. Open Paper → Settings → MCP, copy your URL
4. Open ~/.claude/settings.json and replace REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_PAPER_MCP_URL
5. Run npx palato doctor to verify

Figma

Figma's MCP is read-only — agents read your styles, variables, and components and apply your palato profile when porting them to code.

1. Go to figma.com/settings → Personal access tokens → generate a token
2. Run npx palato init and select Figma
3. Open ~/.claude/settings.json and replace REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_FIGMA_API_KEY
4. Run npx palato doctor to verify

Requirements

Node 18+

License

© 2026 Licensed under PolyForm Shield 1.0.0