Penpot MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for integrating Penpot with AI assistants.

Installation & Publishing

For development

npm install
npm start

For publishing to npm

npm publish

For users (via npx)

No installation needed - use directly with npx in your MCP configuration.

Configuration

Penpot Configuration

To use the Penpot API, you need to configure:

1. Access Token: Log in to Penpot → Profile → Access tokens → Create new token
2. API URL (optional): For self-hosted Penpot instances

Add both to your MCP configuration environment variables:

• PENPOT_ACCESS_TOKEN: Your access token
• PENPOT_API_URL: API base URL (defaults to https://design.penpot.app/api)

Available Tools

get_board

Retrieves a Penpot board.

Parameters:

• url (string, required): Complete Penpot board URL with board-id

Returns: HTML, JSON object, tokens used, and CSS variables

debug_board

Retrieves a Penpot board and displays the raw JSON for debugging.

Parameters:

• url (string, required): Complete Penpot board URL with board-id

get_tokens

Retrieves design tokens from a Penpot file.

Parameters:

• url (string, required): Complete Penpot file URL (only needs file-id)

Returns: DTCG formatted tokens, CSS variables, and summary

Project Structure

penpot-mcp/
├── index.js                 # Main server
├── src/
│   └── tools/
│       ├── get-board.js     # get_board tool
│       ├── debug-board.js   # debug_board tool
│       └── get-tokens.js    # get_tokens tool
├── package.json
└── README.md

MCP Client Configuration

Add this configuration to your MCP client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "penpot": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "penpot-mcp-server@latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PENPOT_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_penpot_token_here",
        "PENPOT_API_URL": "https://design.penpot.app/api"
      }
    }
  }
}

Or for local development:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "penpot": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/penpot-mcp/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "PENPOT_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_penpot_token_here",
        "PENPOT_API_URL": "https://design.penpot.app/api"
      }
    }
  }
}