🎨 Insider Design System MCP

Automated Model Context Protocol server for the Insider Design System. Enables AI assistants like Claude to discover, understand, and generate code for 60+ Design System components with automated extraction from source code.

Version: 2.0 (Automated Extraction) Status: ✅ Production Ready Last Updated: 2025-11-21

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✨ Features

🤖 Automated Extraction

• Zero Manual Work: Automatically extracts component metadata from Vue source files
• Always Up-to-Date: Re-run extraction when Design System changes (~5 minutes)
• Rich Metadata: Props, emits, enums, validators, slots - all extracted automatically

📊 Comprehensive Data

• 62 Components: Full coverage of Insider Design System
• 1,087 Props: With types, defaults, and validators
• 30 Enums: STYLES, TYPES, SIZES automatically detected
• Real Usage Analysis: Common mistakes detected from analytics-fe codebase
• Manual Enrichments: Critical components have detailed examples and notes

🔧 MCP Tools

• list-components - List all components
• get-component - 🆕 Markdown format - Get component info in human-readable format with 77% token savings
• search-components - Search by name/description
• generate-code - Generate Vue component code
• map-figma-component - Map Figma to DS components

⚡ Markdown Format (NEW!)

The get-component tool now returns component documentation in Markdown format for massive token savings:

Benefits:

• 💰 77% token savings compared to JSON format (690KB → 161KB)
• 📖 Human-readable format with clear structure
• 🎯 ~135,335 tokens saved across all components
• ⚡ Faster responses with smaller payloads

Top Performers:

• InButtonV2: 88% savings (55KB → 6.6KB)
• InDropdownMenu: 87% savings (36KB → 4.8KB)
• InTooltipV2: 86% savings (31KB → 4.2KB)

Format includes:

• Props with types, defaults, descriptions
• Events with payloads
• Examples with code snippets
• Common mistakes and best practices
• Related components

📚 MCP Resources

• ds://components - All components list
• ds://registry - Registry metadata
• ds://component/{name} - Individual component
• ds://categories - Component categories

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📖 Documentation

→ See docs/ for complete documentation index

• Architecture - System design and data flow

  • How It Works - Complete architecture overview
  • Smart Filter Layer - Token optimization system
  • Figma Integration - Figma to Vue workflow

• Guides - How-to guides and workflows

  • Developer Workflow - Day-to-day development
  • Enrichment Strategy - Creating enrichments
  • Enrichment Template - Enrichment templates

• Reference - API and tool references

  • Agent Usage - Specialized agents guide

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🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Node.js >= 20.0.0
• npm >= 10.0.0

Installation

# Clone repository
git clone <repo-url>
cd design-system-mcp

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Extract component metadata (first time)
npm run extract:all

# Build
npm run build

# Test
npm run test:production

Need help with extraction scripts? See WORKFLOW.md for detailed usage guide.

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⚙️ Configuration

Claude Desktop

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "design-system": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/Users/YOUR_USERNAME/path/to/design-system-mcp/dist/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

Environment Variables

# Design System source path (for extraction)
export DS_PATH="/Users/YOUR_USERNAME/path/to/insider-design-system"

# Analytics FE path (for usage analysis)
export ANALYTICS_FE_PATH="/Users/YOUR_USERNAME/path/to/analytics-fe"

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🔄 Data Extraction Pipeline

Architecture

Design System Source Code (Vue files)
         ↓ AUTOMATED EXTRACTION
data/combined.json (209 KB)
         ↓ BUILD & COPY
dist/data/combined.json
         ↓ RUNTIME LOADING
MCP Server (in-memory, enum-resolved)
         ↓ FAST QUERIES
Claude Code

Extraction Commands

# Extract all data (run when Design System changes)
npm run extract:all

# Or run individually:
npm run extract:components  # Parse Vue components → data/components.json
npm run extract:storybook   # Extract examples → data/storybook.json
npm run extract:usage       # Analyze usage → data/usage.json
npm run extract:argtypes    # Sync possibleValues from storybook argTypes
npm run extract:merge       # Merge all → data/combined.json

# Rebuild MCP server
npm run build

What Gets Extracted?

1. Component Metadata (extract-components.ts)

• Props (type, default, required, validator)
• Emits (from $emit() calls)
• Enums (const STYLES = {...})
• Slots
• Version (V1/V2)

2. Storybook Examples (extract-storybook.ts)

• Code examples from stories
• Descriptions
• Categories

3. Real Usage Analysis (extract-usage.ts)

• Usage counts from analytics-fe
• Common mistakes (auto-detected)
• Most used props
• Real code patterns

4. Manual Enrichments (overlay)

• Detailed valueFormat for critical props
• Common mistakes documentation
• Helper functions
• Migration guides

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📖 Usage Examples

🎯 Complete Walkthrough: From Raw Request to Implementation

Scenario: You need a button that opens a dropdown menu.

Step 1: Optimize Your Raw Request

# In Claude Code (works in ANY project with Design System MCP!)
User: "Use optimize-prompt to transform this request: I need a button that opens a dropdown menu"

Claude calls mcp__design-system__optimize-prompt and returns:

# Original Prompt
I need a button that opens a dropdown menu

# Analysis
- Language: English
- Intent: implement
- Components: InButtonV2, InDropdownMenu
- Complexity: medium
- Estimated Token Savings: ~24,000 tokens

# Optimized Prompt
I need to implement InButtonV2 and InDropdownMenu components with proper integration.

Please use the Design System MCP to:

1. Get documentation for both components
   - Tool: mcp__design-system__get-component
   - Components: InButtonV2, InDropdownMenu
   - Note: Markdown format saves ~87% tokens on average

2. Generate implementation code
   - Tool: mcp__design-system__generate-code
   - Include integration between components

Requirements:
- Primary styling for main actions
- Dropdown opens below trigger element
- Proper state management between components

Show me:
✅ Which components you're using
✅ Token savings from Markdown format for each component
✅ The generated Vue code
✅ Integration example showing how components work together

Step 2: Use the Optimized Prompt

User: "Now use the optimized prompt above to implement the button + dropdown"

Claude executes:

1. Gets InButtonV2 docs (Markdown format)

   • Original: 55KB JSON → 6.6KB Markdown
   • Token savings: 88% (~12,198 tokens)

2. Gets InDropdownMenu docs (Markdown format)

   • Original: 36KB JSON → 4.8KB Markdown
   • Token savings: 87% (~8,214 tokens)

3. Generates integrated Vue code:

<template>
  <div class="button-dropdown-container">
    <InButtonV2
      id="actions-button"
      :type="TYPES.PRIMARY"
      :styling="STYLES.SOLID"
      label-text="Actions"
      @click="toggleDropdown"
    />

    <InDropdownMenu
      v-if="isOpen"
      :items="menuItems"
      @item-click="handleItemClick"
      @close="isOpen = false"
    />
  </div>
</template>

<script setup lang="ts">
import { ref } from 'vue';
import { InButtonV2, InDropdownMenu } from '@useinsider/design-system-vue';
import '@useinsider/design-system-vue/dist/design-system-vue.css';

const isOpen = ref(false);

const menuItems = [
  { id: 'export', label: 'Export Data', icon: 'download' },
  { id: 'share', label: 'Share Report', icon: 'share' },
  { id: 'settings', label: 'Settings', icon: 'settings' },
];

const toggleDropdown = () => {
  isOpen.value = !isOpen.value;
};

const handleItemClick = (item: any) => {
  console.log('Clicked:', item.id);
  isOpen.value = false;
};
</script>

Summary

Total token savings: ~20,412 tokens (87.5% reduction) Time saved: Claude uses the right tools in the right order Quality: Proper integration, best practices included

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💡 Pro Tips

Always optimize raw requests first:

❌ Don't do this:

User: "I need a button"

Claude searches through code files, wastes time.

✅ Do this:

User: "Use optimize-prompt: I need a button"

Claude gets optimized prompt → Uses MCP tools → Fast & accurate implementation.

Works everywhere:

• ✅ analytics-fe project
• ✅ marketing-web project
• ✅ customer-portal project
• ✅ ANY project with Design System MCP configured

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🎯 Quick Reference: optimize-prompt

// Single component
mcp__design-system__optimize-prompt("I need a button")

// Multiple components
mcp__design-system__optimize-prompt("button and dropdown menu")

// Migration task
mcp__design-system__optimize-prompt("migrate InDatePicker from V1 to V2")

// Debug issue
mcp__design-system__optimize-prompt("InSelect not working, showing errors")

// Learning
mcp__design-system__optimize-prompt("how to use InTooltipV2?")

Get Component Details

// Claude automatically calls:
mcp__design-system__get-component("InButtonV2")

// Returns in Markdown format (88% token savings):
# InButtonV2

**Version:** v2

## Props

### `styling`
**Type:** `String` | **Default:** `"STYLES.SOLID"`

**Allowed values:** `solid`, `ghost`, `text`

### `type`
**Type:** `String` | **Default:** `"TYPES.PRIMARY"`

...

## Examples

### Basic Primary Button
```vue
<InButtonV2
  id="primary-btn"
  styling="solid"
  type="primary"
  label-text="Click Me"
/>

Token savings: 55KB → 6.6KB (88% reduction)

### Search Components

```typescript
mcp__design-system__search-components("button")
// Returns: InButton, InButtonV2, InCreateButton...

Generate Code

mcp__design-system__generate-code({
  component: "InButtonV2",
  props: { styling: "solid", type: "primary" }
})

// Returns:
// <InButtonV2
//   id="button-1"
//   styling="solid"
//   type="primary"
//   label-text="Button"
// />

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🧪 Testing

# Test combined dataset
npm run test:data

# Test production build
npm run test:production

# Run unit tests
npm test

# Coverage
npm run test:coverage

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📂 Project Structure

design-system-mcp/
├── 📄 README.md                      # This file
├── 📄 COMPLETION_REPORT.md           # Full project report
├── 📄 HOW_IT_WORKS.md                # Architecture deep dive
├── 📄 CLEANUP_SUMMARY.md             # Cleanup history
├── 📦 package.json                   # Dependencies & scripts
├── 🔧 tsup.config.ts                 # Build configuration
│
├── 📂 src/                           # Source code
│   ├── index.ts                      # Entry point
│   ├── server.ts                     # MCP server
│   ├── tools/index.ts                # MCP tools
│   ├── resources/index.ts            # MCP resources
│   ├── types/index.ts                # TypeScript types
│   └── registry/
│       ├── combined-loader.ts        # ⭐ Dataset loader (NEW)
│       ├── enrichments/              # Manual enrichments
│       │   ├── InButtonV2.json
│       │   ├── InDatePickerV2.json
│       │   └── InSelect.json
│       └── migrations/               # V1→V2 guides
│           └── InDatePicker-to-V2.json
│
├── 📂 scripts/                       # Extraction scripts
│   ├── extract-components.ts         # Vue component parser
│   ├── extract-storybook.ts          # Example extractor
│   ├── extract-usage.ts              # Usage analyzer
│   └── merge-datasets.ts             # Dataset combiner
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├── 📂 data/                          # Extracted data
│   ├── components.json               # 148 KB - Parsed components
│   ├── storybook.json                # 1.6 KB - Examples
│   ├── usage.json                    # Real usage data
│   └── combined.json                 # 209 KB - ⭐ FINAL DATASET
│
└── 📂 dist/                          # Build output
    ├── index.js                      # Bundled MCP server
    └── data/combined.json            # Runtime dataset

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🔄 Update Workflow

When Design System Changes

# 1. Pull latest Design System
cd /path/to/insider-design-system
git pull

# 2. Re-extract metadata
cd /path/to/design-system-mcp
npm run extract:all          # ~5 minutes

# 3. Rebuild MCP server
npm run build

# 4. Test
npm run test:production

# 5. Commit (optional)
git add data/combined.json
git commit -m "chore: update component metadata"
git push

# Claude Desktop will auto-reload! ✅

Before: 2-3 hours manual work Now: 5 minutes automated! 🚀

For more scenarios and detailed workflow guide, see WORKFLOW.md.

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💡 Key Innovations

1. Automated Extraction

No more manual JSON editing. Parser reads Vue files directly.

2. Enum Resolution

// Source: const STYLES = { SOLID: 'solid', GHOST: 'ghost' }
// Extracted: enums: [{ name: "STYLES", values: {...} }]
// Runtime: validValues: ["solid", "ghost", "text"] ✅

3. Real Usage Intelligence

Scans analytics-fe for common mistakes:

{
  "mistake": "Using number for iconSize",
  "occurrences": 12,
  "fix": "Use string: icon-size=\"24\"",
  "severity": "critical"
}

4. Layered Enrichment

Auto-extracted (100% coverage)
    +
Manual enrichments (critical details)
    =
Best of both worlds! ✅

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📊 Data Quality

Components: 62 (100% coverage)
Props: 1,087 (with types, defaults, validators)
Enums: 30 (automatically detected)
Emits: 170
Manual Enrichments: 3 (InButtonV2, InDatePickerV2, InSelect)
Migration Guides: 1
File Size: 209 KB (combined.json)

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🎯 Benefits

For Developers

• ✅ Accurate component information
• ✅ Enum values always correct
• ✅ Common mistakes documented
• ✅ Real usage examples
• ✅ Fast code generation

For Design System Team

• ✅ Zero manual maintenance
• ✅ Always synchronized with source
• ✅ Easy updates (5 minutes)
• ✅ Automatic mistake detection

Expected Impact

• Code Generation Accuracy: 30% → 85%
• First-Try Correctness: 20% → 80%
• Onboarding Time: -70%
• Design System Questions: -50%

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🛠️ Development

Scripts

# Build
npm run build              # Build for production
npm run dev                # Watch mode

# Extraction
npm run extract:components # Extract component metadata
npm run extract:storybook  # Extract examples
npm run extract:usage      # Analyze real usage
npm run extract:merge      # Merge all datasets
npm run extract:all        # Run all extractions

# Testing
npm test                   # Run unit tests
npm run test:coverage      # Coverage report
npm run test:data          # Test dataset validity
npm run test:production    # Test production build

# Code Quality
npm run lint               # Run ESLint
npm run lint:fix           # Fix linting issues
npm run typecheck          # TypeScript check

Adding New Enrichments

Option 1: Use enrichment-maker agent (Recommended)

# Let AI generate enrichment for you
# In Claude Code: "Use enrichment-maker agent to create enrichment for InTooltipV2"

# Agent analyzes component and creates:
# - valueFormat for complex props
# - commonMistakes documentation
# - Real-world examples
# - Helper functions

# Then merge and build:
npm run extract:merge
npm run build

Option 2: Manual creation

# 1. Create enrichment file
touch src/registry/enrichments/InTooltipV2.json

# 2. Add detailed metadata
# (See existing enrichments: InButtonV2, InDatePickerV2, InSelect)

# 3. Rebuild
npm run extract:merge
npm run build

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📚 Documentation

• README.md (this file) - Quick start & overview
• WORKFLOW.md - ⭐ When and how to run extraction scripts
• AGENT_USAGE.md - 🤖 How to use agents and slash commands
• HOW_IT_WORKS.md - Architecture deep dive
• COMPLETION_REPORT.md - Full project report
• CLEANUP_SUMMARY.md - Cleanup history
• CLAUDE.md - Instructions for Claude Code

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🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create feature branch: git checkout -b feature/amazing
3. Make changes
4. Run tests: npm test
5. Commit: git commit -m "feat: add amazing feature"
6. Push: git push origin feature/amazing
7. Submit Pull Request

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📄 License

UNLICENSED - Internal use only (Insider)

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💬 Support

For questions and issues:

• Create GitHub issue
• Contact Design System team
• Slack: #design-system

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🎉 Success Stories

"Component metadata is now always accurate. Claude generates correct code on first try!" — Developer using MCP

"We updated 15 components in Design System. Re-extraction took 5 minutes!" — Design System Team

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