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🎨 mcp-icon

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for semantic SVG icon search.

Generate infographic SVG icons by keyword — over 100,000 icons with semantic search support, powered by AntV Infographic.

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📋 Table of Contents

• ✨ Features
• 🤖 Usage
• 🚰 Transport Modes
• 🎮 CLI Options
• 🔨 Development
• 📄 License

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✨ Features

• 🔍 Semantic search — Find icons by meaning, not just exact names
• 🖼️ 100,000+ SVG icons — A massive library of high-quality infographic icons
• ⚡ Three transport modes — stdio, sse, and streamable-http
• 🪶 Minimal dependencies — Clean, focused implementation
• 🧪 Fully tested — Unit tests with Vitest

Available Tool

Tool	Description
search_icons	Search for SVG icons by keyword. Returns a list of SVG URLs matching the semantic query.

search_icons parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
keyword	string	✅	—	Search keyword or phrase (e.g. "data analysis", "cloud")
topK	number	❌	3	Number of icons to return (1–20)

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🤖 Usage

Add to your MCP client configuration (e.g. Claude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor):

macOS / Linux:

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

Windows:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-icon": {
      "command": "cmd",
      "args": ["/c", "npx", "-y", "mcp-icon"]
    }
  }
}

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🚰 Transport Modes

mcp-icon supports three standard MCP transport protocols.

stdio (default)

Used by desktop MCP clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.):

npx mcp-icon
# or explicitly:
npx mcp-icon --transport stdio

SSE (Server-Sent Events)

npx mcp-icon --transport sse --port 3456
# Server available at: http://localhost:3456/sse

Streamable HTTP

npx mcp-icon --transport streamable --port 3456
# Server available at: http://localhost:3456/mcp

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🎮 CLI Options

mcp-icon CLI

Options:
  --transport, -t  Transport protocol: "stdio", "sse", or "streamable" (default: "stdio")
  --host, -h       Host for SSE or streamable transport (default: localhost)
  --port, -p       Port for SSE or streamable transport (default: 3456)
  --endpoint, -e   Endpoint path:
                   - For SSE: default is "/sse"
                   - For streamable: default is "/mcp"
  --help, -H       Show this help message

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🔨 Development

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/hustcc/mcp-icon.git
cd mcp-icon

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build
npm run build

# Run tests
npm test

# Start with MCP inspector (for local debugging)
npm start

Project Structure

src/
├── index.ts          # CLI entry point
├── server.ts         # MCP server + tool handlers
├── services/
│   ├── stdio.ts      # Stdio transport
│   ├── sse.ts        # SSE transport
│   └── streamable.ts # Streamable HTTP transport
├── tools/
│   └── search-icons.ts  # Tool definition
└── utils/
    ├── api.ts        # Icon search API client
    └── logger.ts     # Logger utility
tests/
├── api.test.ts       # API client unit tests
└── server.test.ts    # MCP server integration tests

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📄 License

MIT © hustcc