# Overflow Design

> Search and fetch hand-drawn icons, illustrations and isometric drawings. The free set needs no key.

- name: design.overflow/mcp
- version: 1.0.0
- connection class: R0 (autonomous)
- trust: 82/100 flags: no-repository
- quality: 84/100 (good)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/design.overflow%2Fmcp
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/design.overflow%2Fmcp/tools

**An agent can connect right now, no human step.** Remote endpoint, no authentication, reachable on the last probe.

## Connection (mcpServers)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "overflow": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.overflow.design/api/mcp/",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${licence_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Placeholders to fill: `${licence_key}`.

## Trust

- hygiene: 80
- liveness: 98
- freshness: 100
- provenance: 55
- drivers: +dns-namespace +website +reachable +uptime-95% +updated-20d-ago -no-repository
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality 84/100 (good)

### protocol: 100 (weight 25)

- pass `protocol.modern`: supports 2026-07-28 (server/discover)
- pass `protocol.stateless`: answers without a session
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- pass `protocol.list_ttl`: tool list is cacheable (ttlMs 3600000)

### authorization: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `auth.prm`, `auth.as_metadata`, `auth.cimd`: no remote uses OAuth
- n/a `auth.secret_in_url`: no templated URL

### tool hygiene: 100 (weight 30)

- pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description
- pass `tools.description_length`: descriptions are concise
- pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema
- pass `tools.annotations`: 3 of 3 tools declare readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
- pass `tools.directory_hints`: every tool declares readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint
- pass `tools.token_cost`: about 1,309 tokens to load every tool
- pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump

### stability: 25 (weight 15)

- warn `stability.changes`: 7 tool changes in 30 days
- fail `stability.rug_pull`: 1 tools kept their name but changed most of their description in 30 days; review before trusting them

### dependencies: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: no npm or PyPI package

- tools: 3, about 1,309 tokens to load them all
- tool set hash: 51b71c0fe6696986f32528d630ae5dfa
- tools last changed: 2026-10-19T05:54:47.424Z
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/design.overflow/mcp.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/design.overflow/mcp)
- Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed.

### Tool changes

- 2026-10-19 `get_drawings` changed (inputSchema)
- 2026-10-18 `get_drawings` changed (inputSchema)
- 2026-10-18 `get_drawings` changed (description, inputSchema)
  - before: Returns Overflow drawings by id, up to 20 at a time, as SVG or JSX. Icons and isometric stills come back inline as markup. Illustrations and animated isometric drawings, which run to tens of kilobytes, come back as a download link that works for fifteen minutes, with a curl command that saves the file; the delivery option returns them inline instead. Free drawings need no key; the others need an Overflow Pro licence key sent with the connection. Each result ends with the licence terms.
  - after: Returns Overflow drawings by id, up to 20 at a time, as SVG or JSX. Icons and isometric stills of up to 32 KB come back inline as markup. Illustrations, larger isometric drawings and animated ones come back as a download link that works for fifteen minutes, with a curl command that saves the file; the delivery option returns them inline instead. An isometric drawing comes in any of the set page's six styles, facing right or left, and standing or lying where it has been drawn so. Free drawings need no key; the others, and the isometric Pro styles, need an Overflow Pro licence key sent with the connection. Each result ends with the licence terms.
- 2026-10-18 `search_drawings` changed (description)
  - before: Searches Overflow Design's hand-drawn drawings by what they show: 1,120 icons, 457 illustrations and 71 isometric drawings. Use it when the user wants an icon, an illustration or an isometric drawing. Every word of the query must match a drawing's name or tags, and "icon", "illustration" or "isometric" in the query narrows the search to that set. Returns each match's id, name, set, category and page link, and marks the drawings this connection cannot fetch because they need an Overflow Pro licence.
  - after: Searches Overflow Design's hand-drawn drawings by what they show: 1,120 icons, 457 illustrations and 120 isometric drawings. Use it when the user wants an icon, an illustration or an isometric drawing. Every word of the query must match a drawing's name or tags, and "icon", "illustration" or "isometric" in the query narrows the search to that set. Returns each match's id, name, set, category and page link, and marks the drawings this connection cannot fetch because they need an Overflow Pro licence.
- 2026-10-01 `list_sets` changed (description, annotations)
  - before: What Overflow Design has: the three sets with their counts, styles and categories (for search_drawings), and what this connection's licence key unlocks.
  - after: Lists what Overflow Design has: the three sets with their counts, styles and categories, and what this connection's licence key unlocks.
- 2026-10-01 `get_drawings` changed (description, inputSchema, annotations) **meaning changed**
  - before: Fetch drawings by the ids search_drawings returns, up to 20 at a time. Icons and isometric stills come back inline as markup to write into a file or a component. Illustrations and animated drawings come back as a download link with a curl command, since they run to tens of kilobytes; delivery changes that. Free drawings need no key, the rest need a Pro licence key on this connection. Put each file where the project keeps its icons or images and use it as delivered: do not redraw or restyle it, size it with width and height or CSS, and stop once it is in place. The result ends with the licence terms.
  - after: Returns Overflow drawings by id, up to 20 at a time, as SVG or JSX. Icons and isometric stills come back inline as markup. Illustrations and animated isometric drawings, which run to tens of kilobytes, come back as a download link that works for fifteen minutes, with a curl command that saves the file; the delivery option returns them inline instead. Free drawings need no key; the others need an Overflow Pro licence key sent with the connection. Each result ends with the licence terms.
- 2026-10-01 `search_drawings` changed (description, inputSchema, annotations)
  - before: Search Overflow Design's drawings by what they show: 1,120 icons, 457 illustrations and 71 isometric drawings. Every word must match, so use the plain noun (calendar, shopping cart, teamwork) and try a synonym if nothing comes back. "icon", "illustration" or "isometric" in the query narrows to that set. Returns ids for get_drawings, and marks the drawings this connection cannot fetch because they need Pro. If the request is vague or several drawings fit it equally well, show the user two or three and let them choose.
  - after: Searches Overflow Design's hand-drawn drawings by what they show: 1,120 icons, 457 illustrations and 71 isometric drawings. Use it when the user wants an icon, an illustration or an isometric drawing. Every word of the query must match a drawing's name or tags, and "icon", "illustration" or "isometric" in the query narrows the search to that set. Returns each match's id, name, set, category and page link, and marks the drawings this connection cannot fetch because they need an Overflow Pro licence.

Full history: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/design.overflow%2Fmcp/changes

## Remotes

- https://www.overflow.design/api/mcp/ (streamable-http, auth none, reachable true, uptime30d 0.94736844)

## Packages

_none_

## Tools (3)

- `get_drawings`: Returns Overflow drawings by id, up to 20 at a time, as SVG or JSX. Icons and isometric stills of up to 32 KB come back inline as markup. Illustrations, larger isometric drawings and animated ones come back as a download link that works for fifteen minutes, with a curl command that saves the file; the delivery option returns them inline instead. An isometric drawing comes in any of the set page's six styles, facing right or left, and standing or lying where it has been drawn so. Free drawings need no key; the others, and the isometric Pro styles, need an Overflow Pro licence key sent with the connection. Each result ends with the licence terms.
- `list_sets`: Lists what Overflow Design has: the three sets with their counts, styles and categories, and what this connection's licence key unlocks.
- `search_drawings`: Searches Overflow Design's hand-drawn drawings by what they show: 1,120 icons, 457 illustrations and 120 isometric drawings. Use it when the user wants an icon, an illustration or an isometric drawing. Every word of the query must match a drawing's name or tags, and "icon", "illustration" or "isometric" in the query narrows the search to that set. Returns each match's id, name, set, category and page link, and marks the drawings this connection cannot fetch because they need an Overflow Pro licence.