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Kage
A design inspiration library (587 designs, 3,096 components) that turns real product UIs into prompts, served to agents through a hosted MCP server and skills.
kage.design/Active
Show HN 2026-09-11; site and MCP endpoint served on 2026-10-26 (no dated changelog found). (checked 2026-10-25)
In Skills and plugin packs for coding agents
Where it stands apart
- How is the main thing licensed? proprietary or closed source (0% of 19 others)
- Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? no, it needs the maker's servers (0% of 19 others)
- Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? Model Context Protocol (MCP) (0% of 19 others)
- What is most of it, whatever it's packaged as? code that runs alongside the agent (a plugin, hooks, or an MCP server) (11% of 19 others)
- How is it mainly installed? connect to a hosted service (0% of 19 others)
- What work is it for? one technical area (frontend, security, codebase search, vision) (16% of 19 others)
- Does it need an outside service beyond the agent and its model? yes, it requires an outside service, account, or key (5% of 19 others)
- Where does its know-how mainly come from? data mined at scale (posts, designs, benchmarks) (11% of 19 others)
What it shares with most of the community
- Is it actively maintained? active (74% of 19 others)
- Do you need an account to use it? no account (95% of 19 others)
- Who is it for? developers (79% of 19 others)
- How big is it? a large bundle (more than 10) (58% of 19 others)
- Does it send usage data to its maker? none documented (84% of 19 others)
Not documented
The public sources we read don't say:
- How is it mainly sustained?
Nearest neighbors
- OpenCode Senses 50% of 16 shared answers match
- Claude Skills Starter Kit 44% of 16 shared answers match
- Whetstone 44% of 16 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | active | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | stands apart proprietary or closed source No repo or license found; site is '© 2026 Kage'. | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is it mainly sustained? | Not documented Maker not named; MCP is 'Free and open'; a Sponsor link exists. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? | stands apart no, it needs the maker's servers | source 2026-10-26 |
| Do you need an account to use it? | no account | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who is it for? | developers | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? | stands apart Model Context Protocol (MCP) Design library served through a hosted MCP server; skills are a thin layer. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which coding agents does it give install steps for? | 2 to 5 named agents Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, pi. | source 2026-10-26 |
| What is most of it, whatever it's packaged as? | stands apart code that runs alongside the agent (a plugin, hooks, or an MCP server) Hosted MCP server at kage.design/mcp. | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is it mainly installed? | stands apart connect to a hosted service | source 2026-10-26 |
| How big is it? | a large bundle (more than 10) | source 2026-10-26 |
| What work is it for? | stands apart one technical area (frontend, security, codebase search, vision) UI design. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it need an outside service beyond the agent and its model? | stands apart yes, it requires an outside service, account, or key | source 2026-10-26 |
| How does it get the agent to follow it? | instructions only: the model decides (a hook that only loads instructions counts here) | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where does its know-how mainly come from? | stands apart data mined at scale (posts, designs, benchmarks) | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it publish evidence that it makes agents better? | no | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it send usage data to its maker? | none documented | source 2026-10-26 |
Sources
This page was derived from:
- Web page · kage.design/ · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · kage.design/mcp-setup · collected 2026-10-26
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