# Ply UI

Hands your coding agent the Ply component catalog for Angular and Tailwind: search, metadata, and installs through the CLI.

- MCP server · `type=mcp` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed, Gemini CLI · ★ 10
- Author: ply-ui-ng
- License: not stated · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/ply-ui-ng/ply/tree/HEAD/packages/mcp
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/mcp/ply-ui

## What it does

The server sits on top of the public Ply registry and the `npx ply-ui-cli` installer. Agents can enumerate components, run catalog searches, pull metadata, and drop chosen ones into a project. Files land in your repo because the install path calls `ply-ui-cli add --yes`.

Tools split by job. `list_components`, `search_components` and `get_component` cover browsing. `add_components`, `init_project`, `update_components`, `diff_components` and `doctor` touch the project itself. Free source comes back only when `includeSource` is true. Pro source never travels over MCP, and installing Pro items requires `PLY_LICENSE_KEY` on the server process.

Point `PLY_CWD` at the app root — the folder holding `ply-ui.json`, not the library repo. `${workspaceFolder}` resolves in Cursor and VS Code; Windsurf and Claude Desktop want an absolute path. Terminal agents launch the server from the directory you run them in, so start them at the app root. Run `npx ply-ui-cli init --yes` in that app before `add`, `init`, `update`, `doctor` or `diff`.

## Requirements
- Remote server: `https://mcp.ply-ui.com/mcp`

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
claude mcp add --transport http ply-ui https://mcp.ply-ui.com/mcp
```

### Codex

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
codex mcp add mcp --url https://mcp.ply-ui.com/mcp
```

### Cursor

**Config file**
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "mcp": {
            "url": "https://mcp.ply-ui.com/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```

### GitHub Copilot

**Config file**
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "mcp": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.ply-ui.com/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
gemini mcp add -t http mcp https://mcp.ply-ui.com/mcp
```

## When to use it
- find an Angular component by what it does, not by filename
- install a button and a card without leaving the agent
- scaffold Ply config in a fresh app
- see which tracked components drifted from upstream
- pull upstream updates into components you already copied

## Example prompts
- Search the Ply catalog for a dialog component and show me its metadata
- Add the `button` and `card` components to this project
- Run `doctor` and tell me what is wrong with the Ply setup

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