dsbridge
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dsbridge
An MCP server that answers one question about any app: is the contract between the design system it installed and the app holding. Every value the app writes and every component it renders, sorted by where it came from — the design system, a name the app gave itself, or nothing at all — and what the app's own brand does to contrast.
Ask from inside a consuming app, in plain language — "check my design system usage" — and get the report back as tables, in the terminal, with a file and a line against every row.
web · 2026-08-26
@acme/tokens · @acme/react — 67% of written values came through the system
values written count share
------------------------------------ ----- -----
through a design system token 234 67%
through a token the app named itself 112 32%
through no token at all 2 1%
Values with no token behind them (2)
kind written a token already holds
---- ------- ---------------------
size 2 —
components rendered kinds places
------------------------------------------- ----- ------
from the design system 63 511
the app's own 144 649
of those, could move into the system 14 —
of those, a name the system already ships 0 —
from another package 9 132
shipped by the system, never rendered 9 —
The app's own components (144)
component rendered in files note
----------- -------- -------- --------------------------
AuthorLine 9 4 could move into the system
TagList 6 4 could move into the system
Section 4 4 could move into the system
MemberList 16 3 could move into the system
CountBadge 8 3 could move into the system
FilterChips 8 3 could move into the system
ActionBar 3 3 could move into the system
RailCard 4 3 could move into the system
SplitPane 5 2 could move into the system
Byline 3 2 could move into the system
… and 134 more
Never rendered (9)
Container, DateTimePicker, Popover, ProgressBar, Spinner, Tab, TabList, TabPanel, Tabs
tokens count
-------------------------------------- -----
declared by the design system 268
read by the app 67
re-pointed by the app's brand 60
declared by the app itself 47
of those, read anywhere 46
read by the app and declared by nobody 0
Tokens the app named itself (47)
where token value read the system holds this value too
---------------------------------- ------------- --------------------- ---- -------------------------------
…/web/src/app/frames.module.css:13 --logo-height var(--acme-logo-md) 1
…/web/src/app/frames.module.css:28 --logo-height var(--acme-logo-lg) 1
…/Logo/Logo.module.css:27 --logo-height var(--acme-logo-sm) 1
…/Logo/Logo.module.css:41 --logo-height var(--acme-icon-slot… 1
…/src/tokens/brand.css:17 --brand-red #990100 1
…/src/tokens/brand.css:18 --brand-rose #ecdbdb 1
…/src/tokens/brand.css:19 --brand-paper #fdfaf1 2
…/src/tokens/brand.css:20 --brand-white #ffffff 1 --acme-color-on-accent
… and 39 more
WCAG 1.4.3 contrast pairs in the system in the app
------------------------------------------------ ----- ------------- ----------
pass 107 97 10
fail 3 3 0
exempt: an inactive control is not asked to pass 7 7 0
not measurable 17 17 0
text over media, where no ratio exists 5 — —
Contrast failures (3)
where selector text on surface light dark needs fails
--------------------------- ------------------------ -------------------------------- ----- ----- ----- -----
…/react/dist/index.css:2559 .acme-ImageCarousel__co… --acme-text-on-media on --acme-… 2.60 19.88 4.5 light
…/react/dist/index.css:2782 .acme-VideoPlayer__start --acme-text-on-media on --acme-… 2.60 19.88 4.5 light
…/react/dist/index.css:530 .acme-Chip__variant-soft --acme-text-accent on --acme-ac… 6.67 4.39 4.5 darkInstall
Node 20 or newer. One command, nothing to clone:
claude mcp add --scope user dsbridge -- npx -y github:blumaa/dsbridge--scope user writes ~/.claude.json, so the server is available in every
repository without being installed in any of them. No hooks, nothing that runs
on its own, nothing added to the consuming app. Restart the session and
claude mcp list should show it connected.
The first run clones this repository and compiles it — the prepare script
builds on install, which is why dist/ is not committed. Later runs come from
the npx cache. To pick up a new version, clear it: npx clear-npx-cache.
Any MCP client works. The server speaks stdio and the command is
npx -y github:blumaa/dsbridge.
To work on it instead of just using it:
git clone git@github.com:blumaa/dsbridge.git
cd dsbridge && pnpm install
claude mcp add --scope user dsbridge -- node "$PWD/dist/server.js"Related MCP server: Designesy
Use
Two tools. Both take an optional path and default to the working directory.
Tool | Returns |
| The report above: a table per question, ten rows in each list |
| The same report with a hundred rows in each list rather than ten, and up to five hundred on request |
Ask for either in words. "Where is this app drifting from the design system?" reaches the second one.
Nothing is written anywhere. The app is read and left exactly as it was found, and the report is the whole answer — there is no file to open afterwards.
What it measures
Every value written and every component rendered, sorted by where it came from: the design system, something the app named itself, or nothing at all.
Values — how many came through a system token, through a token the app declared, and through neither, with the ones written by hand broken down by what they are values of. A colour scale nobody can reach is a different job from a spacing scale nobody used.
Components — how many kinds the app renders from the system, how many are its own, and how many come from elsewhere. Of the app's own: which the system already ships by that name, and which could move into it — a component whose file imports nothing but the system, React and a stylesheet holds on to nothing of this app.
Tokens — declared, read, re-pointed by the app's brand, declared by the app alongside an existing one, or read and declared by nobody, which is a broken reference. Two tokens count as one value only when they are read for the same kind of thing: on an eight-point grid a spacing and a height will both hold 8px without meaning the same thing.
Contrast — every text and background pair the app can render, resolved under the app's own brand in light and dark, against WCAG 1.4.3 and 1.4.11, and split by whose stylesheet wrote the pair.
Nothing is dropped for being hard. Text over a gradient or an image is reported separately, and a pair that cannot be resolved is reported with the reason. Inactive controls are shown as exempt rather than counted against the app, because WCAG does not ask them to pass.
No configuration
There is no config file and nothing to name. The design system is found by shape: the tokens package is the installed dependency that declares the most custom properties, and the components package is the family member that only spends them. Any design system, any app.
Development
pnpm verify # build, typecheck, testTests run against fixture apps under src/__fixtures__, including their
node_modules, which are committed on purpose — how a package states its
exports is the thing under test.
License
MIT
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