Aesthetics Wiki MCP

An MCP server that lets LLMs search, read, and discover aesthetics from the Aesthetics Wiki (cottagecore, dark academia, y2k, goblincore, and thousands more).

Backed by the MediaWiki API. No API key required. Zero setup: run it straight with uvx.

Tools

All tools are read-only.

Quick start

Requires Python 3.10+ and uv. Nothing to install manually — uvx fetches and runs it on demand.

Claude Code / Claude Desktop

Add this to your MCP config (~/.claude/settings.json, project .mcp.json, or ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aesthetics-wiki": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["aesthetics-wiki-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart your client and the 5 tools show up automatically.

Other MCP clients

Any client that speaks stdio works. Just run uvx aesthetics-wiki-mcp as the transport command.

Manual install

uv tool install aesthetics-wiki-mcp      # or: pipx install aesthetics-wiki-mcp
aesthetics-wiki-mcp                       # starts the stdio server

Example prompts

• "Find aesthetics related to dark academia and show me a visual moodboard."

• "Give me 5 random aesthetics and a one-sentence vibe for each."

• "What are the core elements of cottagecore? Any adjacent aesthetics I should know?"

• "Compare y2k and 2014 Tumblr aesthetically."

Development

uv sync
uv run aesthetics-wiki-mcp        # start stdio server
uv run python -m py_compile src/aesthetics_wiki_mcp/server.py

Test interactively with the MCP Inspector:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run aesthetics-wiki-mcp

License

MIT. Content from the Aesthetics Wiki is licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0 by its contributors; this project only proxies read access and attributes the source in every response URL.

Credits

Built by Leonardo Cametti. Data © Aesthetics Wiki contributors.