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Charming MCP Server

Charming is a hosted MCP server that generates, hosts, and updates interactive web apps. Connect it to any MCP-compatible AI client and ask it to build an app. You get back a live URL in seconds.

Connect

Client

Endpoint

Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and most MCP clients

https://charm.ing/mcp

ChatGPT

https://charm.ing/mcp/chatgpt (one-click via the Charming listing in the ChatGPT Apps directory; this paste-string is the Developer Mode fallback)

Most MCP clients can use this remote configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "charming": {
      "url": "https://charm.ing/mcp",
      "type": "streamableHttp"
    }
  }
}

The MCP endpoints require a bearer token, and OAuth with Dynamic Client Registration bootstraps one automatically: clients that support it show a one-time consent screen, with no API key to paste. Anonymous creation with no token is available on the HTTP path only. Auth guide: usecharming.com/auth.md.

For per-client paste-strings and setup steps, see usecharming.com/clients.txt.

Related MCP server: claude-mermaid

Starter Prompt

Once Charming is connected, paste this to start a build session:

Help me figure out what to build. Look at what you know about me and suggest 2-3 apps that fit, or ask me up to 3 short questions to find an idea.

Read https://usecharming.com/start.md then help me create my first app.

Tools

Charming exposes 24 tools. Connected clients discover them automatically via tools/list.

Tool

What it does

create_app

Store an agent-authored module (a manifest plus routes) with optional UI and CSS, and render it inline. Requires a description. Give the user the returned token-free shareUrl, never the machine-only url.

update_app

Edit an existing app by replacing its module/UI/styles/description or applying exact-string edits, with optimistic-concurrency versioning.

get_app

Render an existing app inline (where the client supports it) and return its callable API operations and metadata.

get_app_source

Return the persisted module, UI, and styles for an existing app plus its current version.

list_apps

List the caller's apps plus apps shared with them, newest first, with each app's role, description, and capabilities.

delete_app

Permanently delete an app you own. Irreversible and confirmation-gated: it fails closed until re-invoked with confirm: true. Pass purge_storage: true to also wipe stored state.

upload_asset

Store a static asset (image, PDF, dataset) so app code stays small; readable back same-origin.

rename_app

Change an app's URL slug. The old URL keeps working by redirecting.

set_remixable

Mark an app remixable so visitors get their own editable copy.

unset_remixable

Stop allowing remixes; existing remixes survive untouched.

set_starter_prompt

Set or clear the prompt prefilled in the chat host when a visitor opens a shared app.

query_app

Run a read-only backend operation inside an app module.

mutate_app

Run a mutating backend operation inside an app module without editing code.

submit_feedback

Record agent-authored feedback (bugs, enhancements, crash reports) about an app.

list_feedback

List feedback rows for the caller's apps, newest first.

set_handle

Change the signed-in user's handle (the first segment of their app URLs).

share_app

Invite someone to an app as collaborator (default), end-user (run and write data, cannot edit source), or viewer (read-only). Calling it again with a role changes their role in place.

unshare_app

Revoke access for any grantee, whether the invitation is still pending or already accepted.

list_app_shares

List active and pending share invites for one of your apps.

set_public

Make an app public: anyone with the URL can open it with no login and read AND write its shared data. Warn the user that every anonymous visitor shares one data pool, so anyone with the URL can overwrite or wipe it.

unset_public

Make a public app private again; anonymous visitors can no longer open it.

set_template

Publish an app as a template so anyone opening its URL gets their own brand-new copy, leaving the original untouched. Pass listed: true to also list it in the public directory. Omitting listed leaves the current listing state alone. The app must be claimed first.

unset_template

Stop treating an app as a template: new visitors can no longer copy it, and any public listing is cleared. Existing copies survive.

search_templates

Search the public Charming template directory by keyword. Check here for an existing template before calling create_app, or when the user asks what templates exist. Each hit carries a copyUrl a visitor can open to mint their own independent copy with no login.

Use with a coding agent

Working in Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or another AI coding agent? Install the optional Charming authoring skill from skills.sh with npx skills add tambo-labs/charming-mcp. This installs authoring guidance; it does not connect the MCP server.

It teaches the agent Charming's build contract and workflow. The skill itself is SKILL.md; AGENTS.md has connect and authoring instructions for any AI coding agent. Codex users can instead install the bundled Charming Codex plugin.

Cursor

Cursor reads project rules from .cursor/rules/. Drop .cursor/rules/charming.mdc into your project (or copy its body into a legacy root .cursorrules) and Cursor's agent will reach for Charming (real URL, storage, and inline rendering) whenever you ask for an app you want to keep. The rule points at the served docs; it does not duplicate the contract.

Distribution

This repository is the canonical source for every public Charming integration package. Platform-neutral artifacts are hand-edited; platform adapters are generated from them, so a fact lives in exactly one file.

Kind

Artifact

Platform-neutral (edit these)

canonical/facts.json, SKILL.md, AGENTS.md, .cursor/rules/charming.mdc, charming-icon.png

Adapter (generated)

plugins/cursor/charming, plugins/claude-code/charming, plugins/codex/charming, plugins/agent-plugins/charming (a portable Agent Plugins v1.0.0 package), gemini-extension.json, GEMINI.md, the three marketplace catalogs

npm ci                                   # install ajv, the schema validator
node scripts/build-packages.mjs          # regenerate every adapter
node scripts/build-packages.mjs --check  # fail on drift (runs in CI)

The adapters are not published yet; publishing each one is tracked separately. See DISTRIBUTION.md for the layout, the drift checks, and how the Charming monorepo proposes changes here.

Documentation

Publisher

Published by Tambo.

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license - permissive license
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quality - not tested
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maintenance

Maintenance

Maintainers
Response time
Release cycle
Releases (12mo)
Commit activity

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