vDesign speaks the Model Context Protocol. Connect your assistant and it can create designs, change them, check them for problems and show you the result, on the same canvas you edit by hand. The design is not a picture: every text box, shape and colour stays a layer you can move, retype or recolour.
Connect in one step
Remote MCP, for Claude, ChatGPT and any assistant that takes a connector URL:
https://mcp.getv.design/mcp
Add it as a connector in your assistant. The first time, it sends you to a vDesign page that asks you to sign in and allow the connection. After that, the assistant works on the documents open in vDesign, in the desktop app or in the web app, on any device where you are signed in. You can see and remove the assistants you have allowed in Settings → Connect.
Local MCP, for Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code and other apps on the same computer as
the desktop app. Turn it on in Settings → Connect, and the app runs a server only that
computer can reach, at http://127.0.0.1:7823/mcp. Settings → Connect can write the entry
into Claude Desktop’s configuration for you, and copies the path of a small launcher for apps
that start a server from a command.
The MCP docs have every detail.
What your assistant can do
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
vd_create |
Create a document |
vd_patch |
Edit a document a few lines at a time, instead of rewriting it |
vd_read, vd_list |
Read a document, list the open ones |
vd_show |
Show the design in the chat |
vd_problems |
Check a document for anything that did not draw as asked |
vd_skill |
Learn the vDesign format |
vd_add_icon, vd_search_icon |
Find icons and place them as real vector paths |
vd_add_asset, vd_assets, vd_remove_asset |
Add, list and remove images and music |
vd_create_brand, vd_read_brand, vd_apply_brand |
Make a brand and put it on a design |
vd_open |
Open a document in vDesign (remote) |
vd_export, vd_frames |
Export a document, and see a video’s key moments (desktop) |
An assistant needs no instructions from you to use them. The server tells it to learn the format first and to build anything large a region at a time, so you watch the design arrive rather than wait for it.
Brands and video, from the chat
Ask your assistant to make a brand from your website or the text of your guidelines, and vDesign’s code reads the exact colours, fonts and logo while the assistant writes the voice and rules. Every design it makes after that names the brand’s roles, and “switch this deck to our other brand” is one step. See a brand kit.
A design can also play: ask for a short social video and the assistant writes the motion, words rising, numbers counting, a camera moving between scenes, as part of the same file. See a social video.
Why a design tool built for agents
Most design tools that offer MCP were built for a mouse first. Their documents are large JSON trees, HTML, or a format the app keeps to itself, so an assistant either rewrites a lot to change a little or works through a narrow set of commands.
A vDesign document is a short text file written for a model to read and write: one line per
element, geometry as relationships (x=(@logo.right + $gap)), colours and sizes as named
tokens. To change the spacing of a whole layout, the assistant writes one line,
set $gap = 40, and everything that reads $gap moves. That is what makes edits by an
assistant fast and cheap, and why the canvas fills in as the reply streams. See
the .vd format.
Not only through your assistant
The same agent is built into the app as vDesign AI, on your own key: Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, OpenRouter and others, or a local or custom model in the desktop app. Use whichever you prefer for a design, or both.