Features
Kite's MCP server gives your AI tool a design file to work in: it reads what is there, draws into it piece by piece while you watch, follows your design system and answers your team's comments.
Tools
Your tool chooses which to use from what you ask it. You never call them yourself.
Files
file_newStart a design file for the banners, posts, ads and logos it makes, so they're kept side by side.
file_listList your files, newest edit first.
file_searchFind a file by what is in it: its pages, its layers' names and their words.
file_infoA file's title, link, who can open it and how many comments it has.
file_shareChange who can open a file: anyone with the link, or only the people listed.
file_archiveArchive a file. Its link stops working until someone unarchives it.
Drawing
file_outlineRead a file's pages and every frame, text, picture and shape on one, with sizes and positions.
editor_focusWhat you have open and selected, so it knows what you mean by “this”.
layer_sourceRead any layer as HTML, to see exactly how it is built.
layer_drawDraw by writing HTML: each piece becomes a frame, or goes inside one.
layer_editChange styles, words, names and positions in place.
layer_copy · layer_nest · layer_removeCopy, move and delete layers.
layer_searchFind layers by name or by their words.
layer_renderSee a frame as you see it, as a picture, to check its work before saying it's done.
picture_add · font_lookupPut a picture into a file, and check which fonts and weights really exist.
finish_workingSay it has finished, so the board stops showing it at work.
Components and libraries
component_make · component_placeMake a button, card or row a component once, then place copies that follow it — one at a time, or many inside layer_draw's HTML (data-component).
component_combine · component_propertiesCombine components into a set of variants, and give it properties: variants, booleans, texts and swaps.
instance_setChoose a copy's variant and set its other properties.
component_detachTurn a copy back into ordinary layers.
library_publish · library_list · library_updateShare a file's components with the rest of the workspace, and keep their copies up to date.
Design systems
system_list · system_readRead your workspace's colours, type, spacing, radii and shadows, and what each is for, before drawing.
system_newMake a design system from a preset, from variables, or from your website.
system_apply · variable_edit · style_editChoose the system a file uses, and change its variables, modes and styles.
Comments
comment_list · comment_replyRead what your team said, on which frame, and answer.
request_listThe requests left for it by name in comments: “@Claude make this card denser”.
Watching it work
Your tool draws one section, card or row at a time, so you see the design come together. While it works, a pill above the toolbar says what it is designing, the frames it is in glow blue, and its cursor moves to each thing it places.
Requests in comments
Type @ in a comment to mention a connected tool, as you would a teammate. Ask your tool to check its Kite requests: it finds each one with the frame it was left on, does it, and answers in the thread.
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