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Storybook MCP Addon MCP Server

Help agents automatically write and test stories for your UI components.

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Published as @storybook/addon-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

44 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

Enable private vulnerability reporting

Hi,

I have a security finding to share privately. Could you enable private vulnerability reporting on this repo?

Thanks

Read the thread · 2026-06-15 · closed · external user · 3 comments

OAuth authentication fails with Claude Code CLI and claude.ai MCP clients

Summary

When using @storybook/addon-mcp with a private Chromatic-hosted Storybook, the MCP OAuth flow fails when connecting via Claude Code CLI or claude.ai Cowork. The browser opens for authentication but lands on an authentication error page.

Environment

Steps to reproduce

  1. Set up @storybook/addon-mcp on a private Chromatic-hosted Story

Read the thread · 2026-04-07 · open · external user · 5 comments

Components Manifest finds A LOT of story errors

I just tried the mcp addon and got this:

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I get it's more of a question than a bug report.

Most errors are like this (we are using CSF Next):

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Because the previous developer extracted all renders to variables, while it looks like we

Read the thread · 2026-03-02 · closed · external user · 3 comments

Sharing MCP CLI as a package

Hey,

We've started using the @storybook/mcp package to share a CLI with our React design system library package so other teams can run a local stdio MCP server for agents to pull design system component docs.

I wrote up what we're doing here: https://alexocallaghan.com/react-design-system-library-mcp

Is this going to be a supported approach? Looking at this issue (https://github.com/storybookjs/mcp/issues/138) it looks like pulling from remote Storybooks might be more of the focus?

One thi

Read the thread · 2026-02-02 · closed · external user · 5 comments

Support for react-docgen-typescript

Would it be possible to generate document manifest with either react-docgen or react-docgen-typescript?

I would expect the addon to work with the reactDocgen option in storybook config and generate the component manifest with it. https://storybook.js.org/docs/api/main-config/main-config-typescript#reactdocgen

So far I am running into missing props in the generated manifest because of it.

Read the thread · 2026-01-29 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Most recent

addon-mcp: X-MCP-Toolsets request header fully replaces the configured toolsets — config acts as a default, not an allowlist

Package / versions

Configuration

.storybook/main.ts enables only the docs toolset:

addons: [
  {
    name: '@storybook/addon-mcp',
    options: {
      toolsets: { dev: false, test: false, docs: true },
    },
  },
],

Observed behavior

Any caller can re-enable toolsets the maintainer explicitly disabled by sending an X-MCP-Toolsets request header. The header **

Read the thread · 2026-08-25 · open · external user · 0 comments

New MCP spec support

Hello dears! I wonder if there's any plan to support the new MCP spec any time soon?

Thanks a lot!

Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · open · external user · 0 comments

list-all-documentation never surfaces component @summary; listing lines truncate mid-description

Summary

list-all-documentation builds each listing line from component.summary ?? description, truncating the description at 90 characters. Nothing populates component.summary: docgen extracts a component-level @summary JSDoc tag into reactDocgenTypescript.tags.summary, but no code path reads it from there. So the tag has no effect and every listing line is truncated description.

Related: #367. Same drop point (component-level JSDoc tags parsed but not carried into formatter outpu

Read the thread · 2026-08-10 · open · external user · 0 comments

Support MCP tool annotations (e.g. readOnlyHint) on registered tools

The provided `list-all-documentation`, `get-documentation`, and `get-documentation-for-story` are all read-only tools, but there's no way for a consumer of @storybook/mcp to set MCP tool annotations (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint — the standard ToolAnnotations fields) on them. (See latest [schema](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/blob/271ecc9accafdd9b83a3c869fa67c22953b2a

Read the thread · 2026-07-31 · open · external user · 1 comment

[Bug] peerDependencies admit storybook 9.1.x, where the preset fails to load and the components manifest does not exist in core

What happened

I added @storybook/addon-mcp@0.7.0 to a clone of radix-ui/primitives (commit df8f89ac, apps/storybook, storybook 9.1.20). The install succeeded: the published peer range ^0.0.0-0 || ^9.1.16 || ^10.0.0 || ^10.1.0-0 || ^10.2.0-0 || ^10.3.0-0 || ^10.4.0-0 || ^10.5.0-0 admits 9.1.20. storybook build then failed while loading presets:

Error [ERR_INTERNAL_ASSERTION]: Unexpected module status 0

That error masks the cause. Importing the preset directly exposes it:

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Read the thread · 2026-07-29 · open · external user · 1 comment

[Bug] Sibling components re-exported from the same file all inherit one component's JSDoc & props (related to #216)

Describe the bug

Related to #216, but a different trigger: instead of a parent/subcomponent relationship (Parent.Child = Child), this happens with independent sibling components declared/exported from the same source file. get-documentation (and the underlying manifest) resolves every sibling's docs entry to whichever one component in that file actually has a docgen-visible declaration + JSDoc, overwriting the others' description AND prop tables.

This is especially easy to hit when

Read the thread · 2026-07-23 · open · external user · 0 comments

get-documentation omits component JSDoc tags (@deprecated) from its output

Summary

get-documentation omits component-level JSDoc tags — notably @deprecated — from the markdown it returns. The tag is extracted and present in the manifest/docgen data, but it is dropped when that data is formatted into the tool response. So an agent calling get-documentation cannot see that a component is deprecated unless the deprecation is also written into the prose description by hand.

This reproduces both with and without experimentalDocgenServer. I noticed it while

Read the thread · 2026-07-22 · closed · external user · 0 comments

See all 23 reports Pod holds for Storybook MCP Addon — of 44 qualified upstream.

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