# Webflow MCP Server

Webflow MCP lets AI tools design pages, manage CMS content. Browse and update collections, create and edit pages, modify layouts and styles, and automate site-level tasks through natural language prompts. Bring Webflow into your AI workflow with a structured, secure interface that translates AI actions into real changes across your site—helping teams build, update, and scale Webflow projects faster with less manual work.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

Categorised under [developer-tools](/mcp/for/developer-tools), [productivity](/mcp/for/productivity). Published by [webflow.com](https://webflow.com/).

## Status

Pod has not dialled Webflow yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://mcp.webflow.com/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "webflow-2": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.webflow.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Known issues

**43 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

### data_cms_tool and data_pages_tool intermittently not registered by the MCP server

The Webflow MCP server intermittently stops exposing two specific tools — `data_cms_tool` and `data_pages_tool` — while every other data tool from the same server keeps working normally on the same connection and token. This blocks all CMS collection-item work (create/update/publish items). Per the docs, CMS content management is a supported capability, so this looks like a tool-registration bug rather than an unsupported feature.

## Environment

- **Client:** Claude Desktop (Cowork), connector

[Read the thread](https://github.com/webflow/mcp-server/issues/143) · 2026-07-10 · open · external user · 3 comments

### Randomly lost access to the CMS tool using claude with webflow connector mid session

I am using claude to build a website with Webflow.

Midway through a session, claude lost access to the CMS tool. 6 hours later still the same, tried disconnect and reconnect, tried restarting client, tried new chat session, tried restarting computer, tried allowing all permissions for the connector in settings.

Need help urgently.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/webflow/mcp-server/issues/140) · 2026-07-08 · open · external user · 3 comments

### Invalid JSON Schema: component_builder tool has array without items definition

## Bug Description

When using the Webflow MCP server with Factory Droid (and likely other MCP clients), the `component_builder` tool fails validation with:

```
Error: 400 Invalid schema for function 'webflow___component_builder': 
In context=('properties', 'actions', 'items', 'properties', 'component_schema', 'properties', 'slots', 'items', 'properties', 'children'), 
array schema missing items.
```

## Root Cause

The JSON Schema for the `component_builder` tool has a `children` field of type

[Read the thread](https://github.com/webflow/mcp-server/issues/116) · 2026-04-12 · closed · external user · 8 comments

### Designer tools broken since v1.2 deployment (April 1) — 'Unable to connect' despite Bridge App connected

## Description

Designer API tools (`element_tool`, `set_text`, `query_elements`) return "Unable to connect to Webflow Designer" since approximately April 1, 2026. The same setup worked perfectly on March 30.

Bridge App inside Designer shows **"Connected to MCP Server"** with green status. Read operations via Data API tools work fine. Only Designer write/query operations fail.

## Environment

- **MCP Config:** Remote server (`{"type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.webflow.com/mcp"}`)
- **Client:

[Read the thread](https://github.com/webflow/mcp-server/issues/108) · 2026-04-06 · open · external user · 20 comments

### Webflow MCP Bridge stuck on "Authorizing…" then "can't connect to MCP server" (Claude Desktop, no manual MCP config)

I'm consistently hitting a connection failure with the Webflow MCP Bridge App + Claude Desktop, even after clean reinstalls.

## Environment

- **OS:** macOS 26.3.1 (Mac mini, Apple Silicon)
- **Browser for Webflow Designer:** Chrome
- **Claude:** Claude Desktop (latest public build)
- **MCP setup:** Using built-in Webflow connector in Claude Settings > Connectors only. No manual `claude_desktop_config.json` MCP config. No `mcp-remote` setup.

## Steps to reproduce

1. Remove Webflow connector i

[Read the thread](https://github.com/webflow/mcp-server/issues/99) · 2026-03-26 · closed · external user · 10 comments

### Most recent

### data_variable_tool: create/update_*_variable throws "An internal error occurred" for any custom_value CSS function expression (clamp/calc/color-mix)

## TL;DR

`data_variable_tool`'s `create_size_variable` / `update_size_variable` /
`create_color_variable` actions throw `"An internal error occurred"` whenever
`value.custom_value` is set to a CSS function expression (`clamp()`,
`calc()`, `color-mix()`) — including the schema's OWN documented examples
(`calc(100vh - 60px)`, `color-mix(in srgb, red 50%, blue)`). `static_value`
works fine on the same actions. The Designer UI/engine itself can store the
identical expression string on the same vari

[Read the thread](https://github.com/webflow/mcp-server/issues/146) · 2026-08-23 · open · external user · 0 comments

### [BUG] No write support for selectedItems component props.

# Webflow MCP: No write support for "selectedItems" component props

## Summary
The Webflow MCP server's Data API tools can **read** the value of a component instance prop typed `selectedItems` (a manually curated list of specific CMS item IDs), but there is **no supported way to write** a new value to that prop type. This blocks any MCP-driven workflow that needs to programmatically select specific CMS items into a component — e.g. choosing which blog posts appear in a "related posts" grid.

##

[Read the thread](https://github.com/webflow/mcp-server/issues/145) · 2026-08-20 · open · external user · 0 comments

### ask_webflow_ai always returns "Failed to fetch from FAI chat service" (both production and beta servers)

## Summary
The `ask_webflow_ai` tool consistently returns `{"error":"Failed to fetch from FAI chat service"}` for **any** input, and has been doing so for roughly a month. Every other MCP tool works normally in the same session, so this looks isolated to the FAI/AI chat backend that `ask_webflow_ai` proxies to — not a connection, auth, transport, or version issue.

## Reproduced on BOTH servers
- Production: `https://mcp.webflow.com/mcp`
- Beta: `https://mcp.webflow.com/beta/mcp`

Identical erro

[Read the thread](https://github.com/webflow/mcp-server/issues/144) · 2026-07-22 · open · external user · 0 comments

### `data_whtml_builder` silently creates duplicate styles, corrupting the Designer canvas while published output stays correct

## Summary

A single `data_whtml_builder` call that inserts two bare `<span>` elements into a Rich Text created **59 duplicate styles** site-wide. The published site remained pixel-correct, but the **Designer canvas and Preview were broken on every page** — all grid layouts collapsed. Because the published output was unaffected, the corruption was invisible to every normal verification step.

## Environment

- Webflow MCP Server (via Claude Code, `webflow-skills` plugin v1.0.6)
- Site built on t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/webflow/mcp-server/issues/142) · 2026-07-08 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Component property tools (de_component_tool / data_element_tool) not loaded in some sessions — can't create component properties

**Summary**
An agent using the Webflow MCP can create/define component properties in some sessions but not others. In an affected session, the tools that create or bind component properties (de_component_tool with get_component_instance_props, and data_element_tool) are never exposed, so there's no way to add a property to a component — even though the same action worked a day earlier on a different account/session.

**What I expected**
Be able to define a new component property (e.g. a text pro

[Read the thread](https://github.com/webflow/mcp-server/issues/141) · 2026-07-08 · open · external user · 1 comment

### MCP element writes return HTTP 406 "needs to reauthorize" on fresh OAuth grants; reads succeed (multiple clients)

Since July 7, 2026 (~11:00 AM PT), all element-level write operations through the Webflow MCP server (mcp.webflow.com/mcp) fail with HTTP 406 and the message "MCP needs to reauthorize. The Webflow MCP connection is no longer authorized," while read operations on the same connection succeed. Element writes on this site worked normally for the preceding weeks.
Affected: data_element_tool write actions (set_settings on an HtmlEmbed's code). Reads via the same tool (query_elements, get_settings) suc

[Read the thread](https://github.com/webflow/mcp-server/issues/139) · 2026-07-07 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Feature request: Replace an image in place in CMS Rich Text / Image fields (no delete-and-reinsert)

## Feature request: "Replace image" for an image already placed in a CMS Rich Text field (and CMS Image fields)

Today, once an image is inside a CMS Rich Text field, there is **no way to swap it in place**. To change it you must delete the whole figure and insert a new one — which shifts the surrounding text, drops the caption, and loses the alignment/float you had set. It is very easy to wreck the layout doing this, and for a client maintaining a blog it is a real, recurring pain.

### Ask
Let

[Read the thread](https://github.com/webflow/mcp-server/issues/138) · 2026-07-03 · open · external user · 0 comments

[See all 22 reports Pod holds for Webflow](/mcp/webflow-2/issues) — of 43 qualified upstream.

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