better-icons
CLI and MCP server to search and retrieve icons (including SVG, React/JSX, Iconify, and URLs) across 200k+ icons from 150+ collections, with features like recommendations, batching, recent icons, and syncing icons into a project icons file.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
No auth/scopes model is described (appears to be unauthenticated/local setup). Tool outputs include SVG code; agents should treat SVG as untrusted when embedding into pages (avoid injecting into unsafe HTML contexts). TLS usage for any remote calls is not specified, though typical Node CLI/MCP network traffic would be expected over HTTPS.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
You want an AI coding agent or CLI workflow to reliably pick and insert icons across common libraries (Lucide, MDI, Heroicons, etc.) with minimal token usage.
Avoid When
You need authenticated, user-specific entitlements, or you require formal guarantees around uptime/SLA and error recovery behavior beyond what’s documented.
Use Cases
- • Agent-assisted icon lookup during UI development
- • Generating consistent SVG/JSX icons without copying raw SVG into chat
- • Batch-fetching icon assets for faster implementation
- • Finding similar icons across collections/styles
- • Recommendations and learned preferences for icon collections
- • Syncing icons into a codebase’s central icons file (.tsx/.ts/.js)
Not For
- • Serving as a general-purpose asset CDN (no evidence of hosted assets beyond generated URLs)
- • Handling private/proprietary icon datasets requiring access control
- • Security-sensitive workflows needing strict audit trails or user auth
Interface
Authentication
No authentication mechanism is described in the provided README/manifest; configuration appears to be local (setup writes MCP config).
Pricing
No pricing or billing information provided in the supplied materials.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ MCP tools are described at a high level but concrete MCP message formats, structured error codes, and retry semantics are not documented in the provided README.
- ⚠ The tool set is broad; agents may over-call get_icon vs get_icons (batch) unless guided by the documentation examples.
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-30.