{"id":"ymadd-shadcn-ui-mcp-server","name":"shadcn-ui-mcp-server","af_score":60.0,"security_score":39.8,"reliability_score":22.5,"what_it_does":"An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides AI assistants reference data for shadcn/ui components (component lists, details, examples, and keyword search). It scrapes and caches information from ui.shadcn.com and the shadcn/ui GitHub repository, exposing this via MCP tools over stdio.","best_when":"During interactive development with an MCP-capable IDE/agent that benefits from local stdio tools to fetch component references.","avoid_when":"When you need strict guarantees about doc correctness/consistency over time, or when data egress/caching policies disallow scraping external sites.","last_evaluated":"2026-03-30T15:19:43.064227+00:00","has_mcp":true,"has_api":false,"auth_methods":[],"has_free_tier":false,"known_gotchas":["Scraping/caching implies freshness may lag and behavior may change if upstream HTML/pages change","Runtime relies on stdio MCP; debugging may require MCP Inspector as noted in the README","Without documented rate limits, agents should avoid aggressive repeated queries (especially during cache warmup)","Tool outputs may be large (component examples/props), so agents should request only what they need"],"error_quality":0.0}