Flownato MCP

Flownato MCP

A remote, read-only Model Context Protocol server for mobile UI research. It gives MCP-compatible assistants (Claude, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf and others) access to Flownato's library of real mobile app screens, user flows and UI patterns, with every answer tied to published screen evidence.

• Endpoint: https://agent.flownato.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP)
• Auth: OAuth 2.1 authorization code with PKCE. Your browser opens Flownato sign-in and a read-only consent screen. No API keys to paste.
• Access: connecting is free and whoami works on any account. Library research tools require a Flownato Premium membership.
• Website: https://www.flownato.com/mcp

What it does

Flownato records real mobile apps (mostly Indian consumer apps such as Swiggy, Zepto, MakeMyTrip, BookMyShow, Nykaa, plus IKEA and Wikipedia), then publishes reviewed screens, complete journeys and a UI pattern taxonomy. The MCP server lets an assistant search and compare that evidence instead of guessing what an interface looks like.

Typical questions it can answer with citations:

• "How do grocery apps handle the delivery slot step in checkout?"
• "Show me phone-number entry screens across booking apps."
• "Compare the onboarding journey in Cricbuzz and FanCode."
• "Which apps use a bottom sheet for store selection?"

Tools

Tool	Purpose
whoami	Reports the authenticated membership and client. Works on free accounts.
search_ui_library	Finds concrete journey examples for a research question.
search_ui_screens	Screen-level search with exact interface text matching.
analyze_ui_pattern	Measures one screen pattern, UI element, flow pattern or flow action across an optional app or category scope.
explore_ui_patterns	Discovers recurring patterns when you do not yet know which one to analyze.
compare_ui_flows	Compares the same product moment across two or three named apps.
inspect_app_library	Summarizes one app's published coverage, patterns, elements and journeys.
check_ui_presence	Scoped yes/no presence checks with evidence.
inspect_library_coverage	Paginated inventory of what is published.
inspect_ui_resources	Exact release-bound follow-up retrieval for returned resourceRef objects.
get_screen_image	Returns a published screen image inline after another tool supplies its asset ID.

All tools are read-only. Results cite the exact journey and step identifiers they were built from, and pattern counts are descriptive, never presented as best practice.

Connect

Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and most clients accept a remote server entry like this:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flownato": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://agent.flownato.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http flownato https://agent.flownato.com/mcp

On first use the client opens https://api.flownato.com/oauth/authorize in your browser. Sign in with your Flownato account and approve read-only access. Tokens are short lived and refresh silently until you revoke the grant.

Discovery documents:

• Protected resource metadata: https://agent.flownato.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp
• Authorization server metadata: https://api.flownato.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server

Access and limits

Plan	What the MCP returns
Free account	whoami, plus a structured Premium-required response from library tools before any catalog query runs
Premium	All eleven tools, metered at a default safety limit of 500 tool calls per UTC day

Prompts, arguments and results are not stored. Screenshot URLs are signed and short lived, and the image endpoint rechecks membership when the image is fetched.

Privacy and scope

The server reads only the published product catalog: reviewed, immutable releases with privacy redaction applied. It has no access to raw crawl data, model output or other users' accounts. It answers UI and product-design research questions and declines unrelated requests.

Source

This repository documents the hosted service. The server itself is part of Flownato's private product codebase (Python, FastAPI) and is not open source.

Links

• Product: https://www.flownato.com
• MCP page: https://www.flownato.com/mcp
• Pattern library: https://www.flownato.com/patterns
• Contact: hello@flownato.com