Flownato MCP

Flownato MCP

A remote, read-only Model Context Protocol server for mobile UI/UX design research. Built for product designers and developers, 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: every signed-in Flownato account can use every tool. Free accounts get the same access as on the website: complete journeys that flownato.com marks free, plus the first 3 screens of every other journey. Premium opens every screen.
• Website: https://www.flownato.com/mcp

What it does

Flownato records real mobile apps such as Swiggy, Zepto, BookMyShow, redBus and Nykaa, 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, what that tier can see, and the client.
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 Code plugin

The plugin installs the MCP server together with the flownato-ui-research skill, which tells the assistant when to look up real app flows and how to cite them:

/plugin marketplace add flownato/flownato-mcp
/plugin install flownato@flownato

The same repository carries plugin manifests for Cursor (.cursor-plugin/) and Codex (.codex-plugin/). The skill lives in skills/flownato-ui-research/SKILL.md.

MCP server only

In clients that accept a remote mcpServers configuration, use:

{
  "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
Not signed in	The endpoint answers 401 with OAuth discovery metadata, so your client opens Flownato sign-in. Creating an account is free.
Free account	All eleven tools. Journeys marked free on flownato.com (up to three per app) return every screen. Other journeys return their first 3 screens; the rest come back with locked: true, no asset ID and no image URL. Every result carries an access block with the locked counts and an upgrade link, and get_screen_image answers PREMIUM_REQUIRED for a locked screen.
Premium	All eleven tools with the complete library.

Both tiers are 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 and holds its plugin manifests and skill. The server itself is part of Flownato's private product codebase (Python, FastAPI) and is not open source.

Marketplace metadata

lhm.plugin.json declares the existing LobeHub listing's category, remote endpoint, and all eleven MCP tool schemas. Its category is developer (displayed as Developer Skills on LobeHub), reflecting its use for UI/UX design and product development.

The endpoint requires OAuth before protocol initialization and tool discovery. An unauthenticated request returning 401 is expected; use the protected-resource metadata above to start sign-in. Directory crawlers cannot discover the tool list from an unauthenticated connection alone.

The server currently exposes tools, with no MCP prompt templates or MCP resources. Returned resourceRef objects are arguments to inspect_ui_resources; they are not entries in the MCP resources/list capability. Keep marketplace declarations consistent with the server's actual capabilities.

The public badge above supports LobeHub's README claim-status check. Prefer this public verification route when available. Updating this public listing does not justify granting a directory read/write access to private GitHub repositories.

Already verified maintainers can update the existing listing with the official @lobehub/market-cli (Node.js 22 or newer):

# Sign in to LobeHub, then check existing GitHub verification:
npx -y @lobehub/market-cli login
npx -y @lobehub/market-cli github status

# Requires ownership verification; run after reviewing lhm.plugin.json:
npx -y @lobehub/market-cli plugin update --dir "$PWD"

Review requested permissions before connecting any GitHub account. If a claim or update requires broad repo or workflow access, leave that connection disabled and request a narrower verification method from LobeHub.

When tool signatures change, refresh tools from the authenticated server's tools/list response before publishing. Keep prompts and resources empty unless the server implements them. The listing version remains 1.0.0 for this metadata correction; it does not represent a new server release. Verify the public listing after each update.

Links

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