Design Pattern MCP

io.github.olk/design-pattern-mcpv1.0.1Other

MCP server that provides design-pattern selection expertise to AI coding agents

The current version, v1.0.1, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-10-10. It is distributed as the Docker image docker.io/olkowa/design-pattern-mcp:1.0.1, filed under Other by this index, and declares 8 environment variables. Removals and unreachable sources are measured across every server this index tracks, contract drift across the servers that answer in consecutive snapshots; the index's current counts put this record in context.

In-path gate · all MCP tools

Using Design Pattern MCP in Claude, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Cline, or Zed?

MCP tool contracts can change remotely with no version bump. The mcpindex gate pins each contract and HOLDs the call when it drifts-before your agent acts. Zero credentials. This is not the package install for this server itself (use Install this server for that).

Install the mcpindex gate (one command)

Rewrites your MCP host config so each server launches behind the gate. Inspect first: curl -fsSL https://mcpindex.ai/install.sh | less

uv tool install mcpindex-gate && mcpindex-config-wire

Auditable install path →Watch it hold a drift →

Trust verdict · v1 advisory · method

REVIEWstatus: PARTIALfresh until 2026-11-09 23:01 UTC

screened 2026-10-10tier: scannedgranularity: description-levelsource: registry

Semantic screen found no manipulation pattern in the description. Conformance probe not yet run.

mcpindex.integrity.descriptionpassINFO

evidence“Normal capability description”via static_description

Limits of this verdict

- Semantic screen only - the deterministic conformance probe has not run on this server
- Confidence is reported but not yet calibrated (v1)
- Screen reads the tool description, not the live behavior
- advisory
- registry description only no input schema
- screen model 8b

Semantic screen: an LLM judge reads the tool description for hidden instructions (status PARTIAL). A pass means the description is not lying, not that the tool is safe: a high-capability tool with an honest description still warrants caution. The deterministic conformance probe has not been run on this server yet, so the screen here is semantic-only. Posture: advisory. Confidences are reported but not yet calibrated (calibrated=false at v1). Full verdict history is not shown on this page.

Own this server? Test a description on the public screen → It is a separate check from the verdict above, so the two can differ.

That verdict was true at screening time (snapshot 2026-10-20).

Contracts can change after screening, with no version bump. The gate pins Design Pattern MCP’s tool contracts on first sight and holds any silent change before your agent acts - the check that keeps being true on Tuesday.

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Environment variables

DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY

requiredsecret

API key for the generator LLM (LiteLLM provider).

DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER

LiteLLM provider prefix, e.g. openai, anthropic, openrouter.

DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL

Model name, combined as <provider>/<model> via LiteLLM.

DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL

OpenAI-compatible base URL (LiteLLM api_base).

DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY

Directory with the catalog records (*.json main records plus per-language files). The image bakes the 438-record catalogue at /app/pattern.

DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL

required

Required: the dense retrieval leg embeds the 438-record catalogue during startup warmup and the server refuses to start when the endpoint is unreachable. TEI embeddings endpoint: on the Docker host use http://host.docker.internal:8080 (add --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway on Linux); on a shared Docker network use http://design-pattern-tei-embed:8080.

DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY

secret

API key for the embedder. Keyless TEI accepts any non-empty value; use 'not-needed' there.

DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL

required

Required: retrieval runs a mandatory TEI cross-encoder rerank whenever the fused pool has more than one candidate. On the Docker host use http://host.docker.internal:8080; on a shared Docker network use http://design-pattern-tei-rerank:8080.

MCP quality score · maturity, not trust · methodology

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Install this server

Claude Desktop (Docker)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "design-pattern-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--rm",
        "-i",
        "--",
        "docker.io/olkowa/design-pattern-mcp:1.0.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY": "<your-design_pattern_generator_api_key>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER": "openai",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL": "gpt-4o-mini",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL": "https://api.openai.com/v1",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY": "/app/pattern",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL": "<design_pattern_embedder_base_url>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY": "<your-design_pattern_embedder_api_key>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL": "<design_pattern_reranker_base_url>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Verdict API

curl -s mcpindex.ai/api/v1/trust/server/io-github-olk-design-pattern-mcp

Free-tier verdict as JSON: decision + dimensions + severity. Call it from your agent before it invokes a tool it just discovered.

Details

version: v1.0.1
category: Other
verdict expires: 2026-11-09
quality: 90 / 100
operator: olk

Listing

Listed from the official MCP registry. Unclaimed by its maintainer. Maintainer? Email us →

Provenance

Each verdict is bound to a hash of the exact description it judged, so a re-crawl that changes the text produces a new record rather than silently inheriting this one. Verdict history is hash-chained and anchored to Bitcoin via OpenTimestamps (latest confirmed at block 972,115). Verify it yourself.

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