React Native Storybook MCP server

Storybook MCP Server provides a seamless integration between Model Context Protocol and Storybook, allowing you to interact with your Storybook stories programmatically. This server enables you to retrieve story information and incorporate it into your MCP workflow.

Installation

You don't need to install the Storybook MCP Server directly. Instead, you can configure it in your MCP configuration file to be launched on demand:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "storybook": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-storybook@latest"]
    }
  }
}

This configuration tells MCP to use npx to run the latest version of mcp-storybook when needed.

Available Tools

Getting Stories

The Storybook MCP Server provides a tool called get-stories that retrieves a list of all stories from your Storybook configuration.

Parameters:

• configDir (string): The absolute path to the directory containing your .storybook config folder

Returns:

• An array of story IDs that can be used for further interactions

Example Usage:

// Example of calling the get-stories tool through MCP
const storyIds = await mcp.tools.call('storybook.get-stories', {
  configDir: '/absolute/path/to/your/project'
});

console.log(storyIds);
// Output: ['button--primary', 'button--secondary', ...]

How It Works

The server uses stdio transport for communication between MCP and Storybook. It caches data in a ./cache directory relative to the script location to improve performance for subsequent requests.

When you request story information, the server will parse your Storybook configuration and build an index of all available stories.

How to install this MCP server

For Claude Code

To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:

claude mcp add-json "storybook" '{"command":"npx","args":["-y","mcp-storybook@latest"]}'

See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.

For Cursor

There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file so that it is available in all of your projects.

If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json file.

Adding an MCP server to Cursor globally

To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".

When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file will be opened and you can add your server like this:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "storybook": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "mcp-storybook@latest"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Adding an MCP server to a project

To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.

How to use the MCP server

Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.

The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.

You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.

For Claude Desktop

To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:

1. Find your configuration file:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
• Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

2. Add this to your configuration file:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "storybook": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "mcp-storybook@latest"
            ]
        }
    }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect