Unicon MCP Server: Search and Copy Icons From 9 Libraries With an AI Coding Agent

What is the Unicon MCP server?

Unicon is an icon browser with the tagline Just the icons you need, zero bloat. It lets you search 20,000+ icons and copy exactly what you need, like shadcn/ui, but for icons.

Its MCP server exposes four tools, search_icons, get_icon, get_multiple_icons and get_starter_pack, so an AI coding agent can search the icon libraries and fetch a single icon or several at once.

What changes in your agent's output

• The web app and CLI output React components, raw SVG or JSON, and the MCP server gives the agent four tools to search icons and fetch one or several.
• Unicon's pitch is copying only the icons you need, with zero dependencies, instead of installing a whole icon library.
• Search spans nine libraries at once, from Lucide and Phosphor to Tabler, Heroicons and Simple Icons brand logos.
• Unicon also ships a CLI, skills for AI assistants and a hosted endpoint for cloud IDEs.

How the setup works

1. Add the JSON entry to the MCP configuration of Claude Desktop or Cursor, or point a cloud IDE such as v0, Bolt or Lovable at the hosted endpoint.
2. Ask the agent for an icon, for example to add a home icon to the project or to search for dashboard icons.

Who the Unicon MCP server is for

Best for

• Front end developers who want a few icons from several libraries without installing each package.
• Builders working in v0, Bolt or Lovable, which can use the hosted endpoint.
• Developers who like the shadcn/ui copy-what-you-need model, since Unicon describes itself as shadcn/ui but for icons. The shadcn/ui MCP server covers components.
• Teams that also want an AI coding agent to follow icon grid, size and naming rules after the icons arrive. Unicon supplies the icons and the Icon System skill covers the rules.

Not for

• Libraries not yet added. Carbon, Blueprint, Devicons, Octicons and Cryptocurrency Icons are listed as coming soon.
• Android Vector Drawable output. Unicon offers React, Vue, Svelte, SVG and JSON, while the SVG to Android Vector Drawable MCP server converts SVG to Android Vector Drawable XML.

Connect Unicon MCP Server: Search and Copy Icons From 9 Libraries With an AI Coding Agent to your AI client

npx -y @webrenew/unicon-mcp-server

1. Claude Desktop and Cursor

   Add the JSON entry above to the client's MCP configuration.

2. Cloud IDEs

   In v0, Bolt or Lovable, use the hosted endpoint listed below.

3. CLI

   Run npx @webrenew/unicon search arrow to search without installing, or npm install -g @webrenew/unicon to keep the CLI.

4. AI skills

   Run unicon skill --ide claude, or use --ide cursor or --all, to install rules that teach an assistant to use Unicon. Supported are Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Agent, Antigravity, OpenCode, Codex and Aider.

Client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "unicon": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@webrenew/unicon-mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

Endpoints and ports

What you can do with it

• 20,000+ iconsNine libraries sit behind one search: Lucide, Phosphor, Huge Icons, Heroicons, Tabler, Feather, Remix Icon, Simple Icons and Iconoir.
• Natural language search in the web appSearching happy face finds smile icons, and business finds briefcases and charts.
• Copy formatsThe web app copies icons as React components, raw SVG or JSON metadata, and the CLI also outputs Vue 3 SFCs and Svelte components.
• BundlesSelect several icons and export a single file with all React components, individual SVG files or JSON metadata.
• Config driven workflowThe CLI offers unicon init, unicon add and unicon sync for larger projects.
• Hosted and local serversRun the npx server in a desktop MCP client, or use the hosted endpoint in cloud IDEs.
• Open in v0Send selected icons to v0 to prototype UI components.

Tools it exposes

Frequently asked questions