Design Pattern MCP

An MCP server that analyzes system descriptions to retrieve matching design patterns from a built-in catalog, generates concrete designs with participants and interactions, and evaluates them against quality axes like testability and security.

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What you can do with it

Analyze free-text system descriptions to identify suitable design patterns
Generate concrete designs with primary and supporting patterns
Evaluate designs against quality axes such as security and scalability

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 1.0.1MIT

mcp-registry: io.github.olk/design-pattern-mcp@1.0.1 Source repository

Last repository push: Nov 1, 2026, 7:10 PM UTC
Latest release: v1.0.1
Maintenance checked: Nov 2, 2026, 3:53 PM UTC

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docker.io/olkowa/design-pattern-mcp:1.0.1

ocidocker

docker.io/olkowa/design-pattern-mcp:1.0.1 package definition

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  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "docker.io/olkowa/design-pattern-mcp:1.0.1",
  "runtimeHint": "docker",
  "registryType": "oci",
  "packageArguments": [
    {
      "type": "positional",
      "value": "--transport"
    },
    {
      "type": "positional",
      "value": "stdio"
    }
  ],
  "runtimeArguments": [
    {
      "name": "--add-host",
      "type": "named",
      "value": "host.docker.internal:host-gateway",
      "description": "Makes a TEI embedder/reranker running on the Docker host reachable from the container (needed on Linux; already provided by Docker Desktop)."
    }
  ],
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "API key for the generator LLM (LiteLLM provider)."
    },
    {
      "name": "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "openai",
      "description": "LiteLLM provider prefix, e.g. openai, anthropic, openrouter."
    },
    {
      "name": "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "gpt-4o-mini",
      "description": "Model name, combined as <provider>/<model> via LiteLLM."
    },
    {
      "name": "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "https://api.openai.com/v1",
      "description": "OpenAI-compatible base URL (LiteLLM api_base)."
    },
    {
      "name": "DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "/app/pattern",
      "description": "Directory with the catalog records (*.json main records plus per-language files). The image bakes the 438-record catalogue at /app/pattern."
    },
    {
      "name": "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL",
      "format": "string",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "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."
    },
    {
      "name": "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "API key for the embedder. Keyless TEI accepts any non-empty value; use 'not-needed' there."
    },
    {
      "name": "DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL",
      "format": "string",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "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."
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "design-pattern-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL>",
        "docker.io/olkowa/design-pattern-mcp:1.0.1",
        "--transport",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "design-pattern-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL>",
        "docker.io/olkowa/design-pattern-mcp:1.0.1",
        "--transport",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "design-pattern-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL>",
        "docker.io/olkowa/design-pattern-mcp:1.0.1",
        "--transport",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "design-pattern-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY>",
        "-e",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL=<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL>",
        "docker.io/olkowa/design-pattern-mcp:1.0.1",
        "--transport",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_API_KEY>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_PROVIDER>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_MODEL>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_GENERATOR_BASE_URL>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_PATTERN_DIRECTORY>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_BASE_URL>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_EMBEDDER_API_KEY>",
        "DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_DESIGN_PATTERN_RERANKER_BASE_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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