Stop AI agents from hallucinating UI code. Storybook MCP equips agents with your component context, live previews, and self-healing tests.
AI coding agents are incredibly powerful, but when it comes to frontend development, they often lack crucial context. Because they do not know anything about your specific components, they tend to make up code that ignores your established coding standards. Enter Storybook MCP—a new integration that gives agents the intelligence and test guardrails they need to stay on track.
- Context about your existing components to reuse
- Instructions to write stories and preview their work
- Ability to run tests and fix their own issues
# Force Agents to Use Your Components
Storybook MCP equips agents with rich component metadata, including your existing stories, API definitions, and documentation. This allows the AI to reuse your existing React components instead of inventing entirely new, inconsistent patterns. The result is faster UI generation using significantly fewer tokens compared to working without MCP.
# Share UI Context Across Teams
Large teams frequently split their apps and design systems into separate Storybooks. Using the MCP server alongside Storybook Composition, agents can read data from multiple sources without needing to connect to multiple endpoints. Furthermore, you can publish your remote MCP server to share component context across the team. Chromatic supports publishing Storybook MCP out of the box for free, complete with quality checks, versioning, and secure authorization.
# Review Work and Self-Verify with Tests
When an agent finishes generating UI, you do not just get a wall of text. Storybook MCP embeds live stories directly inside the chat UI via MCP Apps, allowing you to verify the look, feel, and interactions (like hover states) without leaving your client. Even better, the MCP server empowers agents to run component and accessibility tests automatically.
"Skills are a helpful way to teach agents how to accomplish tasks. But MCP is required for back-and-forth communication with agents to power self-healing testing."
# Get Started with Storybook 10.3
Storybook MCP is available now in Storybook 10.3 for React projects, with support for other frameworks coming later this year. Here is how to upgrade and install it:
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