Working with agents · MCP v2
Give your agent an eye for art.
Search open-access art by meaning, exact color, visual reference, geometry, deliverable size, Art Genome, artist, institution, date, and rights—then curate a varied set and retrieve public assets with credits and portable provenance.
The preferred explore_art_mcp.v2 contract keeps
hard filters, ranking preferences, and shortlist selection explicit.
- Standard tools
- 7
- WebMCP tools
- 7
- Named colors
- 170
- Color families
- 12
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Two ways in.
One art brain.
Standard MCP
Available at the public endpoint
Bring Explore Art to your agent.
Connect once to the remote Streamable HTTP endpoint. Search, inspect, and retrieve assets without keeping a browser page open.
https://explore-art.com/mcpWebMCP · experimental
Enabled on this deployment
Let the agent work beside you.
In a compatible browser host, the page shares its current gallery, colors, references, and selected crop. Search tools update the visible gallery once with the final order.
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From a hunch
to a useful shortlist.
Explore Art MCP keeps discovery, visual evidence, rights, and files in one traceable workflow.
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Rank by a feeling
Keep playful, asymmetrical, quiet, uncanny, or lush as semantic preferences—not brittle hidden filters.
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Make constraints exact
Add catalog facts, color coverage, orientation, aspect ratio, minimum public resolution, and reuse scope.
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Find by looking, then fit
Weight up to six published visual references or search a selected region, then compare public derivatives for cover or contain fit and upscaling.
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Shape the shortlist
Cap repeated artists, institutions, or sources and request deterministic visual diversity within the first 100 engine-ranked candidates.
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Pull a dependable batch
Request representation-guarded manifests for up to 20 works, with allowlisted 400, 843, or 4096 derivatives and provider-native high-resolution locators when available.
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Carry the provenance
Keep the exact MCP request, engine/preference/selection stages, representation dimensions, embedding identity, rights source, assets, hashes, and credits together.
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Color is not
just a keyword.
Search a family, one of 170 authored names, any hex, or a saved artwork swatch. Combine up to six criteria with exact AND, OR, and NOT behavior.
Then express palette direction separately: blend with a brand color, find its complement, build contrast, or look for a small contrasting pop.
- Touch
- 3–<18%
- Prominent
- 18–<50%
- Mostly
- ≥50%
- Dominant
- Largest share, ≥18%
Proportions describe the accepted chromatic sample—not every source-image pixel.
Understand search, fit, and curation →04
Every result
can show its work.
Results resolve through the live publication, its pinned representation, checked analysis, and a portable provenance bundle.
Portable result evidence
- Requested
- Blue · prominent
- Matched swatch
- Cobalt Enamel · #2566C7
- Representation
- 3200 × 1800 · landscape
- Surface fit
- Cover · no upscale · 0% crop
- Request
- Exact validated arguments + SHA-256
- Provenance
explore-art/provenance/v1
A zero-result hard gate stays zero. Nearby coverage counts may be reported, but the agent must make another call to change the constraint.
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