Icons8 icons

The MCP is a thin wrapper over the Icons8 search API. It gives you these icon tools and no taste: search_icons, list_categories, list_platforms, get_icon_png_url, get_icon_animation, and get_icon_svg on a paid plan. Default behaviour is bad in four specific ways, and this skill exists to fix them.

1. Unfiltered search returns one metaphor in ten styles. search_icons("delete") with amount=12 returns the same trash can in 12 different packs. You see one idea and no alternatives, and whatever you pick will not match the icon you picked five minutes ago.

2. Ranking is not taste-ranking. search_icons("settings") puts four Apple logos (apple-settings, category Logos) above the plain gear. search_icons("dashboard") puts a car dashboard gauge first. The API matches names and tags, it does not know you are building a settings screen.

3. SVG is the slow, paid path. get_icon_svg is one call per icon (~1s each, serial) and the payload runs from 600 characters (Flat Color) to 46,000 (Color Hand Drawn, about 11k tokens for a single icon). PNG previews are free, instant and need no MCP call at all.