INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

list_starters

List pdfzen's 45 public starter templates — invoices, receipts, contracts, certificates, NDAs, letters, reports, resumes, boarding passes, menus, bank statements, lab reports, lease agreements, performance reviews, and more.

pdfzen.sitenone authenticationAvailability not checked

Input schema

{}

Risk classification

Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

Parent endpoint

pdfzen.site

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.pdfzen]
url = "https://api.pdfzen.site/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdfzen": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.pdfzen.site/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: pdfzen
Remote MCP URL: https://api.pdfzen.site/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdfzen": {
      "url": "https://api.pdfzen.site/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "pdfzen": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.pdfzen.site/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "pdfzen",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://api.pdfzen.site/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Related tools

get_starter — Fetch the full HTML body, CSS, sampleData, and pageOptions for one starter template by slug.
render_template_to_pdf — Prepare a paid PDF render from one of the 45 starter templates.
render_html_to_pdf — Prepare a paid PDF render from arbitrary Handlebars-flavoured HTML.