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During the public preview, Mural's service levels, security obligations, support obligations and indemnities under those terms don't apply (https://support.mural.co/s/article/MCP-preview)", "transports": [ "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth only, no API keys. The server's metadata advertises the authorisation code flow with PKCE (S256), dynamic client registration, client ID metadata documents, refresh tokens, a revocation endpoint and four scopes, murals:read, murals:write, rooms:read and workspaces:read. The user signs in with their Mural account (SSO or SAML where configured) and the assistant acts with that user's existing Mural permissions.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Free during the public preview, but only for members of paid workspaces. Team+ is $9.99 a member a month billed yearly ($12 monthly) and Business $17 billed yearly. The Free plan is excluded. Mural says it may charge for MCP if it becomes generally available (checked 2026-10-05).", "priceSummary": "$9.99 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the MCP help article, the MCP landing page, the pricing page or the server's OAuth metadata (checked 2026-10-05).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-05" }, "docsUrl": "https://support.mural.co/s/article/MCP-preview", "registryName": "co.mural/mural", "capabilities": [ "diagram.create", "diagram.edit", "design.canvas" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "preview", "closed-source", "paid-plan", "status-page", "bug-bounty", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 42, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 422, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 460, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 26, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 10, "reliability": 35, "schema": 30, "security": 72, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-05" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Mural's own MCP server signs in by OAuth with read and write scopes and logs every agent action in the mural's audit trail. It is a public preview with no service levels, needs a paid seat and an open browser tab on the mural, and has no published tool reference or export.", "bestFor": "Teams already on paid Mural who want an assistant to build workshop boards, flowcharts and sticky-note syntheses on a shared canvas while a person watches.", "strengths": [ "OAuth with PKCE, dynamic client registration, revocation and separate read and write scopes", "Agent actions land in the activity and audit logs with a 'with AI' attribution", "Writes stickies, shapes, connectors, tables, areas and full library templates, including LUMA methods", "SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001, with a private HackerOne bug bounty", "In the official MCP registry under Mural's verified co.mural namespace" ], "weaknesses": [ "Public preview, with Mural's service levels and support obligations excluded", "The mural must stay open in a foreground browser tab, so it can't run headless", "No published tool list, input schemas, rate limits or error responses", "No export of images, PDF or diagram code through MCP", "Needs a paid Mural plan, and Enterprise admins must switch it on" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the person to open the target mural in a foreground browser tab, signed in to the connected account, before calling any tool", "Work on one mural at a time and name it explicitly when switching", "Request only murals:read when the task only reads a board", "Deletes go through without a server-side prompt. Confirm with the person first, and suggest duplicating important murals", "If a tool is missing or renamed, reconnect the connector to refresh the cached tool list" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 1, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 42 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 26, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 10, "reliability": 35, "schema": 30, "security": 72, "transparency": 51 }, "provenanceScore": 75 }, "connect": { "config": { "mcpServers": { "mural": { "url": "https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/diagram.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/mural-mcp" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Team+ plan", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 9.99, "note": "per member, billed yearly ($12 billed monthly). MCP free during the preview" }, { "item": "Business plan", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 17, "note": "per member, billed yearly. Adds SAML SSO" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Tactivos, Inc. (d/b/a Mural)", "domain": "mural.co", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.mural.co/terms/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.mural.co/terms/privacy-statement", "statusPage": "https://status.mural.co", "changelog": "https://www.mural.co/blog/product-release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-05", "notes": [ "The .co registry has no RDAP service we could query, so the registration date is blank. The MCP server runs on mcp-canvas.mural.co", "The site footer names Tactivos, Inc. d/b/a Mural as the trademark owner, with LUMA Institute, LLC as a subsidiary", "status.mural.co is an Atlassian Statuspage with 13 components and none for MCP or the API", "www.mural.co/.well-known/security.txt returns 404 and app.mural.co returns the web app's HTML. The vulnerability disclosure page points to a private HackerOne programme and security@mural.co", "Product release notes are weekly posts on the Mural blog. The developer API changelog's last entry is from December 2023" ], "score": 75 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mural-mcp.json", "live": { "slug": "mural-mcp", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp", "method": "mcp-initialize", "lastAt": "2026-10-06T01:46:32.73660513Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 259, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 259, "p95ms24h": 292, "samples24h": 19, "samples30d": 19, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 19, "ok": 19 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.mural.co", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-06T01:47:20.873621063Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-06T01:47:20.873621063Z" } }, "answer": "tldraw SDK + MCP scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Mural MCP's 42 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Mural MCP leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "tldraw", "name": "tldraw SDK + MCP", "vendor": "tldraw", "vendorUrl": "https://tldraw.dev", "kind": "sdk", "category": "diagramming", "summary": "A React infinite-canvas SDK that an agent can drive through the editor API, creating, reading and changing shapes, turning Mermaid into shapes and exporting images.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tldraw", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tldraw.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tldraw.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tldraw.json", "repo": "https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw", "license": "tldraw licence (source-available, production needs a licence key)", "transports": [ "streamable-http", "sse" ], "remoteUrl": "https://tldraw-mcp-app.tldraw.workers.dev/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "tldraw" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The SDK runs in your app and needs no API key. It checks a public licence key on the client, offline, and won't run in production without one. The hosted MCP App needs no auth.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Free to use in development. Production needs a licence key. A 100-day trial is free with no card, a hobby licence for non-commercial projects is free at tldraw's discretion and shows a watermark, and commercial licences are annual with value-based pricing agreed with sales. Startup discounts are available. The MCP App is free (https://tldraw.dev/pricing).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 6, "popularity": { "githubStars": 50672, "npmWeekly": 490141, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://tldraw.dev/docs/ai", "llmsTxt": "https://tldraw.dev/llms.txt", "registryName": "io.github.tldraw/tldraw", "capabilities": [ "diagram.create", "diagram.as-code", "diagram.edit", "diagram.export" ], "tags": [ "typescript", "hosted", "mcp", "llms-txt", "free-tier" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 240, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 460, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 89, "payments": 35, "reliability": 75, "schema": 79, "security": 40, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "Checked 2026-10-01. The licence page says hobby licences send nothing and trial licences send only a hash of the key, with no user data. The SDK's LicenseManager sends the licence ID, SKU, environment and the full page URL (window.location.href) for trial, hobby-with-watermark and unlicensed production deployments, and the licence key page lists most of this. A full page URL can carry user data in its path or query (https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/blob/main/packages/editor/src/lib/license/LicenseManager.ts, https://tldraw.dev/community/license)." ], "verdict": "Full editor API to create, read, bind and export shapes from code, with agent, chat and workflow starter kits. Source-available, and commercial prices aren't published.", "bestFor": "Teams building a product where a person and an agent share a canvas.", "strengths": [ "Full editor API to create, read, bind and export shapes from code, with agent, chat and workflow starter kits", "Hosted MCP App with two model-facing tools, all six tools annotated", "At least six releases between 15 July and 30 September 2026, with dated release notes", "Development use and a 100-day production trial need no payment" ], "weaknesses": [ "Source-available, and commercial prices aren't published", "`exec` runs model-written JavaScript on the canvas with no approval step", "Licence pings send the licence ID and full page URL for trial and hobby keys, more than the licence page says", "SECURITY.md lists only 3.x as supported while the current release is 5.5", "No server-side REST API, and the MCP App needs a host that renders MCP Apps" ], "agentNotes": [ "Through the MCP App, call `search` on the Editor API spec first, then `exec` with JavaScript that calls `editor` methods", "Omit `canvasId` to start a blank canvas, and pass the returned `canvasId` to keep editing the same one", "Paste Mermaid into the canvas to get editable shapes instead of placing each shape by hand", "Return `editor.getCurrentPageShapes()` from `exec` to check what was drawn", "Read the release notes before a minor upgrade. Minor versions can break" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 61 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 89, "payments": 35, "reliability": 75, "schema": 79, "security": 40, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 57 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install tldraw", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http tldraw https://tldraw-mcp-app.tldraw.workers.dev/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "tldraw": { "url": "https://tldraw-mcp-app.tldraw.workers.dev/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/diagram.create", "tool": "https://letme.dev/tldraw" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "tldraw, Inc.", "domain": "tldraw.dev", "domainRegistered": "2022-04-11", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://www.tldraw.com/tos.html", "privacy": "https://www.tldraw.com/privacy.html", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://tldraw.dev/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "The hosted MCP App runs on a workers.dev subdomain, not on a tldraw domain" ], "score": 57 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tldraw.json", "live": { "slug": "tldraw", "probe": { "target": "https://tldraw-mcp-app.tldraw.workers.dev/mcp", "method": "mcp-initialize", "lastAt": "2026-10-06T01:46:37.126876085Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 582, "lastNote": "initialize answered", "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 763, "p95ms24h": 1235, "samples24h": 273, "samples30d": 1395, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "tldraw/tldraw", "version": "v5.5.2", "released": "2026-10-02", "seenAt": "2026-10-05T17:07:23.929933433Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.tldraw/tldraw", "version": "0.1.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-05T23:55:54.568086057Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "tldraw", "version": "5.5.2", "seenAt": "2026-10-05T17:07:23.666919089Z" } ], "githubStars": 50760, "npmWeekly": 512558, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://tldraw.dev/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T15:16:23.440124532Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://tldraw.dev/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T15:19:31.901340534Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "tldraw.dev", "registered": "2022-04-11", "source": "https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap/domain/tldraw.dev", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:10:18.060433565Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://tldraw.dev/releases", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T16:00:49.244591107Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6de3df0f9614" }, { "url": "https://tldraw.dev/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T16:00:46.777789075Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-05T16:00:46.777789075Z", "fingerprint": "95c03e96b278" }, { "url": "https://www.tldraw.com/privacy.html", "kind": "privacy", "status": 0, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T16:04:46.307949385Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "blockedByRobots": true }, { "url": "https://www.tldraw.com/tos.html", "kind": "terms", "status": 0, "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T16:04:46.456243158Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "blockedByRobots": true } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-06T01:46:37.126876085Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "SDK + MCP", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Tactivos, Inc. (d/b/a Mural)", "b": "tldraw", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp", "b": "https://tldraw-mcp-app.tldraw.workers.dev/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "Streamable HTTP", "b": "Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary hosted service under Mural's Terms of Service. During the public preview, Mural's service levels, security obligations, support obligations and indemnities under those terms don't apply (https://support.mural.co/s/article/MCP-preview)", "b": "tldraw licence (source-available, production needs a licence key)", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "6", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "co.mural/mural", "b": "io.github.tldraw/tldraw", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-05", "b": "2026-09-30", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "none", "b": "51k stars, 490k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2/5 (1)", "b": "3/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "tldraw SDK + MCP scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Mural MCP's 42 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Mural MCP leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Mural MCP or tldraw SDK + MCP?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Mural MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp and tldraw SDK + MCP at https://tldraw-mcp-app.tldraw.workers.dev/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call Mural MCP and tldraw SDK + MCP without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 72 against 40", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 51" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams already on paid Mural who want an assistant to build workshop boards, flowcharts and sticky-note syntheses on a shared canvas while a person watches.", "slug": "mural-mcp", "watchFor": "Public preview, with Mural's service levels and support obligations excluded" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 75 against 35", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 79 against 30", "Agent ergonomics, 71 against 26", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 10", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 89 against 75" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it" ], "goodFor": "Teams building a product where a person and an agent share a canvas.", "slug": "tldraw", "watchFor": "Source-available, and commercial prices aren't published" } ], "job": { "capability": "diagram.create", "name": "Diagram create" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-mural-mcp.json", "title": "Cloudviz API vs Mural MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-mural-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-tldraw.json", "title": "Cloudviz API vs tldraw SDK + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudviz-vs-tldraw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diagrams-so-vs-mural-mcp.json", "title": "Diagrams.so API + MCP vs Mural MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diagrams-so-vs-mural-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diagrams-so-vs-tldraw.json", "title": "Diagrams.so API + MCP vs tldraw SDK + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diagrams-so-vs-tldraw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/drawio-vs-mural-mcp.json", "title": "draw.io + MCP vs Mural MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/drawio-vs-mural-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/drawio-vs-tldraw.json", "title": "draw.io + MCP vs tldraw SDK + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/drawio-vs-tldraw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eraser-vs-mural-mcp.json", "title": "Eraser API + MCP vs Mural MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eraser-vs-mural-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eraser-vs-tldraw.json", "title": "Eraser API + MCP vs tldraw SDK + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eraser-vs-tldraw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lucid-vs-mural-mcp.json", "title": "Lucid API + MCP vs Mural MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lucid-vs-mural-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lucid-vs-tldraw.json", "title": "Lucid API + MCP vs tldraw SDK + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lucid-vs-tldraw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mermaid-chart-vs-mural-mcp.json", "title": "Mermaid Chart MCP vs Mural MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mermaid-chart-vs-mural-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mermaid-chart-vs-tldraw.json", "title": "Mermaid Chart MCP vs tldraw SDK + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mermaid-chart-vs-tldraw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mural-mcp-vs-structurizr.json", "title": "Mural MCP vs Structurizr + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mural-mcp-vs-structurizr" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mural-mcp-vs-whimsical.json", "title": "Mural MCP vs Whimsical MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mural-mcp-vs-whimsical" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/structurizr-vs-tldraw.json", "title": "Structurizr + MCP vs tldraw SDK + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/structurizr-vs-tldraw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tldraw-vs-whimsical.json", "title": "tldraw SDK + MCP vs Whimsical MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tldraw-vs-whimsical" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 40, "edge": "tldraw", "key": "reliability", "mural-mcp": 35, "name": "Reliability", "tldraw": 75, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 49, "edge": "tldraw", "key": "schema", "mural-mcp": 30, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "tldraw": 79, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 45, "edge": "tldraw", "key": "ergonomics", "mural-mcp": 26, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "tldraw": 71, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 32, "edge": "mural-mcp", "key": "security", "mural-mcp": 72, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "tldraw": 40, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 25, "edge": "tldraw", "key": "payments", "mural-mcp": 10, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "tldraw": 35, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 14, "edge": "tldraw", "key": "maintenance", "mural-mcp": 75, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "tldraw": 89, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "mural-mcp", "key": "transparency", "mural-mcp": 63, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "tldraw": 51, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "tldraw SDK + MCP scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Mural MCP's 42 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Mural MCP leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do diagram create.", "verdicts": { "mural-mcp": "Mural's own MCP server signs in by OAuth with read and write scopes and logs every agent action in the mural's audit trail. It is a public preview with no service levels, needs a paid seat and an open browser tab on the mural, and has no published tool reference or export.", "tldraw": "Full editor API to create, read, bind and export shapes from code, with agent, chat and workflow starter kits. Source-available, and commercial prices aren't published." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mural-mcp-vs-tldraw", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mural-mcp-vs-tldraw.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mural-mcp-vs-tldraw.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mural-mcp-vs-tldraw.min.md" }, "markdown": "tldraw SDK + MCP scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Mural MCP's 42 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Mural MCP leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do diagram create.\n\n- Mural MCP: grade E, 42/100, rank #422 of 460. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mural-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mural-mcp.json\n- tldraw SDK + MCP: grade C, 61/100, rank #240 of 460. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tldraw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tldraw.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Mural MCP (E)\n\nGood for: Teams already on paid Mural who want an assistant to build workshop boards, flowcharts and sticky-note syntheses on a shared canvas while a person watches.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 72 against 40\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 51\n\nWatch for: Public preview, with Mural's service levels and support obligations excluded\n\n### tldraw SDK + MCP (C)\n\nGood for: Teams building a product where a person and an agent share a canvas.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 75 against 35\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 79 against 30\n- Agent ergonomics, 71 against 26\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 10\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 89 against 75\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n\nWatch for: Source-available, and commercial prices aren't published\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Mural MCP | tldraw SDK + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 75 | tldraw SDK + MCP +40 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 30 | 79 | tldraw SDK + MCP +49 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 26 | 71 | tldraw SDK + MCP +45 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 72 | 40 | Mural MCP +32 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 35 | tldraw SDK + MCP +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 89 | tldraw SDK + MCP +14 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 51 | Mural MCP +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **42 · E** | **61 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Mural MCP | tldraw SDK + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | SDK + MCP |\n| Vendor | Tactivos, Inc. (d/b/a Mural) | tldraw |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp` | `https://tldraw-mcp-app.tldraw.workers.dev/mcp` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP | Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |\n| Auth | OAuth | None |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Mural's Terms of Service. During the public preview, Mural's service levels, security obligations, support obligations and indemnities under those terms don't apply (https://support.mural.co/s/article/MCP-preview) | tldraw licence (source-available, production needs a licence key) |\n| Tools exposed | none | 6 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | `co.mural/mural` | `io.github.tldraw/tldraw` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Popularity | none | 51k stars, 490k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (1) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Mural MCP.** Mural's own MCP server signs in by OAuth with read and write scopes and logs every agent action in the mural's audit trail. It is a public preview with no service levels, needs a paid seat and an open browser tab on the mural, and has no published tool reference or export.\n\n**tldraw SDK + MCP.** Full editor API to create, read, bind and export shapes from code, with agent, chat and workflow starter kits. Source-available, and commercial prices aren't published.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Mural MCP\n\n1. Ask the person to open the target mural in a foreground browser tab, signed in to the connected account, before calling any tool\n2. Work on one mural at a time and name it explicitly when switching\n3. Request only murals:read when the task only reads a board\n4. Deletes go through without a server-side prompt. Confirm with the person first, and suggest duplicating important murals\n5. If a tool is missing or renamed, reconnect the connector to refresh the cached tool list\n\n### tldraw SDK + MCP\n\n1. Through the MCP App, call `search` on the Editor API spec first, then `exec` with JavaScript that calls `editor` methods\n2. Omit `canvasId` to start a blank canvas, and pass the returned `canvasId` to keep editing the same one\n3. Paste Mermaid into the canvas to get editable shapes instead of placing each shape by hand\n4. Return `editor.getCurrentPageShapes()` from `exec` to check what was drawn\n5. Read the release notes before a minor upgrade. Minor versions can break\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Mural MCP or tldraw SDK + MCP?\n\ntldraw SDK + MCP scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Mural MCP's 42 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Mural MCP leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Can an agent call Mural MCP and tldraw SDK + MCP without installing anything?\n\nYes. Mural MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp-canvas.mural.co/mcp and tldraw SDK + MCP at https://tldraw-mcp-app.tldraw.workers.dev/mcp.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mural-mcp-vs-tldraw.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mural-mcp-vs-tldraw.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"mural-mcp\", \"b\": \"tldraw\"}`. 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