Melon Cut Guidelines

Your brand guidelines, read and changed by your own tools

Melon Cut keeps your brand guidelines, and the Melon Cut API and MCP server let your own tools use them: read a brand's colours, fonts and logos, change a brand through a draft you can see on meloncut.com before it is live, and publish it - with a key of your own, for your brands on the Business or Enterprise plan.

ways in: a REST API and an MCP server
2
preview address for every draft
1
requests a minute on Business
60
Brand API and MCP server: a picture made with Cutlin
How it works

Brand API and MCP server, step by step

  1. Make a key

    In Melon Cut Guidelines, open API keys and make one. It is shown once, reaches your brands on the Business or Enterprise plan, and can be revoked at any time.

  2. Connect

    Call https://api.meloncut.com/v1 with the key as a bearer token, or add the MCP server at https://api.meloncut.com/mcp to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor or VS Code.

  3. Read, draft and publish

    Read a brand's guidelines, start a draft, change it, look at it on meloncut.com, then publish it over the brand or create a new brand from it.

What your tools can do

Everything the API does, the MCP server does too, for the same person and with the same rules: a tool is the route it calls.

  • List your brands, with their plans and addresses
  • Read a brand whole: colours, fonts, images, systems, foundation, guideline sections and models
  • Read a brand's brief for a deliverable - a social media post, a website, copy
  • Search the public brands in the Melon Cut directory, and check whether a username is free
  • Start a draft: a new brand, one of yours to edit, or one of yours to start a new brand from
  • Change a draft by operations, upload pictures and fonts to it, and undo
  • Publish a draft over its brand, as the brand's new identity or as an earlier one, or create a brand from it

Drafts you see before they are live

Every change goes into a draft, checked by the same guideline rules as the Guidelines editor. Each draft has a private preview address on meloncut.com that shows it exactly as publishing it would, and is never listed or indexed.

Publishing is refused when the brand was changed in Melon Cut since the draft began, so nobody's work is written over, and a draft can be handed to Melon Cut Guidelines to finish by hand.

Cutlin works with every plan

Cutlin, the separate AI studio that follows Melon Cut guidelines, is Melon Cut's partner: it reads and changes your brands through this same API on every plan, Free included, with nothing to set up.

Keys and limits

A key is yours: it reaches only your own brands on Business or Enterprise, it is kept only as a fingerprint, and you can revoke it whenever you like. A key makes up to 60 requests a minute on Business and 600 on Enterprise.

At a glance

Brand API and MCP server: the details

Address
api.meloncut.com
REST API
/v1, described at /openapi/v1.json
MCP server
/mcp, over streamable HTTP
Signing in
Your API key, as a bearer token
Plans
Business and Enterprise
Limits
60 requests a minute on Business, 600 on Enterprise
FAQ

Brand API and MCP server: questions

Can't find your answer? See every question.

Which plans include the API and the MCP server?

Business and Enterprise. A key reaches your brands on those plans; asked for a brand on another plan, it answers with where to upgrade it.

Does Cutlin need a plan to use my brands?

No. Cutlin, the separate AI studio, is Melon Cut's partner and works with your brands on every plan, Free included.

How do I connect Claude Code to Melon Cut?

Make a key in Melon Cut Guidelines, then run: claude mcp add --transport http melon-cut https://api.meloncut.com/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY".

Can I see a change before it is published?

Yes. Every draft has its own preview address on meloncut.com that shows it exactly as it will be published. It is not listed or indexed.

Put your brand at one link

Read, draft and publish your brands from your own tools.