MCP Tools Reference: design.googleapis.com

Tool: search_icons

Finds appropriate Material Design icons matching keywords that describe their usage, style, or shape.

The following sample demonstrate how to use curl to invoke the search_icons MCP tool.

Curl Request 
                  
curl --location 'https://design.googleapis.com/mcp' \
--header 'content-type: application/json' \
--header 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
--data '{
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "search_icons",
    "arguments": {
      // provide these details according to the tool's MCP specification
    }
  },
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1
}'

Input Schema

Request message for the FindIcons method. Used to search for Material Design icons or symbols based on semantic tags.

FindIconsRequest

JSON representation 
{
  "iconSet": string,
  "tags": [
    string
  ]
}
Fields
iconSet

string

Optional. The icon set to search within (e.g., "Material Symbols", "Material Icons"). If omitted, the default icon set of the environment is used.
tags[]

string

Required. A list of semantic keywords or metadata tags that describe the desired icon's visual or functional properties. If possible, specify at least three tags to describe usage, style, and shape.

Examples: - For a "save" icon: ["save", "diskette", "document", "storage"] - For a "home" icon: ["home", "house", "building"]

If multiple tags are provided, the service returns icons that match any part of the tag list, ordered by relevance (number of matching tags). If no tags are provided, all icons are returned.

Output Schema

Response message for the FindIcons method. Contains a list of matching icon names.

FindIconsResponse

JSON representation 
{
  "icons": [
    string
  ]
}
Fields
icons[]

string

The names of icons that match the provided tags, ordered by relevance.

Tool Annotations

Destructive Hint: ❌ | Idempotent Hint: ✅ | Read Only Hint: ✅ | Open World Hint: ❌