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Available actions with the Lucid MCP server
You can use the Lucid MCP server to complete various actions in Lucid by entering a prompt into your AI tool. For information about how to set up the Lucid MCP server, check out our Integrate Lucid with AI tools using the Lucid MCP server article from the Lucid Help Center.
Note: As we add more use cases to the Lucid MCP server, you may need to re-authenticate with your AI tool in order for the new functionality to work.
The following use cases are currently supported:
Functionality | Example |
Search, fetch, and summarize content | |
| Search Lucid documents for specific content. | “Show me all Lucid documents that talk about the website redesign project.” |
| Fetch and summarize document details and content. | “Find the 'Q4 Website Redesign Workflow' document in Lucid, and give me a summary of action items.” |
| Fetch an image. | “Find the ‘Product Mockups’ document in Lucid and fetch the original source image attached to the ‘Feature A Screenshot’ shape.” |
| Retrieve document metadata. | “Can you check the metadata details on the Onboarding Process document? I need to know the document owner and when it was last modified." |
Generate and edit content | |
| Create a diagram (Mind maps, BPMN, UML, ERD, flowchart, org charts). | “Create a diagram in Lucid that maps out a user authentication flow.” |
| Convert Mermaid markup into diagrams, or generate Mermaid code directly from existing diagrams. | “Take the user onboarding flow diagram currently selected in Lucid, generate its Mermaid markup, add a retry loop step after the 'Email Verification Failed' node, and then render the updated diagram back onto my canvas." |
| Edit document contents. | "In my 'IT Escalation Process' document in Lucid, update all decision blocks to a red fill with bold white text, resize them to fit the text, and align them down the center." |
| Apply auto layout to clean up diagram structure | “Automatically clean up the layout of this flowchart." |
| Apply grid layout to organize shapes within a container into organized rows and columns. | “Build a Customer, Sales, and Finance swimlane for the order process. Put each step in its own row, in order, and connect the steps with arrows, labeling the Yes and No branches.” |
| Adjust shape appearance | “Rotate this shape 90 degrees and reduce its opacity to 50%." |
| Add syntax-highlighted code blocks. | "Add a code block to this document showing this Python function, with line numbers." |
| Create structured on-canvas notes | "Create a text box on this canvas summarizing today's meeting notes." |
| Group cards or shapes into a matrix | “Group these cards into a matrix by priority and status." |
| Add status icons, tags, and emoji reactions to shapes. | “Add a 'blocked' status icon to all shapes tagged 'at risk.” |
| Apply and edit document themes and color palettes. | "Apply our brand color palette as the theme for this document." |
| Browse built-in and custom shapes to add to a diagram. | "Show me what network diagram shapes are available to add to this document." |
| Rich text styling. | “Apply bold styling to the headers in this Lucid text block." |
| Add data to shapes. | “Generate an org chart from this data, add the data to the shapes in the doc.” |
| Generate dynamic & smart tables. | “Generate a Dynamic Table in my Lucid brainstorming doc and map MCP-254 & DEV-333 Jira issues by assignee and status." |
| Create smart containers. | “Add smart containers to my Lucid documents and automatically group canvas cards into Kanban buckets based on priority." |
| Generate swimlanes. | “Add horizontal swimlanes to my Lucid process diagram, edit lane titles, and adjust grid orientation." |
| Generate timelines. | "Create a sprint timeline in Lucid complete with milestones, dated task cards, and capacity plans." |
| Create Lucid cards. | “Update the description, estimate, custom fields, and assignee on my Lucid cards." |
| Add formulas & conditional formatting. | “Apply a conditional formatting rule to my Lucid document that turns shapes red if their status field is 'Blocked.'" |
| Add synced Jira Cards to a document. | “Create Jira cards in my Lucid Sprint Planning board from the issues in my Jira Product Team 8 space." |
| Interactive Visual Activities. | “Create an interactive matrix visual activity on this Lucid document." |
| Crop, edit, & add images from a website URL | “Add this web URL image to my diagram and crop it to a square ratio.” |
Share documents and collaborate | |
| Create a shareable link for a Lucid document. | “Create a shareable link with view-only permissions for my 'FY26 Q3 Product Roadmap' document in Lucid." |
| Share a document with specific collaborators using their email address. | “Share my 'Q1 Marketing Campaign Flowchart' document in Lucid with jsol@email.com. Add them with full Edit permissions." |
| Pull and respond to comments. | “Respond to Jill's comment on the flowchart about the updated schema.” |
Manage content | |
| Add, rename, reorder, and delete pages, & apply shared page templates. | “Add a new page to this document called 'Appendix' and apply our standard template to it." |
| Move, create, rename folders. | “Change the name of my ‘IT Processes folder’ to ‘IT & Security processes.’” |
| Move and rename documents. | “Move my ‘March Sprint Review document’ to my ‘Q1 Sprint Reviews’ folder.” |
| Export a document as a PNG. | “Export of my ‘Project Timeline’ document in Lucid as a PNG file.” |
Send feedback | |
| Send feedback about the MCP to Lucid’s team. | “Request an export diagram feature in Lucid’s MCP server.” |
Tip: If you have additional MCP servers set up in your AI tool, consider pairing them with the Lucid MCP server. For example you could use your AI tool to send a shareable link via email or add it to Confluence.
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