Use Commonkite: Free Image Search API, Creative Commons & CC0 MCP with Claude Code

Commonkite: free-to-use CC/public-domain images with license + credit line.

Remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP), nothing to install. Free: Free, no key needed

Set it up

1. Run the command in your terminal (add --scope user to use it in every project, or --scope project to write .mcp.json).
2. Start Claude Code and type /mcp to see the server and its tools.
3. Ask a question the tools can answer; Claude Code asks permission before each tool call unless you allow it.

Run:

claude mcp add --transport http commonkite 'https://commonkite.cybermaxtools.com/mcp?via=use-with-claude-code'

Or share it with your team in .mcp.json (project scope)::

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "commonkite": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://commonkite.cybermaxtools.com/mcp?via=use-with-claude-code"
    }
  }
}

Where it goes:

• stored by the CLI: local scope (default, you in this project), project scope (.mcp.json, shared), user scope (you, every project)

Config format checked 2026-10-09 against Claude Code's MCP documentation.

Tools you get

Endpoint checked 2026-10-09: https://commonkite.cybermaxtools.com/mcp answered an MCP initialize (protocol 2025-06-18) and tools/list with 1 tool, all marked read-only. No key was used and no tool was called.

Test the endpoint from a terminal

This lists the tools without a key and without calling any of them:

curl -s https://commonkite.cybermaxtools.com/mcp \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -H 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

If it does not work

• If a project-scoped server does not load, Claude Code asks you to approve servers from .mcp.json the first time.
• The free tier has a daily limit (see the pricing line above); a paid key raises it.

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