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Breakdance MCP server

Element tree reads + writes for Breakdance Free and Pro. Knows the difference between Elements, Global Blocks, and Global Styles.

Respira gives AI coding agents a structure-aware way to read and write Breakdance content through a duplicate-first workflow. Page and element writes are snapshotted, and changes can be reviewed before going live.

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Live status

What ships today for Breakdance

Everything below is read from this repo at build time: tool registrations come from the MCP server adapter files; changelog entries are filtered from the same source the /releases timeline uses.

Tools

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uses core tools

Latest touch

8.5.0

Aug 4, 2026

Releases

46

touching Breakdance

Support

Full support

level

Last 5 releases mentioning Breakdance

  • 8.5.0 Aug 4, 2026
    • Design tokens now register on the other builders too, and the converted page references them. 8.3.2 did this for Gutenberg. Elementor, Bricks, Divi, Beaver Builder, Breakdance, Oxygen and Oxygen 6 now do it as well, each
  • 8.0.6 Jul 29, 2026
    • Bounded coverage is explicit. Executable-file scans return partial after a time, file, or result limit, and known Breakdance generated-cache paths are labeled as observations whose contents were not independently verifie
  • 7.5.56 Jul 22, 2026
    • batch_update on Oxygen 6 / Breakdance elements reported success but silently didn't persist a design (typography, spacing, layout) update, while the identical edit via a single update_element call worked correctly. batch
  • 7.5.37 Jul 15, 2026
    • Oxygen 6: add_form now builds a native form with your actual fields instead of defaulting to Contact Form 7. When the "Breakdance Forms for Oxygen" companion plugin is present, a built form is a real native FormBuilder e
  • 7.5.36 Jul 15, 2026
    • Oxygen 6: an update_element call that changed a structural field and a flat field in one request (e.g. a button's text and url together) silently dropped the flat field. The shared Breakdance update mapper only folds fla

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What works

Capabilities shipped today

Concrete features in the current MCP server release. Tool names link directly to the adapter.

  • Element tree reads return the actual Breakdance JSON, not just rendered HTML.
  • Per-element writes through the structure-aware patch path preserve children and attributes.
  • Global Blocks: list, insert by reference, swap underlying definition — references on every page auto-update.
  • Global Styles (colors, typography, sizes) read + write through Respira-managed options where Breakdance doesn't expose a native API.
  • Snapshot before every write; rollback through the standard recovery tools.
  • Breakdance Headers and Footers (theme builder) listed and assignment rules readable.

Known limits

Where you still need a human pass

Honest list of edges. If you hit one of these, the snapshot workflow gives you a clean rollback path.

  • Some Breakdance Pro display conditions (cookie-based, query-based) read but only the simple ones (logged-in, role, post type) write today.
  • WooCommerce-specific Breakdance elements work for content edits; deeper Woo product-loop tuning still goes through the Breakdance UI.
  • Form Builder submissions are visible through respira_list_custom_posts; the form configuration itself is read-only via the MCP.

Tools

Breakdance uses the universal toolset

Breakdance edits run through Respira's universal tools: respira_find_element, respira_update_element, respira_update_page (for full-page replacement only), respira_get_snapshot, and respira_create_page_duplicate. See the complete tool catalog.

Example prompts

Three prompts you can paste right now

Each one assumes Respira is connected to your WordPress site through the MCP server below. Copy a prompt, paste into your MCP client, run.

Audit Global Block usage 

List every Breakdance Global Block on the site, what pages reference it, and how many times each is used. Output a markdown table.

Swap a Global Block site-wide 

Replace every reference to Global Block "cta-old" with "cta-2026" across all published pages. Snapshot each page first and show me the diff.

Update a global color 

Change the Breakdance global color "brand-primary" from its current value to #1f6feb. Tell me how many pages and Global Blocks will visually change.

Setup

Connect Respira's MCP server

Drop this into your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf — any MCP-compatible client). Generate an API key from your Respira dashboard first.

Breakdance MCP server config 

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "respira-wordpress": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@respira/wordpress-mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "WORDPRESS_URL": "https://yoursite.com",
        "WORDPRESS_API_KEY": "respira_your_api_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

macOS Claude Desktop: this belongs in claude_desktop_config.json, not config.json. On some versions the "Edit Config" button opens config.json — a separate preferences file in the same folder that is not read for MCP servers — so the paste appears to do nothing. If the server doesn't show up after restarting, edit the right file directly: open -a TextEdit ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Other builder MCPs

Gutenberg Full support Elementor Full support Divi Full support Bricks Deep support WPBakery Partial support Oxygen Full support Beaver Builder Full support Flatsome Full support

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