Image Generation MCP Server

io.github.pvliesdonk/image-generation-mcp

6/8 checks passed
Runs locally
5 secrets
★ 1 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-08-25
Health score 55

About Image Generation MCP Server

Image Generation MCP Server is an MCP server published by the GitHub account pvliesdonk. MCP server for AI image generation via OpenAI, Stable Diffusion (SD WebUI), or placeholders.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the PyPI package image-generation-mcp at version 1.12.1.

It asks for 5 secrets: IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_OPENAI_API_KEY, IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_GOOGLE_API_KEY, IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_BEARER_TOKEN, IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET and IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_OIDC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

Version 1.12.1 was published on 25 August 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 6 pass, 2 warn, 0 fail, 1 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_KV_STORE_URL`	No	No	Persistent-state backend URL shared by every pvl-core subsystem that needs state. `memory://` is in-process and lost on restart; `file:///path` persists on one server; `redis://`, `dynamodb://` and `mongodb://` each need their matching extra. When unset, defaults to `file:///data/state` (the volume family Docker images mount), or to `memory://` — with a warning — on a host where that directory is not usable.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_TOOLS_ALLOW`	No	No	Comma-separated explicit tool names this instance exposes; every other tool is hidden from listings and cannot be invoked. Names matching no registered tool are inert. Mutually exclusive with `tools_deny`. Takes effect through `apply_tool_visibility`.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_TOOLS_DENY`	No	No	Comma-separated explicit tool names hidden from this instance (absent from listings, cannot be invoked). Names matching no registered tool are inert. Mutually exclusive with `tools_allow`. Takes effect through `apply_tool_visibility`.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_SERVER_NAME`	No	No	Rename this server instance; defaults to the project name.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_INSTRUCTIONS`	No	No	Replaces the default MCP instructions text sent to clients.
`FASTMCP_LOG_LEVEL`	No	No	Log level for FastMCP internals and app loggers (DEBUG / INFO / WARNING / ERROR / CRITICAL). The -v CLI flag overrides to DEBUG.
`FASTMCP_ENABLE_RICH_LOGGING`	No	No	Set false for plain or structured JSON log output.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_A1111_HOST`	No	No	Deprecated alias for IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_SD_WEBUI_HOST; logs a warning when used.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_A1111_MODEL`	No	No	Deprecated alias for IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_SD_WEBUI_MODEL; logs a warning when used.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_READ_ONLY`	No	No	When true, write-tagged tools (image generation, transforms, uploads) are hidden from clients. Set false to enable them.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_SCRATCH_DIR`	No	No	Directory where generated images are saved. Created automatically on first use.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_OPENAI_API_KEY`	No	Yes	OpenAI API key. Enables the OpenAI provider (gpt-image-2, gpt-image-1.5, dall-e-3) when set.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_GOOGLE_API_KEY`	No	Yes	Google API key. Enables the Gemini provider (gemini-3.1-flash-image and others) when set. Get a key at https://aistudio.google.com/apikey.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_SD_WEBUI_HOST`	No	No	SD WebUI base URL (such as http://localhost:7860). Enables the SD WebUI provider when set. Compatible with AUTOMATIC1111, Forge, reForge, and Forge-neo.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_SD_WEBUI_MODEL`	No	No	SD WebUI checkpoint name, used for model-aware preset detection (SD 1.5 / SDXL / Lightning) and checkpoint override. Unset uses the instance's current model.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_DEFAULT_PROVIDER`	No	No	Provider used when no keyword triggers auto-selection: auto, openai, gemini, sd_webui, or placeholder. auto picks the first configured provider.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_TRANSFORM_CACHE_SIZE`	No	No	Maximum number of transformed image results (resize, crop, convert) kept in memory. Set 0 to disable caching.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_PAID_PROVIDERS`	No	No	Comma-separated provider names that cost money; generate_image asks for confirmation (client elicitation) before using them. An empty value falls back to this default; to disable confirmation, set a value that names no provider (such as none).
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_STYLES_DIR`	No	No	Directory for style preset files (Markdown with YAML front matter). Created automatically if it does not exist.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_ALLOW_LOCAL_FILE_INPUT`	No	No	Allow reading input images from local filesystem paths. Off by default: only URLs and uploads are accepted.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_MAX_INPUT_IMAGE_BYTES`	No	No	Maximum accepted input image size in bytes.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_FETCH_TIMEOUT_S`	No	No	HTTP timeout in seconds when fetching remote image URLs (fetch_image and URL inputs).
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_TRANSFER_TTL_DEFAULT_S`	No	No	Link lifetime in seconds when the caller requests no explicit TTL.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_TRANSFER_TTL_MAX_S`	No	No	Ceiling in seconds a caller-requested link TTL is clamped to.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_TRANSFER_GRACE_TTL_S`	No	No	Post-success grace window in seconds: a served token's TTL shrinks to this so a stalled transfer can retry within it.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_TRANSFER_LEASE_S`	No	No	Crashed-handler reclaim window in seconds for an in-flight reservation.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_TRANSFER_MAX_UPLOAD_BYTES`	No	No	Maximum size in bytes of a single upload.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_BASE_URL`	No	No	Public base URL of the deployed server, e.g. `https://mcp.example.com`. Required for OIDC. Also the fallback source of the MCP Apps domain when `app_domain` is unset.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_BEARER_TOKEN`	No	Yes	Single shared bearer token; enables bearer auth unless `bearer_tokens_file` is set, which takes precedence.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_OIDC_CONFIG_URL`	No	No	OIDC discovery document URL, e.g. `https://auth.example.com/.well-known/openid-configuration`.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_OIDC_CLIENT_ID`	No	No	OIDC client identifier registered with the provider.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET`	No	Yes	OIDC client secret registered with the provider.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_OIDC_AUDIENCE`	No	No	Expected `aud` claim; tokens issued for another audience are rejected.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_OIDC_REQUIRED_SCOPES`	No	No	Scopes a caller must present, space- or comma-separated. Defaults to `openid` in oidc-proxy mode.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_OIDC_ADVERTISED_SCOPES`	No	No	Scopes advertised to MCP clients in protected-resource metadata, space- or comma-separated. Overrides the default `openid offline_access`; `oidc_required_scopes` is always added on top. Set this when the registered client is not permitted `offline_access`, or to have clients request extra claim scopes (e.g. `groups`) without also requiring them in every token.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_OIDC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY`	No	Yes	Signing key for issued JWTs; used in oidc-proxy mode only. When unset, the key is derived deterministically from `oidc_client_secret`, so tokens survive a restart — but rotating that secret invalidates every issued token. Set this explicitly to decouple token validity from secret rotation. Generate with `openssl rand -hex 32`.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_OIDC_VERIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN`	No	No	Validate the access token instead of the id token.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_APP_DOMAIN`	No	No	MCP Apps iframe domain, used for CSP sandboxing. Overrides the host derived from `base_url`.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_AUTH_MODE`	No	No	Explicit auth-mode override, accepting `remote` or `oidc-proxy` (case- and whitespace-insensitive). When unset the mode is auto-detected from which auth variables are set; the override exists because having all four OIDC variables set is ambiguous between those two modes. Other values are ignored with a warning.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_BEARER_TOKENS_FILE`	No	No	Path to a TOML file mapping bearer tokens to subjects; overrides the single-token `bearer_token` mode.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_BEARER_DEFAULT_SUBJECT`	No	No	Subject assigned to the single-token bearer mode; ignored when `bearer_tokens_file` is set, since mapped mode carries per-token subjects.
`IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_HTTP_PATH`	No	No	Mount path for the MCP endpoint.
`PUID`	No	No	Run the server process as this UID; the container entrypoint chowns writable paths to match.
`PGID`	No	No	Run the server process as this GID; pair with PUID to match the owner of a mounted volume.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/pvliesdonk/image-generation-mcp
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Warn	Asks for 5 secrets: IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_OPENAI_API_KEY, IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_GOOGLE_API_KEY, IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_BEARER_TOKEN, IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET, IMAGE_GENERATION_MCP_OIDC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account pvliesdonk
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	image-generation-mcp 1.12.1 has no setup.py; nothing runs at install
Code red flags	Warn	Very long encoded blob in code (image_generation_mcp-1.12.1/src/image_generation_mcp/_vendored_sdk.py:14: ""dmFyIF9fPU9iamVjdC5kZWZpbmVQcm9wZXJ0eTt2YXIgSV89KHIpPT5yO2Z1bmN0aW9uIFVfKHIsaSl7dGhpc1tyXT1JXy5iaW5")
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 205 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 55 / 100

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Popularity8 / 40

1 GitHub stars, 66 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity22 / 25

Last push 2026-10-26, last release 2026-08-25, 19 commits in 90 days.

Issue health13 / 15

142 closed of 165 issues.

Our checks12 / 20

2 warnings, each costing a fifth.

0 forks, 160 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.pvliesdonk/image-generation-mcp`
Publisher	GitHub account pvliesdonk
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account pvliesdonk. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	pypi `image-generation-mcp` 1.12.1 (stdio) oci `ghcr.io/pvliesdonk/image-generation-mcp:v1.12.1` no version given (streamable-http)
Version	1.12.1
Published	2026-08-25
Last updated	2026-08-25
Source repository	https://github.com/pvliesdonk/image-generation-mcp
Website	https://pvliesdonk.github.io/image-generation-mcp/
Category	AI & media generation (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · Python package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "image-generation-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "image-generation-mcp==1.12.1"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop · Docker image

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "image-generation-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/pvliesdonk/image-generation-mcp:v1.12.1"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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For people and their AI

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