# iflow-mcp_groundlight-mcp-vision

> Allow VLMs to call dedicated specialist CV models

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## Observed
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## Declared
- publisher: Groundlight AI
- version: 0.1.2
- license: MIT License
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:iflow-mcp_groundlight-mcp-vision

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# mcp-vision by <img src="images/gl_logo.png" height=25>

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server exposing HuggingFace computer vision models such as zero-shot object detection as tools, enhancing the vision capabilities of large language or vision-language models.

This repo is in active development. See below for details of currently available tools.

## Installation

Clone the repo:
```bash
git clone git@github.com:groundlight/mcp-vision.git
```

Build a local docker image:
```bash
cd mcp-vision
make build-docker
```

## Configuring Claude Desktop

Add this to your `claude_desktop_config.json`:

If your local environment has access to a NVIDIA GPU:
```json
"mcpServers": {
  "mcp-vision": {
    "command": "docker",
    "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "--runtime=nvidia", "--gpus", "all", "mcp-vision"],
 "env": {}
  }
}
```
Or, CPU only:
```json
"mcpServers": {
  "mcp-vision": {
    "command": "docker",
    "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "mcp-vision"],
 "env": {}
  }
}
```
When running on CPU, the default large-size object detection model make take a long time to laod and run inference. Consider using a smaller model as `DEFAULT_OBJDET_MODEL` (you can tell Claude directly to use a specific model too). 

**(Beta)** It is possible to run the public docker image directly without building locally, however the download time may interfere with Claude's loading of the server. 
```json
"mcpServers": {
  "mcp-vision": {
    "command": "docker",
    "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "--runtime=nvidia", "--gpus", "all", "groundlight/mcp-vision:late…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- media.image-understanding (1, derived)
- ai.model-access (0.905, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/iflow-mcp_groundlight-mcp-vision/ (first seen 2026-09-09T19:23:22.335Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/iflow-mcp-groundlight-mcp-vision/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/iflow-mcp-groundlight-mcp-vision · ARD identifier urn:air::server:iflow-mcp-groundlight-mcp-vision