# mcp-gpt-image

> MCP server for image generation, editing and multi-turn refinement with OpenAI gpt-image-2.5

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-gpt-image/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Fabien Vauchelles
- homepage: https://github.com/agelyhq/mcp-gpt-image
- repository: https://github.com/agelyhq/mcp-gpt-image/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- version: 0.4.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: gpt-image-2.5, image-editing, image-generation, mcp, model-context-protocol, openai
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-gpt-image

### Description (declared)

# 🎨 mcp-gpt-image

**An image MCP server built for the second draft, not the first.**

Getting one picture out of a model is the easy part. The afternoon goes on the twelve that
come after it: the sky is too bright, the logo drifted, the text on the sign came out wrong.
Most image connectors stop at the first picture and leave you to redo the loop by hand.

Three tools, OpenAI's
[gpt-image-2.5](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/image-generation) in both of its
variants, and file paths instead of base64.

## 🧱 The problem

You write a prompt, you get a picture, you want the sky darker. So you write the whole prompt
again with "darker sky" appended, because the model kept nothing from the first call. Every
correction is a full rewrite, and the model has no idea what it just drew.

When the connector hands images back as base64 it gets worse. The picture is now sitting in
the conversation: it cost tokens to arrive, it costs tokens again on every turn it stays
there, and feeding it into the next step means sending those same bytes back up. Two rounds
of that on a 1536x1024 image and the context window is mostly pixels.

This server takes the other route on both counts. Images travel as **file paths**:
`generate_image` writes a file and returns where it is, `edit_image` and `refine_image` take
paths as input, so a picture moves from one step to the next without ever entering the
conversation. And `refine_image` **holds the thread** with the model, so turn one is a full
description and turn two is "make the sky darker". Nothing is re-uploaded, nothing is
re-described.

## 📦 Install

```bash
claude mcp add gpt-image -e OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... -- uvx mcp-gpt-image
```

Or in any MCP client's config:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gpt-image": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-gpt-image"],
      "env": {
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "sk-...",
        "GPT_IMAGE_OUTPUT_DIR": "/home/you/images"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Needs Python 3.12 or newer, [uv](…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- content.writing (1, derived)
- media.image-generation (1, declared)
- media.image-editing (1, declared)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-gpt-image/ (first seen 2026-09-10T01:21:27.080Z)

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