# mcp-recognize-image

> MCP server that lets text-only models 'see' images via configurable vision LLM providers with priority fallback

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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-recognize-image/claim

## Declared
- version: 0.3.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, model-context-protocol, vision, image-recognition, multimodal, vlm
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-recognize-image

### Description (declared)

# mcp-recognize-image

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that gives **text-only models the ability
to "see" images**. It routes image-recognition requests through configurable
multimodal (vision) LLM providers, with **priority-ordered automatic fallback**:
if the top provider fails (auth / rate-limit / error / timeout), the next is tried.

## Install (end users)

```bash
uvx mcp-recognize-image
```

Install [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) first if needed:

```bash
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
```

Or with pip:

```bash
pip install mcp-recognize-image
```

## Configure

Works out of the box with the bundled default providers (free vision endpoints
pre-filled). You only need to set API keys for the providers you have:

```bash
export GEMINI_API_KEY=...         # free tier: https://aistudio.google.com
export SILICONFLOW_API_KEY=...    # free tier: https://cloud.siliconflow.cn
export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=...     # free models: https://openrouter.ai
```

### Custom endpoint (zero config file)

Point it at **any** OpenAI-compatible endpoint (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Ollama, LM Studio,
DeepSeek, Moonshot, …) with three env vars — no config file needed. The API key lives in
the env (never on disk):

```bash
export VISION_BASE_URL="https://api.openai.com/v1"
export VISION_API_KEY="sk-..."
export VISION_MODEL="gpt-4o"
# optional: VISION_ADAPTER (openai_compat|gemini|anthropic, default openai_compat)
# optional: VISION_PRIORITY (default 0 = tried first)
```

With these set and no config file, **only** this custom provider is used. In an MCP
client config, put the same vars in the `env` block.

Config path resolution (only if you customize the provider list):

1. `VISION_MCP_CONFIG` env var (absolute path)
2. `~/.config/vision-mcp/config.toml`
3. bundled `config.example.toml` (fallback — used by default)

To customize the provider list, copy the bundled example and edit (from a source
checkout):

```bash
mkdir -p ~/.config/vision-mcp
cp src/vision_mcp/confi…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- media.image-understanding (1, declared)
- ai.model-access (0.894, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-recognize-image/ (first seen 2026-09-10T03:19:08.761Z)

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