GIMP Agent MCP MCP Server

Edit in GIMP 3 with AI agents: live previews, grouped edits, pixel measurements and recipes.

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Published as gimp-agent-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.

Reviewed GitHub reports

6 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 5.

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Everyday editing tools without PDB discovery

Problem

The generic PDB and GEGL routes provide broad access, but common edits take discovery calls and detailed procedure arguments. A competing GIMP MCP exposes these actions as simple named tools, which makes first-use prompts easier and reduces agent mistakes.

Scope

gimp_adjust: brightness/contrast, hue/saturation, curves, desaturate, invert, blur, sharpen, noise and pixelate.
gimp_canvas: scale, crop, canvas resize, rotate, flip, merge-visible and flatten.
gimp_draw:…

Read the thread · 2026-09-07 · closed · 1 comment

Render overlay mode: draw selection, layer boxes and coordinates on the render

Problem

The agent can measure exact numbers with gimp_measure and it can look at a render, but not both at once. To place something next to an existing element it reads a bounding box as numbers, then has to imagine where that rectangle sits in the picture it just looked at. That gap is the main source of "close but not quite" placement.

Proposal

An overlay argument on gimp_render that draws diagnostic annotations on the returned PNG only, never on the image:

-…

Read the thread · 2026-09-07 · closed · 1 comment

Report the user's active image, layer and selection in gimp_status

Problem

When the bridge runs inside the GIMP window someone is working in, the agent still has to be told which image and layer to touch. "Sharpen this layer" fails, because "this" is whatever the user has selected in the Layers panel and the agent cannot see it. In practice the user reads ids out of gimp_image_info and pastes them, which defeats the point of working alongside them.

Proposal

Extend gimp_status with the user's live context, and include the same block in…

Read the thread · 2026-09-07 · open · 0 comments

Cancellation and progress for long operations

Problem

A heavy filter on a large image blocks the bridge's main loop until it finishes. The client can time out, but GIMP keeps working, there is no way to ask it to stop, and the agent gets no signal about how long anything will take. On a 4K photo a large blur or unsharp mask can run long enough that the agent assumes failure and retries, doubling the work.

Proposal

Two parts.

Cancellation. A gimp_cancel(image_id) tool plus a per-request cancel flag that long-running paths…

Read the thread · 2026-09-07 · open · 0 comments

Brand kits: named colour, font and canvas profiles for compose

Problem

The compose recipe takes a manifest with literal hex colours, font names, logo paths and canvas sizes. Anyone producing more than one card repeats all of that in every manifest, and a brand change means editing every stored manifest. The agent also has no way to know a brand's rules, so it invents colours that are nearly right.

Proposal

Named brand profiles, stored as JSON in the user's config directory and referenced by name from a manifest:

{
  "name": "example",…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SarutobiSasuke8/gimp-agent-mcp/issues/4) · 2026-09-07 · open · 0 comments

[See all 6 reports Pod holds for GIMP Agent MCP](/mcp/gimp-agent-mcp/issues).

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