# nanobanana-mcp-server MCP Server

An MCP server that provides image generation and editing capabilities

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `nanobanana-mcp-server` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**8 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

### Most discussed

### Vertex AI is not responding.

Vertex AI was working recently, but it's not working now. Sends request, no error, no response, just waits. I use Claude in the code.  Could you please check?

[Read the thread](https://github.com/zhongweili/nanobanana-mcp-server/issues/31) · 2026-05-17 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### region auth

i think you need to set the region to global in order for it to work on VERTEX AI - GCP_REGION=us-central1 should be global instead

[Read the thread](https://github.com/zhongweili/nanobanana-mcp-server/issues/28) · 2026-04-20 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Edit mode ignores model_tier and always uses gemini-2.5-flash-image

## Bug Report

### Summary

When using `generate_image` in **edit mode**, the `model_tier` parameter is completely ignored. The edit always uses `gemini-2.5-flash-image` (legacy Flash) regardless of the requested tier (`pro`, `nb2`, etc.).

### Steps to Reproduce

1. Generate an image with `model_tier: "pro"` and `resolution: "2k"` — works correctly, uses `gemini-3-pro-image-preview`
2. Edit the generated image with `model_tier: "pro"`, `mode: "edit"` — the API logs show `gemini-2.5-flash-image`

[Read the thread](https://github.com/zhongweili/nanobanana-mcp-server/issues/20) · 2026-03-17 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Feature Request: Add option to return full-resolution images in MCP response instead of thumbnails

## Summary

Currently, the server returns thumbnail previews in the MCP response while saving full-resolution images to disk. It would be valuable to have a configuration option to return full-resolution images directly in the MCP response.

## Use Case

Many MCP clients display images inline within their chat interface. When only thumbnails are returned, users see low-quality previews and must manually navigate to the disk path to view the actual generated images. This breaks the workflow and r

[Read the thread](https://github.com/zhongweili/nanobanana-mcp-server/issues/14) · 2026-01-17 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### "image_size" not supported in google-genai==1.41.0, require later version of google-genai dependency

Thank you for your code!

In pyproject.toml, one of the dependencies is `"google-genai>=1.41.0"`, but if you use "google-genai==1.41.0", you will get a validation error since "image_size" is not in ImageConfig: https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/blob/v1.41.0/google/genai/types.py#L3844 (on another note, neither is "output_mime_type", but that is another issue per https://github.com/zhongweili/nanobanana-mcp-server/issues/11)

I upgraded google-genai to the latest version 1.57.0 and it wo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/zhongweili/nanobanana-mcp-server/issues/12) · 2026-01-14 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

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