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photoshop-mcp MCP Server

MCP server for Adobe Photoshop — 102 tools (generative AI + recipes), standalone web UI. Control Ph…

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Published as @alisaitteke/photoshop-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

7 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

UXP bridge panel never registers: manifest.json missing manifestVersion, main points at main.js

Summary

uxp-plugin/manifest.json never registers its panel entrypoint, so the UXP bridge cannot load and photoshop_neural_filter is unreachable on a clean install of v1.5.0.

Symptom

After Add Plugin → Load in UXP Developer Tool, the plugin shows State: Watching (so the manifest parses and the plugin loads), but in Photoshop:

  • Plugins → Photoshop MCP UXP Bridge is greyed out with an empty submenu
  • the panel is absent from Window → Extensions
  • `photoshop_get_capabi

Read the thread · 2026-08-08 · closed · external user · 1 comment

JSX bridge broken

Claude says: Confirmed: execute_script writes still don't land even after the restart — the JSX bridge in this build is just broken.

Update: Claude found this out when I told him to fix the JSX bridge: The "undefined" symptom was not a dead bridge — it's the wrapper's documented contract: your code runs inside an IIFE, so you must use an explicit return. A bare trailing expression or an assignment like app.activeDocument.activeLayer.name = "X" evaluates to undefined, so the result is "undefined

Read the thread · 2026-07-19 · closed · external user · 1 comment

JSON modification described for Claude Desktop but not Claude Code/the Claude SDK

I see in the readme it shows what JSON file where to add what to for Claude Desktop, but not for Claude Code/the Claude SDK, which I assume is something different because the directory given for Claude Desktop doesn't exist on my computer, and I've already installed two other MCP servers. But I don't remember exactly how I did it, and now I guess I have to go back and retrace my steps to add this one..

Read the thread · 2026-07-18 · closed · external user · 2 comments

"not_authenticated" when I am authenticated.

I ran npx -p @alisaitteke/photoshop-mcp photoshop-mcp-ui, it gave me a webpage for selecting my account, I selected Anthropic, then "Uses your account", and it said "not_authenticated." I already am authenticated, I'm using Claude on multiple accounts with a custom client using their SDK right now (Claude Code works too, or did the last time I tried--it should), but just to be sure, I ran claude auth login like it said and successfully logged in and clicked "Check connection & continue" aga

Read the thread · 2026-07-18 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Photoshop MCP DoJavaScript Broken on Photoshop 2026 (Windows)

Fix: Photoshop MCP DoJavaScript Broken on Photoshop 2026 (Windows)

Issue

All tools fail on Windows with Photoshop 2026 (v27.7.0). The VBS wrapper generated by WindowsExecutor executes via cscript and returns:

ERROR: The request to the Photoshop object was denied. This functionality may not be available in this version of Photoshop.
- Line 30: Illegal return statement after properties.

The photoshop_ping tool succeeds, but all other tools (get_state, get_document_info

Read the thread · 2026-06-15 · closed · external user · 2 comments

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