GIMP Studio MCP
PYPI · TWELVETAKE-GIMP-STUDIO-MCP · SCANNED OCT 4
Lets an AI assistant edit images in GIMP 3, including print and DTF transfer prep.
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How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security100
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- Runs hatchling.build at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it. View diagnostics → Pass
- 0 of 28 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Pass
Provenance & Transparency100
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to TwelveTake-Studios/gimp-studio-mcp). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 4 days ago).Pass
- Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability69
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 9684 tokens (~81/item across 119 items; 119 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management0
- Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).Unverified
Tool Coverage67
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 0% of tool parameters carry a description.Fail
Tool Safety75
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- 0 of 6 tool(s) whose name or description implies an irreversible operation declare an MCP destructiveHint annotation; "gimp_exec" implies "exec" and declares no destructiveHint at all, which the MCP spec reads as destructive by default. See how to fix → Fail
- An AI judge read all 120 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Unverified: 1 category
A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.
How do I install the GIMP Studio MCP server?
GIMP Studio MCP runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
pypi · twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp
claude mcp add com-twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp -- uvx twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"com-twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp"
]
}
}
} {
"servers": {
"com-twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp"
]
}
}
} codex mcp add com-twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp -- uvx twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp
{
"$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
"mcp": {
"com-twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp": {
"type": "local",
"command": [
"uvx",
"twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp"
],
"enabled": true
}
}
} openclaw mcp add com-twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp --command uvx --arg twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp
mcp_servers:
com-twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp:
command: "uvx"
args: ["twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp"] {
"McpServers": {
"com-twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp": {
"Transport": "stdio",
"Command": "uvx",
"Arguments": [
"twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp"
]
}
}
} assistant mcp add com-twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp -t stdio -c uvx -a twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"com-twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp"
]
}
}
} Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 30 Sept 26 +15
- Malware scan: unverified → pass ▲ security
- 29 Sept 26 61
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 7 Oct 2026 · Analysed pypi/twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp@0.3.4
Provenance Verified
A signed build attestation was found and verified, binding this exact artifact to the source repository it claims to come from.
| Result | Verified |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | pypi |
| Reason | Verified |
| Discovered via | Registry attestation endpoint |
| Source repo | TwelveTake-Studios/gimp-studio-mcp |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/TwelveTake-Studios/gimp-studio-mcp/.github/workflows/publish.yml@refs/tags/v0.3.4 |
| Rekor log index | 3005126583 |
| Predicate type | PyPI publish attestation https://docs.pypi.org/attestations/publish/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha256:546f91479bbf6134b1a41b19bea981fe512b71f5192e9d0e3612aa522bb9a986 |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Install scripts 1 script
| Hook | Tier | Command |
|---|---|---|
| build_backend | allowlisted | hatchling.build |
Background: Why install scripts are a supply-chain risk →
Dependencies 28 packages
| Packages resolved | 28 |
|---|---|
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
set_fg ~34
Set the foreground color. color = name|'#rrggbb'|(r,g,b[,a]).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| color | – | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
set_opacity ~37
Set a layer's opacity (0-100 float).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| image | – | – | – |
| layer | – | – | – |
| opacity | number | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
set_paint_opacity ~28
Set the paint/context opacity (0-100).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| opacity | number | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
set_text_props ~97
Mutate any subset of an existing text layer's properties (omitted args are left unchanged). `layer` = id/name of a text layer.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| color | – | – | – |
| font | – | – | – |
| image | – | – | – |
| justify | – | – | – |
| layer | – | yes | – |
| letter_spacing | – | – | – |
| line_spacing | – | – | – |
| size | – | – | – |
| text | – | – | – |
| x | – | – | – |
| y | – | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
set_visible ~31
Show/hide a layer.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| image | – | – | – |
| layer | – | – | – |
| visible | boolean | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
soft_proof ~86
NOT SUPPORTED: soft-proofing is a VIEW-only display simulation in GIMP 3.x, not a scriptable pixel operation — this ALWAYS fails. Returns ok=false with {supported: false, note}; no pixels are changed. Use convert_profile to bake the conversion instead.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| icc_path | – | – | – |
| image | – | – | – |
| intent | string | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
status ~35
GIMP/bridge health: GIMP version, bridge version, mode, open-image count, and the names seeded into the persistent namespace.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
stroke_selection ~52
Stroke the active selection's outline with `color`/`line_width` (current fg/line width if omitted).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| color | – | – | – |
| image | – | – | – |
| layer | – | – | – |
| line_width | – | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
substitute_font ~51
Best-effort font-substitution report: whether `old` is missing and `new` is present (does not mutate global GIMP config).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | string | yes | – |
| old | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
threshold ~101
Black/white threshold: pixels in [low, high] -> white, else black. low/high are 0.0-1.0 on the same sRGB scale as color_at (divide its 0-255 values by 255). channel: value|red|green|blue|alpha.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| channel | string | – | – |
| high | number | – | – |
| image | – | – | – |
| layer | – | – | – |
| low | number | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
threshold_alpha ~50
Binarize the alpha channel at `value` (0..1) for a clean print edge (destructive).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| image | – | – | – |
| layer | – | – | – |
| value | number | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
to_grayscale ~26
Convert the image to GRAYSCALE mode (destructive).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| image | – | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
to_rgb ~23
Convert the image to RGB mode (destructive).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| image | – | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
trim_to_content ~51
Autocrop the image to the artwork's alpha bounding box, plus optional padding (px). Removes empty transparent margins.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| image | – | – | – |
| layer | – | – | – |
| padding | integer | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
undo ~62
Undo the last operation — only if GIMP exposes scriptable undo, which GIMP 3.x does NOT (undo is interactive), so this returns ok=false with {supported: false} and rolls nothing back. Use checkpoint()/restore().
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| image | – | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
undo_group_begin ~51
Begin an undo group on an image: subsequent edits collapse into one undo step. Pair with undo_group_end. `image` = id/basename, or omit for active.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| image | – | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
undo_group_end ~27
End the undo group started by undo_group_begin on this image.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| image | – | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
unsharp_mask ~62
Sharpen a layer via unsharp mask (gegl:unsharp-mask). std_dev = blur radius, scale = sharpen strength.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| image | – | – | – |
| layer | – | – | – |
| scale | number | – | – |
| std_dev | number | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
white_underbase ~73
Core DTF op: create a white-ink layer BELOW the art, filled to the art's alpha shrunk inward by `choke` px at `opacity`. Returns new layer id.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| choke | integer | – | – |
| image | – | – | – |
| layer | – | – | – |
| opacity | number | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
What is the GIMP Studio MCP server?
GIMP Studio MCP is listed in the public MCP registry as com.twelvetake/gimp-studio-mcp. Lets an AI assistant edit images in GIMP 3, including print and DTF transfer prep. This page covers its PyPI package (twelvetake-gimp-studio-mcp).
Is the GIMP Studio MCP server safe to use?
GIMP Studio MCP scores 76 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 4 October 2026. Its build provenance is signed and verified. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the GIMP Studio MCP server expose?
GIMP Studio MCP exposes 119 tools: status, list_images, set_active_image, gimp_exec, reset_namespace, and 114 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 8,781 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the GIMP Studio MCP server still maintained?
GIMP Studio MCP is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.
What licence is the GIMP Studio MCP server under?
GIMP Studio MCP declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.