Photoshop MCP Server
NPM · ADOBE-MCP-PHOTOSHOP
Drive Adobe Photoshop from any MCP client: layers, selections, adjustments, type and export.
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Last scanned (14 hours ago)
Scores higher than 39% of npm servers
Category Design and Media
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 Security98
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- 31 of 95 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency48
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 3 days ago).Pass
- Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability60
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 35189 tokens (~169/item across 207 items; 207 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management10
- Stability observed for 3 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage97
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 91% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- All 6 tool(s) whose name or description implies an irreversible operation declare an MCP destructiveHint annotation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 208 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
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.
- 23 Oct 26 +1
- Stability: unverified → 0.10 ▲ functional
- 21 Oct 26 +15
- Malware scan: unverified → pass ▲ security
- 20 Oct 26 53
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 23 Oct 2026 · Analysed npm/adobe-mcp-photoshop@0.1.0
Provenance No attestation
The registry publishes no build provenance for this version, so there is nothing to verify.
| Result | No attestation |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Dependencies 95 packages
| Packages resolved | 95 |
|---|---|
| Stale | 31 |
| 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 →
swap_colors Swap Colors ~65
Switch the foreground and background colours (Switch Foreground and Background Colors, X), or with reset: true return them to black and white (Default Foreground and Background Colors, D)
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| reset | boolean | – | Reset to black foreground and white background instead of switching. Default false |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
toggle_type_panels Toggle Type Panels ~52
Show or hide a type panel (Window > Character, Paragraph, Character Styles or Paragraph Styles). Each call switches the panel between shown and hidden
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| panel | string | yes | The panel to show or hide |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
toggle_view_extras Toggle View Extras ~113
Toggle View menu items for the active document: Extras, each View > Show item (layer and selection edges, target path, grid, guides, count, smart guides, slices, notes, pixel grid, brush preview), Rulers, Lock Guides, Lock Slices, Snap and each Snap To item. show_all, show_none, snap_to_all and snap_to_none set rather than toggle. Photoshop does not tell scripts whether an item is on
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| items | array | yes | Items to toggle, in order |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
transform_layers Transform Layers ~173
Move layers by dx, dy pixels, scale them by a percentage, rotate them by degrees, or flip them, around an anchor point; optionally transform a copy of each, keeping the original. Video layers transform the same way once they are Smart Objects
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| anchor | string | – | Default center |
| angle | number | – | Degrees, clockwise |
| duplicate | boolean | – | Transform a copy of each layer, placed above it. Default false |
| dx | number | – | – |
| dy | number | – | – |
| flip | string | – | – |
| scaleX | number | – | Percent; negative flips |
| scaleY | number | – | Percent; negative flips |
| target | object | yes | Which layers to act on. Give ids (from list_layers or a create tool), names, or active: true |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
transform_selection Transform Selection ~86
Move, scale or rotate the selection outline (Select > Transform Selection), or the selected pixels themselves
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| angle | number | – | – |
| dx | number | – | – |
| dy | number | – | – |
| pixels | boolean | – | Transform the selected pixels, not just the outline. Default false |
| scaleX | number | – | Percent |
| scaleY | number | – | Percent |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
trim_image Trim Image ~75
Trim away transparent pixels, or pixels the colour of the top-left or bottom-right corner, from any of the four sides (Image > Trim)
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| basedOn | string | – | Default transparent |
| bottom | boolean | – | – |
| left | boolean | – | – |
| right | boolean | – | – |
| top | boolean | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
undo Undo ~72
Step back (undo) or forward (redo) through the history, or go to a state by index. Undone steps stay available until something new is done
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| steps | integer | – | Positive to undo, negative to redo. Default 1 |
| toIndex | integer | – | Go to this history state instead |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
ungroup_layers Ungroup Layers ~61
Move a group's layers out to where the group was and remove the empty group (Layer > Ungroup Layers)
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| target | object | yes | Which layers to act on. Give ids (from list_layers or a create tool), names, or active: true |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
warp_layers Warp Layers ~149
Warp layers with a preset style (Edit > Transform > Warp): arc, arch, bulge, flag, wave, fisheye, twist and the rest, with bend and horizontal and vertical distortion in percent, horizontal or vertical. Warping a Smart Object stays editable
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| bend | number | – | Percent. Default 50 |
| horizontalDistortion | number | – | Percent. Default 0 |
| orientation | string | – | Default horizontal |
| style | string | yes | – |
| target | object | yes | Which layers to act on. Give ids (from list_layers or a create tool), names, or active: true |
| verticalDistortion | number | – | Percent. Default 0 |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
warp_perspective Warp Perspective ~125
Correct or change a layer's perspective (Edit > Perspective Warp) with one quad: four corners in the image move to four new positions, e.g. to square up a photographed sign. Corners go top-left, top-right, bottom-right, bottom-left, in pixels. Needs the graphics processor enabled
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| from | array | yes | The quad's corners in the image now, [[x, y] x 4] |
| target | object | yes | One layer |
| to | array | yes | Where those corners go, [[x, y] x 4] |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Photoshop MCP Server server?
Photoshop MCP Server runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y adobe-mcp-photoshop. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · adobe-mcp-photoshop
claude mcp add zachshallbetter-adobe-mcp-photoshop -- npx -y adobe-mcp-photoshop
What is the Photoshop MCP Server server?
Photoshop MCP Server is listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.zachshallbetter/adobe-mcp-photoshop. Drive Adobe Photoshop from any MCP client: layers, selections, adjustments, type and export. This page covers its npm package (adobe-mcp-photoshop).
Is the Photoshop MCP Server server safe to use?
Photoshop MCP Server scores 69 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 23 October 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. 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 Photoshop MCP Server server expose?
Photoshop MCP Server exposes 207 tools: list_documents, get_document_info, create_document, open_document, save_document, and 202 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 34,806 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the Photoshop MCP Server server still maintained?
Photoshop MCP Server is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 23 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 Photoshop MCP Server server under?
Photoshop MCP Server declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.