Nano Banana

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add mcp-server-nano-banana -e GEMINI_API_KEY=... -e MCP_WORKSPACE_PATH=... -e NANO_BANANA_GEMINI_TIMEOUT_MS=... -e NANO_BANANA_BRIDGE_TIMEOUT_MS=... -- npx -y @mindstone/mcp-server-nano-banana

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-nano-banana": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mindstone/mcp-server-nano-banana"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GEMINI_API_KEY": "...",
        "MCP_WORKSPACE_PATH": "...",
        "NANO_BANANA_GEMINI_TIMEOUT_MS": "...",
        "NANO_BANANA_BRIDGE_TIMEOUT_MS": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

Nano Banana MCP server — Google Gemini image generation and editing via Model Context Protocol

Questions

Nano Banana is a local MCP server distributed as the npm package @mindstone/mcp-server-nano-banana.

Run: claude mcp add mcp-server-nano-banana -e GEMINI_API_KEY=... -e MCP_WORKSPACE_PATH=... -e NANO_BANANA_GEMINI_TIMEOUT_MS=... -e NANO_BANANA_BRIDGE_TIMEOUT_MS=... -- npx -y @mindstone/mcp-server-nano-banana

Run: codex mcp add mcp-server-nano-banana --env GEMINI_API_KEY=... --env MCP_WORKSPACE_PATH=... --env NANO_BANANA_GEMINI_TIMEOUT_MS=... --env NANO_BANANA_BRIDGE_TIMEOUT_MS=... -- npx -y @mindstone/mcp-server-nano-banana

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