nanobanana-mcp-server

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add nanobanana-mcp-server -e GEMINI_API_KEY=... -e IMAGE_OUTPUT_DIR=... -- uvx nanobanana-mcp-server

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": {
    "nanobanana-mcp-server": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "nanobanana-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GEMINI_API_KEY": "...",
        "IMAGE_OUTPUT_DIR": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

An MCP server that provides image generation and editing capabilities

Questions

nanobanana-mcp-server is a local MCP server distributed as the pypi package nanobanana-mcp-server.

Run: claude mcp add nanobanana-mcp-server -e GEMINI_API_KEY=... -e IMAGE_OUTPUT_DIR=... -- uvx nanobanana-mcp-server

Run: codex mcp add nanobanana-mcp-server --env GEMINI_API_KEY=... --env IMAGE_OUTPUT_DIR=... -- uvx nanobanana-mcp-server

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