MCP Server for Google AI Studio / Gemini API integration with file processing support
If you want an AI assistant working directly with Aistudio, the aistudio mcp server is the bridge. MCP Server for Google AI Studio / Gemini API integration with file processing support.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that integrates with Google AI Studio / Gemini API, providing content generation capabilities with support for files, conversation history, and system prompts.
Once connected, the assistant can call these 3 tools directly:
Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this servergenerate_content — Generates content using Gemini with comprehensive support for files, conversation history, and system prompts. Supports various file types including imagesSetup — The Setup tool exposed by this serverThe server is distributed via npm as aistudio-mcp-server, so most clients can run it without a manual build step. Add it to your MCP client's configuration and restart the client to pick it up — the copy-paste configs for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are on this page.
Before the server will start you need to supply 7 environment variables: GEMINI_API_KEY, GEMINI_MODEL, GEMINI_TIMEOUT, GEMINI_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS, GEMINI_MAX_FILES, GEMINI_MAX_TOTAL_FILE_SIZE, GEMINI_TEMPERATURE. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.
Developer-tool servers are usually the first ones people connect, because they turn "help me with this code" into an assistant that can actually read the repo and act on it. Aistudio sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — Prerequisites, generate_content, Setup — tells you what it is really for. Worth comparing against the other developer tools servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| generate_content | Generates content using Gemini with comprehensive support for files, conversation history, and system prompts. Supports various file types including images, PDFs, Office documents, and text files. |
| Setup | The Setup tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"aistudio": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "aistudio-mcp-server"],
"env": {
"GEMINI_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here",
"GEMINI_MODEL": "gemini-2.5-flash",
"GEMINI_TIMEOUT": "600000",
"GEMINI_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS": "16384",
"GEMINI_MAX_FILES": "10",
"GEMINI_MAX_TOTAL_FILE_SIZE": "50",
"GEMINI_TEMPERATURE": "0.2"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| GEMINI_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| GEMINI_MODEL | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| GEMINI_TIMEOUT | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| GEMINI_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| GEMINI_MAX_FILES | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| GEMINI_MAX_TOTAL_FILE_SIZE | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| GEMINI_TEMPERATURE | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
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