Cascade MCP Server

LLM-operable Midjourney pipeline: 21 MCP tools to compose, generate, curate with vision, and log.

Local serverstdioPython

What is the Cascade MCP server?

Connect Cascade to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. LLM-operable Midjourney pipeline: 21 MCP tools to compose, generate, curate with vision, and log. The cascade mcp server is what makes that connection.

What the server does

Generate Midjourney images by conversation instead of by hand. You describe what you want; your AI assistant composes the prompt, fires it, inspects the grid with vision, crops the best quadrant, cleans it up, and logs what worked.

Available tools

The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:

  • Category — Tools
  • Onboarding — cascade_guide
  • Generation — imagine, generate_video, wait, status, bridge_health, mj_action
  • Catch-up — channel_recent, adopt_message
  • Composition — compose_prompt, compose_video
  • Curation — crop_grid, alpha_key, auto_trim, palette_quantize, contact_sheet, sprite_sheet, score_grid, video_filmstrip, loop_seam_delta, promote

Installation

cascade-img on PyPI is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.

Where it fits

Among the AI and media services options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Cascade's toolset — Category, Onboarding, Generation and 3 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by laffeyp; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.

Worth knowing first

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
CategoryTools
Onboardingcascade_guide
Generationimagine, generate_video, wait, status, bridge_health, mj_action
Catch-upchannel_recent, adopt_message
Compositioncompose_prompt, compose_video
Curationcrop_grid, alpha_key, auto_trim, palette_quantize, contact_sheet, sprite_sheet, score_grid, video_filmstrip, loop_seam_delta, promote

How to install the Cascade MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cascade-img": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["cascade-img"]
    }
  }
}

Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.

Example prompts to try

  • Use Cascade to Category.
  • Use Cascade to Onboarding.
  • Use Cascade to Generation.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Cascade to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 6 tools (Category, Onboarding, Generation, and more) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Cascade directly.