Integrates Flux's image generation capabilities into AI coding assistants, enabling image generation, manipulation, and control directly within IDEs.
If you already use Flux Studio, the flux studio mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. Integrates Flux's image generation capabilities into AI coding assistants, enabling image generation, manipulation, and control directly within IDEs.
MCP server that wraps the Flux image generation API. Exposes text-to-image, image-to-image, inpainting, and structural control (canny/depth/pose) as MCP tools over stdio. The server itself is TypeScript; it shells out to a Python CLI (fluxcli.py) for actual API calls.
The server ships on npm as @smithery/cli, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
generate — promptimg2img — image, prompt, nameinpaint — image, promptcontrol — type (canny/depth/pose), image, promptManual — The Manual tool exposed by this serverConfiguration is passed through the environment: BFL_API_KEY, FLUX_PATH. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
This sits in the AI and media services group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Flux Studio's toolset — generate, img2img, inpaint and 2 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by jmanhype; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Flux Studio's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| generate | prompt |
| img2img | image, prompt, name |
| inpaint | image, prompt |
| control | type (canny/depth/pose), image, prompt |
| Manual | The Manual tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"flux-studio": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@smithery/cli"],
"env": {
"BFL_API_KEY": "your-value",
"FLUX_PATH": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| BFL_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| FLUX_PATH | Filesystem location the server is allowed to use. | Optional |
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