Read, manipulate, and export Adobe Illustrator design data. 26 tools. macOS only.
Read, manipulate, and export Adobe Illustrator design data. 26 tools. macOS only. Exposed over MCP by the illustrator mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.
An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for reading, manipulating, and exporting Adobe Illustrator design data — with 63 built-in tools.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
get_document_info — Document metadata (dimensions, color mode, profile, etc.)get_artboards — Artboard information (position, size, orientation)get_layers — Layer structure as a treeget_document_structure — Full tree: layers → groups → objects in one calllist_text_frames — List of text frames (font, size, style name)get_text_frame_detail — All attributes of a specific text frame (kerning, paragraph settings, etc.)get_colors — Color information in use (swatches, gradients, spot colors). include_diagnostics for print analysisget_path_items — Path/shape data (fill, stroke, anchor points)get_groups — Groups, clipping masks, and compound path structureget_effects — Effects and appearance info (opacity, blend mode)get_images — Embedded/linked image info (resolution, broken link detection). include_print_info for color space mismatch & scale factorget_symbols — Symbol definitions and instancesThe server ships on npm as illustrator-mcp-server, 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.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Illustrator's toolset — get_document_info, get_artboards, get_layers and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by ie3jp; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| get_document_info | Document metadata (dimensions, color mode, profile, etc.) |
| get_artboards | Artboard information (position, size, orientation) |
| get_layers | Layer structure as a tree |
| get_document_structure | Full tree: layers → groups → objects in one call |
| list_text_frames | List of text frames (font, size, style name) |
| get_text_frame_detail | All attributes of a specific text frame (kerning, paragraph settings, etc.) |
| get_colors | Color information in use (swatches, gradients, spot colors). include_diagnostics for print analysis |
| get_path_items | Path/shape data (fill, stroke, anchor points) |
| get_groups | Groups, clipping masks, and compound path structure |
| get_effects | Effects and appearance info (opacity, blend mode) |
| get_images | Embedded/linked image info (resolution, broken link detection). include_print_info for color space mismatch & scale factor |
| get_symbols | Symbol definitions and instances |
| get_guidelines | Guide information |
| get_overprint_info | Overprint settings + K100/rich black detection & intent classification |
{
"mcpServers": {
"illustrator": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "illustrator-mcp-server"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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