Woof is a media management system that keeps your photos exactly where they are — on your own drives — while giving you a beautiful, searchable
Woof is a media management system that keeps your photos exactly where they are — on your own drives — while giving you a beautiful, searchable gallery powered by your AI assistant (Claude Desktop, Goose...). That is what the ouestcharlie woof mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.
args on PyPI is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
The server publishes 4 tools. What each one is for:
macOS — brew install inih brotli gettext (required by pyexiv2 at runtime)Retention — All data remains under your full control. Deleting the XMP sidecars and .ouestcharlie/ folders from your photo library completely removes all WoofFeature — StatusPrerequisites — Python packages of OuEstCharlie Woof are managed by uv and the command uvx. uv might bePython packages of OuEstCharlie Woof are managed by uv and the command uvx. uv might be already available on your system. System prerequisites (all install options): - macOS: brew install inih brotli gettext (required by pyexiv2 at runtime) - Linux/Windows: no extra steps
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. Ouestcharlie Woof's toolset — macOS, Retention, Feature and 1 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by ouestcharlie; 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We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.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 |
|---|---|
| macOS | brew install inih brotli gettext (required by pyexiv2 at runtime) |
| Retention | All data remains under your full control. Deleting the XMP sidecars and .ouestcharlie/ folders from your photo library completely removes all Woof metadata. |
| Feature | Status |
| Prerequisites | Python packages of OuEstCharlie Woof are managed by [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/) and the command uvx. uv might be already available on your system. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"woof": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["--python", "3.13", "--from", "ouestcharlie-woof", "woof-bridge"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
Python packages of OuEstCharlie Woof are managed by uv and the command uvx. uv might be already available on your system. System prerequisites (all install options): - macOS: brew install inih brotli gettext (required by pyexiv2 at runtime) - Linux/Windows: no extra steps
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