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pixelart-mcp

A local MCP server for creating pixel art — no paid software, no external apps. Canvases are ordinary PNG files on disk, edited with Pillow. One canvas pixel is one image pixel; exports upscale with nearest-neighbor so pixels stay crisp.

Tools

Drawing

Tool

Purpose

pixel_create_canvas

New PNG canvas (up to 1024x1024), any background or transparent

pixel_draw_pixels

Batch-set individual pixels, per-point colors supported

pixel_draw_line / pixel_draw_rect / pixel_draw_ellipse

Shape primitives, filled or outlined

pixel_flood_fill

Paint-bucket fill of a contiguous region

pixel_replace_color

Exact-match palette swap across the canvas

pixel_apply_palette

Snap all colors to the nearest entry of a given palette

pixel_outline_sprite

Auto 1px outline around opaque art

Canvas surgery

Tool

Purpose

pixel_copy_region

Copy/composite a rect within or between canvases (over / replace)

pixel_shift_canvas

Shift art by (dx, dy), optionally wrapping at edges

pixel_resize_canvas

Grow/crop canvas bounds with a 9-way anchor, art unscaled

pixel_scale_canvas

Nearest-neighbor rescale (squash-and-stretch friendly)

pixel_transform_canvas

Flip / rotate the whole canvas

Animation

Tool

Purpose

pixel_duplicate_canvas

Start the next frame from the current one

pixel_onion_view

Current frame over faded ghosts of up to 3 earlier frames

pixel_view_frames

Filmstrip contact sheet of many frames in one image

pixel_export_gif

Looping GIF with per-frame durations and ping-pong mode

pixel_export_spritesheet

Pack frames into a grid PNG for game engines

pixel_slice_spritesheet

Split an existing sheet back into frame canvases

Inspection & export

Tool

Purpose

pixel_view_canvas

Render the canvas as an image the model can see

pixel_canvas_info

Dimensions + palette report without rendering

pixel_export_png

Nearest-neighbor upscaled PNG export

Mutating tools accept preview: true to return a rendered image of the result in the same call. Colors are hex (#1a1c2c, #1a1c2cff), CSS names (crimson), or transparent (which erases).

Related MCP server: Pixel Art MCP

Setup

Requires uv. Register with Claude Code:

claude mcp add pixelart -s user -- uv --directory /path/to/pixelart-mcp run -m pixelart_mcp

Or in any MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pixelart": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": ["--directory", "/path/to/pixelart-mcp", "run", "-m", "pixelart_mcp"]
    }
  }
}
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