jl-image-vison

MCP server for image understanding — structured description of UI designs, HTML pages, and visual layouts, powered by Agnes 2.0 Flash.

Tool: describe_image

Analyse an image and return a richly structured breakdown — layout hierarchy, UI components, readable text, interactions, design notes, and accessibility observations. Optimised for UI mockups, Figma exports, HTML/CSS screenshots, dashboards, and app interfaces.

Input

Output

• content[0].text — the full structured description (markdown).

• structuredContent — machine-readable fields: summary, description, model, tokens.

Related MCP server: Vison-MCP

Setup

npm install
npm run build

Configuration

Environment variables (all optional except AGNES_API_KEY at runtime):

Get an API key from the Agnes AI developer console.

Connect to a host

Claude Code / Claude Desktop (stdio)

Add to your MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "image-vison": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["D:/my/oss/jl_image-vison-mcp/dist/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "AGNES_API_KEY": "sk-your-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Any MCP client via npx

AGNES_API_KEY=sk-your-key npx tsx src/index.ts

Develop

npm run dev        # run with tsx (no build step)
npm run typecheck  # type-check only
npm run build      # compile to dist/
npm run inspect    # launch MCP Inspector for interactive testing

Limitations (v0.2)

• Single image — one image per call. Multi-image comparison is not yet supported.

• Agnes 2.0 Flash only — first release supports only this model.

• Local file size limit — 10 MB per image (Agnes payload limit).

• Claude Code pasted images — when you paste an image into Claude Code, it may pass a file path or a data URL; both are now supported. If you get a "Cannot read file" error, the path Claude Code passed doesn't exist on the server's filesystem — upload to a public URL instead.