Click on "Deploy Server".
Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.
In the chat, type @ followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@Pixelbolt MCP Server make a 16x16 green slime with a 4-frame idle bounce and export a sprite sheet PNG"
That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.
Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.
Make pixel art with Claude: sprites, sprite sheets, tiles, icons, particle and fluid effects and short animations, from editable JSON recipes, exported as PNG, GIF, APNG or video frames. Pixelbolt renders exactly what the recipe says; it contains no AI model and generates nothing on its own. This plugin gives Claude Pixelbolt's MCP tools and its pixel-art skill.
This repository is Pixelbolt's Claude Code plugin with the Pixelbolt runtime it starts (the files Pixelbolt's npm package ships), synced from skulitom/Pixelbolt, where the source, docs and releases live. It needs only Node.js 20 or later: no account, no API key and no other dependencies.
claude plugin install pixelbolt --marketplace skulitom/pixelbolt-pluginOr inside Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add skulitom/pixelbolt-plugin, then /plugin install pixelbolt@pixelbolt.
If you already added the pixelbolt marketplace from skulitom/Pixelbolt, keep using it, or remove it first
(claude plugin marketplace remove pixelbolt): both have that name and hold the same plugin.
Then restart Claude Code in your project folder and ask in your own words, for example:
"Make me a 16x16 pixel-art green slime with a 4-frame idle bounce, and export it as a sprite sheet PNG I can drop into my Godot project."
"In the blink frame of my hero sprite, the pixel at x 9, y 7 should be black but it's white. Fix just that pixel."
"Make a small looping pixel-art campfire with flickering flames and smoke, as a GIF."
Related MCP server: Aseprite MCP Tools
What it runs: the plugin starts node <this plugin's folder>/bin/pixelbolt.js mcp, running in your project
folder. Nothing is downloaded or installed. The skill may also have Claude run Pixelbolt's command-line tool
(node bin/pixelbolt.js validate|inspect|render|gif|preview, from the same folder) through its shell, writing where
Claude tells it to; preview serves the studio pages on 127.0.0.1 only and, with --open, opens them in your
browser.
What the MCP server reads and writes: only files under the folder you opened in Claude Code. It reads the recipes and PNGs
you name there, saves recipe revisions in output/.revisions/, and writes each export into a new folder under
output/.
What it sends: nothing. The MCP server uses no network and no external service.
What else is here: studio/ and src/server.js are that preview studio; the MCP server never starts it. examples/ and docs/
are recipes and guides the tools can point to. evals/ holds test cases with mocked replies for
claude plugin eval; Claude Code never loads them when you use the plugin.
MIT. See LICENSE. Privacy: it runs on your computer and sends nothing. Report a security problem privately, as SECURITY.md says.
This server cannot be deployed
Generate, edit, style-match, turn, and animate game-ready pixel art at exact sizes.
Generate pixel art sprites, animations, 8-direction rotations and palettes for games.
Generate authentic pixel art - sprites, animations, and tilesets - from any MCP client
Free pixel and tileset editor, no account: hand-edit sprites, animations and Wang tilesets in chat