What is the Napkin MCP server?
Napkin AI visual generation MCP server for Model Context Protocol hosts
How to install Napkin
Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.
transport: stdio
Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.Environment / auth
NAPKIN_API_KEYrequiredsecretNapkin AI API key
MCP_WORKSPACE_PATHWorkspace directory for saving generated visuals
NAPKIN_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MSOutbound HTTP request timeout in milliseconds (max 1800000)
Claude Desktop
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-server-napkin": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@mindstone/mcp-server-napkin"
],
"env": {
"NAPKIN_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NAPKIN_API_KEY>",
"MCP_WORKSPACE_PATH": "<YOUR_MCP_WORKSPACE_PATH>",
"NAPKIN_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS": "<YOUR_NAPKIN_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS>"
}
}
}
}Cursor
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-server-napkin": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@mindstone/mcp-server-napkin"
],
"env": {
"NAPKIN_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NAPKIN_API_KEY>",
"MCP_WORKSPACE_PATH": "<YOUR_MCP_WORKSPACE_PATH>",
"NAPKIN_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS": "<YOUR_NAPKIN_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS>"
}
}
}
}Windsurf
~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-server-napkin": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@mindstone/mcp-server-napkin"
],
"env": {
"NAPKIN_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NAPKIN_API_KEY>",
"MCP_WORKSPACE_PATH": "<YOUR_MCP_WORKSPACE_PATH>",
"NAPKIN_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS": "<YOUR_NAPKIN_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS>"
}
}
}
}VS Code
.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"mcp-server-napkin": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@mindstone/mcp-server-napkin"
],
"env": {
"NAPKIN_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NAPKIN_API_KEY>",
"MCP_WORKSPACE_PATH": "<YOUR_MCP_WORKSPACE_PATH>",
"NAPKIN_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS": "<YOUR_NAPKIN_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS>"
}
}
}
}Claude Code
claude mcp add mcp-server-napkin --env NAPKIN_API_KEY=<YOUR_NAPKIN_API_KEY> --env MCP_WORKSPACE_PATH=<YOUR_MCP_WORKSPACE_PATH> --env NAPKIN_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS=<YOUR_NAPKIN_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS> -- npx -y @mindstone/mcp-server-napkinRelated MCP servers
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