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Illustrator MCP Server

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Drive Adobe Illustrator from any MCP client: artboards, layers, shapes, text, colour and export.

v0.8.0MITJavaScript
Freeno charge per call
How to install

Runs on your machine from its package; the steps are below.

What it does

  1. Reads
  2. Writes
  3. High impact

Not assessed yet.

What it costs

Free

Odel charges nothing per call. The publisher may charge for its own service.

Runs locally over stdio

This server isn't hosted — your MCP client launches it from a package registry. Use one of the commands below, or drop the config into your client (e.g. Claude Desktop).

npmadobe-mcp-illustratorv0.8.0

Run

npx -y adobe-mcp-illustrator

MCP client config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "illustrator-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "adobe-mcp-illustrator"
      ]
    }
  }
}
README2 min read

adobe-mcp

MCP servers for Adobe applications. Install one application's server on its own, or the suite: one server for every application, with tools that work across them.

The InDesign server was published as indesign-mcp-server up to 2.3.0. It is now adobe-mcp-indesign, with the same tools; replace the package name in your client configuration.

PackageWhat it drivesnpm
adobe-mcp-indesignAdobe InDesign: documents, pages, text, styles, tables, books, PDF and EPUB export (137 tools)adobe-mcp-indesign
adobe-mcp-illustratorAdobe Illustrator: artboards, layers, shapes and paths, text, colour and swatches, path operations, pathfinder, effects, blends, export, prepress and printing, data-driven graphics (103 tools)adobe-mcp-illustrator
adobe-mcp-suiteInDesign and Illustrator in one server, plus cross-application tools: Illustrator artwork into InDesign layouts, swatches with exact valuesadobe-mcp-suite
adobe-mcp-coreThe shared foundation: script escaping, the script runner, the server shell and the static script auditadobe-mcp-core

Each server runs on the machine where the Adobe application is installed and talks to it through ExtendScript, the scripting interface the applications ship with. macOS and Windows are supported.

Install one application

Claude Code:

bash
claude mcp add indesign -- npx -y adobe-mcp-indesign
bash
claude mcp add illustrator -- npx -y adobe-mcp-illustrator

Any client that reads an mcpServers block:

json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "indesign": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "adobe-mcp-indesign"] },
    "illustrator": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "adobe-mcp-illustrator"] }
  }
}

Install everything

bash
claude mcp add adobe -- npx -y adobe-mcp-suite

The suite offers every application's tools, prefixed with the application (indesign_…, illustrator_…), and the cross-application tools. Load only some applications with --apps indesign or ADOBE_MCP_APPS.

Each package's README covers its tools, conventions and configuration.

How the repository is organised

packages/
  core/          adobe-mcp-core           shared by every server
  indesign/      adobe-mcp-indesign
  illustrator/   adobe-mcp-illustrator
  suite/         adobe-mcp-suite          every application in one server

The servers share their infrastructure through adobe-mcp-core, so a fix to escaping, path checks, result handling or the script runner reaches every server. What differs between applications stays in each package: its tools, its instructions, and how the application is told to run a script. Each application package exports a module (its tools, handlers, instructions and script runner); its own server and the suite are both built from it, so a tool is written once.

Development

bash
npm install      # installs every package and links them together
npm run check    # syntax check, every package
npm test         # every package's tests, including each server's static script audit

Run one package's tests with npm test -w packages/illustrator. The static audits run every tool against a stubbed application and check each generated script against the application's scripting object model; they do not need InDesign or Illustrator installed.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for releasing and for each package's guide.

Licence

MIT. See each package's LICENSE.

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