Codesign MCP server

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CoDesign

The design layer for the agent era.

CoDesign gives your coding agent a real design engine. Generate, edit, and automate fully editable designs — print, social, and video — straight from the chat, then export print-ready PDFs, images, and more. You steer, the agent edits the same scene, and you keep control of the outcome.

It ships as an MCP server (plus a Claude Code plugin) that hands your agent IMG.LY's CE.SDK CreativeEngine — the same production engine behind IMG.LY's commercial SDKs. Every recipe below spawns the published npm package @imgly/codesign-mcp over stdio; no separate install step — npx fetches it on first use.

What you can make

Ask your agent, in plain language:

Story, LinkedIn and X versions."_

• Resize for every channel — _"Take this Instagram post and make the

flat product photo into layers, put the product on our brand background and make it editable."_

• Make an image editable (needs the free IMG.LY sign-in) — _"Split this

design, restyle it with our brand kit, and export A4 and web versions."_

• Restyle an existing PDF — _"Import this datasheet.pdf as an editable

same template, all editable."_

• Generate many from a CSV — _"One speaker card per row in speakers.csv,

bleed and CMYK."_

• Prepare for print — _"Turn this flyer into an A4 print PDF with 3 mm

and venue, export again."_

• Update an existing design — _"Open last year's flyer.psd, swap the date

layout so nothing overflows."_

• Localize a design — _"Translate this poster into German and re-fit the

and brand colors, in X, LinkedIn and OG-image sizes."_

• Create a launch graphic — _"Make the v2.0 launch graphic with our logo

Play Store feature graphic from these five screen captures, on-brand, all sizes."_

• Create App Store graphics — _"Make the App Store screenshots and the

How it works

Three layers, one product:

agent draws on to design well (brand, localize, resize, and quality-check its own output). This is the piece you install.

• The plugin — skills, slash commands, and an embedded design handbook your

preview, export, list, history, …) over MCP, driven by tool calls from any agent host.

• The MCP server (@imgly/codesign-mcp) — exposes the design tools (edit,

does the actual layout, rendering, and export.

• The CE.SDK CreativeEngine — IMG.LY's real, headless design engine that

Licensing

This repository — the Claude Code and Codex plugins, marketplace manifests, skills and documentation — is released under the MIT License. The CoDesign engine itself, distributed as the npm package @imgly/codesign-mcp, is proprietary software from IMG.LY and free to use locally. The full terms ship inside the package as LICENSE.md.

Why a real engine matters

Every other design agent draws on a web canvas — a quick fix that breaks on the hard problems. CoDesign commands a production engine matured over years across print, video, and social:

RGB screen output.

• True print & color fidelity — CMYK, bleed, and ICC profiles, not just

browser or config.

• Deterministic output — renders identically everywhere, independent of

under heavy assets.

• Native performance — a purpose-built engine that stays fast at scale and

Lottie; exports print-ready PDF, image, video, and HTML.

• Full compatibility — imports InDesign, PSD, PowerPoint (PPTX), PDF, and

Requirements & known limitations

Read this first — the failure modes below are silent.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.