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MCP Image Tools in Windsurf

Resize, convert, compress and watermark images, pure JavaScript. It reads PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF and TIFF, resizes with inside, cover or exact fit, converts formats, compresses with a byte report, crops, batches thumbnails, strips metadata by re-encoding, and watermarks with the shared business name or custom text.

Twelve tools against Cascade's ceiling of 100, and no network call of any kind, so a server touching client photos costs nothing to leave enabled and sends nothing anywhere.

What you get in Windsurf

You say	Tool
Make this 1200 px wide and under 300 KB.	`image_compress`
Thumbnail these five and watermark them.	`image_thumbnails then image_watermark`
Strip the GPS coordinates before I send this.	`image_strip_metadata`

Quantizing a 300x220 noisy PNG to 16 colours was measured against the original: 115,451 bytes against 39,262, 2.9 times larger, because quantizing destroys the row similarity PNG's own compression depends on. That is why quality only applies to a JPEG output and the extension of out_path picks the codec.

Install it in Windsurf

The file is mcp_config.json, and the key inside it is mcpServers.

Scope	Path
macOS, Windows and Linux	`~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json`

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "image": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@theluckystrike/mcp-image"]
    }
  }
}

Save and reopen the MCP Servers list; Cascade picks it up without restarting the editor.

The npm publish of @theluckystrike/mcp-image is pending; until then use the .mcpb bundle or a clone and build from the latest release.

No install: the hosted endpoint

There is no hosted endpoint for this one yet. MCP Image Tools runs locally over stdio with the config above, which is also the only form in which it reads and writes files on your own disk. Three of the servers in this collection are served at https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/<name> over MCP streamable HTTP: time-tracker, price-tracker and invoice.

Windsurf notes worth knowing first

Read this first: mcp_config.json applies to the legacy Cascade agent only. The Devin Local agent, the default for new tabs, takes its servers from the Devin CLI config files, so a correct entry here can still be invisible in a fresh tab. The other hard number is a cap: Cascade reaches at most 100 tools at once, and every enabled server spends from it.

Free: info, resize, convert, compress, crop and strip-metadata on images up to 4 MP; batches of 5. Pro is $19 once, verified offline.

Questions

Where does Windsurf keep its MCP config?

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, under mcpServers. Reach it from the MCPs icon at the top right of the Cascade panel, or Devin Settings, Cascade, MCP Servers.

I edited the file and a new tab still cannot see MCP Image Tools.

That file applies to the legacy Cascade agent only. The Devin Local agent, the default for new tabs, reads its servers from the Devin CLI config files instead. Check which agent the tab runs.

How many servers can I load at once?

Cascade reaches at most 100 tools at any one time, and every enabled server spends from that single budget. MCP Image Tools contributes 12 tools, so keep the enabled list short rather than counting servers.

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