spritecook-mcp

Connect your AI agent (Cursor, VS Code, Claude Desktop, Claude Code) to SpriteCook for AI-powered pixel art and game asset generation.

What You Get

After setup, your AI agent can generate pixel art and game assets directly:

"Generate a 64x64 pixel art sword sprite"

"Create a character sprite sheet for my platformer game"

"Make a set of potion icons with transparent backgrounds"

"Use my character preset for a new idle sprite"

"Import this local boss PNG, then animate it with a slow idle motion"

"Remove the background from this character asset and give me the transparent PNG"

"Rename the generated sword asset to Iron Sword Pickup"

Environment Variables

• SPRITECOOK_API_URL - Override the API base URL (for local development)

Links

• SpriteCook - AI game asset generator
• API Documentation - Full API reference
• Get API Key - Sign up and manage API keys

Quick Setup

npx spritecook-mcp setup

This will:

1. Authenticate your SpriteCook account (browser-based or manual API key)
2. Detect your editors (Cursor, VS Code, Claude Desktop, Claude Code)
3. Configure MCP connections automatically
4. Install an optional agent skill for smarter AI integration

The optional skills include current guidance for model discovery, GPT-Image-2 quality settings, guided character workflows, saved presets, multi-image style guide references, importing local image bytes with import_asset(...), cleaning up backgrounds with remove_background(...), renaming assets with update_asset_label(...), recovering lost asset IDs with list_recent_assets(...), using the primary asset URL instead of lower-level variant fields, and exporting SpriteCook character animations into Godot-ready scenes.

Manual Configuration

If you prefer to configure manually, add this to your editor's MCP config:

Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "spritecook": {
      "url": "https://api.spritecook.ai/mcp/",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

VS Code (.vscode/settings.json):

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "spritecook": {
        "type": "http",
        "url": "https://api.spritecook.ai/mcp/",
        "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
      }
    }
  }
}