I Built an Image Generation MCP for Claude Code — Gemini, OpenAI, and FLUX in One Place

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Why I built this I use Claude Code as my primary de environment. Code, review, deploy - almost everything happens inside Claude Code. But there was one thing that kept pulling me out: generating images. Every time I needed a diagram or an illustration, I'd switch to Google AI Studio, rewrite the prompt without the original context, and manually save the result back into my project. About 30 times a day. So I built mcp-imagenate, an MCP server that brings image generation directly into Claude Code and Claude Desktop. It hit 1,000 downloads on npm within 4 days of release.