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Immich Photo Manager

Immich Photo Manager is an MCP server that adds tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Photo management for self-hosted Immich: search, albums, duplicates, faces, PDF reports. It has 51 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx immich-photo-manager.

github.com/drolosoft/immich-photo-manager (opens in a new tab)

  • Official
  • Needs API key
  • Other
  • MIT
  • Actively maintained
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Install Immich Photo Manager

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "immich-photo-manager": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "immich-photo-manager"
      ],
      "env": {
        "IMMICH_BASE_URL": "your-value",
        "IMMICH_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env IMMICH_BASE_URL=your-value --env IMMICH_API_KEY=your-value --transport stdio immich-photo-manager -- uvx immich-photo-manager

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "immich-photo-manager": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "immich-photo-manager"
      ],
      "env": {
        "IMMICH_BASE_URL": "your-value",
        "IMMICH_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "immich_api_key",
      "description": "IMMICH_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "immich-photo-manager": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "immich-photo-manager"
      ],
      "env": {
        "IMMICH_BASE_URL": "your-value",
        "IMMICH_API_KEY": "${input:immich_api_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
IMMICH_BASE_URLYesURL of your Immich server, for example https://photos.example.com
IMMICH_API_KEYsecretYesImmich API key (Account Settings, API Keys). Both variables can also be set later from the client with the update_credentials tool.

About Immich Photo Manager

MCP server for intelligent photo management with Immich: your self-hosted library, understood. An unofficial community plugin by Drolosoft. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Immich or FUTO; "Immich" is their name and is used here only to say which server the plugin works with. It talks to your Immich server through its public API.

  • albums
  • claude
  • claude-plugin
  • cleanup
  • duplicates
  • gallery
  • geolocation
  • immich
  • mcp
  • mcp-server

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What is Immich Photo Manager?

Immich Photo Manager is an MCP server that adds tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Photo management for self-hosted Immich: search, albums, duplicates, faces, PDF reports. It has 51 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx immich-photo-manager. The source code is at github.com/drolosoft/immich-photo-manager.

How do I install the Immich Photo Manager MCP server?

Add the command uvx immich-photo-manager to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Immich Photo Manager free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It needs credentials (IMMICH_API_KEY) for the service it connects to, which may require a paid account.

Is Immich Photo Manager actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 5, 2026. The latest release is v2.0.13, published Oct 6, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.