# Immich Photo Manager (MCP server)

> 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.

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.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/drolosoft/immich-photo-manager |
| GitHub stars | 51 |
| License | MIT |
| Language | Python |
| Transport | stdio |
| Packages | pypi: immich-photo-manager |
| Remote URL | none |
| Needs API key | yes |
| Official | yes |
| Works with | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code |
| Category | Other |
| Latest release | v2.0.13 (Oct 6, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 5, 2026 |
| MCP registry name | io.github.drolosoft/immich-photo-manager |

## Install

### Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

```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

```sh
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)

```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)

```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 2026-10-07.

## Environment variables

- `IMMICH_BASE_URL` (required): URL of your Immich server, for example https://photos.example.com
- `IMMICH_API_KEY` (secret) (required): Immich API key (Account Settings, API Keys). Both variables can also be set later from the client with the update_credentials tool.

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