ali-flux-mcp

Ali-Flux MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol server for Alibaba Cloud DashScope API

This is a TypeScript-based MCP server that provides functionality to interact with Alibaba Cloud DashScope API for generating images and saving them locally. It demonstrates core MCP concepts by providing:

• Tools for generating images using Alibaba Cloud DashScope API
• Tools for checking task status
• Tools for downloading generated images and saving them locally

Features

Tools

• generate_image - Generate images using Alibaba Cloud DashScope API

  • Takes prompt as required parameter
  • Optional parameters: size, seed, steps
  • Submits image generation task to DashScope API

• check_task_status - Check image generation task status

  • Takes task_id as required parameter
  • Returns the current status of the image generation task

• download_image - Download generated images and save them locally

  • Takes task_id as required parameter
  • Optional parameter: save_path for custom save location (must be an absolute path)
  • Optional parameter: base_dir for resolving relative paths (defaults to WORK_DIR environment variable)
  • Downloads all generated images and saves them to the specified directory

Development

Prerequisites

• Node.js and npm
• Alibaba Cloud DashScope API key

Environment Variables

• DASHSCOPE_API_KEY: Your Alibaba Cloud DashScope API key
• SAVE_DIR: Directory to save generated images (default: ~/Desktop/flux-images)
• MODEL_NAME: DashScope model name (default: flux-merged)
• WORK_DIR: Work directory (default: process.cwd())

Setup

Install dependencies:

npm install

Build the server:

npm run build

For development with auto-rebuild:

npm run watch

Installation

Configuration

To use with Claude Desktop or other MCP-compatible clients, add the server config:

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ali-flux": {
      "command": "/path/to/ali-flux/build/index.js",
      "env": {
        "DASHSCOPE_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here",
        "SAVE_DIR": "/custom/save/path" // Optional
      }
    }
  }
}

Debugging

Since MCP servers communicate over stdio, debugging can be challenging. We recommend using the MCP Inspector, which is available as a package script:

npm run inspector

The Inspector will provide a URL to access debugging tools in your browser.