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title: "codesign"
description: "CoDesign gives AI agents like Claude Code, Codex and PI a real design engine for genuine, editable designs, not flat images. Bring in what you have: InDesign, Photoshop, PowerPoint and PDF files stay editable. Exports pr"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/codesign
last-updated: 2026-09-21
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# codesign
CoDesign gives AI agents like Claude Code, Codex and PI a real design engine for genuine, editable designs, not flat images. Bring in what you have: InDesign, Photoshop, PowerPoint and PDF files stay editable. Exports print-ready PDFs with CMYK and bleed. Every design opens in a built-in editor for manual fixes. Runs on your machine, no account.
- Slug: codesign
- Publisher: IMG.LY GmbH
- Repository: https://github.com/imgly/codesign
- Manifest: plugins/codesign/plugin.json
- Version: 0.1.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 2 (layerize, video-thumbnail-template)
- MCP servers: 1 (codesign)
- Stars: 35
- Repository created: 2026-07-21
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-18
- Publisher type: Organization
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/codesign
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What codesign does, in the publisher's words

The design layer for the agent era.

CoDesign gives your coding agent a real design engine. Generate, edit, and automate fully editable designs, print, social, and video, straight from the chat, then export print-ready PDFs, images, and more. You steer, the agent edits the same scene, and you keep control of the outcome.

It ships as an MCP server (plus a Claude Code plugin) that hands your agent IMG.LY's CE.SDK CreativeEngine: the same production engine behind IMG.LY's commercial SDKs. Every recipe below spawns the published npm package @imgly/codesign-mcp over stdio; no separate install step, npx fetches it on first use.

- Resize for every channel: "Take this Instagram post and make the Story, LinkedIn and X versions."
- Make an image editable (needs the free IMG.LY sign-in): "Split this flat product photo into layers, put the product on our brand background and make it editable."

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/imgly/codesign/HEAD/README.md

## Skills

- layerize: Use when rebuilding a flat raster image, an ad, banner, social post, poster or other creative (PNG / JPEG / WebP), as an editable, layered CoDesign design or `.imgly` file; when asked to layerize, decompose, de-flatten or "make editable" an image; or when splitting an image into separate layers wit…
- video-thumbnail-template: Use when building a reusable thumbnail template and design guideline for a video channel (YouTube and other 16:9 video platforms), from a channel link whose latest thumbnails set the style, from one or more example thumbnails or designs, or from scratch; or when making new thumbnails from such a te…

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.

## MCP servers

- codesign: transport: stdio; command: npx -y @imgly/codesign-mcp@latest stdio

Read from the plugin's own mcp.json. Environment variable names only, never values.