codesign
v0.5.1by imgly · author: IMG.LY GmbH
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 PDFs (CMYK, bleed) and videos. Every design opens in a built-in editor for manual fixes. Runs on your machine, no account.
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 · Open the README on GitHub
- Skills
- 14
- MCP servers
- 1
- Stars
- 43
- License
- MIT
- Repo created
- 2026-07-21
- Last pushed
- 2026-11-01
- Publisher type
- Organization
- Version
- 0.5.1
Links
Skills · 14
- animate
- api
- brand
- create
- formats
- handbook
- judge
- launch-video
- 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…
- localize
- models
- onboard
- resize
- 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 · 1
- codesignstdio
- npx -y @imgly/codesign-mcp@latest stdio
Read from the plugin's own mcp.json. We list environment variable names, never values.
Category
Other. Assigned by this directory. Agent Plugins 1.0.0 has no category field, so no manifest declares one.
Keywords
ai-agents · brand · claude-code · codex · design · design-automation · design-tools · gemini-cli-extension · graphic-design · imgly · local-first · mcp · mcp-server · model-context-protocol · nodejs · pdf-tools · print · video-editing · video-processing
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