Illustrator MCP Server

_Forked from @spencerhhuberg/illustrator-mcp-server_

Adobe Illustrator is compatible with JavaScript. In fact, some super big stuff you need to programmatically generate with these scripts. Bots are good at JavaScript.

This MCP server let's bots send scripts straight to Illustrator and look at the result.

Since it depends on AppleScript, it's only compatible with MacOS. and I've only tested it with Claude Desktop. ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "illustrator": {
            "command": "uv",
            "args": [
                "--directory",
                "/Users/you/code/mcp/illustrator-mcp-server",
                "run",
                "illustrator"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Testing

To view logs (when connected to Claude Desktop):

tail -n 20 -F ~/Library/Logs/Claude/mcp*.log

Test this MCP server interactively with inspector:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector -- uv run illustrator

Run some code in Illustrator with:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector --cli uv run illustrator --method tools/call --tool-name run --tool-arg code='log("hi")'