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Summary
Upload images and videos to Cloudinary and get a public URL, search and organize your media library, generate AI images and build transformations from Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot through Cloudinary's official MCP server.
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Example prompts for Cloudinary
Click any prompt to copy it. Paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot or OpenClaw to run it against this connector.
Claude is AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.
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Cloudinary + Claude
Upload images and videos to Cloudinary and get a public URL, search and organize your media library, generate AI images and build transformations from Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot through Cloudinary's official MCP server.
Prerequisites
See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:
(none: you sign in with Cloudinary after installing)
Step 1 — Sign in with Cloudinary
Cloudinary runs its own official remote MCP server for the media library, the Asset Management MCP server at https://asset-management.mcp.cloudinary.com/mcp. This connector bridges it: the tools are Cloudinary's, and AnythingMCP puts them behind your AnythingMCP server with OAuth for Claude and ChatGPT, per-tool roles and the audit log.
- Install the connector. There is nothing to paste: no API key, client ID or secret.
- On the connector page click Authorize with Provider. AnythingMCP registers itself with Cloudinary and sends you to the Cloudinary sign-in. There is no redirect URI to set up.
- Sign in, choose the product environment (cloud) the AI should use and approve. Back in AnythingMCP the tool list is reloaded from Cloudinary's server. Cloudinary adds tools over time: Discover tools on the connector picks up new ones.
- To check it works, run
cloudinary_get_usage_details. It shows credits, storage and bandwidth against your plan.
What it is for: many APIs only take a file by public URL; Instagram and Facebook publishing, for example. cloudinary_upload_asset takes a public URL, a Base64 data URI or a private S3 or Google Cloud Storage path and returns secure_url, an HTTPS link anyone can fetch. Instagram wants JPEG, so links for it use f_jpg rather than f_auto.
Whose access it is: the person who signs in is the Cloudinary user for everyone who uses this connector, in the product environment picked at sign-in. For a shared connector, sign in with a Cloudinary user whose role only covers what the AI should do. To switch environments, click Authorize with Provider again and pick another one.
Public by default: a file uploaded with the default delivery type upload is public to anyone who has its URL. For confidential files, set type to authenticated or private, or use access_control; those links then need a signature and are no use to an API that fetches by URL.
Switched off at install: cloudinary_delete_asset, cloudinary_delete_derived_assets, cloudinary_delete_folder and cloudinary_delete_asset_relations. Uploads, renames, tag and metadata changes stay on. cloudinary_asset_rename changes an asset's URL, so links already handed out stop working.
Plan: the free Cloudinary plan works. AI images (cloudinary_generate_image, cloudinary_generate_image_from_images) need the Image Generation add-on and use credits. The AI cannot read files on your computer; cloudinary_sign_upload returns signed parameters for posting such a file straight to Cloudinary.
Without sign-in: Cloudinary's server also accepts the API key. In the connector's settings switch authentication to API key, set the header name to cloudinary-url and paste the API environment variable from Settings, API Keys in the Cloudinary Console (cloudinary://<api_key>:<api_secret>@<cloud_name>).
Cloudinary's other MCP servers, for environment configuration (upload presets, named transformations, webhooks), structured metadata and media analysis, are not part of this connector; add them as custom MCP connectors if you need them.
Step 2 — Install the adapter
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d
Step 3 — Add the connector in Claude
Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide showsYOUR_SERVER_ID.
Recommended path: works on claude.ai web without editing any config file.
- In Claude, open Customize → Connectors.
- Click +, then Add custom connector.
- Enter a name, e.g.
Cloudinary, and the remote MCP server URLhttps://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID, then click Add. - Click Connect and sign in to AnythingMCP (OAuth) to allow access.
All tools below appear in your chat: start typing prompts.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
cloudinary_upload_asset | Upload an image, video or other file to Cloudinary from a public HTTP(S) URL, a Base64 data URI, an FTP address or a private S3 or Google… |
cloudinary_asset_rename | Rename an asset by changing its public ID (and optionally its delivery type) |
cloudinary_generate_archive | Create a ZIP or TGZ archive of selected assets (by public IDs, tags or prefix) and return the archive's download URL |
cloudinary_download_asset_backup | Download a backed-up version of an asset by its asset ID and version ID |
cloudinary_delete_asset | Delete an asset permanently by its asset ID, optionally invalidating the CDN cache |
cloudinary_list_images | List image assets, filtered by delivery type, public ID prefix, public IDs or tag, newest or oldest first, with cursor pagination… |
cloudinary_list_videos | List video assets, filtered by delivery type, public ID prefix, public IDs or tag, newest or oldest first, with cursor pagination… |
cloudinary_list_files | List raw files (PDFs, documents, archives and other non-media files), filtered by delivery type, public ID prefix, public IDs or tag, with… |
cloudinary_get_asset_details | Get one asset by its asset ID: public ID, delivery URLs, format, size, dimensions, tags and metadata, plus on request colors, faces… |
cloudinary_asset_update | Update an asset by its asset ID: display name, asset folder, tags, contextual and structured metadata, access control, moderation status… |
cloudinary_list_tags | List the tags used on images, videos or raw files, optionally only those starting with a prefix, with cursor pagination |
cloudinary_delete_derived_assets | Delete derived (transformed) versions of assets by derived resource ID; the originals stay |
cloudinary_manage_asset_tags | Add, remove, replace or clear tags on several assets at once, addressed by public ID |
cloudinary_manage_asset_context | Add or clear contextual metadata (key-value pairs such as alt text or caption) on several assets, addressed by public ID |
cloudinary_manage_asset_metadata | Set structured metadata field values on several assets, addressed by public ID |
cloudinary_get_usage_details | Report the product environment's usage against its plan: credits, storage, bandwidth, transformations, requests, asset counts and add-on… |
cloudinary_create_asset_relations | Relate an asset to other assets by asset ID, for example a product photo to its variants, so they can be found together |
cloudinary_delete_asset_relations | Remove the relations between an asset and other assets by asset ID; the assets themselves stay |
cloudinary_move_folder | Rename or move an asset folder, with all the assets it contains, to a new path |
cloudinary_create_folder | Create an empty asset folder at a path, for example products/2026 |
cloudinary_delete_folder | Delete an asset folder by its path |
cloudinary_search_folders | Search asset folders by name, path or creation date with a Lucene-like expression; returns up to 2,000 folders |
cloudinary_search_assets | Search assets with Cloudinary's Lucene-like expression language (tags, folder, format, size, dimensions, dates, structured and contextual… |
cloudinary_visual_search_assets | Find images in the library that look like a given image (by URL or asset ID) or that match a text description |
cloudinary_generate_image | Generate an image from a text prompt with Cloudinary's Image Generation add-on and store it in the product environment, so it has a public… |
cloudinary_generate_image_from_images | Generate an image guided by one or more reference images (stored assets or HTTPS URLs) and a prompt: restyle, on-brand variants, consistent… |
cloudinary_get_generation_task | Get the status and, once finished, the result of an image generation task started with cloudinary_generate_image or… |
cloudinary_get_tx_reference | Return Cloudinary's transformation reference: the parameters and syntax rules for transformation strings and transformed delivery URLs |
cloudinary_transform_asset | Create derived versions of an existing asset with a transformation string (for example c_fill,w_1080,h_1080/f_auto/q_auto) through the… |
cloudinary_sign_upload | Sign Upload API parameters so a file on the user's own machine can be posted straight to Cloudinary |
Example prompts
- "Upload the product photo from this link to the products/2026 folder, tag it summer and give me the public URL."
- "Find all images tagged summer that were uploaded in the last week and list their public IDs and file sizes."
- "How much of our Cloudinary plan have we used so far in credits, storage and bandwidth?"
- "Make a square 1080 by 1080 JPEG link of our latest hero banner for Instagram and show it to me before I post it."
FAQ
Does it work with Claude Code as well as Claude Desktop? Yes, point both at https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID.
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