How to Install Cloudinary MCP in OpenAI Agents SDK
Official Cloudinary integration — upload, transform, optimise, and deliver media assets via AI
What Cloudinary MCP does
The official Cloudinary MCP server gives AI agents full access to your media management pipeline — upload, transform, optimise, and deliver images and videos through natural language commands. Features: - Upload images and videos from URLs or file paths - Apply transformations: resize, crop, format convert, quality optimise - Generate responsive image URLs for different breakpoints - AI-powered background removal and object detection - Manage asset folders and metadata - Search assets by tags, context, or visual similarity - Generate delivery URLs with on-the-fly transformations - Analyse image content and generate alt text Use cases: - "Upload this product image and generate responsive sizes for web" - "Remove the background from these 20 product photos" - "Convert all PNG files in folder /marketing to WebP at 80% quality" - "What's in this image?" (AI content analysis) Cloudinary serves 2 million developers and 10,000+ companies including Fiverr, TED, and The Guardian.
Installation steps
- 1Install: pip install openai-agents
- 2Copy the snippet below into your agent code
- 3Replace placeholder env values with your real keys
- 4Pass mcp_servers=[mcp_server] to your Agent()
Python snippet
from agents import Agent
from agents.mcp import MCPServerStdio
mcp_server = MCPServerStdio(
command="npx",
args=["-y", "cloudinary-mcp-server"],
env={
"CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME": "your_cloud",
"CLOUDINARY_API_KEY": "123456789012345",
"CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET": "your_secret",
},
)
agent = Agent(
name="My Agent",
model="gpt-4o",
mcp_servers=[mcp_server],
)Install in other clients
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