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visual-aid

v0.1.2

Published

Visual AId MCP server for launching the desktop app and rendering structured artifacts over MCP.

Downloads

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Links

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Maintainers

mantonimantoni

Keywords

mcpmodel-context-protocolvisualizationagents

Readme

visual-aid

visual-aid is the publishable MCP server package for Visual AId.

It exposes the visual-aid.status, visual-aid.open, visual-aid.show, and visual-aid.clear MCP tools over stdio so an MCP client can launch the desktop app and render structured content.

Project homepage: https://github.com/mantoni/visual-aid

Install

npm install -g visual-aid

Or run it on demand:

npx -y visual-aid

Requirements

  • Visual AId desktop app installed locally, or
  • a local source checkout with build artifacts discoverable by the server, or
  • VISUAL_AID_APP_PATH / VISUAL_AID_OPEN_COMMAND configured explicitly

Codex Config

[mcp_servers.visual-aid]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "visual-aid"]

Environment

  • VISUAL_AID_SESSION_PATH: session file override
  • VISUAL_AID_WORKSPACE_CWD: workspace identity override
  • VISUAL_AID_REGISTRY_PATH: shared workspace registry override
  • VISUAL_AID_OPEN_COMMAND: explicit launch command
  • VISUAL_AID_APP_PATH: explicit app bundle or executable path
  • VISUAL_AID_PREFER_DEBUG_APP: prefer the local debug build when the dev server is live
  • VISUAL_AID_DEV_SERVER_URL: override the dev-server probe URL used for debug-build detection