Install multimodal for Claude Desktop
Claude Desktop reads mcpServers from claude_desktop_config.json. Restart the app after saving.
- Open ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS, %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json on Windows, or ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on Linux.
- Paste the JSON config below.
- Replace placeholder secrets, then restart the client if it does not reload on its own.
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"rsmdt-multimodal-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@r16t/multimodal-mcp@1.3.1"
],
"env": {
"OPENAI_API_KEY": "YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY",
"XAI_API_KEY": "YOUR_XAI_API_KEY",
"GEMINI_API_KEY": "YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY",
"ELEVENLABS_API_KEY": "YOUR_ELEVENLABS_API_KEY",
"BFL_API_KEY": "YOUR_BFL_API_KEY",
"MEDIA_OUTPUT_DIR": ""
}
}
}
}