royerlab/napari-mcp

🔬 MCP server for AI-powered napari control. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other LLMs to napari for interactive image analysis. Perfect for automating microscopy workflows and building intelligent image analysis tools.

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This tool helps scientists, researchers, and lab technicians analyze microscopy images more efficiently by connecting AI assistants like Claude or Cursor directly to napari, a popular image viewer. You can give plain-language instructions or even Python code to the AI, and it will control napari to load images, apply filters, make annotations, and automate complex analysis workflows. It turns your AI assistant into a co-pilot for your image analysis tasks.

Used by 1 other package. Available on PyPI.

Use this if you want to use conversational AI assistants to control your napari image analysis, automate routine microscopy workflows, or explore image data interactively without writing extensive manual code.

Not ideal if you need to process images on a remote server, require robust security with external network access, or prefer to strictly use traditional scripting without AI interaction.

microscopy image-analysis lab-automation scientific-research data-visualization
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Adoption 7 / 25
Maturity 24 / 25
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Language

Python

License

BSD-3-Clause

Last pushed

Mar 17, 2026

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