Pixelsmith

Spec sheet

Product

Pixelsmith is a pixel-art sprite editor and animation engine designed for AI agents to control over MCP.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Intended users

The maker recommends it for agents making sprites or developers building on a headless sprite engine, and says it is not intended as a mouse-driven drawing-app replacement.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Integrations

The README provides MCP setup examples for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, and generic MCP clients.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

License

The repository states that Pixelsmith is licensed under MIT.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

AI workflow

An agent connected over MCP can create sprites, draw, animate, and export them, with a PNG preview returned after each tool step.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Animation

It supports keyframe animation and procedural motion styles including breathe, bob, sway, walk, recoil, swing, float, pulse, and shake.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Export

It can export GIFs, APNGs, and packed spritesheets.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Exports

The project says it can export GIF, APNG, and packed spritesheets.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Known gaps

The README says Pixelsmith lacks linked cels, free-transform, tilemaps, and a substantial brush engine; undo is in-memory per document.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Limits

Defaults include a 512-pixel maximum canvas edge, 256 frames per document, 64 layers per document, and 600 tool calls per minute.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Local editor

The browser editor runs locally at http://localhost:5173 after cloning the repository, installing dependencies, and running npm run dev.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Maturity

The README describes version 0.1 as a prototype and says the package is not yet published to npm.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Notable omissions

The README says it has no linked cels, free-transform, tilemaps, or substantial brush engine, and that undo is per-document and in-memory.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Preview

Every create, draw, transform, and export tool returns a base64 PNG preview alongside its text.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Reference images

Reference images can be added for an agent to inspect through an MCP resource; the configured input directory is the only directory from which reference images may be read.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

References

Reference images can be added from the configured input directory and read by an agent through an MCP resource.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Security boundary

The MCP server is configured to touch only its workspace, and reference images may be read only from its configured input directory.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Status

The project describes itself as version 0.1 and a prototype, and says it is not yet published to npm.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Windows

On Windows, dev.bat installs dependencies if needed, builds the core package, starts the server, and opens a browser.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Windows setup

On Windows, the README says dev.bat installs dependencies on first run, builds the core package, starts the server, and opens a browser.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Workspace boundary

The server's default workspace is ./pixelsmith-workspace, described as the only place on disk the server touches.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Where Specifiction places it

• Pixel Art Software#56 of 707.2