Set up Cloudinary MCP in Continue

Upload, transform, search, and manage images and videos on Cloudinary with asset management, folder operations, and usage metrics.

Locate the config file

Continue reads MCP server configuration from the following file:

~/.continue/config.yaml

Create this file if it does not already exist.

Add the configuration

Add the following to your Continue config file:

yaml

mcpServers:
  - name: cloudinary-mcp
    command: npx
    args:
      - -y
      - @cloudinary/asset-management-mcp
    env:
      CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME: YOUR_CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME
      CLOUDINARY_API_KEY: YOUR_CLOUDINARY_API_KEY
      CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET: YOUR_CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET

Set up environment variables

Cloudinary MCP requires the following environment variables:

CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAMERequired

Cloudinary cloud name

CLOUDINARY_API_KEYRequired

Cloudinary API key

CLOUDINARY_API_SECRETRequired

Cloudinary API secret

Verify it works

Restart Continue. Cloudinary MCP should appear in your MCP server list with 14 tools available.

This server adds approximately 7,210 tokens to your context window for tool definitions.

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