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Set up Cloudinary MCP in VS Code

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

1

Locate the config file

VS Code reads MCP server configuration from the following file:

.vscode/settings.json → mcp section

Create this file if it does not already exist. For VS Code, this is inside your workspace .vscode/settings.json file under the mcp section.

2

Add the configuration

Add the following to your VS Code config file:

json
{
  "servers": {
    "cloudinary-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "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"
      }
    }
  }
}
3

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

4

Verify it works

Restart VS Code. 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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