PixInsight Connector

{
  "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
  "name": "io.github.mxcoppell/pixinsight-connector",
  "description": "Operate PixInsight from any MCP agent. Community project, not affiliated with Pleiades Astrophoto",
  "title": "PixInsight Connector",
  "repository": {
    "url": "https://github.com/mxcoppell/pixinsight-connector",
    "source": "github",
    "id": "1385783662"
  },
  "version": "2.5.0",
  "websiteUrl": "https://github.com/mxcoppell/pixinsight-connector#readme",
  "packages": [
    {
      "registryType": "npm",
      "identifier": "pixinsight-connector",
      "version": "2.5.0",
      "transport": {
        "type": "stdio"
      },
      "environmentVariables": [
        {
          "description": "Path to the PixInsight executable. When unset, the default install location for the OS is used.",
          "format": "filepath",
          "name": "PIXINSIGHT_BIN"
        },
        {
          "description": "PixInsight install root, from which the executable and its resources are derived. When unset, the default install location for the OS is used.",
          "format": "filepath",
          "name": "PIXINSIGHT_DIR"
        },
        {
          "description": "Comma-separated tool packs to load: pack directories and .mjs files (an npm package by the path to its folder). Empty: no packs.",
          "format": "string",
          "name": "PIXINSIGHT_CONNECTOR_PACKS"
        },
        {
          "description": "0 stops the connector from starting PixInsight when a tool call finds it not running.",
          "format": "string",
          "name": "PIXINSIGHT_CONNECTOR_AUTOSTART"
        },
        {
          "description": "The target folder the tools work in (session files in its agentic folder, results in its output folder). When unset, the folder the connector was started in; the set_workspace tool overrides both.",
          "format": "filepath",
          "name": "PIXINSIGHT_CONNECTOR_WORKSPACE"
        },
        {
          "description": "Where the connector's session files (scratch, bridge, logs) go, resolved against the target folder. When unset, <target>/agentic.",
          "format": "filepath",
          "name": "PIXINSIGHT_CONNECTOR_STATE"
        },
        {
          "description": "0 turns off the per-session call logs in <target>/agentic/logs.",
          "format": "string",
          "name": "PIXINSIGHT_CONNECTOR_LOG"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}