Solves a specific pain point in VS Code Copilot Chat and Claude Desktop: AI models can't see images when you just paste file paths. Instead of dragging and dropping screenshots every time, you reference this server with #image-viewer followed by a path, and it exposes a view_image tool that converts the file to base64 and injects it inline. Supports PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, and WebP. Reach for this when you're debugging test failures with screenshots, comparing visual diffs, or analyzing UI bugs and want to stay in the flow without manual attachment steps. Runs via npx with zero config.
claude mcp add --transport stdio io.github.oguntolaibrahim-image-viewer -- npx -y inchat-image-viewer-mcp