Pixelsmith
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Pixelsmith, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
The facts
Each one read from Pixelsmith's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI workflow
- An agent connected over MCP can create sprites, draw, animate, and export them, with a PNG preview returned after each tool step.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Animation
- It supports keyframe animation and procedural motion styles including breathe, bob, sway, walk, recoil, swing, float, pulse, and shake.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Export
- It can export GIFs, APNGs, and packed spritesheets.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Exports
- The project says it can export GIF, APNG, and packed spritesheets.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The README provides MCP setup examples for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, and generic MCP clients.checked 12 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Known gaps
- The README says Pixelsmith lacks linked cels, free-transform, tilemaps, and a substantial brush engine; undo is in-memory per document.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository states that Pixelsmith is licensed under MIT.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Limits
- Defaults include a 512-pixel maximum canvas edge, 256 frames per document, 64 layers per document, and 600 tool calls per minute.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Local editor
- The browser editor runs locally at http://localhost:5173 after cloning the repository, installing dependencies, and running npm run dev.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Maturity
- The README describes version 0.1 as a prototype and says the package is not yet published to npm.checked 12 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Preview
- Every create, draw, transform, and export tool returns a base64 PNG preview alongside its text.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- Pixelsmith is a pixel-art sprite editor and animation engine designed for AI agents to control over MCP.checked 12 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 11 Oct 2026
- References
- Reference images can be added from the configured input directory and read by an agent through an MCP resource.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security boundary
- The MCP server is configured to touch only its workspace, and reference images may be read only from its configured input directory.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Status
- The project describes itself as version 0.1 and a prototype, and says it is not yet published to npm.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Workspace boundary
- The server's default workspace is ./pixelsmith-workspace, described as the only place on disk the server touches.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Windows
- On Windows, dev.bat installs dependencies if needed, builds the core package, starts the server, and opens a browser.checked 12 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 11 Oct 2026
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