Cloudinary publishes several official MCP servers; the Asset Management server lets agents upload, search, organize and transform images and videos. Other servers cover environment config, structured metadata, AI analysis and MediaFlows. Remote servers use OAuth by default or API credentials via headers.
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- 1Connect it in ChatGPT
Turn on Developer mode in ChatGPT (Settings → Security and login), open Plugins, select + and paste https://asset-management.mcp.cloudinary.com/mcp as the MCP server URL, then sign in with OAuth. Add it to a chat from the composer's tools menu.
- 2Or add it to Codex or the API
codex mcp add cloudinary --url https://asset-management.mcp.cloudinary.com/mcp codex mcp login cloudinaryThe login command opens a browser to finish OAuth.
Configs are generated from the publisher's documented endpoint. Check their docs for plan requirements and scopes. New to this? Read the step-by-step tutorial.
Things to ask
- “Upload this image and generate a 400x400 thumbnail”
- “Find all assets tagged 'summer-campaign'”
- “Convert my hero video to WebM”
- “Move the product images into the /catalog folder”