nanobanana-mcp-server

io.github.zhongweili/nanobanana-mcp-server

4/4 checks passed
Runs locally
1 secret
★ 402 GitHub stars
Updated 2025-09-09
Health score 79

About nanobanana-mcp-server

nanobanana-mcp-server is an MCP server published by the GitHub account zhongweili. An MCP server that provides image generation and editing capabilities

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the PyPI package nanobanana-mcp-server at version 1.0.0.

It asks for one secret: GEMINI_API_KEY. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

Version 1.0.0 was published on 9 September 2025, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 7 automated checks on registry metadata: 4 pass, 0 warn, 0 fail, 3 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`GEMINI_API_KEY`	Yes	Yes	Your Gemini API key
`IMAGE_OUTPUT_DIR`	No	No	The image output directory

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/zhongweili/nanobanana-mcp-server
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 1 secret: GEMINI_API_KEY
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account zhongweili
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Code red flags	Info	Package could not be read (no files on PyPI)

Popularity & health: 79 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity26 / 40

402 GitHub stars, 4,739 downloads last week, 0 Hacker News posts (0 points). Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity19 / 25

Last push 2026-10-20, last release 2026-09-27, 5 commits in 90 days.

Issue health14 / 15

10 closed of 11 issues.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

114 forks, 14 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

No Hacker News threads link to its source code.

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.zhongweili/nanobanana-mcp-server`
Publisher	GitHub account zhongweili
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account zhongweili. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	pypi `nanobanana-mcp-server` 1.0.0 (stdio)
Version	1.0.0
Published	2025-09-09
Last updated	2025-09-09
Source repository	https://github.com/zhongweili/nanobanana-mcp-server
Website	None linked
Category	AI & media generation (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · Python package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nanobanana-mcp-server": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "nanobanana-mcp-server==1.0.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GEMINI_API_KEY": "<your value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

We did not run this server, so we don't know what it does when it runs. We could not read its code or its tool descriptions, which is where tool poisoning hides. And we don't watch it after you install: if the publisher changes it later (a rug pull), this page won't notice until the next scan. Treat a pass as "nothing found", not as "safe".

For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-zhongweili-nanobanana-mcp-server.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.