cloudinary — Claude Code plugin: media, transforms and MCP servers
Wires Cloudinary into your coding agent: asset upload, URL transformations, live docs. Handy when media work belongs in the editor, not a browser tab.
/plugin install cloudinary@claude-plugins-official
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-officialWhat cloudinary does
The plugin hooks Claude up to five Cloudinary MCP servers. Asset upload and transforms sit in cloudinary-asset-mgmt, environment settings in cloudinary-env-config, structured metadata in cloudinary-smd, image and video analysis in cloudinary-analysis, and automated media pipelines in cloudinary-mediaflows.
Three skills come along too. cloudinary-docs pulls the live docs feed at cloudinary.com/documentation/llms.txt, so API answers arrive with real code samples. cloudinary-transformations turns a plain request into a working transformation URL and helps debug it: crops, generative effects, overlays, named transformations. claimable-cloud spins up a cloud with no signup; you claim it by email within 24 hours.
OAuth2 covers the first four servers, so the agent asks you to log in to Cloudinary the first time. cloudinary-mediaflows is different: it reads cloud_name, api_key and api_secret from the headers in mcp.json. Miss those and the mediaflows server simply won't start.
What it helps with
- upload a batch of images to Cloudinary from the editor
- build a transformation URL with the right crop and overlay
- run AI analysis on an image or video
- attach structured metadata to assets
- get a working Cloudinary cloud without signing up
Example prompts for the agent
- Build a transformation URL that crops to the face and puts our logo bottom right
- Upload everything in
assets/to Cloudinary and give me the links - How do I set structured metadata on a video in Cloudinary?
How to install cloudinary
Plugin marketplace
/plugin install cloudinary@claude-plugins-official/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-officialStep by step, with commands for each platform: Claude Code plugins: marketplaces, installing, and building your own
Questions about cloudinary
How do I install cloudinary in Claude Code?
Add the marketplace first: /plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official. Then install the plugin: /plugin install cloudinary@claude-plugins-official.
What does the cloudinary plugin do?
It gives the agent MCP access to Cloudinary for uploads, transformations, metadata and AI analysis, plus three skills for docs and transformation URL building.
What does cloudinary-mediaflows need?
Your own cloud_name, api_key and api_secret, placed in the headers in mcp.json. The other four servers work through OAuth2 login instead.
