Beta release of Inkscape MCP v2.6.0 — AI-powered vector graphics server with MCP, webapp dashboard, and Windows desktop app.

What's included

• MCP server: 17 tools, 60+ operations across 9 portmanteau groups
• MCPB bundle: Single-click Claude Desktop install (dist/inkscape-mcp-v2.6.0.mcpb)
• Webapp: React dashboard with animation studio, layer manager, agent lab
• Tauri NSIS installer: One-installer Windows desktop app with embedded backend

Key features

• inkscape_vector: create shapes, text ops, path booleans, LPEs, inspect, trace, export
• inkscape_layers: list, create, rename, hide/show, lock/unlock, reorder
• inkscape_animation: SMIL presets (bounce, fade, slide, rotate, pulse, shake)
• inkscape_system: status, diagnostics, hands-in command, extension listing
• Fleet handoffs: GIMP, Blender, Unity, Resonite pipelines

Infrastructure

• FastMCP 3.4.2, dual transport (stdio + streamable HTTP)
• React 19 + Vite + TailwindCSS + Zustand + Framer Motion
• Tauri 2.0 + PyInstaller backend (embedded in NSIS)
• CUA smoke test with pywinauto + Tesseract OCR
• Playwright E2E + video demo capture

Known issues

• Port TIME_WAIT on first launch after upgrade: backend may take ~60s to start (E10048 retry handles it)
• macOS/Linux: server runs via uv, but the NSIS installer is Windows-only
• Prefab UI: bundled but fastmcp.prefab may not render in all MCP clients

Assets

• Inkscape MCP_2.6.0_x64-setup.exe — NSIS Windows installer (embedded Python backend)
• inkscape-mcp-v2.6.0.mcpb — Claude Desktop bundle