Adding Image Generation to Any AI Coding Environment — imgx-mcp

Series: imgx-mcp — AI Image Generation for Coding Environments I run a coffee shop in Kyoto. SOMA COFFEE KYOTO has been doing event pop-ups since 2010 — no fixed storefront, just coffee served at events across the city. A few years ago, I started building apps to solve a structural problem in coffee: definitions that don't agree with each other. "Medium grind" means different things depending on who you ask. Roast levels, water temperature, dose — every source says something different. I wanted to build tools that organize this, so I taught myself software development and started shipping web apps. Six coffee apps and a developer toolkit later, I'm still at it. All free betas, all open for anyone to use. This article is about a tool that came out of that process — not a coffee app, but something that solves a problem I kept hitting while building them. The Problem: Image Generation Breaks Your Flow If you work in an AI-assisted coding environment — Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or s