Connected a local model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive-Q4_K_M) to GIMP via MCP tools using llama.cpp - and here's the image result from my first prompt "can you draw a picture of a flower in gimp?". Needs work. Setup follows.

can you draw a picture of a flower in gimp?

So I ran through this setup to install the MCP server suite from GITHUB, it's pretty easy to follow the install - and installs the libraries necessary to connect llama.cpp to GIMP.

https://github.com/maorcc/gimp-mcp

After that's installed and the server is running in Gimp, then here's a json file named gimp-mcp.json I created in the gimp-mcp directory I cloned from the above steps.

{
"mcpServers": {
"gimp": {
"command": "C:\\Program Files\\GIMP 3\\gimp-mcp\\.venv\\Scripts\\python.exe",
"args": [
"C:\\Program Files\\GIMP 3\\gimp-mcp\\gimp_mcp_server.py"
],
"cwd": "C:\\Program Files\\GIMP 3\\gimp-mcp",
"timeout_ms": 30000
}
}
}

And once I had that - I added "--mcp-servers-config "C:\Program Files\GIMP 3\gimp-mcp\gimp-mcp.json"" to my llama-server command line.

Works like a champ - but the results - they're less than stellar.

I figure a beefier model would have better results.