io.github.fonkychen/nature-vision-mcp

# Nature Vision MCP Server

An **MCP (Model Context Protocol) server** that identifies biological species from images using the **Nature Vision API**, returning Latin names with confidence scores.

This server enables LLMs (such as Claude) to recognize species and enrich responses with biological knowledge.

## Features

- 🌿 Identify species from images (plants, animals, fungi, insects, etc.)

- 🧬 Returns **Latin scientific names** with confidence scores

- 🧠 Designed for **LLM tool usage** via Model Context Protocol (MCP)

- 🔌 Simple stdio-based MCP server

- 🚀 Easy to run with npx

- 🔐 API key via environment variables

## Supported Categories

- plant

- bug

- bird

- mammal

- reptile

- amphibian

- mollusc

- fungi

## Installation

npm install 

**Configure in your MCP client:**

{
  "mcp.servers": {
    "nature-vision": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "nature-vision-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "NATURE_VISION_API_KEY": "app-xxx"
      }
    }
  }
}

For now, you can use token: app-dummy-token-2026, this will allow you request once per minute.

"NATURE_VISION_API_KEY": "app-dummy-token-2026"

npx nature-vision-mcp