io.github.TopLocalAI/layerback-mcp MCP Server

This MCP server converts diagram images into fully editable files. It outputs Visio (VSDX), PowerPoint, draw.io, and SVG formats, enabling downstream editing in common diagram and presentation tools.

🛠️ Key Features

Converts diagram images to fully editable formats
Export targets: Visio (VSDX), PowerPoint, draw.io, SVG

🚀 Use Cases

Turn diagram images into editable Visio documents
Convert diagrams into editable PowerPoint slides
Transform diagrams into draw.io format for editing
Export diagram imagery as editable SVG

⚠️ Limitations

Source material only specifies image-to-diagram conversions and listed output formats; other inputs, capabilities, or tool behavior are not described.

LayerBack MCP Server

Give your AI agent the one diagram skill it's missing: turning pictures of diagrams into fully editable files.

Agents can write Mermaid — but when the input is a screenshot, a whiteboard photo, or a diagram trapped in a PDF page, they're stuck. This MCP server connects any MCP-compatible agent (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, …) to LayerBack, which rebuilds every shape, connector, and label as a native object and returns Visio (VSDX), PowerPoint (PPTX), draw.io, and SVG — all editable, from one conversion.

Tool

What it does

convert_diagram_image

Convert a local image file (PNG/JPG/WebP); waits for the result by default (~30–60 s)

get_conversion_status

Poll a running job

download_converted_diagram

Save any output format to a local path

Setup

Create an API key at https://layerback.com/settings/apikeys (new accounts include free credits — one conversion costs 10 and includes every output format).

Add the server to your MCP client config:

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "layerback": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "layerback-mcp"],
      "env": { "LAYERBACK_API_KEY": "your-key-here" }
    }
  }
}

Install

Configuration

Environment variables

LAYERBACK_API_KEYrequiredsecret

LayerBack API key from https://layerback.com/settings/apikeys

Add to VS Code Add to Cursor

claude_desktop_config.json

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "layerback-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "layerback-mcp@0.1.2"
      ],
      "env": {
        "LAYERBACK_API_KEY": "<YOUR_LAYERBACK_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

io.github.TopLocalAI/layerback-mcp