AI agents
Apolo, from your AI agent.
Claude, Cursor, VS Code and any agent that speaks MCP optimize your images with Apolo's engines, on your computer.
What it can do
- Analyze an image or a whole folder.
- Optimize an image, with the equivalent cwebp, cjpeg, oxipng, avifenc or cjxl command.
- Compare formats at the same perceived quality, and measure the loss with SSIMULACRA 2.
- Crop, resize and look at images.
- Convert whole folders in batches, and save presets.
- And it never overwrites or deletes: it always writes new files.
Claude Desktop
In Apolo, the MCP row in the sidebar creates the extension, which you install once. It's also in the downloads, under “Other downloads”. The server lives inside the app and updates with it: after updating Apolo, quit and reopen Claude Desktop.
Claude Code
macOS
claude mcp add --scope user apolo -- "/Applications/Apolo.app/Contents/MacOS/apolo-mcp"
Windows
claude mcp add --scope user apolo -- "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Apolo\apolo-mcp.exe"
Linux (.deb, .rpm, PKGBUILD)
claude mcp add --scope user apolo -- /usr/bin/apolo-mcp
Cursor, VS Code and the rest
In Apolo, the MCP row gives you what to copy into each one.
Privacy
Images are processed on your computer. What the agent asks for (paths, names, thumbnails) goes into its conversation, and the model provider sees it.