Image Processing Shouldn't Break Your Flow Image processing tasks are small but they interrupt everything. A designer sends over a photo that's the wrong dimensions. A client's logo is a 4MB PNG that needs to be a 40KB WebP. A product photo needs smart-cropping for a thumbnail but the subject is off-center. None of these take more than ten seconds to describe — but each one takes you out of your editor, into a terminal, into an image app, or into a back-and-forth with the designer. With MCP , your AI assistant handles it directly. The Iteration Layer's Image Transformation API ships as an MCP server — connect it once, and Claude Code or Cursor can resize, smart crop, convert, compress, and chain up to 30 operations together from a chat prompt. You describe what you need, the assistant builds the operation sequence, and you get the result without leaving your session. What MCP Is Model Context Protocol is an open standard that lets AI assistants discover and call external tools.…