Enhance analyze_image tool to support URLs, file paths, and data URIs

src/tool-handlers.ts

@@ -139,6 +139,10 @@ export class ToolHandlers {
                 type: 'string',
                 description: 'Path to the image file to analyze (must be an absolute path)',
               },
+              image_url: {
+                type: 'string',
+                description: 'URL or data URL of the image (can be a file:// URL, http(s):// URL, or data: URI)',
+              },
               question: {
                 type: 'string',
                 description: 'Question to ask about the image',
@@ -148,7 +152,10 @@ export class ToolHandlers {
                 description: 'OpenRouter model to use (e.g., "anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet")',
               },
             },
-            required: ['image_path'],
+            oneOf: [
+              { required: ['image_path'] },
+              { required: ['image_url'] }
+            ]
           },
         },
         

src/tool-handlers/analyze-image.ts

@@ -3,13 +3,86 @@ import { promises as fs } from 'fs';
 import sharp from 'sharp';
 import { McpError, ErrorCode } from '@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/types.js';
 import OpenAI from 'openai';
+import fetch from 'node-fetch';
 
 export interface AnalyzeImageToolRequest {
-  image_path: string;
+  image_path?: string;
+  image_url?: string;
   question?: string;
   model?: string;
 }
 
+async function fetchImageAsBuffer(url: string): Promise<Buffer> {
+  try {
+    // Handle data URLs
+    if (url.startsWith('data:')) {
+      const matches = url.match(/^data:([A-Za-z-+\/]+);base64,(.+)$/);
+      if (!matches || matches.length !== 3) {
+        throw new Error('Invalid data URL');
+      }
+      return Buffer.from(matches[2], 'base64');
+    }
+    
+    // Handle file URLs
+    if (url.startsWith('file://')) {
+      const filePath = url.replace('file://', '');
+      return await fs.readFile(filePath);
+    }
+    
+    // Handle http/https URLs
+    if (url.startsWith('http://') || url.startsWith('https://')) {
+      const response = await fetch(url);
+      if (!response.ok) {
+        throw new Error(`HTTP error! status: ${response.status}`);
+      }
+      return Buffer.from(await response.arrayBuffer());
+    }
+    
+    // Handle regular file paths
+    return await fs.readFile(url);
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.error(`Error fetching image from ${url}:`, error);
+    throw error;
+  }
+}
+
+async function processImage(buffer: Buffer): Promise<string> {
+  try {
+    // Get image metadata
+    const metadata = await sharp(buffer).metadata();
+    
+    // Calculate dimensions to keep base64 size reasonable
+    const MAX_DIMENSION = 800;
+    const JPEG_QUALITY = 80; 
+    
+    if (metadata.width && metadata.height) {
+      const largerDimension = Math.max(metadata.width, metadata.height);
+      if (largerDimension > MAX_DIMENSION) {
+        const resizeOptions = metadata.width > metadata.height
+          ? { width: MAX_DIMENSION }
+          : { height: MAX_DIMENSION };
+        
+        const resizedBuffer = await sharp(buffer)
+          .resize(resizeOptions)
+          .jpeg({ quality: JPEG_QUALITY })
+          .toBuffer();
+        
+        return resizedBuffer.toString('base64');
+      }
+    }
+    
+    // If no resizing needed, just convert to JPEG
+    const jpegBuffer = await sharp(buffer)
+      .jpeg({ quality: JPEG_QUALITY })
+      .toBuffer();
+    
+    return jpegBuffer.toString('base64');
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.error('Error processing image:', error);
+    throw error;
+  }
+}
+
 export async function handleAnalyzeImage(
   request: { params: { arguments: AnalyzeImageToolRequest } },
   openai: OpenAI,
@@ -18,45 +91,40 @@ export async function handleAnalyzeImage(
   const args = request.params.arguments;
   
   try {
-    // Validate image path
+    // Validate image source
     const imagePath = args.image_path;
-    if (!path.isAbsolute(imagePath)) {
+    const imageUrl = args.image_url;
-      throw new McpError(ErrorCode.InvalidParams, 'Image path must be absolute');
+    
+    if (!imagePath && !imageUrl) {
+      throw new McpError(ErrorCode.InvalidParams, 'Either image_path or image_url must be provided');
     }
     
-    // Read image file
+    // Normalize the path/url
-    const imageBuffer = await fs.readFile(imagePath);
+    let imageSource: string;
+    
+    if (imageUrl) {
+      // Use the provided URL directly
+      imageSource = imageUrl;
+    } else if (imagePath) {
+      // For backward compatibility, try to handle the image_path
+      if (path.isAbsolute(imagePath)) {
+        // For absolute paths, use as a local file path
+        imageSource = imagePath;
+      } else {
+        // For relative paths, show a better error message
+        throw new McpError(ErrorCode.InvalidParams, 'Image path must be absolute or use image_url with file:// prefix');
+      }
+    } else {
+      // This shouldn't happen due to the check above, but TypeScript doesn't know that
+      throw new McpError(ErrorCode.InvalidParams, 'No image source provided');
+    }
+    
+    // Fetch and process the image
+    const imageBuffer = await fetchImageAsBuffer(imageSource);
     console.error(`Successfully read image buffer of size: ${imageBuffer.length}`);
     
-    // Get image metadata
+    // Process the image (resize if needed)
-    const metadata = await sharp(imageBuffer).metadata();
+    const base64Image = await processImage(imageBuffer);
-    console.error('Image metadata:', metadata);
-    
-    // Calculate dimensions to keep base64 size reasonable
-    const MAX_DIMENSION = 800; // Larger than original example for better quality
-    const JPEG_QUALITY = 80; // Higher quality
-    let resizedBuffer = imageBuffer;
-    
-    if (metadata.width && metadata.height) {
-      const largerDimension = Math.max(metadata.width, metadata.height);
-      if (largerDimension > MAX_DIMENSION) {
-        const resizeOptions = metadata.width > metadata.height
-          ? { width: MAX_DIMENSION }
-          : { height: MAX_DIMENSION };
-        
-        resizedBuffer = await sharp(imageBuffer)
-          .resize(resizeOptions)
-          .jpeg({ quality: JPEG_QUALITY })
-          .toBuffer();
-      } else {
-        resizedBuffer = await sharp(imageBuffer)
-          .jpeg({ quality: JPEG_QUALITY })
-          .toBuffer();
-      }
-    }
-    
-    // Convert to base64
-    const base64Image = resizedBuffer.toString('base64');
     
     // Select model
     const model = args.model || defaultModel || 'anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet';