Model Context Protocol server

Ask for pictures.
Get the right ones.

This connects an AI assistant directly to SuperStock — over 40 million images available for licensing: commercial, fine art, historical, vintage and more. It searches the way a picture researcher thinks — moods, concepts and scenes, not just keywords — and the assistant can see the photographs it finds, so it judges them rather than guessing from captions.

Server URL

https://mcp.superstock.com/mcp

Free public preview. No account, no API key — click Allow once and you’re in.

What you can do with it

Nine tools that add up to one thing: your assistant can find, judge, assemble and hand off real stock imagery without you leaving the conversation.

Search in plain language

“A lonely rainy city at dusk.” Concepts and atmosphere, not keyword matching — and every result comes back with a thumbnail the assistant can actually look at, so it recommends shots that fit rather than shots that merely matched.

search_images · search

Steer by example

“More like these two, less like that one.” Refinement runs on the images themselves rather than their words, which is how you get closer to a look you can see but can’t describe.

refine_images

Search by picture

Point it at an image you already have and ask whether SuperStock has that shot, or something like it. Useful for matching an existing layout, or replacing a picture you can’t license.

search_by_image

Build a mood board

Ask for one and you get a designed PDF composed on our servers — a hero with the rest of the set following on, a colour bar of the palette with hex values, and a file list with captions and credits. It arrives as a link; nothing is assembled in the assistant’s sandbox.

make_mood_board

Work with the comps

Pull layout-preview images into the conversation to judge composition and crop, or drop them into a document the assistant is building for you.

download_comps · fetch

Get the full record

Caption, credit, keywords, year, dimensions, licensing flags and the link to license it — everything you need to clear a picture before you use it.

get_image

Hand it to a person

When searching has done its job and you want a human — a quote, a rights question, a deeper research request — send the selection to SuperStock and someone replies by email.

request_from_superstock

The whole catalogue, not a slice

Commercial, fine art, historical, vintage and footage — and an old-era brief reaches the archive rather than being answered with modern stock. Everything links back with its SKU intact, so what you are shown can be licensed.

Connect your assistant

Every client works the same way: paste the URL, click Allow once. No account to create, no key to paste, nothing to pre-provision.

Claude claude.ai · Desktop · mobile

Open Settings → Connectors (on claude.ai: click your initials, bottom-left).
Click Add custom connector.
Name it SuperStock and paste https://mcp.superstock.com/mcp, then click Add. Leave the OAuth Client ID / Secret fields empty — the connector registers itself.
A page opens asking to Connect SuperStock. Click Allow. That’s the whole sign-in: no account, no password, nothing to fill in.
In a new chat, open the search & tools menu (sliders icon) and make sure the SuperStock connector is enabled.
To build files from comps (mood boards, contact sheets, PDFs): Settings → Capabilities → Code execution → allow network egress, and add mcp.superstock.com. Without it Claude can search and show images, but its sandbox can’t download comps into a document. (Team/Enterprise: same setting in the admin console.)

ChatGPT Plus / Pro · web & desktop

Open Settings → Apps & Connectors.
Under Advanced settings, switch on Developer mode (required for custom MCP connectors).
Back in Connectors, click Create.
Name it SuperStock, set the MCP server URL to https://mcp.superstock.com/mcp, set Authentication to OAuth (leave client ID/secret blank — it registers itself), tick the trust checkbox and save.
Click Allow on the SuperStock page that opens. No account or password — one click and you’re connected.
In a chat, click + → enable the SuperStock connector, then ask away.
To build files from comps: allow network access to mcp.superstock.com in ChatGPT’s code-interpreter settings, otherwise it can search and display images but can’t pull comps into a document.

Claude Code terminal

claude mcp add --transport http superstock https://mcp.superstock.com/mcp

Run it in any project (add --scope user to enable it everywhere). Run /mcp and pick Authenticate — a browser opens, click Allow, done. If sandboxing is on, allow mcp.superstock.com so comps can be downloaded.

Cursor IDE

Open Cursor Settings → MCP → Add new MCP server, or edit ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{ "mcpServers": {
    "superstock": { "url": "https://mcp.superstock.com/mcp" }
} }

Gemini CLI terminal

Add to ~/.gemini/settings.json:

{ "mcpServers": {
    "superstock": { "httpUrl": "https://mcp.superstock.com/mcp" }
} }

Any other MCP client

Anything that speaks MCP over streamable HTTP can connect: point it at https://mcp.superstock.com/mcp. Auth is OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration and PKCE — clients that support it register themselves and the user just clicks Allow. There is no API key and nothing to pre-provision.

One setting worth doing. If you want your assistant to build files from comps — mood boards, contact sheets, layout PDFs — allow its code sandbox to reach mcp.superstock.com (in Claude: Settings → Capabilities → Code execution → network egress; other clients have an equivalent allowlist) — that is this server, which serves the comps itself. Searching, browsing and licensing links all work without it; only pulling comps into a document needs it.

Then just ask: “Search SuperStock for a moody lighthouse in fog and show me five options.”

Ask for pictures.Get the right ones.