Plumbing image generation into Claude, the scenic route

I’ve got an image generator wired straight into Claude Code now. Tell it “draw me a whiteboard diagram of the queue lifecycle” inline in any session, and 30 seconds later there’s a PNG on disk, an inline preview in chat, and a URL that’s good for an hour. It works in Claude Desktop too via a stdio extension that proxies to the same backend. ...

May 8, 2026 · 20 min · Andrew Leech