PixInsight Connector

Operate PixInsight from any MCP agent. Community project, not affiliated with Pleiades Astrophoto

What does this entry provide?

PixInsight Connector is an MCP server entry in ChatHome Skills, sourced from Official MCP Registry and scored 78/100. As a Model Context Protocol server, it exposes tools that MCP-compatible LLM clients such as Claude, Cursor, and Copilot can call directly, extending an agent's reach beyond its built-in capabilities. ChatHome Skills discovered this entry through its daily ingest of official registries and GitHub discovery queries, and re-verifies repository facts, freshness signals, and install metadata on every run. The quality score weighs official-registry presence, a working install command, license clarity, GitHub star trajectory, and repository freshness — the full formula is on the Sources page. The install command above is ready to copy. Review the last-pushed date and repository status before adding PixInsight Connector to a production agent workflow; the snapshot facts below are point-in-time values from the most recent ingest.

Snapshot facts

Source: Official MCP Registry
Quality: 78/100
Install method: npm
Repo: mxcoppell/pixinsight-connector
Repo updated: Oct 19, 2026

Install command

npx -y pixinsight-connector@2.5.1

Install method: npm

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GitHub project Homepage

Quality

Repo stars

Repo updated

Oct 19, 2026

How is this score calculated?

Weighted across six dimensions, scored 0-100.
Provenance (25): listed in an official or curated registry.
Installability (25): a runnable install command beats a declared transport, which beats a source checkout.
Maintenance (20): recency of the last push; archived entries score zero here.
Adoption (20): repository stars on a log curve.

MCP manifest

{
  "_meta": {
    "io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official": {
      "status": "active",
      "isLatest": true,
      "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T02:07:17.616936Z",
      "publishedAt": "2026-10-19T02:07:17.616936Z",
      "statusChangedAt": "2026-10-19T02:07:17.616936Z"
    }
  },
  "server": {
    "name": "io.github.mxcoppell/pixinsight-connector",
    "title": "PixInsight Connector",
    "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
    "version": "2.5.1",
    "packages": [
      {
        "version": "2.5.1",
        "transport": {
          "type": "stdio"
        },
        "identifier": "pixinsight-connector",
        "registryType": "npm",
        "environmentVariables": [
          {
            "name": "PIXINSIGHT_BIN",
            "format": "filepath",
            "description": "Path to the PixInsight executable. When unset, the default install location for the OS is used."
          },
          {
            "name": "PIXINSIGHT_DIR",
            "format": "filepath",
            "description": "PixInsight install root, from which the executable and its resources are derived. When unset, the default install location for the OS is used."
          },
          {
            "name": "PIXINSIGHT_CONNECTOR_PACKS",
            "format": "string",
            "description": "Comma-separated tool packs to load: pack directories and .mjs files (an npm package by the path to its folder). Empty: no packs."
          },
          {
            "name": "PIXINSIGHT_CONNECTOR_AUTOSTART",
            "format": "string",
            "description": "0 stops the connector from starting PixInsight when a tool call finds it not running."
          },
          {
            "name": "PIXINSIGHT_CONNECTOR_WORKSPACE",
            "format": "filepath",
            "description": "The target folder the tools work in (session files in its agentic folder, results in its output folder). When unset, the folder the connector was started in; the set_workspace tool overrides both."
          },
          {
            "name": "PIXINSIGHT_CONNECTOR_STATE",
            "format": "filepath",
            "description": "Where the connector's session files (scratch, bridge, logs) go, resolved against the target folder. When unset, <target>/agentic."
          },
          {
            "name": "PIXINSIGHT_CONNECTOR_LOG",
            "format": "string",
            "description": "0 turns off the per-session call logs in <target>/agentic/logs."
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "repository": {
      "id": "1385783662",
      "url": "https://github.com/mxcoppell/pixinsight-connector",
      "source": "github"
    },
    "websiteUrl": "https://github.com/mxcoppell/pixinsight-connector#readme",
    "description": "Operate PixInsight from any MCP agent. Community project, not affiliated with Pleiades Astrophoto"
  }
}

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