Install Studio

About two minutes. You need Node.js 22 or later, your download key and at least one AI app.

Your download key

After you buy Studio, checkout takes you to a page with your personal download key, and we email it to you too. Save it: you need it on each new computer. Lost it? Email contact@metamorfiles.com from the address you paid with.

Install and set up

Run this in your computer's terminal and paste your key when it asks. It installs the metamorfiles command, then connects Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT and Codex, Cursor and OpenCode.

npx metamorfiles setup

Prefer to let your agent do it? The page after checkout has a message to paste into Claude Code, Codex or Cowork, with your key included.

Setup adds the Metamorfiles server and skills to every app it finds, starts the server once to check it works, saves your key for updates and prints every change. Restart your apps afterwards. Running it again is safe; it never duplicates entries.

Claude Desktop and Cowork take skills as uploads. Setup saves a zip for each skill and prints the folder. Upload them in Settings, Capabilities, Skills.

Create a project

A project is a folder with your brand kit, templates, data tables and renders. Start from the example project:

metamorfiles init my-brand

Open the folder in your agent and try a first prompt. In Claude Desktop or ChatGPT, mention the folder path so the agent can open it.

Build our brand kit from example.com, then make an Instagram post and story template for our spring launch, and render six variants testing price-led against ritual-led hooks.

Update

Every update is included. This downloads the latest version with your saved key and runs setup again:

metamorfiles update

Manual setup

Use this if you prefer to edit configuration yourself, or for an MCP app setup does not know. It changes nothing and prints the exact config for each app, with the paths on your computer:

metamorfiles setup --print

Every app runs the same local server: your node with dist/cli.js mcp from the global install folder. For example:

"metamorfiles": {
  "command": "/path/to/node",
  "args": ["/usr/local/lib/node_modules/metamorfiles/dist/cli.js", "mcp"]
}

The skills teach your agent the template contract and the workflows. Copy the folders from skills in that install folder into your app's skills folder: ~/.claude/skills, ~/.codex/skills, ~/.cursor/skills or ~/.config/opencode/skills.

Image generation

Optional. Templates can ask for AI images, generated with your own OpenRouter key and billed by OpenRouter. Add the key to the server's env in your app's config, next to the command and args setup wrote:

"env": { "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "sk-or-..." }

In Codex and ChatGPT, add env = { OPENROUTER_API_KEY = "sk-or-..." } under [mcp_servers.metamorfiles]. Setup and update keep the key. The model is set by imageModel in your project's metamorfiles.json.

Control panel

Adjust variables, save defaults and variants, render and review batches visually. Ask your agent to open the panel, or run this inside a project folder:

metamorfiles dev

Uninstall

Removes the Metamorfiles server and skills from every app and deletes cached downloads. Your other servers, skills and settings stay as they are, and your projects are not touched.

metamorfiles uninstall

Restart your apps afterwards. In Claude Desktop, also remove the uploaded Metamorfiles skills in Settings, Capabilities, Skills. To remove Studio itself, run npm uninstall -g metamorfiles.

Stuck? Email contact@metamorfiles.com.