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LayoutBridge Light for Adobe InDesign® MCP Server

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LayoutBridge Light for Adobe InDesign® runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 262 installs a week from npm.

layoutbridge-light – book typesetting in Adobe® InDesign® via MCP: text, styles, TOC, PDF, EPUB

262
Installs / week
npm · layoutbridge-light
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Today is the operative word: we check LayoutBridge Light for Adobe InDesign® every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add layoutbridge-light -- npx -y layoutbridge-light
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "layoutbridge-light": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "layoutbridge-light"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.layoutbridge-light]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "layoutbridge-light"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "layoutbridge-light": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "layoutbridge-light"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "layoutbridge-light": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "layoutbridge-light"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: LAYOUTBRIDGE_LIGHT_LICENSE_KEY (Licence key for this workstation (from the purchase receipt). Alternatively put the key into a file and set LAYOUTBRIDGE_LIGHT_LICENSE_FILE), LAYOUTBRIDGE_LIGHT_LICENSE_FILE (Path to a file containing the licence key. Used when LAYOUTBRIDGE_LIGHT_LICENSE_KEY is not set; default location is the application data folder of layoutbridge-light), LAYOUTBRIDGE_LIGHT_LOG_LEVEL (Call log detail: off, basic (default; no document text, user name removed from paths) or full (unfiltered, for a support case only)), LAYOUTBRIDGE_LIGHT_INSTANCE_NAME (Optional label for this workstation's licence activation. Default is a random identifier without personal data), LAYOUTBRIDGE_LIGHT_CONFIG (Optional path to a config.json with house defaults (e.g. PDF export preset, tracking warning threshold, minimum image resolution)).

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LayoutBridge Light for Adobe InDesign® — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for LayoutBridge Light for Adobe InDesign®?
LayoutBridge Light for Adobe InDesign® runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package layoutbridge-light was installed 262 times last week.
How do I connect LayoutBridge Light for Adobe InDesign®?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls layoutbridge-light straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use LayoutBridge Light for Adobe InDesign®?
The npm package layoutbridge-light was installed 262 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.