Kavel — AI Image Generator & Editor for VS Code

Make the image your README, docs or landing page needs without leaving the editor. Type a prompt, and the picture lands in your workspace — and if you're in a Markdown file, the ![image](https://github.com/hanshs474/kavel-vscode/raw/HEAD/…) link is already inserted at your cursor. Right-click any PNG, JPG or WebP to edit it with one sentence.

No API key needed to start. Powered by Kavel.

Commands

Command	What it does
Kavel: Generate Image	Prompt → aspect ratio → image saved to `assets/` (configurable), Markdown link inserted
Kavel: Edit Image with AI	Right-click an image → describe the change → edited copy saved next to it
Kavel: Set API Key	Store a key in VS Code's secret storage

Free tier, then your account

Out of the box the extension runs on Kavel's free tier: no account, 1K output with a watermark, a few images a day. Enough to try every command.

Run Kavel: Set API Key with a key from kavel.ai/settings/apikeys and every run goes through your account: your credits, no daily ceiling, no watermark on a paid plan, and the model of your choice in kavel.model — Nano Banana 2, GPT Image 2 for 4K, Qwen Image 3 when the picture needs readable text, Seedream 5.0 Pro for photoreal people. See pricing.

Prompts that work

Name the light, the material and the composition — "flat illustration of a rocket leaving a laptop screen, purple and orange, clean background" beats "rocket". For edits, say what must stay the same: the edit model (Nano Banana 2 Lite on the free tier) keeps what it can see and invents what it cannot. Browse the free AI image generator for more starting points.

Notes

Free runs wait 25–80 seconds in a queue; paid plans skip it. Progress shows in a cancellable notification.
Images you edit are uploaded to Kavel's CDN so the model can read them.
Need it in code or CI? SDKs · GitHub Action · ComfyUI nodes.

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