diff --git a/image-lab/app/main.py b/image-lab/app/main.py
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+"""FastAPI entrypoint for image-lab.
+
+POST /api/image/generate — provider + prompt → Redis push → task_id
+GET  /api/image/tasks/{id} — DB 조회
+GET  /api/image/providers — 3 provider 메타
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import logging
+import os
+import uuid
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
+
+import redis.asyncio as aioredis
+from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException
+from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
+from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
+
+from . import db
+from .internal_router import router as internal_router
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+CORS_ALLOW_ORIGINS = os.getenv("CORS_ALLOW_ORIGINS", "http://localhost:3007,http://localhost:8080")
+REDIS_URL = os.getenv("REDIS_URL", "redis://redis:6379")
+redis_client = aioredis.from_url(REDIS_URL, decode_responses=False)
+
+SUPPORTED_PROVIDERS = {"gpt_image", "nano_banana", "flux"}
+
+app = FastAPI()
+app.include_router(internal_router)
+
+app.add_middleware(
+    CORSMiddleware,
+    allow_origins=[o.strip() for o in CORS_ALLOW_ORIGINS.split(",")],
+    allow_credentials=False,
+    allow_methods=["GET", "POST", "PUT", "DELETE", "OPTIONS", "PATCH"],
+    allow_headers=["Content-Type"],
+)
+
+
+@app.on_event("startup")
+def on_startup():
+    db.init_db()
+
+
+@app.get("/health")
+def health():
+    return {"ok": True, "service": "image-lab"}
+
+
+@app.get("/api/image/providers")
+def list_providers():
+    """3 provider 항상 노출 (key 누락은 worker가 failed 보고)."""
+    return {"providers": [
+        {"id": "gpt_image",   "name": "GPT Image 2.0", "models": ["gpt-image-1"],
+         "sizes": ["1024x1024", "1024x1536", "1536x1024"]},
+        {"id": "nano_banana", "name": "Nano Banana (Gemini)", "models": ["gemini-2.5-flash-image"],
+         "sizes": ["1024x1024"]},
+        {"id": "flux",        "name": "FLUX (local)", "models": ["flux-schnell", "flux-dev"],
+         "sizes": ["1024x1024", "832x1216", "1216x832"]},
+    ]}
+
+
+class GenerateRequest(BaseModel):
+    provider: str = Field(..., description="gpt_image|nano_banana|flux")
+    model: Optional[str] = None
+    prompt: str
+    size: Optional[str] = None
+    negative_prompt: Optional[str] = None
+    # Provider 별 추가 키는 extra 허용
+    extra: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None
+
+    class Config:
+        extra = "allow"
+
+
+async def _push_render_job(task_id: str, job_type: str, params: dict) -> None:
+    """Redis queue:image-render에 push."""
+    kst = timezone(timedelta(hours=9))
+    payload = {
+        "task_id": task_id,
+        "kind": "image",
+        "job_type": job_type,
+        "params": params,
+        "submitted_at": datetime.now(kst).isoformat(),
+    }
+    await redis_client.rpush("queue:image-render", json.dumps(payload))
+
+
+@app.post("/api/image/generate")
+async def generate_image(req: GenerateRequest):
+    """이미지 생성 — Redis 큐로 Windows image-render에 위임."""
+    if req.provider not in SUPPORTED_PROVIDERS:
+        raise HTTPException(400, f"지원하지 않는 provider: {req.provider} (supported: {sorted(SUPPORTED_PROVIDERS)})")
+
+    task_id = str(uuid.uuid4())
+    params = req.model_dump(exclude_none=True)
+    db.create_task(task_id, req.provider, params)
+
+    job_type = f"{req.provider}_generation"   # gpt_image_generation, nano_banana_generation, flux_generation
+    await _push_render_job(task_id, job_type, params)
+    return {"task_id": task_id, "provider": req.provider}
+
+
+@app.get("/api/image/tasks/{task_id}")
+def get_task_status(task_id: str):
+    t = db.get_task(task_id)
+    if not t:
+        raise HTTPException(404, "task not found")
+    return t
diff --git a/image-lab/tests/test_main.py b/image-lab/tests/test_main.py
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+import os, tempfile, importlib
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+
+def _client(monkeypatch, tmp):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("IMAGE_DATA_DIR", tmp)
+    import app.db as db
+    importlib.reload(db)
+    db.init_db()
+    import app.main as main
+    importlib.reload(main)
+    pushed = []
+
+    async def fake_push(task_id, job_type, params):
+        pushed.append((task_id, job_type, params))
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(main, "_push_render_job", fake_push)
+    return TestClient(main.app), db, pushed
+
+
+def test_providers_lists_three(monkeypatch):
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp:
+        client, _, _ = _client(monkeypatch, tmp)
+        r = client.get("/api/image/providers")
+        ids = {p["id"] for p in r.json()["providers"]}
+        assert ids == {"gpt_image", "nano_banana", "flux"}
+
+
+def test_generate_rejects_unknown_provider(monkeypatch):
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp:
+        client, _, _ = _client(monkeypatch, tmp)
+        r = client.post("/api/image/generate", json={"provider": "midjourney", "prompt": "x"})
+        assert r.status_code == 400
+
+
+def test_generate_creates_task_and_pushes(monkeypatch):
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp:
+        client, db, pushed = _client(monkeypatch, tmp)
+        r = client.post("/api/image/generate", json={"provider": "gpt_image", "prompt": "a cat"})
+        assert r.status_code == 200
+        task_id = r.json()["task_id"]
+        assert db.get_task(task_id)["status"] == "queued"
+        assert pushed[0][1] == "gpt_image_generation"