Introducing Karya MCP: Connect Claude to Karya's Image and Video Models

Karya MCP connects Claude - and any other MCP-compatible client - straight to Karya's 150+ image and video models, so you can generate without leaving the conversation you are already in. It launched alongside Karya Flow and is a companion to it: Flow is the visual canvas for building a repeatable, multi-step pipeline; Karya MCP is for generating on the fly from wherever you already work.

What MCP actually is

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI agents call external tools directly inside a conversation. Karya MCP exposes Karya's generation models - and your saved Karya Flow pipelines - as a set of tools any MCP-compatible agent can call: ask for an image or a video in plain language, and the agent picks the right tool and hands the result back in the same chat.

Connect it to Claude

Karya runs a hosted MCP server at mcp.karyastudio.io/mcp - one URL that works the same way for every client. In Claude (claude.ai on web, desktop or mobile), add it as a connector from your settings and sign in once with your Karya account over OAuth; in Claude Code, add the same URL to your MCP configuration. The same URL also works with ChatGPT in developer mode, Cursor, or any other client that speaks MCP over HTTP.

Prefer a raw API key instead of OAuth? Create one from the API Keys panel on the Karya MCP page and use it as a bearer header or embedded in the URL - useful for command-line tools and clients that do not support the connector flow.

What you can ask for

• list_models - browse every available model, its category, and price.
• generate_image - generate an image from a prompt, optionally guided by up to 10 reference images.
• generate_video - generate a video from a prompt and/or reference images; video is always asynchronous, so the client calls wait_for_generation to fetch the finished clip once it is ready.
• get_generation - check the status of a single generation by id, no polling.
• estimate_price - see the credit cost of a generation before you run it.
• get_balance - check your remaining Karya credit balance.
• get_history - list your recent generations.

Karya Flow, from the same chat

Because Karya MCP sits on the same account as Flow, it also exposes your saved pipelines as tools: list_workflow_templates and list_my_workflows to browse public templates and your own workflows, clone_workflow_template to copy a public template into your account, and create_workflow to build one from scratch. run_workflow starts a run and returns a run_id right away, since a pipeline runs asynchronously - you then call get_workflow_run_status to advance it and check each node until the whole run finishes. That means a multi-step pipeline you built once in Flow can be triggered from a single sentence in Claude.

Pricing and safety

Connecting is free - there is no separate subscription for MCP. Each generation, whether it comes through generate_image, generate_video, or a Flow run, spends Karya credits from the same wallet you use in the studios, at the price estimate_price shows up front. Credits never expire, and a failed generation is automatically refunded rather than lost. OAuth connections can be revoked at any time from your Karya account, and API keys can be deleted the same way.

Try it

Karya MCP is live now at karyastudio.io/mcp. Copy the connector URL, add it to Claude or the MCP client of your choice, sign in once, and start generating from the conversation you are already having.