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MCP server · AI / LLM tooling

Luala

Photo shoots of you from your saved selfies: pick a pack, shoot, edit.

Checks passed
11 / 22

3 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
111 ms

Median of successful probes over 7 days

30-day uptime
Not measured

Share of countable probes over 30 days, including daily rollups. Auth challenges are excluded.

Discovered tools
22

Tool definitions returned by this server

Independent monitoring

Health & checks

Status history

Outdated check

Last connection measurement is over 24 hours old. Current availability is unknown.

Last checked
Check summary by test group
Test areaPassedFailedUnmeasured
ConnectionCan a client connect and discover tools?
500
Reliability & speedDoes it respond consistently and quickly?
004
Access & authenticationWhat is required to use this server?
102
Tool qualityAre the tool definitions usable by an agent?
310
Publisher identityCan the publisher be traced to its source?
222

Unmeasured means there is not enough evidence to decide. How these checks work

Inspect individual checks 22 recorded

Core

  • Pass
    Reachable

    Latest probe returned HTTP 200 in 111 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-11-25, serverInfo.name luala.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 22 tools.

  • Pass
    Current protocol

    Negotiated 2025-11-25. The bar is 2025-06-18 or newer.

  • Pass
    HTTPS

    The endpoint URL is https.

Performance

  • Not measured
    Fast (p50)

    Median latency 111 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 111 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 3000 ms. Need at least 20 samples.

  • Not measured
    Reliable (uptime)

    1 of 1 attempts returned a tool list in 30 days (100%). The bar is 99%. Need at least 30 samples.

  • Not measured
    Stable tool list

    Fewer than two successful probes in 30 days, so tool-list stability is not measured.

Access

  • Pass
    Open access

    tools/list succeeded with no credential, and the record declares none.

  • Not measured
    Standard auth

    Auth is not required, so the OAuth metadata check does not apply.

  • Not measured
    Free tier cited

    No publisher quote has been checked.

Tools

  • Pass
    Tools described

    Every tool description is at least 20 characters.

  • Pass
    Valid input schemas

    Every inputSchema is a JSON Schema object.

  • Fail
    Parameters documented

    11 of 95 parameters have a description (12%). The bar is 80%.

  • Pass
    Safety hints

    Every tool sets readOnlyHint or destructiveHint.

Publisher

  • Pass
    Verified namespace

    Listed in the Official MCP Registry.

  • Fail
    Website matches publisher

    The website host does not match the reverse-domain namespace.

  • Fail
    Source repo linked

    No repository URL is on file.

  • Not measured
    Repo owner matches

    This namespace is not an io.github login, so the owner comparison does not apply.

  • Pass
    Recently updated

    Updated 2026-11-10T11:54:30.773892Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    No GitHub repository to ask about a licence.

Start using Luala

Connect to this server

Choose your client, copy the configuration, then enable the server in your client’s MCP settings.

Run this command in your terminal, then restart Claude Code.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http luala https://luala.app/mcp

Capabilities

Tools 22

add_photo

Adds one photo to the user's My photos in Luala, free, so it can be edited: an old print to restore, clothes to try on, a photo to change. The answer is the saved photo with its photo_id and edit prices: when the user asked for an edit of it, tell them that edit's price, and once they agree make it with Luala's tool for it on this photo_id, never with another image tool. Pass the file the user attached as photo. If you can't, but the file is in your sandbox, call with its content_type (image/jpeg, image/png or image/webp: convert a HEIC to JPEG first) and size in bytes, PUT the file to the answer's upload url with its headers, then call again with the answer's key. Called with none of these, it answers with the luala.app page where the user adds it. The user accepted the upload rules when connecting Luala.

Discovered
add_selfie

Adds one selfie to one of the user's characters in Luala, which shoots are made from, free: one face, clearly visible, up to 15 selfies a character. It joins the character last used unless character names another. Pass the file the user attached as photo. If you can't, but the file is in your sandbox, call with its content_type (image/jpeg, image/png or image/webp: convert a HEIC to JPEG first) and size in bytes, PUT the file to the answer's upload url with its headers, then call again with the answer's key. Called with none of these, it answers with the luala.app page where the user adds it. The user accepted the upload rules when connecting Luala.

Discovered
balance

The user's credit balance, about how many photos it buys, and where to buy more.

Discovered
blur_faces

Hides every face in one of the user's photos, as a new photo, paid from their credits: effect blur or pixelate, strength 0 (light) to 100 (strong). The faces are found by Luala; with none found nothing is started or charged. To keep some faces sharp or hide one it missed, the user opens the photo's link and uses Blur faces in the app. Pass the price the user agreed to as max_credits: the photo's prices from get_shoot or list_photos name it. If a call to this tool got no answer, it may already have started: check list_photos before calling it again.

Discovered
combine

Adds to one of the user's photos, keeping its scene, framing and light, paid from their credits, exactly one of: the main subject of another of their photos (with_photo_id: an object or a person, a cutout works well), which may not be a selfie nor photo_id itself; or one of their characters (with_character), made from that character's selfies and dressed for the scene, who may not be the one the photo is of. Pass the price the user agreed to as max_credits: the photo's prices from get_shoot or list_photos name it. If a call to this tool got no answer, it may already have started: check list_photos before calling it again.

Discovered
edit

Makes an edited copy of one of the user's photos, paid from their credits. type change keeps the pose and framing and changes any of: outfit and place (ids from get_pack of the photo's pack; a place that is a pet or a print, not a scene, is not one to change to), light, the attributes, and text, up to 300 characters of what to change. type zoom_out steps back one step. Pass the price the user agreed to as max_credits: the photo's prices from get_shoot or list_photos name it. Text is rewritten before anything is made: what Luala doesn't make is left out, a look like a named person becomes that styling, and the result's text is what was sent. Fetch the result with list_photos. If a call to this tool got no answer, it may already have started: check list_photos before calling it again.

Discovered
get_pack

A pack's or mix's options (outfit, place, light, shots, shape and the attribute pickers), with ids, labels and defaults, and its price per photo. A pack's top names the 3 pickers to offer first, under the pack's own names; a pack without a place or light has an empty list for it. Each shot is one photo, and the user may pick any of them, from one to all (the default). start_shoot takes these ids.

Discovered
get_shoot

A shoot's photos: each one's id, whether it is ready, still working or failed (failed photos are refunded), each one's link in the Luala app (the link to give the user), and the shoot's page there; previews of the ready ones once none is working. While photos are working it waits up to 25 seconds for them before answering; call it again until none is working, telling the user how many are ready each time.

Discovered
light_camera

Changes the light, the camera or the look of one of the user's photos, paid from their credits: at most one pick per group (light, lens, angle, focus, look), and/or text, up to 300 characters of what to change. What is not picked stays as it is. light and look keep the pose, framing and scene; a lens, angle or focus pick re-imagines the same moment through that camera, so the framing changes. Text is rewritten before anything is made: what Luala doesn't make is left out, a look like a named person becomes that styling, and the result's text is what was sent. Pass the price the user agreed to as max_credits: the photo's prices from get_shoot or list_photos name it. If a call to this tool got no answer, it may already have started: check list_photos before calling it again.

Discovered
list_characters

The user's characters: the people their photos are made of, each a set of selfies (the user, or someone who gave them written consent), or an invented adult the user made from a form in the app (fictional: true), which shoots like any other and takes no selfies. The default is the one last used, which start_shoot and add_selfie use when no character is passed. When the user has more than one and hasn't said who a shoot is of, ask.

Discovered
list_packs

Lists Luala's photo packs (a themed shoot of several photos of the user, made from their selfies) and mixes (one photo from each of several packs), with what all of a pack's photos cost and the price of one: a shoot can be any of a pack's shots, down to a single photo. Optionally only the packs for one use case.

Discovered
list_photos

With ids, those photos (up to 10), with a preview of each ready one once none is working: how to fetch an edit's result. While one is working it waits up to 25 seconds for it. Without, the user's latest shoots, newest first, five at a time; pass the answer's next as before for the five after. With uploads true, the photos the user added in the app (My photos) and those made from them, newest first, ten at a time, paged the same way: an old print to restore, clothes to try on, something to add.

Discovered
remove_background

Cuts the person out of one of the user's photos, paid from their credits: on a clear (transparent) backdrop unless backdrop names a colour, #rrggbb (the app offers #ffffff, #e9e7e3, #3a3a3c, #000000, #1f2f4d, #bcd7ee, #f2e8d5, #b9c8b0). On a photo that is already a cutout it lays it on another backdrop. Pass the price the user agreed to as max_credits: the photo's prices from get_shoot or list_photos name it. If a call to this tool got no answer, it may already have started: check list_photos before calling it again.

Discovered
remove_objects

Takes what description names out of one of the user's photos, paid from their credits, and fills where it was from what is around it; nothing else in the photo changes. Describe it as the user did, in any language (the people behind me, the bin on the left, the sign and the cables): Luala finds every match and removes the ones the words mean. 4 credits for one or two kinds of thing, 5 for three or four; when nothing matches, nothing is charged and the answer says so. Not on a cutout. Pass the price the user agreed to as max_credits: the photo's prices from get_shoot or list_photos name it. If a call to this tool got no answer, it may already have started: check list_photos before calling it again.

Discovered
replace_background

Puts the person in one of the user's photos somewhere else, keeping their pose and framing, paid from their credits: scene is one of the app's scenes, or text says the place in up to 300 characters; a scene wins when both come. Text is rewritten before anything is made: what Luala doesn't make is left out, a look like a named person becomes that styling, and the result's text is what was sent. Pass the price the user agreed to as max_credits: the photo's prices from get_shoot or list_photos name it. If a call to this tool got no answer, it may already have started: check list_photos before calling it again.

Discovered
reroll

Makes the same photo again, a new take of the same look, paid from the user's credits. Pass the price the user agreed to as max_credits: the photo's prices from get_shoot or list_photos name it. If a call to this tool got no answer, it may already have started: check list_photos before calling it again.

Discovered
restore

Repairs an old or damaged photo of the user's (a photographed print, most often one from list_photos with uploads), paid from their credits: repair fixes scratches, tears and stains, faces enhances them, colourise adds colour to a black and white one. size 1K is Standard, 2K High quality, 4K Print quality; the price is by size. Pass the price the user agreed to as max_credits: the photo's prices from get_shoot or list_photos name it. If a call to this tool got no answer, it may already have started: check list_photos before calling it again.

Discovered
start_shoot

Starts a shoot of a pack from a character's saved selfies, paid from their credits: one photo per picked shot, at the price get_pack gives. Unless the user has said, offer them the whole pack or only the shots they want, even one. Tell the user the price first and pass it as max_credits; the shoot is refused if it costs more. A photo takes about 20 seconds, a 4K one about 30: follow them with get_shoot. If a call to this tool got no answer, it may already have started: check list_photos before calling it again.

Discovered
try_on

Puts the clothes another of the user's photos shows (with_photo_id) on the person in one of their photos, paid from their credits; part top or bottom takes only that part of the outfit. with_photo_id may not be a selfie, nor photo_id itself. Pass the price the user agreed to as max_credits: the photo's prices from get_shoot or list_photos name it. If a call to this tool got no answer, it may already have started: check list_photos before calling it again.

Discovered
upload_status

For Luala's widget: whether the file staged at key was saved by add_photo or add_selfie (tool). Read-only.

Discovered
upscale

Upscales one of the user's photos to 1K, 2K or 4K, paid from their credits. A photo is offered only the sizes larger than it and at most 4× its size; its prices from get_shoot or list_photos name them. Pass the price the user agreed to as max_credits. If a call to this tool got no answer, it may already have started: check list_photos before calling it again.

Discovered
zoom_in

Cuts a frame of the given shape out of one of the user's photos and upscales it to a full photo, paid from their credits. x, y and w are the frame's left edge, top edge and width as fractions of the photo (0 to 1); left out, the largest frame is centred. Pass the price the user agreed to as max_credits: the photo's prices from get_shoot or list_photos name it. If a call to this tool got no answer, it may already have started: check list_photos before calling it again.

Discovered

Recent measurements

Probe history

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Latest stored probes. Raw probe rows are kept for 14 days.
CheckedResultResponseTools
Connected111 ms22