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AI agents and MCP

Give Claude, Cursor or any MCP client the gateway and its primitives as tools. Each tool says what it costs before it runs.

Add the server

Paste this into your client’s MCP config. TIKULTRA_MAX_CREDITS caps what one conversation can spend.

Claude DesktopTerminalmcp.json

1{
2  "mcpServers": {
3    "tikultra": {
4      "command": "npx",
5      "args": [
6        "-y",
7        "@tikultra/mcp"
8      ],
9      "env": {
10        "TIKULTRA_KEY": "tu_live_…",
11        "TIKULTRA_MAX_CREDITS": "500"
12      }
13    }
14  }
15}

Available tools

Tool	What it does	Cost
`tikultra_get_video`	Video metadata, stats, author, sound and stream specs.	5 cr
`tikultra_profile_posts`	A page of a profile's posts.	5 cr
`tikultra_search`	Search videos, users, LIVE, hashtags, sounds and places.	5 cr
`tikultra_resolve`	Any link or @handle to typed IDs.	2 cr
`tikultra_no_watermark`	Source 1080p60 ByteVC1 or H.264 master URLs.	2 cr
`tikultra_protobuf_decode`	Decode a raw protobuf payload to JSON.	2 cr
`tikultra_shop_pdp`	The full mobile SDUI product page tree.	25 cr

No MCP client?

Point any agent at tikultra.com/llms.txt. It lists every endpoint, its upstream path, its parameters and its cost in plain Markdown.