Aetherwave MCP

@aetherwave-studio/mcp

Model Context Protocol server for AetherWave Studio. Drop it into any MCP-compatible client (Claude Code, Cursor, Continue, Claude Desktop, custom agents) and your LLM can generate, edit, upscale, reframe, and master across every flagship creative AI provider through one API key, one credit pool.

One install. One token. Thirty-five default tools covering:

• Music - Suno V3.5 / V4 / V4.5 / V5 / V5.5 / V6
• Image gen - Grok Imagine, GPT Image 2, Seedream V4, Wan 2.7, Nano Banana 2, Flux 2, Qwen Image, Z-Image Turbo
• Image edit - Grok Imagine I2I, Seedream V4 Edit, Flux Kontext, Wan 2.5 Spicy, Qwen Edit, GPT Image 1.5
• Image utility - 2x / 4x upscale, Recraft background removal (with fal BiRefNet v2 fallback), Ideogram V3 Reframe
• Video - Grok Imagine (KIE+fal fallback), Wan 2.7, Hailuo 02, Seedance Pro/Lite, Kling 2.6 (audio), VEO 3.1, Happy Horse
• Video utility - Atlas upscaler (1080p/2K), rembg u2netp background removal, Luma Ray 2 Flash reframe
• Audio mastering - 12 genre/style presets via the AetherWave Python service
• Voiceover - text to speech in 9 voices on Fish Audio, 5 credits per 1,000 characters
• Gallery - upload your own images, audio and video (local file, URL or data URL), and a paginated list of your saved creations
• User manuals - the MCP, Graphic Novel Studio, UGC Studio and Project Studio manuals as PDF links (saved to Downloads on the npx server)
• Comic books - 9 tools driving the AetherWave Graphic Novel Engine end to end: cast, character references, script, panels, lettered pages, and a PDF / EPUB / CBZ download link
• Merch - 4 tools: garment catalog, design-to-mockup, and (with PRINTFUL_API_TOKEN) 2 more that create and list products in your own Printful store, plus 1 admin shop-listing tool

Every generation tool submits the job and waits up to a soft 45 s deadline for the result. Fast jobs come back with the final URL in one round-trip; anything longer returns state: "running" with a taskId, and aetherwave_get_job covers every pipeline (image, video, music, mastering, comics, merch) for polling. Pass async: true on any tool to return immediately. Results auto-save to your Cloudflare R2 gallery so URLs don't expire.

The comic tools are built around this from the start: a book takes about an hour to draw, so each slow step starts and returns at once, and aetherwave_comic_status is how the agent checks back. See Make a comic book with the MCP.

Quick start

# 1. Get a key at https://aetherwavestudio.com/profile (Developer tab)

2. Add to your MCP client config (see below)

3. Restart the client

4. Ask your agent to "generate a synthwave album cover, then animate it"

Claude Code

claude mcp add aetherwave \

-e AETHERWAVE_API_KEY=aw_live_your_key_here \ -- npx -y @aetherwave-studio/mcp

Claude Desktop

Edit ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):

{

"mcpServers": { "aetherwave": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@aetherwave-studio/mcp"], "env": { "AETHERWAVE_API_KEY": "aw_live_..." } } } }

Restart Claude Desktop.

Cursor

In Cursor Settings -> MCP -> Add new server:

{

"aetherwave": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@aetherwave-studio/mcp"], "env": { "AETHERWAVE_API_KEY": "aw_live_..." } } }

Continue (VS Code / JetBrains)

In your ~/.continue/config.yaml:

mcpServers:

• name: aetherwave command: npx args: ["-y", "@aetherwave-studio/mcp"] env: AETHERWAVE_API_KEY: aw_live_...

Custom / programmatic clients

Standard stdio MCP server. Any client that speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over stdio per the MCP spec can connect:

AETHERWAVE_API_KEY=aw_live_... npx -y @aetherwave-studio/mcp

Tools at a glance

Every generation tool includes a model-selection rubric in its description. Your agent can pick the right model from prompt intent without round-tripping list_image_models or list_video_models.

Make a comic book with the MCP

Nine tools drive the AetherWave Graphic Novel Engine from start to finish, so an agent can turn one sentence into a finished, lettered comic. You say something like:

Make me a 12-page Franco-Belgian adventure comic about a 14-year-old courier and her grumbling mechanic uncle who fly the village's last airmail balloon over the Alps at night to deliver a letter that stops a dam from flooding their home. All ages. Keep it under 350 credits.

and the agent runs this sequence:

Measured on a real book

"The Last Balloon Post" (2026-09-25) was made exactly this way, through the same API these tools call:

• 12 pages, 27 panels, 301 credits: 27 panels x 9 = 243, script 40, three character references 18. The estimate had quoted 462, because it assumes 48 panels for 12 pages. Re-quote from creditsToFinishDrawing once the script exists.
• About 65 minutes of drawing, 1.5 to 6 minutes a panel, strictly one after another. About 80 minutes end to end.
• 9 panel failures along the way, none charged: 3 content-filter refusals, 4 upstream "Internal Error" flakes, 2 panels cut off when the server restarted. Every one was drawn on a later run.
• Assembly took about 45 seconds for 12 pages. The PDF was 130 MB, which is why export returns a link rather than the file.

Rules the agent should follow

• Approve references before writing the script. Approving re-describes the character from the picture, and the script writer reads that description. A character with no approved reference is drawn from text alone and their face drifts between panels.
• Never treat a stopped run as finished. A server restart ends a drawing run silently. aetherwave_comic_status reports drawing: "stalled" whenever panels are pending or failed and no run is active. aetherwave_comic_draw is safe to call again: it draws only what is missing and never double-starts (a second start reports alreadyDrawing).
• Reword, do not retry, a refused panel. failedPanels[].errorMessage in the status carries the reason. A content refusal repeats on a plain retry; `aetherwav