The New Black AI

MCP connector for Claude

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard way for an AI assistant to use outside tools. Add ours to Claude and the whole fashion studio becomes tools in your chat: describe a look, hand over a product photo, and Claude generates on your own The New Black AI account, without leaving the conversation.

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Connect it in a minute

One server address, the same for every assistant. You will be asked for your API key at the first connection — create it in your profile, API tab (the generate and read scopes; add publish to post to Shopify).

https://mcp.thenewblack.ai/api/mcp
  1. Claude on the web or Claude Desktop — Settings › Connectors › Add custom connector. Name: The New Black AI; Remote MCP server URL: the address above; leave the advanced settings empty. Add, then enter your API key.
  2. Claude Code — claude mcp add --transport http thenewblack https://mcp.thenewblack.ai/api/mcp, then authorise with the key when asked. (For a project of code, the CLI is usually the better door.)
  3. Cursor and other MCP clients — add an HTTP MCP server with that URL and an Authorization: Bearer tnb_live_… header.

Then simply ask: “generate an on-model photo of this handbag with The New Black AI”.

What Claude can do with it

The connector builds its tools from the platform's own catalogue at request time, so it always offers exactly what the studio offers today — the workflows catalogue lists them with their parameters and prices. In the chat that means:

  • Design from a prompt, a sketch or a fabric; put a product on an AI model; virtual try-on on a model you supply; ghost mannequin; edits and variations from any result.
  • Video: animate a still into a 5 or 10 second clip, change a background, swap a model, reframe.
  • HD upscaling of any image; vectorising to SVG.
  • Your library: creations, projects, starred elements, tech packs and moodboards with their PDF export.
  • Shopify: list the connected store's products and publish a creation onto a product page.

Every result stays interactive in the chat: reuse it as a reference, try it on, animate it, upscale it — from the same card. Uploads of your own photos happen through an upload card in the conversation.

What it costs

The connector is free. Generations spend the credits of the account behind the key, at the same prices as in the app — the catalogue states each workflow's price, video by the second. Reading your library costs nothing.

MCP, API or CLI?

In a conversation, add the connector. It is the door for using the studio while you talk, with results shown in the chat. In a project of code, install the CLI. It runs the same API as a program, handles your local files and saves the results next to them. In your own backend, call the API. Same account, same key, same credits behind the three.

Frequently asked questions

What is an MCP?

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, an open standard that lets an AI assistant use outside tools. An MCP server describes what it can do; the assistant reads that description and calls the tools during the conversation. Ours describes every workflow of the studio, so Claude can generate fashion visuals for you while you talk.

Which assistants can use it?

Any client that speaks MCP over HTTP: Claude on the web, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and the others that follow the standard. The server address is the same everywhere; only the place where you paste it changes.

Do I need an account?

Yes. The connector runs on your own The New Black AI account: you connect it with an API key from your profile, and every generation spends your credits at the studio's prices. The connector itself is free.

What can Claude do once connected?

Everything the catalogue lists: design from a prompt, dress a model, virtual try-on, ghost mannequin, edits and variations, image to video, HD upscaling, and the rest — plus reading your creations, projects, tech packs and moodboards, and publishing to your Shopify product pages. New workflows appear as tools by themselves.

Is my key stored?

No. The key travels with each request from your assistant to the connector and on to the API; the connector keeps nothing but a short-lived note of running jobs so the result can be shown when it is ready.

MCP or CLI?

In a conversation, add the connector. In a project of code, a script, a cron or an agent working in a folder of files, install the CLI — it is the same API as a program, and it handles your local files.