Run your event by asking
Connect Picsui to the assistant you already use and manage the event in chat. “Who has not replied yet?” “Add these twelve people to the list.” “Start a photo challenge asking guests to find someone in the same colour.”
It works through the Model Context Protocol, an open standard, so Picsui is a server any MCP client can connect to rather than an integration with one company. Your key, your account, and a read-only option that makes the tools that change things invisible.
Connecting it
- 1Create an API key in your Picsui dashboard. Choose read-only unless you want the assistant to make changes.
- 2In your assistant, add a new MCP server.
- 3Give it the URL below and your key as a bearer token. The assistant finds the tools by itself.
https://picsui.com/api/mcp
Authorization: Bearer pk_live_…A GET on that URL returns the server description, so you can check the connection before wiring anything up.
What it can do
The full list, not a sample. A read-only key sees the first group only.
Available on any key
list_events
List the events on this Picsui account, newest first, with their status, code, date and photo count.
get_event
Full detail for one event: dates, settings, guest and photo counts, and which features are switched on.
get_rsvp_summary
Counts for an event's guest list: invited, coming, not coming, still waiting, people expected, and how many have arrived.
list_guests
The guest list for an event, with each person's RSVP, party size and arrival status. Optionally filtered.
list_song_requests
The song requests for an event, most-wanted first, with vote counts and what has already been played.
get_photo_stats
How an event's photo collection is going: total uploaded, approved, waiting for review, and how many guests contributed.
Needs a key with write access
add_guests
Add people to an event's guest list. Accepts a pasted list — one guest per line, name first, optionally an email and how many they are invited for. Re-adding an existing email updates that person instead of duplicating them.
check_in_guest
Record how many of a guest's party arrived at the door. Pass 0 to undo a check-in.
start_game
Start a round of a guest game. The prompt is the whole game: it is what guests are asked to do.
update_event_settings
Turn event features on or off: RSVPs, song requests, games, seating, the gift registry, guest networking.
What it deliberately cannot do
Four things are missing on purpose. A connector is only worth having if the worst case is bounded.
Send anything to your guests
An assistant with a key that lives in a chat window should not be able to email two hundred people. You send from the dashboard, where you see the recipient count before it goes.
Take a payment or issue a refund
Money moves through Stripe with you present. There is no tool for it.
Delete an event or its photos
The one action nobody can undo is the one action an assistant does not get.
See another host's account
No tool accepts an account id. Your key resolves to you, and every query is scoped to it — so there is no request an assistant could make that reaches someone else's event.
Questions
Which assistants can connect?
Any client that speaks the Model Context Protocol. That includes Claude, and any tool built on the open MCP standard. Picsui implements the protocol rather than integrating with one company, so a client that supports MCP works without us shipping anything.
How do I connect it?
Create an API key in your Picsui dashboard, then add Picsui as an MCP server in your assistant using the URL picsui.com/api/mcp and that key as a bearer token. The assistant discovers the available tools itself.
Can I give it read-only access?
Yes, and it is the sensible default. A read-only key exposes only the tools that observe: the guest list, RSVP counts, song requests, photo stats. The assistant literally cannot see the tools that change anything, so it cannot try.
Does the assistant see my guests' contact details?
It sees the guest list you created, including names and emails you entered, because that is what answering questions about your guest list requires. It never receives invitation tokens, which are the credentials that open a guest's own invitation.
What does this cost?
Nothing extra. The connector uses your normal Picsui plan and your own assistant subscription.
Ask your assistant who has not replied
Create an event, add your guest list, and connect the assistant you already use.
Start free