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title: "LangChain Integration" description: "Use MuAPI inside LangChain and LangGraph agents — generative media tools, a document loader, a cost-tracking callback, and a turnkey Deep Agents recipe."

LangChain Integration

The official muapi-langchain package wraps MuAPI's 390+ generative-media models, 40+ named skills, and creative agent into idiomatic LangChain primitives. Drop them into a ReAct agent, a LangGraph node, or a Deep Agent — your LLM gains the ability to create images, videos, audio, edits, and full multi-asset campaigns.

Package	Purpose
muapi-langchain	LangChain tools + document loader + cost callback + Deep Agents example

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Installation

The package currently ships from source in the muapi-cli repository (PyPI release is coming):

pip install "git+https://github.com/SamurAIGPT/muapi-cli.git#subdirectory=integrations/langchain"

# Optional: for the Deep Agents recipe below
pip install "deepagents langgraph langchain-openai"

Set your API key (or use muapi auth configure):

export MUAPI_API_KEY="..."

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What's included

The integration exposes four tools that form a capability gradient — cheap discovery on one end, open-ended creative planning on the other:

Tool	What it does	Cost
muapi_select	Rank models and named skills for a brief	Free
muapi_generate	Single-shot generation (image / video / audio / edit / enhance)	Per call
muapi_run_skill	Run a named multi-step recipe (UGC ad, storyboard, product video, …)	Per recipe
muapi_creative_agent	Hand a multi-asset brief to MuAPI's planning agent	Variable

Plus two non-tool primitives:

• MuapiAssetLoader — load prior generations as LangChain Documents for RAG
• MuapiCostCallback — track credit spend across a run, enforce a hard budget cap

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Quick Start

from muapi_langchain import muapi_select, muapi_generate
import json

# Discover candidates (free — no credits spent)
result = muapi_select.invoke({
    "intent": "cinematic product photo of a sneaker",
    "kind": "image",
    "tier": "best",
    "limit": 3,
})
print(json.loads(result)["models"])

# Generate
out = muapi_generate.invoke({
    "prompt": "A glossy sneaker on a wet street, neon-lit night",
    "kind": "image",
    "tier": "best",
})
print(json.loads(out)["url"])

The tools are plain @tool-decorated functions, so they work in any LangChain agent framework — create_react_agent, LangGraph custom graphs, Deep Agents, or direct tool-calling via the OpenAI / Anthropic SDKs.

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Tool Reference

muapi_select(intent, kind?, tier?, limit=5)

Rank candidate models and skills for an intent. Free — runs locally using a keyword-overlap ranker against the bundled 390-model registry.

• intent: Plain-English description of what the user wants.
• kind: Optional — one of "image", "image_edit", "video", "i2v", "video_edit", "lipsync", "audio", "enhance", "3d".
• tier: Optional — "best", "balanced", "fast", or "budget".

Use this first when you don't know which model fits, or to surface a named skill that matches the brief.

muapi_generate(prompt, kind="image", model="auto", input_asset_url?, tier="balanced", extra?)

Generate one asset. With model="auto", MuAPI picks a sensible default for the kind + tier. For edits / image-to-video / lipsync / enhance, pass input_asset_url.

muapi_generate.invoke({
    "prompt": "make the cat wear a top hat",
    "kind": "image_edit",
    "input_asset_url": "https://...source.png",
})

muapi_run_skill(skill_name, inputs)

Run one of 40+ pre-baked multi-step recipes (ugc-ads-workflow, storyboard, product-ad-cinematic, 3d-logo-animation, etc.). Discover skill names and their input schemas via muapi_select.

muapi_creative_agent(brief, budget_credits=300)

Hand a free-form multi-asset brief to MuAPI's planning agent. The agent decomposes the brief into a DAG, executes it, and returns the assets. Can spend significant credits — gate this with interrupt_on in production.

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Document Loader

MuapiAssetLoader hydrates previous generations as LangChain Documents, with page_content set to the original prompt and metadata carrying the asset URL, model, kind, and credit cost. Useful for RAG ("do another in that style") and for evaluations over a user's generation history.

from muapi_langchain import MuapiAssetLoader

docs = MuapiAssetLoader(request_ids=["req_abc", "req_def"]).load()
for d in docs:
    print(d.metadata["url"], "·", d.page_content[:80])

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Cost Tracking

MuapiCostCallback plugs into any LangChain / LangGraph run. It inspects each MuAPI tool result, accumulates credits, fires a custom event per call, and (optionally) raises BudgetExceeded once a cap is hit — aborting the agent cleanly before runaway spend.

from muapi_langchain import MuapiCostCallback

cost_cb = MuapiCostCallback(
    budget_credits=500,
    on_event=lambda evt, payload: print(evt, payload),
)

agent.invoke(
    {"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "make me a 3-shot carousel ..."}]},
    config={"callbacks": [cost_cb]},
)

print(cost_cb.summary())
# {'total_credits': 78, 'calls': 4, 'by_tool': {'muapi_generate': 78}, ...}

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Deep Agents Recipe

The recommended production pattern splits the tools across a planner (cheap discovery + single-shot generation) and a creative-specialist subagent (multi-step skills + the creative agent). Open-ended creative work is gated for human approval via interrupt_on.

import os, uuid
from deepagents import create_deep_agent
from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI
from langgraph.checkpoint.memory import MemorySaver
from langgraph.types import Command
from muapi_langchain import (
    MuapiCostCallback, PLANNER_TOOLS, SPECIALIST_TOOLS,
)

CREATIVE_SPECIALIST = {
    "name": "creative-specialist",
    "description": (
        "Handles multi-step MuAPI workflows: named skills (UGC ads, "
        "storyboards, product videos) and open-ended creative briefs."
    ),
    "system_prompt": (
        "You are a MuAPI creative specialist. "
        "Prefer muapi_run_skill when the brief matches a named recipe. "
        "Escalate to muapi_creative_agent only for open-ended multi-asset briefs."
    ),
    "tools": SPECIALIST_TOOLS,
}

agent = create_deep_agent(
    model=ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4o", api_key=os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"]),
    tools=PLANNER_TOOLS,
    subagents=[CREATIVE_SPECIALIST],
    system_prompt=(
        "Start with muapi_select to discover models and skills. "
        "Call muapi_generate yourself for single-asset asks. "
        "Delegate multi-step work to the creative-specialist."
    ),
    interrupt_on={
        "muapi_creative_agent": {"allowed_decisions": ["approve", "edit", "reject"]},
    },
    checkpointer=MemorySaver(),
)

cost_cb = MuapiCostCallback(budget_credits=500)
config = {"configurable": {"thread_id": str(uuid.uuid4())}, "callbacks": [cost_cb]}

result = agent.invoke(
    {"messages": [{"role": "user", "content":
        "Make a 3-shot Instagram carousel for SunFizz mango sparkling water."
    }]},
    config=config,
    version="v2",
)

# Resume after each interrupt
while getattr(result, "interrupts", None):
    action = result.interrupts[0].value["action_requests"][0]
    print(f"Pending: {action['name']}")
    print(f"Args:    {action['args']}")
    decision = input("approve / edit / reject: ").strip().lower()
    result = agent.invoke(
        Command(resume={"decisions": [{"type": decision}]}),
        config=config,
        version="v2",
    )

print(cost_cb.summary())

A complete runnable version lives at integrations/langchain/examples/deep_agents_demo.py.

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Decision Tree

User brief
  ├─ Don't know which model/skill?  → muapi_select          (free, planner)
  ├─ Single asset, clear prompt?    → muapi_generate        (planner)
  ├─ Matches a known recipe?        → muapi_run_skill       (specialist)
  └─ Multi-asset / multi-modal?     → muapi_creative_agent  (specialist, gated)

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Environment Variables

Variable	Required	Notes
MUAPI_API_KEY	Yes	Your MuAPI key, or set via muapi auth configure
OPENAI_API_KEY	For Deep Agents	Powers the planner LLM in the example
MUAPI_BASE_URL	No	Defaults to https://api.muapi.ai/api/v1

For development, you can mint a sandbox key (is_test=true) that returns mock URLs instantly and never charges credits — see the CLI docs for how to create one.

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Related

• MuAPI CLI — same auth, same client; the integration depends on muapi-cli
• MCP Server — alternative for Claude / Cursor / Windsurf via Model Context Protocol
• n8n — drag-and-drop visual workflows
• Agents — overview of MuAPI's agentic surfaces