---
title: "Elai integration for LuumenAI"
url: "https://www.luumen.ai/integrations/elai/"
entity: SoftwareIntegration
category: "AI & automation"
audience: "SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, IT operations"
---

# Elai integration for LuumenAI

Check Elai videos, avatars, and timing, then copy or render with approval

## What LuumenAI can do with Elai

LuumenAI connects to Elai with an API token and exposes 8 tools (4 read-only · 2 write · 2 destructive). For connected tools, admins configure which actions may run automatically and which require approval, within the access granted to the user.

## Key facts

- Authentication: API token
- Tools available: 8 tools (4 read-only · 2 write · 2 destructive)
- Deployment: scoped as part of your Pilot, Platform, or Managed rollout
- Category: AI & automation

## About Elai with LuumenAI

Connect Elai and the agent can see your video library from the terminal: render status, slide configuration, available avatars, and how long a script will run in a given voice. When you want a new draft, a Story video from text, or a render started, the agent shows the plan first and waits for your approval before it spends quota or rendering minutes.

## Example tools

Read-only (4 in total):

- `ELAI_ESTIMATE_SPEECH_DURATION` — Estimate how many seconds narration text will take with a selected Elai voice before modifying or rendering a video.
- `ELAI_GET_VIDEO` — Get a video's status, render URL, metadata, and optionally its full slide configuration.
- `ELAI_LIST_AVATARS` — Find available avatars and variants as compact records, optionally limited to Realtime-compatible avatars.
- `ELAI_LIST_VIDEOS` — List videos and templates as compact summaries, with filters and a continuation cursor for additional pages.

Write and destructive (4 in total, subject to configured approval policy):

- `ELAI_COPY_VIDEO` — Create a draft copy of an existing video or template; the new draft counts against Elai's creation quota.
- `ELAI_CREATE_STORY_VIDEO` — Create a Story video from text, HTML, or a web-page URL and generate its visual slides so it is ready for rendering.
- `ELAI_DELETE_VIDEO` — Permanently delete one Elai video or template.
- `ELAI_RENDER_VIDEO` — Start asynchronous rendering of a prepared video, consuming paid rendering minutes.

## Frequently asked questions

### How does LuumenAI connect to Elai?

Authorize once with API token. Luumen lists the scopes each action needs before you approve the connection, and credentials never appear in the chat.

### Can LuumenAI change things in Elai on its own?

For connected tools, admins configure which actions may run automatically and which require approval, within the access granted to the user.

### Is there an audit trail?

Every call to Elai — read or write, approved or declined — is recorded with the actor, the input, and the result.

Full page: https://www.luumen.ai/integrations/elai/