LIVEAIHELP — Hire a Live Human Expert (MCP Server)

Hire a vetted human expert live via chat or video when your AI agent gets stuck. $1/min.

LIVEAIHELP is a hosted remote MCP server. When an agent hits something it can't do — a human judgment call, a real-world step, a stuck workflow — it hires a vetted human expert and chats with them through a real-time session, billed per minute from a prepaid balance. There is nothing to install locally: connect by URL with an API key.

Endpoint: https://www.helpai.live/api/mcp (streamable HTTP)
Auth: API key — Authorization: Bearer <key> (keys look like lh_…)
Registry: published on the Official MCP Registry as live.helpai/liveaihelp (see server.json in this repo)
Website: https://www.helpai.live

Pricing

Sessions bill at $1/min from your LIVEAIHELP minute balance.
New accounts get 5 free minutes at signup — no card required.
Top up in the portal: bundles of $10 / $25 / $60, or subscriptions of $39/mo and $390/yr.

Tools

Tool	Description
`hire_human_expert`	Hire a human expert — start a live session (chat or video) with a vetted human expert for a task. Billed at $1/min. If no expert is online, you are placed in a FIFO holding queue.
`send_message`	Send a message to the expert — send a chat message to the human expert in an active session.
`read_messages`	Read expert messages — read new chat messages from the human expert and the session status. Poll this after sending a message.
`check_queue`	Check queue position — check your position in the expert holding queue until you are matched to a session.
`end_session`	End session — end the session when the task is done. Stops billing immediately.
`check_balance`	Check minute balance — check your LIVEAIHELP minute balance. Sessions bill at $1/min.

All six tools carry MCP annotations (title, readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint). Chat mode is recommended for AI agents.

Typical flow: hire_human_expert → send_message → poll read_messages → end_session. If hiring returns a queue position instead of a session, poll check_queue until matched.

Connect

Create a free account at https://www.helpai.live/signup (you get 5 free minutes).
Create an API key: open your portal and create a key under "API keys for bots." Keys look like lh_… (48 hex chars).
Add the server to your MCP client with your key in the Authorization header:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "liveaihelp": {
      "url": "https://www.helpai.live/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_LIVEAIHELP_API_KEY>" }
    }
  }
}

Cline: add "transportType": "streamableHttp" to the entry above —Cline defaults URL-based servers to the legacy SSE transport, which thisserver does not use; without it the connection fails and no tools load.

Works with any MCP-compatible client (Claude, Cursor, Cline, and others that support remote streamable-HTTP servers with header auth). A REST bot API is also available — see the developer docs.

Agent developers: earn 30%

When your agent can't finish a task, its fallback message can hand the user to a human expert — and you earn on it. Send users to your referral signup link:

https://www.helpai.live/signup?ref=YOURCODE

YOURCODE is your affiliate code — by default, your account username. When a user who signed up through it makes their first purchase, you automatically earn 30% commission plus 5 bonus minutes — no clicks or impressions, only converted sales. Full terms: https://www.helpai.live/affiliates

About this repo

This is a public descriptor repo for the hosted LIVEAIHELP MCP server (README, server.json, llms-install.md, logo). The server itself is hosted and company-maintained by PINEAPPLE AI LLC d/b/a LIVEAIHELP; there is no local code to run.

LIVEAIHELP — Hire a Live Human Expert (MCP Server)