io.github.seayniclabs/lathe

Lathe

Is the Lathe MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-10-29.

Local file and media tools: images, PDF, audio, video, OCR, batch and metadata. Runs locally.

alive probed 2026-11-15 · unchanged since 2026-10-29

21tools

4.7ktokens in Claude Opus 5.5

2.4 %of Claude's 200k window

1.9×the median server

1.8 sto initialize

10 msto list tools

Run it: uvx lathe-mcp@0.4.1 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
Host: pypi.org
Reports itself as: lathe 0.4.1
Capabilities: experimental, prompts, resources, tools
Instructions: 658 characters
Of a 1M window: 0.5 % of a 1M context window
Count: 4.7k tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-10-29. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 4.9k. The o200k_base estimate is 2.5k. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
Repository: https://github.com/seayniclabs/lathe
Registry: active, updated 2026-10-27 · registry entry

Most expensive tools

The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.90×.

Tool	≈ Claude tokens	o200k estimate	Share of this server
video_to_gif	379	200	8 %
image_resize	370	195	8 %
pdf_extract_text	341	180	7 %
pdf_to_images	315	166	7 %
image_crop	302	159	6 %

Other registry entries on pypi.org, the ones next to this name; all of them.

Servers that mention lathe.

Lathe computer.lathe/lathe · needs auth
Lathe live.lathe/lathe · needs auth
Western Sky Heating and Cooling (Montana) com.westernskyhvac.www/booking · alive
Flathead Trades com.flatheadtrades/directory · alive

The result of the latest probe, the tool count and the token cost. The feed has an entry for every probe that changed them.

Stops answering, comes back, tool set or cost changes. One confirmation mail first, a stop link in every mail.