Luckin Coffee Opens an AI Open Platform So AI Agents Can Order Coffee via MCP, Skill and CLI

Luckin Coffee launched an AI open platform on June 9, 2026, releasing an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, a Skill and a command-line tool (CLI) that let a user's own AI agent handle the whole ordering process of choosing a store, selecting products and placing an order, according to a hands-on report published on NetEase in June 2026. Luckin provides the tools but not the model, so users supply their own large-model API key. Demand on launch day exceeded the sign-up quota, and Luckin announced extra places that evening. In the reporter's test, installing the CLI took one command; the user then logs in with a Luckin account in the browser, adds a model API key (the reporter used Kimi from Moonshot AI) and types requests in natural language. The tool could not find a store unless its exact name was given, and a nearby-store search misreported a shop 10 km away as 0.29 km away. Once the store was identified, a request for an orange-flavoured Americano returned an order number, item details, price and a payment QR code, and the pickup order appeared in the Luckin mini-programme with the user's usual preferences. The price was 13.9 yuan, versus 12.9 yuan the reporter had paid in the mini-programme. The whole session from setup to order made about 20 model calls and used about 74,000 tokens, costing under 1 yuan with the basic model and an estimated nearly 6 yuan at a Claude model's rates. A second test imported Luckin's Skill into the WorkBuddy agent: the first order used 44.87 credits as the agent confirmed address and preferences, while a repeat order used only 0.73 credits, at the same prices as the mini-programme. Before the open platform, Luckin launched an in-app ordering agent, AI Lucky, in 2025 that takes voice and text orders, added in-conversation payment with Alipay in September 2025, and integrated with Huawei's Xiaoyi and Alibaba's Qianwen assistants. The open platform exposes those capabilities to external agents through standard protocols; McDonald's China launched a comparable MCP service in December 2025.