Houdini MCP Server

Item: Houdini MCP Server
Rating: 35
Author: M8ven

Enables AI assistants to control SideFX Houdini 3D software, providing tools for scene management, node operations, rendering, and more through the Model Context Protocol.

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// key findings

⚠️

Tool descriptions don’t match what handlers do

1 tool describes read intent but its handler mutates — get_node_info (line 104: params[parm.name()] = parm.eval())

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configMCP_PORT— 3055 MCP server HTTP port

configMCP_TRANSPORT— http Transport type (http, stdio, sse)

configLOG_LEVEL— INFO Logging level

configHOUDINI_HOST— 192.168.50.90 python -m houdini_mcp

configHOUDINI_PORT— 18811 hrpyc server port

configHOUDINI_MCP_SEMAPHORE_LIMIT

configCLAUDE_PROXY_URL

configSUMMARIZATION_MODEL

configSUMMARIZATION_ENABLED

configAUTO_SUMMARIZE_THRESHOLD

configTARGET_SUMMARY_TOKENS

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commit: 067ba757f46976ee7bf3ae96dfb83473028975cb

code hash: fa5be0a79dca798dc6d85efd8114900322d1843ccf873c3b8e266c92dde734b2

verified: 7/6/2026, 10:36:32 AM

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