HoudiniMCP

Item: HoudiniMCP
Rating: 69
Author: M8ven

Connects SideFX Houdini to Claude via the Model Context Protocol, enabling control of Houdini scenes, nodes, rendering, and more through 166 MCP tools.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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Open source with a license and README

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// required environment variables

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

configHOUDINIMCP_PORT

configHOUDINIMCP_NO_HEADLESS— Disable: set =1 to prevent auto-launch

configHFS— hython is found via $/bin/hython, PATH, or common install locations (/opt/hfs, C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\).

configHOUDINIMCP_HEADLESS

configHOUDINI_PATH

configHOUDINIMCP_HIP

configCLAUDE_TERMINAL

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commit: 705aff19f47425b17c7130911ec1481048b816d0

code hash: 017c45715ed1d5c0e264f2f422820f3c4fa69b94f55fa77aa2250eed9aefcd92

verified: 6/17/2026, 11:26:37 AM

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