Skill Claude CodeCodex
Houdini cross-DCC asset import skill — consumes an AssetDescriptor, imports the asset file into a geo container via a File SOP, and returns an ImportToSceneResult. Use as the receiving end of the asset import pipeline after an asset-source skill resolves the descriptor.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Interchange skill — load-on-demand import/export of Houdini geometry and scenes through production formats (native bgeo/geo, OBJ, Alembic, FBX, USD) plus filesystem probing. Use these typed tools instead of hand-building ROP/LOP/SOP networks with raw scripts.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Pipeline skill — configure Karma CPU/XPU render settings, material overrides, light mixer, and image output through typed tools. Pair with houdini-render for full render execution and houdini-camera-light for scene setup.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Pipeline skill — typed KineFX character animation tools. Create and configure rig skeletons, set rig poses, capture joint skinning weights, and apply motion capture data via SOP-level KineFX nodes.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Authoring skill — pre-configured lighting templates: three-point rigs, HDRI worlds, area softboxes, rig-level intensity controls, and view transform management. Builds on top of houdini-camera-light (individual light create/update) to provide higher-level lighting automation. Pair with houdini-camera-light for…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Authoring skill — lookdev and shader-network operations: inspect materials, libraries, shader nodes and assignments; get/set shader parameters with type-aware validation; inspect and rewire shader connections; reset assignments; and manage adapter-owned material presets. Pair with houdini-materials for material…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Authoring skill — manage reusable material presets as JSON library files, handle texture assignment (image nodes / file paths), reload textures from disk, configure OCIO color management and list available color spaces, inspect material/shader connections and assignments. Pair with houdini-materials (create/assign)…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Authoring skill - create and assign Houdini materials, including typed MaterialX PBR networks for Karma. Use when building lookdev/material workflows from color, roughness, metallic, normal, or displacement maps. Not for generic node graph edits.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Authoring skill — typed procedural modeling operations with bounded schemas, native SOP parameter readback, and cooked geometry postconditions. Covers loft, lathe, extrude, bevel, inset, bridge, Boolean, edge-loop, radial array, mirror, UV, transform, merge, group, normal, triangulate, and convert flows.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Authoring skill — inspect and edit Houdini node-graph relationships: semantic network inspection (broken inputs, orphans, cycles, subgraphs, type mismatches), controllable auto-layout with user-position preservation, connect/disconnect inputs by explicit index. Use instead of arbitrary Python for wiring nodes. For…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Authoring skill - create, connect, configure, cook, lay out, and delete Houdini nodes through typed HOM operations. Use when building SOP/OBJ/ROP networks or automating graph edits. Not for arbitrary Python snippets.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Authoring skill — object-level Houdini mutations: rename, duplicate, reparent, set display/render/template/bypass flags, hard-lock/unlock, and read/set pivot and translate-rotate-scale transforms. Use these typed tools instead of arbitrary Python for editing existing nodes. Not for creating nodes (use houdini-nodes)…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Authoring skill — inspect and edit Houdini node parameters, parameter templates, spare parameters, and channel expressions through typed atomic tools. Use instead of arbitrary Python for reading/setting parms, adding spare parms, and managing expressions. For node connections use houdini-node-graph.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Pipeline skill — generic, adapter-owned project and shot/package automation: set/query the project root, tag and read portable asset metadata, validate a scene for missing files / bad output dirs / dirty state / cook errors, collect file dependencies into a manifest (no copying), and export a shot/package manifest…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Pipeline skill — viewport capture/flipbook plus ROP render settings and render execution through typed, runtime-aware tools. Exports report writtenfiles, elapsed time, and separate error/warning diagnostics without hanging the host. Pair with houdini-camera-light to set up cameras and lights first.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Scene-management skill — typed Houdini scene lifecycle (new/open/save with dirty-scene safeguards), selection (get/set/find), camera discovery, and bounding-box queries. Use these atomic tools instead of arbitrary Python for everyday scene navigation and file operations. Not for node authoring (use houdini-nodes) or…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Scene skill — read-only inspection of the active Houdini hip file and node graphs. Use when you need the current selection, display-SOP geometry counts, frame range, hip path, object-level nodes, or node details. Not for creating geometry, sims, or exports — use authoring or interchange skills.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Bootstrap skill — controlled Python execution inside Houdini's hython interpreter. Use when no typed Houdini skill covers the task or you need session diagnostics. Not for routine scene edits — prefer houdini-scene or future domain skills.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Pipeline stage — bake ambient occlusion, lighting, texture maps (diffuse, normals, cavity, curvature etc.) from geometry to image files, list bake-compatible geometry with UV info, and transfer maps from high-res source to low-res target. Pair with houdini-render for render output and houdini-materials for shader…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Solaris/USD query skill — read-only inspection of a LOP node's composed Stage. Use it to list prims, inspect one prim, or read bounded attribute values. Not for USD authoring, import, or export.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Typed VEX creation and diagnosis workflow — create or update Wrangle nodes, validate VEX syntax, cook, and collect geometry diagnostics with failure localization. Never degrades to arbitrary script execution; all VEX code is set via typed node parameters only.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
mGear Shifter deep integration - inspect environments, list components, create guides, build rigs, export templates, and import sample templates.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Import asset files into Maya scene with mGear rigging context awareness, following the dccmcpcore.assetimport contract.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Best practices for using vx effectively. Use when following recommended patterns for tool management, project setup, and team workflows with vx.