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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Installs comfy-cli's bundled agent skills into any harness and sets the zero-cost validate gate and credit audit for paid ComfyUI runs. Use when setting up comfy-cli, when comfy skills are missing, or before a workflow run that bills partner-node credits.

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Skill Claude Code

Analyzes a downloaded ComfyUI workflow JSON to list required custom nodes and models, install locations and a setup checklist. Use when the user shares a workflow JSON or asks 'what nodes does this need' or 'help me set up this workflow'.

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Skill Claude Code

Generates photoreal anchor keyframes from CG previs for reference-guided video models such as Seedance - previs shading, frame choice, pose reference sets. Use for "anchor keyframes", "previs to photoreal video", or generations that ignore the CG pose.

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Plugin Claude Code

Houdini VFX pipeline: procedural generation, USD/Solaris, VEX, Python automation, HDA creation.

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MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

MCP server "houdini" as configured in sideshowroberto/vfx-agent-toolkit. Runs locally from the python Python package.

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Skill Claude Code

Creates and manages Houdini Digital Assets (HDAs) - parameter interfaces, compilation, versioning and asset organization. Use when authoring reusable Houdini tools or asked about HDA creation, HDA parameters or compiling an HDA.

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Skill Claude Code

Create procedural geometry workflows using SOPs including scattering, copying, instancing, and parametric modeling. Use for procedural modeling workflows. Triggers: procedural generation, scatter, copy to points, procedural modeling, sops.

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Skill Claude Code needs its repo

Automates Houdini with Python (HOM) - node creation, parameter manipulation, scene management and batch processing. Use when scripting Houdini workflows, e.g. 'houdini python', 'hom script', 'automate houdini' or batch processing hip files.

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Skill Claude Code needs its repo

Work with USD (Universal Scene Description) in Houdini Solaris including stage creation, layer composition, variants, and USD export workflows. Use for USD workflows and Solaris. Triggers: solaris, usd, stage, layer, variant, usd export.

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Skill Claude Code

Write VEX code for Houdini including wrangles, custom operations, attribute manipulation, and performance optimization. Use when writing VEX scripts or custom operations. Triggers: vex, wrangle, vex code, attribute wrangle, point wrangle.

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Plugin Claude Code

Magnific AI generation via MCP: image generation with model selection and references, local file upload/download pipelines, and video generation.

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Skill Claude Code

Generates images with the Magnific MCP (default image tool, Nano Banana 2) - concept art, product shots, references, variations and folders; no upscaling. Use for 'generate image', 'generate refs', 'concept art', 'nb2', 'nano banana' or 'magnific folder' requests.

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Skill Claude Code needs its repo

Uploads local images to Magnific as generation references, moves them into folders, and downloads outputs to a local path. Use when using local photos as references, batch uploading a directory, or saving Magnific results to a local folder.

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Skill Claude Code

Generates video through the Magnific MCP - Seedance, Kling and Veo models, animating stills, start/end keyframes, camera motion, audio/lipsync and multishot. Use for 'magnific video', 'animate this image' or 'video from still'.

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Plugin Claude Code

Maya pipeline via MCP: scene control, geometry creation, materials (Arnold/USD), transforms, and FBX import/export.

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Agent Claude Code needs its repo

Maya scene control, rigging, modeling, and animation automation via MCP. Auto-triggers on .ma/.mb files, maya.cmds, pymel, rigging, blend shapes, joints, and deformers. Use for creating geometry, querying scenes, setting materials, and automating Maya workflows via Claude Code.

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Skill Claude Code

Creates and assigns Maya materials via MCP - Arnold aiStandardSurface, Lambert, Blinn and USD Preview Surface. Use for shader creation, texture assignment, assigning materials to geometry or look dev in Maya.

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Skill Claude Code

Queries and edits a live Maya scene via the MCP commandPort - objects, transforms, hierarchy, attributes, selection, FBX import/export. Use for listing scene contents, creating geometry, parenting, setting transforms or exporting FBX from Maya.

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Plugin Claude Code

Nuke compositing pipeline: node graphs, BlinkScript, Cattery AI inference, Python scripting, tiling tool, and batch shot setup.

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Agent Claude Code

Nuke compositing expert coordinating node graph operations, Python scripting, and ComfyUI integration. Use when user mentions nuke, compositing, nodes, grade, merge, multi-shot, or nuke python.

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Skill Claude Code

Writes GPU-accelerated BlinkScript kernels for Nuke - composition grids, procedural patterns, custom pixel effects. Use when creating a BlinkScript or "blink kernel", or a custom GPU effect the standard Nuke nodes cannot do.

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Skill Claude Code

Brings PyTorch models into Nuke via TorchScript export, CatFileCreator .cat files and the Inference node, e.g. DepthAnything depth. Use when tracing an ML model for Nuke, building a .cat file, or running ML inference in a comp.

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Skill Claude Code

Node graph compositing workflows for Nuke including Read/Write setup, grading, merging, keying, and multi-layer comp patterns. Use when setting up comps, creating node graphs, or when user mentions nuke comp, node graph, grade, merge, keying, aov.

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Skill Claude Code

Production-tested patterns for creating robust Nuke node trees programmatically. Use for avoiding auto-connection issues, dynamic positioning, expression masks, and gradient blending.