create-element

A natural-language command for creating one specified element in Autodesk Revit, a building-design program. It interprets details such as the element type, dimensions, position, level and material, then chooses the matching creation method.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create walls, columns, beams, doors, windows, floors, roofs, ceilings, levels, grids, drawing sheets or schedules from a description.
Why use it?
It turns a written description into the structured information Revit needs, reducing manual setup and the need to remember different creation steps for walls, doors, floors, grids and other elements.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/demolinator/revit-mcp-plugin/create-element
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Demolinator/revit-mcp-plugin
Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 793 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00010 $0.00793
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00396
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00079

Measured 2d ago against content hash eca8ac6c81ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-element scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

revit-bim/commands/create-element.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create a specific BIM element in Revit from a natural-language description.

Parse the Description

Extract from $ARGUMENTS:

  • Element type: wall, column, beam, door, window, floor, roof, ceiling, level, grid, sheet, schedule
  • Dimensions: length, width, height (convert to mm)
  • Position: coordinates, grid references, relative positions ("at grid A1", "on the north wall")
  • Level: which floor/level
  • Material/type: concrete, brick, steel, glass, generic

Select the Right Tool

Element Tool Key
Wall, beam (line-based) create_line_based_element Needs start_point and end_point
Beam (structural) create_structural_framing Needs start_point and end_point
Column, door, window, furniture place_family Needs a single location point
Floor, roof, ceiling create_surface_based_element Needs a closed boundary polygon
Level create_level Needs elevation and optional name
Grid line create_grid Needs start_point and end_point
Drawing sheet create_sheet Needs sheet_number and sheet_name
Schedule create_schedule Needs category and optional fields

Find the Family Type

Call list_families to find a matching type.

Match the user's description to the closest available type:

  • "concrete wall" -> look for types containing "Concrete" in the name
  • "brick exterior" -> look for types containing "Brick" or "Exterior"
  • "steel column" -> look for structural column types containing "Steel"
  • If no exact match, use the first available type and tell the user what was used

Build the Parameters

  1. Convert all dimensions to mm
  2. Set coordinates based on the user's description
  3. If coordinates are ambiguous, call get_current_view_info for context, then ask the user
  4. Set level_name based on the specified level
  5. Use standard defaults for unspecified values:
    • Wall height: 3000 mm
    • Door: 900 x 2100 mm
    • Window: 1200 x 1500 mm
    • Floor-to-floor: 3000 mm (residential), 4000 mm (commercial)
    • Column: height = floor-to-floor

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 64 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A eca8ac6c81ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-element is a command published in the GitHub repository Demolinator/revit-mcp-plugin (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 793 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.