maya-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

maya-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from abrahamADSK/maya-mcp. It costs 7,915 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A persistent instruction document for working with maya-mcp, an MCP server that connects an AI agent to Autodesk Maya, a 3D modelling and animation program. It explains the server's architecture, tools, configuration, and workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding scene changes, modelling, animation, file import and export, rendering, documentation search, and Vision3D-related actions through maya-mcp.
Why use it?
It gives the agent the project context needed to use Maya controls and Vision3D integration consistently across sessions. It also records how session-only Vision3D URLs are handled.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the NotebookEdit tool; mentions Claude Code.

This is abrahamADSK/maya-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on maya-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything maya-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to abrahamADSK/maya-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abrahamADSK/maya-mcp/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/abrahamADSK/maya-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 5.1 $0.07915 $0.07915
Opus 5 $0.03957 $0.03957
Sonnet 5 $0.01583 $0.01583
Haiku 4.5 $0.00792 $0.00792

Measured 6d ago against content hash 82bd05b7c45c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

maya-mcp CLAUDE.md 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 6d 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.

CLAUDE.md · 472 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 472 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

maya-mcp — Critical Context for Claude

Last updated: 2026-04-12 — per-session Vision3D URL is now fully runtime-only: Claude asks the user for the URL on the first Vision3D call, caches it in memory for the rest of the session, and forgets it on MCP restart. No config file field, no pool, no persisted URLs anywhere. This document persists across Claude Code sessions. Consult here to understand the architecture, configuration, and workflows of maya-mcp.


1. Architecture

maya-mcp is a production-grade MCP (Model Context Protocol) server based on FastMCP with 16 MCP tools organized in three layers (plus the optional WorldLabs environment addon):

  1. Maya Control (9 direct tools + 1 dispatch tool with 12 actions) — Scene manipulation, modeling, animation, I/O, rendering

    • Communicates with Maya via TCP Command Port (default port 8100; moved from the historical 7001 because that port is held by Flame's S+W services on hosts with Autodesk Flame installed)
    • Uses maya_bridge.py (socket bridge) to execute MEL/Python commands
    • All operations use undo chunks for safe rollback
  2. Vision3D Integration (7 actions behind the maya_vision3d dispatch tool) — Optional addon for AI-powered 3D generation via Vision3D

    • Communicates via HTTP REST API with Vision3D (port 8000)
    • Supports image-to-3D, text-to-3D, and texture painting
    • Non-blocking async pattern: submit → poll → download
    • Fully per-session URL: the first call that needs a GPU returns vision3d_url_required. The LLM asks the user for the Vision3D URL in the chat, the user types it, the LLM calls select_server with that URL, and it is cached in memory for the rest of the session. Nothing is written to disk — no config field, no pool, no whitelist. Restarting the MCP server clears the selection.
    • GPU_API_URL env var is honored as a suggested default the LLM can surface in the prompt, but it is never auto-selected. The user still has to confirm it explicitly via select_server.
    • Not required — maya-mcp works fully without Vision3D

Read the full file on GitHub · 472 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. 6d ago First seen · 472 lines · 7,915 tokens per session scan A 82bd05b7c45c

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maya-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository abrahamADSK/maya-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7,915 tokens to every session, about $0.0396 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.

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