A launch helper for TouchDesigner, a desktop application for building real-time visual projects. It opens the application with the required bridge component and checks whether an existing local instance is already ready.

Use it to start a local TouchDesigner session for tool-based work or confirm that one is already running.

It avoids manually opening TouchDesigner, importing a component, and checking whether the connection works. It also stops instead of pretending it can launch a project on another computer.

launch — Skill for Claude Code by 8beeeaaat/touchdesigner-mcp

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.

Any agent

npx skills add 8beeeaaat/touchdesigner-mcp --skill launch

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/8beeeaaat/touchdesigner-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install touchdesigner, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,232 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00091	$0.01232
Opus 5.5	$0.00036	$0.00493
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00018	$0.00246
Haiku 4.5	$0.00009	$0.00123

Measured 25d ago against content hash 293ff1b67b77, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

launch scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 25d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

c. **Download it**: fetch `https://github.com/8beeeaaat/touchdesigner-mcp/releases/latest/download/touchdesigner-mcp-td.zip` with `curl -L` into a persistent location (e.g. `~/Documents/touchdesigner-mcp/`), unzip it the

plugin/touchdesigner/skills/launch/SKILL.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TD Launch

Launch TouchDesigner with the mcp_webserver_base.tox component loaded, then wait until the MCP bridge answers. The key mechanism: opening the .tox file as a document (instead of launching the bare app) makes TouchDesigner start a new project with the component already imported — no manual drag-and-drop. On macOS, open -a TouchDesigner <tox> routes the document to an already-running instance as well.

Workflow

Check whether launching is even needed. Resolve the endpoint from the active MCP configuration or session context as in the setup skill; treat http://127.0.0.1:9981 as an assumption when neither is available. Call get_td_info. If it succeeds, TouchDesigner is already up with the component loaded — report the versions and stop. This makes the command idempotent. If it fails and the configured host is not a loopback host, stop here: this command can launch only a local TouchDesigner application, so ask the user to start TouchDesigner on the configured remote machine and continue with /touchdesigner:setup instead.
Check local access. Launching requires shell access on the machine running TouchDesigner. If this chat has only MCP tools or a cloud shell, ask the user to open TouchDesigner and import the tox locally, then continue with the setup skill. Never launch in an unrelated cloud environment.
Resolve the .tox file, in this order: a. The tox-path argument, if given. Verify the file exists before using it. b. An existing copy on disk: check common locations (~/Downloads, ~/Documents, the current project directory) for mcp_webserver_base.tox with a quick find/ls. c. Download it: fetch https://github.com/8beeeaaat/touchdesigner-mcp/releases/latest/download/touchdesigner-mcp-td.zip with curl -L into a persistent location (e.g. ~/Documents/touchdesigner-mcp/), unzip it there, and use the mcp_webserver_base.tox inside. Keep the tox where it was unzipped — it may resolve bundled resources relative to its own path, so don't move the single file out of the extracted folder.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 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.

25d ago First seen · 46 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 293ff1b67b77

Subscribe to this mod's changes

launch is a skill published in the GitHub repository 8beeeaaat/touchdesigner-mcp (582 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,232 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-21.

Creative and media mcp mcp-server touchdesigner

release

MUST READ before preparing a release commit or GitHub release -- the blocking GitHub preflight (dev/releasepreflight.py), project.save() versioning, changelog, README, template sync verification, fresh-install smoke, and the post-push GitHub release procedure (references/github-release.md).

dylanroscover/Embody · 63 tokens

launch

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Makes network callslowCapability

How it starts

TD Launch

Workflow

What this file has done since we first saw it

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