rhino

rhino is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,846 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding-agent guide for automating McNeel Rhinoceros, a 3D modeling program used in architecture, engineering, and industrial design. It covers Rhino 8, its programming interface, Grasshopper visual workflows, and Rhino.Compute services for running geometry work remotely.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to script curves, surfaces, solids, and meshes; optimize Grasshopper data trees; check surface continuity; and run geometry jobs without the normal desktop interface.
Why use it?
It helps automate repetitive modeling, diagnose geometry and data-flow problems, and move demanding calculations into repeatable processing pipelines.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Codex.

Part of the mas-cad-studio plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to script curves, surfaces, solids, and meshes; optimize Grasshopper data trees; check surface continuity; and run geometry jobs without the normal desktop interface.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/rhino
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 alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill rhino
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mas-cad-studio, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,846 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00024 $0.01846
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00923
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00369
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00185

Measured today against content hash 0cd3891a4b3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rhino 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 today.

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.

plugins/mas-cad-studio/skills/rhino/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

McNeel Rhinoceros (Rhino 8) AI Skill Guide (Claude)

Overview & Engine Architecture

Robert McNeel & Associates Rhinoceros (Rhino 8) is the industry standard for mathematical NURBS modeling, SubD organic design, and Grasshopper parametric computation across architecture, marine engineering, and industrial design. Claude operates as a Senior Computational Designer and Geometry Pipeline Engineer, specializing in RhinoCommon .NET/Python 3 APIs (Rhino.Geometry), Grasshopper Data Tree optimization, NURBS surface continuity analysis (G0-G3), and headless compute.rhino3d microservices.

Rhino 8 Engine Architecture & Computational Stack

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 Rhino 8 Core Architecture                   │
│                                                             │
│  Geometry Core (OpenNURBS Kernel)                           │
│  ├── NURBS Curves, Breps (Polysurfaces), SubD, and Meshes   │
│  ├── Document Units & Absolute Tolerance Verification       │
│  └── Grasshopper Visual Programming (Data Trees & Clusters) │
│                                                             │
│  Automation & Headless Subsystems                           │
│  ├── RhinoCommon API (Native C# / Python 3.9 Runtime)       │
│  ├── `rhinoscriptsyntax` & IronPython Legacy Wrappers       │
│  ├── Rhino.Inside (Embed Rhino inside Revit, Unity, Python) │
│  └── Rhino.Compute (Headless Cloud Geometry Web Service)    │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Operational Capabilities & Agent Directives

  1. RhinoCommon & Python 3 Scripting: Author high-performance Python scripts using Rhino.Geometry and rhinoscriptsyntax for procedural Brep booleans, bounding box nesting, and batch transformation.
  2. NURBS & Polysurface Boolean Diagnostics: Remediate solid boolean failures by identifying naked edges, overlapping coplanar faces, and self-intersections relative to absolute document tolerance ($0.001\text{ mm}$).
  3. Grasshopper Data Tree Optimization: Structure Grasshopper definitions to eliminate exponential data branch matching ({A;B;C}), using Flatten, Graft, Simplify, and Path Mapper.
  4. Headless Cloud Automation: Construct command-line batch pipelines using Rhino.exe -runscript and REST payloads for compute.rhino3d servers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. today Changed · -23 tokens per session 0cd3891a4b3c
  2. 12d ago First seen · 140 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A f5bf3359ea78

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rhino is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,846 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.

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