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.
npx skills add BentleySystems/openstaad-mcp --skill staad-viewgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BentleySystems/openstaad-mcpWrote 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.
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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 | $0.00168 | $0.01727 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00084 | $0.00864 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00034 | $0.00345 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00173 |
Grade A, and why
staad-view 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 8d 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- staad-view — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
STAAD.Pro View Control
All view operations go through view = staad.View.
Interface Modes
view.SetInterfaceMode(0) # 0=Modeling, 5=Post-processing, 6=Foundation, 9=Adv Concrete
# Set page within a mode
view.SetModeSectionPage(interfaceMode, sectionNumber, pageNumber)
Standard Views
view.ShowIsometric()
view.ShowPlan() # top
view.ShowFront()
view.ShowBack()
view.ShowLeft()
view.ShowRight()
view.ShowBottom()
view.ZoomExtentsMainView()
view.ZoomAll()
view.RefreshView()
Rotation
view.SpinLeft(degrees)
view.SpinRight(degrees)
view.RotateUp(degrees)
view.RotateDown(degrees)
view.RotateLeft(degrees)
view.RotateRight(degrees)
Show/Hide Elements
view.ShowAllMembers()
view.HideAllMembers()
view.ShowMember(memberNo)
view.HideMember(memberNo)
view.HidePlate(plateNo)
view.HideSolid(solidNo)
view.ShowMembers(NMembers, NaMemberNos)
view.HideMembers(NMembers, NaMemberNos)
Selection (View-Based)
view.SelectMembersParallelTo("Y") # all vertical members
view.SelectGroup("ALL") # by group name
view.SelectInverse(entityType) # 0=node, 1=beam, 2=plate, 3=solid
view.SelectByItemList(entityType, nItems, itemList)
view.SelectEntitiesConnectedToNode(entityType, nodeNo)
view.SelectByMissingAttribute(attributeCode) # e.g. 4=missing supports
Labels
Common which values (full table in the Reference section — VIEW_CODES.md):
| which | Label |
|---|---|
| 0 | Node number |
| 1 | Member number |
| 4 | Support |
| 8 | Load value |
view.SetLabel(which, True) # show
view.SetLabel(which, False) # hide
Result Diagrams
Common which values (full table in the Reference section — VIEW_CODES.md):
| which | Diagram |
|---|---|
| 0 | Load |
| 1 | Displacement |
| 2 | MY |
| 3 | MZ |
| 4 | FY |
| 5 | FZ |
| 6 | Axial (AX) |
| 7 | Torsion (TR) |
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 213 lines · 168 tokens per session scan A 425b337fe91c
staad-view is a skill published in the GitHub repository BentleySystems/openstaad-mcp (42 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 168 tokens to every session and 1,727 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.
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