Lightweight Houdini toolkit: CLI skills + MCP server for inspecting .bgeo.sc caches and USD scenes — no Houdini installation required. Plugin for Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Part of houdini-tools
Interact with Houdini command-line tools (ginfo, gconvert, hrender, hython, etc.). Use when user needs to analyze geometry, convert files, render scenes, or run Houdini Python scripts.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Part of houdini-tools
Use when looking up Houdini documentation — a HOM method signature, a VEX function, an expression function, an hscript command, a node's parameters — and especially when sidefx.com is unreachable, blocked by a studio network, or slow. Also use when the answer must match the installed Houdini version rather than the…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Part of houdini-tools
Houdini environment variables and package configuration. Use when the user needs to set up, debug, or understand Houdini environment variables, houdini.env files, or JSON package plugins.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Part of houdini-tools
Inspect Houdini bgeo.sc geometry caches, OpenVDB volume caches, and USD scene files using MCP tools, without loading full geometry into memory. Use when the user needs to read cache metadata, VDB grid lists, attribute info, frame sequences, USD hierarchy, composition arcs, cameras, textures and other asset paths…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Part of houdini-tools
Locates Houdini installations across Windows and Linux. Honors the HFS environment variable as highest priority when it points at a real install; otherwise scans standard Side Effects Software directories on Windows and /opt/hfs paths on Linux. Use this when you need to find where Houdini is installed, which versions…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Part of houdini-tools
Use when writing or editing help documentation for a Houdini node or digital asset — the node help card, the Help tab of Type Properties, or a .txt file under help/nodes/. Also use when help text renders wrong, a parameter's help does not appear beside its parameter, or a help file is not picked up by the help server.
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