dcc-blender-assembly-pitfalls

dcc-blender-assembly-pitfalls is a skill for Claude Code from dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-blender. It costs 153 tokens per session (6,383 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Blender troubleshooting guide for writing geometry code through MCP, a protocol for connecting an agent to tools. It describes measured failure cases in Blender where code runs but produces incorrectly sized, positioned, or joined 3D parts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before creating or sizing mesh primitives, changing their scale or rotation, or joining Blender parts through MCP. It is not intended for simply inspecting a scene.
Why use it?
Blender may not warn when a model is wrong, so apparently successful code can still create bad geometry. The guide provides checks for dimensions, orientation, and assembly before those mistakes spread.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it before creating or sizing mesh primitives, changing their scale or rotation, or joining Blender parts through MCP. It is not intended for simply inspecting a scene.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-blender/dcc-blender-assembly-pitfalls
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 dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-blender --skill dcc-blender-assembly-pitfalls
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-blender

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,383 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 $0.00153 $0.06383
Opus 5.5 $0.00061 $0.02553
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00031 $0.01277
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00638

Measured 18d ago against content hash c5266d9e41c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dcc-blender-assembly-pitfalls 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 18d 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.

skills/dcc-blender-assembly-pitfalls/SKILL.md · 502 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 502 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Blender assembly pitfalls

This is a failure-mode skill, not a tool catalog. Every number below was measured on Blender 4.5.13 LTS (daeeeca98fb0) in a headless blender --background --factory-startup session. If a claim here cannot be reproduced, the claim is wrong - fix the skill, do not work around the symptom.

Read it when you are about to create, size, orient, or join geometry. Skip it for read-only scene inspection.

The failure this skill prevents always has the same shape: the code runs, no exception is raised, the viewport looks plausible, and the model is wrong. Nothing in Blender warns you. So the defence is not "be careful" - it is the Phase 1 connection map and the Phase 3 checklist at the end.


Pitfall 1 - size is a full edge, radius is a half edge, and scale= halves your intent

The trap

primitive_cube_add(size=N) makes a cube N across, centred on the origin, so its vertices sit at +/- N/2. Cylinders, spheres, and cones take radius, which is half the extent. A request for "0.4" therefore produces a 0.4 half-extent for a cube and a 0.4 full extent for a sphere. Same number, 2x different object.

Measured

Call World extent X What the request actually gave
primitive_cube_add(size=1.0) 1.0 vertices at +/-0.5, not +/-1.0
same cube, then scale = (0.4, 0.4, 0.4) 0.4 half-extent 0.2, not 0.4
primitive_cube_add(size=0.8) 0.8 half-extent 0.4 - the intended result
primitive_uv_sphere_add(radius=0.5) 1.0 radius is a half extent
primitive_cylinder_add(radius=0.5, depth=1.0) 1.0 radius is a half extent
primitive_cone_add(radius1=0.5, radius2=0, depth=1.0) 1.0 radius is a half extent
primitive_cube_add(size=0.5) 0.5 size is a full extent

The scale = 0.4 row is the one that costs hours: cube.dimensions afterwards reads (0.4, 0.4, 0.4), so a model that verifies its work by reading dimensions sees the number it asked for and reports success - while the part is half the size it needs to be. dimensions is the full extent; a mating calculation needs the half extent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 502 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. 18d ago First seen · 502 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A c5266d9e41c0

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dcc-blender-assembly-pitfalls is a skill published in the GitHub repository dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-blender (47 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 6,383 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-28.

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