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 dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-houdini --skill dcc-mcp-houdini-setupgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-houdiniWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-houdini/dcc-mcp-houdini-setup)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-houdini/dcc-mcp-houdini-setup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-houdini/dcc-mcp-houdini-setup/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-houdini/dcc-mcp-houdini-setup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-houdini/dcc-mcp-houdini-setup.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00068 | $0.01447 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00034 | $0.00724 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00289 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00145 |
Grade A, and why
dcc-mcp-houdini-setup 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
dcc-mcp-houdini setup
Use this skill when a user wants an agent to prepare a machine so any MCP
host can use dcc-mcp-houdini with SideFX Houdini.
This is an operator skill, not a Houdini runtime skill. Do not load it through the Houdini MCP server. Run it from the repository checkout or copy its steps into another agent's instructions.
If the user says "帮我参考 dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-houdini/install.md 去安装", read the
root install.md first, then follow this skill.
Goal
End with:
dcc-mcp-houdiniand its pip dependencies installed into the target Houdinihythonenvironment.- An MCP host config snippet that points to the Houdini MCP server.
- The user guided to install the Houdini package so
scripts/123.pyautostarts the server (or to start it manually fromhython). - A live smoke prompt that proves the agent can discover and call Houdini tools.
Fast Path
From the repository root, run:
python skills/dcc-mcp-houdini-setup/scripts/setup_dcc_mcp_houdini.py
The script:
- Finds
hythonfrom--hython,HYTHON,DCC_MCP_HOUDINI_HYTHON,PATH, or common Side Effects Software install locations. - Installs this checkout into Houdini:
hython -m pip install -e .(dcc-mcp-houdinidefines no runtime extra;dcc-mcp-coreis pulled in automatically). - Verifies
import dcc_mcp_houdini. - Writes reusable MCP JSON snippets and a smoke prompt under
.dcc-mcp/agent-setup/.
Use PyPI instead of the local checkout when setting up an end-user machine:
python skills/dcc-mcp-houdini-setup/scripts/setup_dcc_mcp_houdini.py --source pypi
If discovery fails, ask the user for the full hython path and re-run:
python skills/dcc-mcp-houdini-setup/scripts/setup_dcc_mcp_houdini.py --hython "C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 20.5.487\bin\hython.exe"
MCP Configuration
The Houdini 123.py autostart hook starts the embedded MCP server on the direct
port by default. Configure the MCP host with:
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 154 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 2834b7367add
dcc-mcp-houdini-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-houdini (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,447 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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