houdini-import-to-scene

houdini-import-to-scene is a skill for Claude Code from dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-houdini. It costs 62 tokens per session (572 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Houdini importer that places an asset file into a geometry container using a File SOP, Houdini’s node for reading geometry files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after an asset source has identified a file and described it with an AssetDescriptor, then import that asset into Houdini.
Why use it?
It provides a defined handoff between finding an asset and bringing it into a Houdini scene, while reporting imported nodes and warnings.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it after an asset source has identified a file and described it with an AssetDescriptor, then import that asset into Houdini.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-houdini/houdini-import-to-scene
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-houdini --skill houdini-import-to-scene
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-houdini

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 572 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00062 $0.00572
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00286
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00057

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7b8201a3b753, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

houdini-import-to-scene 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/import_to_scene.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

src/dcc_mcp_houdini/skills/houdini-import-to-scene/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

houdini-import-to-scene

Houdini asset import skill that consumes a validated AssetDescriptor from the shared dcc_mcp_core.asset_import contract and imports the asset file into a Houdini geo container via a File SOP. Returns a typed ImportToSceneResult with imported node names and any non-fatal warnings.

Load this skill after asset-source resolves the descriptor.

Tools

Tool Category Description
import_to_scene Import Import an asset from an AssetDescriptor into a Houdini geo container

Gateway flow

search_skills("asset import") → load_skill("asset-source") → call("search_assets", {query: "table"})
→ AssetDescriptor → load_skill("houdini-import-to-scene") → call("import_to_scene", {descriptor: ...})
→ ImportToSceneResult
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. 12d ago First seen · 66 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 7b8201a3b753

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houdini-import-to-scene is a skill published in the GitHub repository dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-houdini (12 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 572 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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