Getting it into your agent
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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 | $0.00077 | $0.02317 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00031 | $0.00927 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00463 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00232 |
Grade A, and why
maya-render 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 1mo 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 — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
maya-render (Pipeline stage)
Render globals + viewport capture. This skill intentionally exposes only
renderer configuration, diagnostics, and render/viewport outputs. Generic
scene or geometry file import/export belongs to maya-geometry; shot
packaging belongs to maya-shot-export. For distributed rendering, see
maya-render-farm.
Render intents → tool routing
This skill covers three high-level user intents. Each maps to a primary tool and one or more supporting tools:
| Intent | Primary tool | Supporting tools | When to use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Output a final rendered frame (beauty pass, look-dev check) | render_frame |
set_render_settings, get_render_settings, set_render_quality |
Render from the active renderer (Arnold / Maya Software). Independent of viewport — works when Maya is minimized or in batch mode. |
| Render with explicit format + Arnold sampling (EXR, look-dev, quality tuning) | render_scene |
setup_hdr_arnold, set_render_settings |
Extends render_frame with format control (exr/png/jpg/tif) and per-render Arnold AA/diffuse/specular/SSS sample overrides. Scene settings are restored after render. |
| Set up HDR Arnold environment (skydome, HDRI lighting) | setup_hdr_arnold |
render_scene |
Creates aiSkyDomeLight + file texture from a .hdr/.exr file. Loads MtoA automatically. Chain with render_scene for asset look-dev validation. |
| Collect debug / diagnostic evidence (scene inspection, bug report) | debug_scene_snapshot |
get_scene_render_stats, get_viewport_camera, render_frame (internal) |
Combines DAG summary, optional render preview, and optional Maya UI capture in one call. render_frame is called internally for preview when available. |
| Record a viewport animation preview (anim review, dailies, MP4 clip) | playblast_to_mp4 |
capture_playblast_sequence, capture_viewport, playblast |
Viewport-based; requires a visible model panel for best results. Falls back to off-screen when Maya is minimized. Requires ffmpeg on PATH for MP4 encoding. |
What ships with it
17 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.
- groups.yaml 433 B
- scripts/capture_playblast_sequence.py 12 KB runs code
- scripts/capture_viewport.py 9.1 KB runs code
- scripts/configure_color_management.py 3.5 KB runs code
- scripts/debug_scene_snapshot.py 5.2 KB runs code
- scripts/get_render_settings.py 2.3 KB runs code
- scripts/get_scene_render_stats.py 2.7 KB runs code
- scripts/get_viewport_camera.py 5.0 KB runs code
- scripts/playblast_to_mp4.py 9.2 KB runs code
- scripts/playblast.py 6.9 KB runs code
- scripts/render_frame.py 14 KB runs code
- scripts/render_scene.py 17 KB runs code
- scripts/render_sequence.py 2.9 KB runs code
- scripts/set_render_quality.py 3.1 KB runs code
- scripts/set_render_settings.py 5.6 KB runs code
- scripts/setup_hdr_arnold.py 7.4 KB runs code
- tools.yaml 13 KB
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines ac54be77b302
- 1mo ago First seen · 185 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 990012685bdf
maya-render is a skill published in the GitHub repository dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-maya (64 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 2,317 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.
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