What is popx-touchdesigner?

A local reference and workflow guide for POPX, a paid TouchDesigner plugin for building visual effects and processing systems.

Use it to search POPX references, inspect examples, and explain or modify POPX-based TouchDesigner setups.

It helps an agent find information about POPX operators and examples when the plugin's own documentation is available locally.

popx-touchdesigner — Skill for Claude Code by dreamrec

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 dreamrec/TDPilot --skill popx-touchdesigner

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dreamrec/TDPilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tdpilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 6 commands, 4 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,372 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00071	$0.01372
Opus 5	$0.00036	$0.00686
Sonnet 5	$0.00014	$0.00274
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00137

Measured 9d ago against content hash ab2c53d2010d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

popx-touchdesigner 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/build_popx_refs.py, scripts/search_popx_refs.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.

plugins/tdpilot/skills/popx-touchdesigner/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

POPX TouchDesigner

POPx is a paid plugin — its documentation is copyrighted and not distributed with TDPilot. You must build the reference files locally from your own licensed copy (see references/BUILD.md).

This skill is backed by:

A locally-generated reference catalog in references/ (user must build — see references/BUILD.md)
A live example loader in the open TouchDesigner project at /EXAMPLE_LOADER
Build scripts in scripts/ for generating references from your own POPx installation

If you are modifying the live TouchDesigner project with td_ tools, also follow the tdpilot-core skill.

Quick Start

Build references first if not done: see references/BUILD.md.
Open references/overview.md.
Run python3 scripts/search_popx_refs.py "<query>" if the request is broad or ambiguous.
Open the smallest relevant reference file:
- references/guides.md
- references/operators-generators.md
- references/operators-falloffs.md
- references/operators-modifiers.md
- references/operators-tools.md
- references/operators-simulations.md
- references/examples.md
If exact wiring or working values matter, inspect the live example loader, not just the generated markdown.

Operator Workflow

Use the docs references for operator semantics and parameter intent.

For generators, falloffs, modifiers, tools, or simulations, open the matching operator family file first.
Use references/catalog.json only through scripts/search_popx_refs.py; do not load the JSON into context unless necessary.
Prefer operator pages over examples when the user asks how an operator works.
Prefer examples over operator pages when the user asks for a known-good setup, working values, or a finished pattern to recreate.

Example Workflow

When the user refers to a shipped example or wants a POPX setup that already exists:

Open references/examples.md and find the example entry.
Use the related docs listed there to understand the operator set involved.
If you need exact values, inspect the live example inside TouchDesigner:
- Read /EXAMPLE_LOADER parameters to confirm the example menu and current selection.
- Set /EXAMPLE_LOADER parameter Example to the desired entry.
- Pulse /EXAMPLE_LOADER/example parameter enableexternaltoxpulse or pulse loader Reload.
- Read /EXAMPLE_LOADER/example/description.
- Inspect /EXAMPLE_LOADER/example with td_get_nodes, td_get_params, td_get_connections, and td_get_errors.
Treat the loaded example as the source of truth for working values.

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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.

9d ago First seen · 130 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A ab2c53d2010d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

popx-touchdesigner is a skill published in the GitHub repository dreamrec/TDPilot (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,372 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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