What is touchdesigner-mcp?

A connection between an agent and TouchDesigner, a visual programming tool for interactive graphics and media. It provides tools for creating, editing, inspecting, and troubleshooting TouchDesigner operators.

Use it to build or modify TouchDesigner networks, create operators, set their parameters, inspect errors, and run more complex Python logic when native controls are not enough.

It reduces guesswork when working with TouchDesigner projects whose parameter names and node details can vary by version. The workflow checks the live project before making changes.

touchdesigner-mcp — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by NousResearch

About the project

Hermes Agent is an AI assistant that learns from its use by creating and improving skills, retaining knowledge, searching past conversations, and adapting to its users. It is for people who want to run an agent through a terminal or messaging platforms while connecting it to different AI models and scheduled tasks.

NousResearch/hermes-agent · 243,598 stars · on GitHub · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com

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 NousResearch/hermes-agent --skill touchdesigner-mcp

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

When invoked 4,120 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

Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to low

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

low Excessive Agency · line 37
Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.

Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00013	$0.04120
Opus 5	$0.00006	$0.02060
Sonnet 5	$0.00003	$0.00824
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00412

Measured 10d ago against content hash 925c387c16a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

touchdesigner-mcp 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/setup.sh), 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

touchdesigner-mcp — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
touchdesigner-mcp — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
touchdesigner-mcp — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
touchdesigner-mcp — 97% identical, 22 lines differ
touchdesigner-mcp — 97% identical, 16 lines differ
touchdesigner-mcp — 95% identical, 25 lines differ
touchdesigner-mcp — 95% identical, 5 lines differ
touchdesigner-mcp — 95% identical, 5 lines differ

optional-skills/creative/touchdesigner-mcp/SKILL.md · 357 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 357 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TouchDesigner Integration (twozero MCP)

CRITICAL RULES

NEVER guess parameter names. Call td_get_par_info for the op type FIRST. Your training data is wrong for TD 2025.32.
If tdAttributeError fires, STOP. Call td_get_operator_info on the failing node before continuing.
NEVER hardcode absolute paths in script callbacks. Use me.parent() / scriptOp.parent().
Prefer native MCP tools over td_execute_python. Use td_create_operator, td_set_operator_pars, td_get_errors etc. Only fall back to td_execute_python for complex multi-step logic.
Call td_get_hints before building. It returns patterns specific to the op type you're working with.

Architecture

Hermes Agent -> MCP (Streamable HTTP) -> twozero.tox (port 40404) -> TD Python

36 native tools. Free plugin (no payment/license — confirmed April 2026). Context-aware (knows selected OP, current network). Hub health check: GET http://localhost:40404/mcp returns JSON with instance PID, project name, TD version.

Setup (Automated)

Run the setup script to handle everything:

bash "${HERMES_HOME:-$HOME/.hermes}/skills/creative/touchdesigner-mcp/scripts/setup.sh"

The script will:

Check if TD is running
Download twozero.tox if not already cached
Add twozero_td MCP server to Hermes config (if missing)
Test the MCP connection on port 40404
Report what manual steps remain (drag .tox into TD, enable MCP toggle)

Manual steps (one-time, cannot be automated)

Drag ~/Downloads/twozero.tox into the TD network editor → click Install
Enable MCP: click twozero icon → Settings → mcp → "auto start MCP" → Yes
Restart Hermes session to pick up the new MCP server

After setup, verify:

nc -z 127.0.0.1 40404 && echo "twozero MCP: READY"

Environment Notes

Non-Commercial TD caps resolution at 1280×1280. Use outputresolution = 'custom' and set width/height explicitly.
Codecs: prores (preferred on macOS) or mjpa as fallback. H.264/H.265/AV1 require a Commercial license.
Always call td_get_par_info before setting params — names vary by TD version (see CRITICAL RULES #1).

Read the full file on GitHub · 357 lines

Files

What ships with it

22 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.

10d ago First seen · 357 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 925c387c16a3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

touchdesigner-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository NousResearch/hermes-agent (243,598 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 4,120 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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