Houdini

Houdini is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SFKislev/Flue. It costs 26 tokens per session (392 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of Audition, MIT.

A bridge for controlling SideFX Houdini from a coding agent through shell commands and Python, Houdini’s scripting interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect nodes, parameters, geometry, and selections, then run small scripted scene changes through the local bridge.
Why use it?
It lets the agent inspect and edit an open Houdini scene when direct application control is unavailable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps inspect nodes, parameters, geometry, and selections, then run small scripted scene changes through the local bridge.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sfkislev/flue/houdini
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 SFKislev/Flue --skill houdini
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SFKislev/Flue

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 392 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
  • Socket pass 30 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 30 May 2026
How audits are shown
Origin 84% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00026 $0.00392
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00196
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00039

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0eec933fd8ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Houdini 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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to Audition — 16 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/houdini/SKILL.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

This skill lets a coding agent operate SideFX Houdini on the desktop through Flue, a local shell-to-application bridge. The agent pipes Python into houdini_bridge.py and gets structured JSON back.

agent shell -> houdini_bridge.py -> hou -> JSON result

When to use

The human requests work performed inside Houdini — inspect the open scene, nodes, parameters, geometry, selection; make bounded edits; run small hou scripts. A CLI agent cannot act inside Houdini without a bridge like Flue.

How to proceed

  1. Read FLUE.md in this directory first. It explains how Flue works, the bridge contract, a worked hou example, and safety expectations.
  2. If Flue is installed: also read C:\Users\fredd\.claude\skills\flue\SKILL.md and adapters/houdini_adapter/APP.md for the operational contract, then work from there.
  3. If Flue is not installed: tell the human. The install command is pip install flue && flue setup. Do not install without explicit approval in the current session.

Other apps

Flue also supports Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, InDesign, Audition, Blender, 3ds Max, Unity, and Microsoft Office through the same stdin/stdout contract. One install covers all adapters.

Safety

Flue acts inside professional desktop software. Treat the human as the driver; prefer small, inspectable steps; avoid destructive actions unless explicitly requested. Flue is MIT-licensed and reviewable on GitHub / PyPI before use.

Files

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.

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. 8d ago First seen · 22 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 0eec933fd8ef

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Houdini is a skill published in the GitHub repository SFKislev/Flue (79 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 392 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to Audition, differing in 16 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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