Control Autodesk Maya scenes with 71 typed tools for modeling, animation, shading, and more.
Most developer tooling work still happens through a UI a human drives. Maya MCP MCP server moves it into the conversation instead. Control Autodesk Maya scenes with 71 typed tools for modeling, animation, shading, and more.
Maya MCP is an open-source, local Model Context Protocol server for controlling Autodesk Maya through Maya's commandPort.
The server publishes 14 tools. What each one is for:
Family — Counthealth — 1maya — 2scene — 9nodes — 7attributes — 2selection — 6connections — 5mesh — 3viewport — 1modeling — 15shading — 3Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.
Configuration is passed through the environment: PYTHONPATH. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Maya MCP's toolset — Family, health, maya and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by GimbalGoats; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Family | Count |
| health | 1 |
| maya | 2 |
| scene | 9 |
| nodes | 7 |
| attributes | 2 |
| selection | 6 |
| connections | 5 |
| mesh | 3 |
| viewport | 1 |
| modeling | 15 |
| shading | 3 |
| skin | 6 |
| animation | 6 |
{
"mcpServers": {
"maya": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["maya-mcp"],
"env": {
"PYTHONPATH": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| PYTHONPATH | Filesystem location the server is allowed to use. | Optional |
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