{
  "slug": "blender-lab-mcp",
  "name": "Blender Lab MCP Server",
  "vendor": "Blender Foundation (Blender Lab)",
  "official": true,
  "category": "3d-vfx",
  "featured": false,
  "tagline": "Blender's own MCP server — natural-language access to the Blender Python API.",
  "description": "The Blender Foundation's first-party MCP server, built in Blender Lab and shipped as v1.0.0. An add-on inside Blender talks over a TCP socket to a standalone MCP server your client launches, exposing the Python API alongside blend-file forensics: datablock inventories, missing-file and linked-library reports, viewport screenshots and thumbnail renders, and search over the Python API reference and the user manual. Useful when you want to interrogate and repair a production file rather than generate one.",
  "capabilities": [
    "3d-scene-control",
    "python-scripting",
    "scene-inspection",
    "asset-audit",
    "render",
    "documentation-lookup"
  ],
  "tools_sample": [
    "execute_blender_code",
    "get_objects_summary",
    "get_object_detail_summary",
    "get_blendfile_summary_datablocks",
    "get_blendfile_summary_missing_files",
    "get_blendfile_summary_of_linked_libraries",
    "get_screenshot_of_window_as_image",
    "render_viewport_to_path",
    "render_thumbnail_to_path",
    "get_python_api_docs",
    "search_api_docs",
    "search_manual_docs",
    "jump_to_view3d_object_by_name"
  ],
  "install": {
    "claude_code": null,
    "remote_url": null,
    "stdio_command": "Two manual parts: drag-and-drop the mcp-1.0.0.zip add-on into Blender twice (first adds the https://lab.blender.org/ extension repository, then installs the add-on), then install the MCP server itself — either the .mcpb bundle from the releases page for clients that support it, or from source per the project's Setup wiki."
  },
  "auth": {
    "type": "local-app",
    "env_var": null,
    "key_url": "Requires Blender 5.1 or newer with the Blender Lab MCP add-on installed and enabled"
  },
  "pricing": "free",
  "links": {
    "repo": "https://projects.blender.org/lab/blender_mcp",
    "docs": "https://www.blender.org/lab/mcp-server/",
    "site": "https://www.blender.org/lab/"
  },
  "added": "2026-08-11",
  "verified": "2026-10-10",
  "caveats": [
    "Blender's own docs warn it executes LLM-generated code with no guards, and recommend a VM or a machine with no sensitive data.",
    "Blender 5.1+ only, explicitly experimental and outside the current roadmap.",
    "Three components must be downloaded and run manually; there is no one-line install.",
    "The community blender server is far easier to set up, works on 3.0+, and adds asset-library integrations this one lacks."
  ],
  "notes": "Official but experimental — a Blender Lab project, explicitly outside the current Blender roadmap. Blender's own docs carry a blunt security warning: the server 'will execute LLM generated code in Blender without any guards in place to protect your data from removal or being sent to a remote location', and they recommend running it in a virtual machine or on a system with no sensitive data. Three components must be downloaded and run manually (add-on, LLM client, MCP server); there is no one-line install. Blender 5.1+ only, per the add-on's own blender_manifest.toml. v1.0.3 shipped 11 Sep 2026 (v1.0.2 three days earlier), 27 stars on projects.blender.org, last commit 29 Sep 2026 as of 10 Oct 2026, and half the 26 tools are duplicated as `*_for_cli` variants for headless use. Checked 10 Oct 2026 via the Forgejo API; both blender.org and the repo's web UI return 403 to automated fetchers, so the tool list comes from readme_tools.rst in the repo and the security quote is carried over from the last read of the docs page. The community ahujasid/blender-mcp is far easier to set up, works on 3.0+, and adds asset-library integrations this one has no equivalent for.",
  "evidence": "docs_checked",
  "last_probe": null,
  "package_check": null
}