Blender Lab MCP Server

What it does

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.

Connect

Connection is set up through the vendor's flow — follow the official connect instructions.

Local install: 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.

Sample tools

Field 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.

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