High-risk tools in Aos

Add a render job to the queue based on current render settings.

Adds active composition to render queue and renders it in After Effects.

Build a self-contained GLSL TOP network from a pre-translated mapping (fragment + uniforms + channels + controls). Foundation primitive used by Shadertoy and ISF importers; also...

apply_transform

Approve UI automation actions for a specified duration to prevent repetitive prompts.

Sample a few seconds of audio inside TouchDesigner, compute a 4-feature fingerprint (tempo, spectral centroid, onset density, dynamic range), run a deterministic heuristic mappi...

Driver: scan a subtree for cook errors, cluster them, route each cluster to the right fix (calls repair_network for structural/expression/flag issues; surfaces fix_shader / fix_...

auto_sync_audio

Verification portmanteau — stability, diff, and assert operations.

Unified UI element interaction handler.

Face recognition operations tracking SOTA 2026 biometric standards.

Unified keyboard input handler.

automation_macro

Mission orchestration with autonomous execution loop.

Unified mouse control handler.

App-aware shortcut portmanteau.

System helpers: diagnostics, help text, wait, clipboard, process list, start app.

Task runner portmanteau.

Comprehensive visual automation tool for screenshots, OCR, and image recognition.

Unified window management handler.

bake_grasshopper_objects

Run an ordered list of create / connect / setParam operations in one call (fail-forward, per-operation warnings; not transactional). Exposes the network builder as a general pri...

Subtract cutter breps from target breps (Boolean difference).

Compute the Boolean intersection of two or more closed breps.

boolean_union

Bring a window to the foreground by its title.

Declarative Layer-2 builder for an ordered CHOP processing chain. Pass an

Declarative Layer-2 builder for an ordered POP (Point OPerator) chain.

Declarative Layer-2 builder for an ordered SOP geometry chain. Pass an

Capture an image from the webcam and recognize faces in it.

Click at specific screen coordinates.

click_element

Close a Grasshopper definition that was previously opened.

Create a Daydream cloud-hosted StreamDiffusion bridge in TD.

Drive the TouchDesigner project timeline: play, pause, seek to a frame, jump to a named cue, or set playback rate. Returns the timeline state after the action so a copilot can v...

Layer 1 COMBO: wires the canonical 2026 AI-mirror installation in one MCP call — camera (or synthetic / existing TOP) → StreamDiffusion (img2img live, delegated to drive_streamd...

Create a MediaPipe-ready interactive bubble installation over the live camera: a detected open palm emits soap-like bubbles, body and hand landmarks act as soft colliders that c...

Build a bar-quantized cue timeline: a Beat CHOP (on the global tempo) + a CHOP Execute DAT that, on each bar (or beat) boundary, advances through an ordered list of steps and re...

Build a depth-driven GPU POP scatter field: consumes a depth/mask TOP and uses

[experimental] Build a song-structure (build / drop / breakdown) edge detector COMP with adaptive thresholds. Listens to an existing audio CHOP (audioSource) or a freshly create...

Drop a TouchDesigner Engine COMP that loads an external .tox in a separate TD subprocess —

Build a high-count GPU particle / point field: position and velocity are simulated entirely on the GPU in two RGBA32float feedback-TOP loops (velocity integrates forces — noise/...

Build an L-system / vine-growth generator: a Script SOP iterates a context-free rewriting grammar from

Build a stable MediaPipe-hands gesture bus for palm holograms, lasers, audio controls, and other hand-reactive visuals. Outputs a Null CHOP with debounced palm and pinch channel...

Build a synthetic-safe interactive projection mapping rig for a USB webcam plus projector: camera/synthetic/existing TOP input, frame-difference motion field, placeholder blob/p...

Pixel-map a source TOP onto an LED fixture layout and send per-pixel colors out as DMX over Art-Net/sACN. Resizes the source to a tiny WxH grid (one texel = one fixture pixel), ...

Stand up a prompt → response LLM chain inside TouchDesigner as a self-contained baseCOMP.

Build a live-performance safety control — the

Build a boids-style GPU particle flock: position and velocity are simulated entirely on the GPU in two RGBA32float feedback-TOP loops, where the velocity shader implements the t...

Build a DJ/VJ phrase-quantized cue-lock engine. Any incoming pulse CHOP (Button, MIDI In, OSC In, composeCueList trigger) is queued FIFO and fired on the next 1/2/4/8/16/32/64-b...

Build a programmable signed-distance-field (SDF) raymarcher in TouchDesigner as a self-contained GLSL TOP. Compose a CSG tree of sphere / box / torus primitives with union / int...

Build a hands-light stage navigator (the QLab model) for stepping through an ordered scene/cue list: Next / Prev to move the pointer, Go to fire the current scene

Layer-1 wall-clock setlist player for rehearsed VJ shows. Pass

Compile Shader Park JavaScript sculpture code with shader-park-core and instantiate it as a self-contained TouchDesigner GLSL MAT scene with live controls. Use the companion sha...

Build a live-show watchdog: a Switch TOP (blend=1 cross-dissolve) between a primary source TOP (NDI/camera/Spout/Syphon path, or a synthetic noiseTOP when none is given) and an ...

EXPERIMENTAL — One-call

Build a GPU simulation:

Build a multi-line animated text crawl / ticker / credits roll / typewriter reveal inside a self-contained baseCOMP. Three modes:

Create a complete visual system from a natural-language description. Classifies intent (audio-reactive, particle, feedback, reaction-diffusion, landscape, generative) and delega...

Deselect all objects in the Rhino viewport.

Build a transient/onset detector that flags kick/snare/hi-hat hits in live audio and exposes a per-band pulse channel (a 0→1 spike on each hit) on a Null CHOP. Unlike create_tem...

EXPERIMENTAL monophonic pitch tracker. Estimates the dominant musical pitch of live audio and exposes pitch_hz (frequency in Hz), note (MIDI note number), and confidence (peak m...

double_click

double_click_element

drag_and_drop

drag_mouse

Wraps the community StreamDiffusionTD.tox (by dotsimulate) into a one-shot Layer 1 setup: locate the .tox via candidate-path discovery, drop it into a fresh baseCOMP, wire a cam...

Use the schema + LLM to propose values for a tool call

Run score_build, ask the configured LLM for up to N allowlisted tool calls that would raise the weakest sub-scores, and optionally auto-apply them. autoApply mutates the project...

evaluate_expression

Escape hatch — invoke an arbitrary Python method on a node (operator). Prefer structured tools where one exists; use this for operations they don

Execute an arbitrary grandMA3 command via OSC. Requires grandMA3 to be listening for OSC /cmd on port 8000.

Execute a specific macro in grandMA3.

execute_python

Escape hatch — run an arbitrary Python script inside the TouchDesigner process. Prefer the structured tools (find_td_nodes, get_td_node_parameters, update_td_node_parameters, su...

execute_rhinoscript

extrude_curve

Pan/zoom TouchDesigner

Global keyboard capture handler.

highlight_element

hover_element

Move mouse to coordinates and hover for specified duration.

Turn any image (a file path or an existing TOP) into a GPU particle field: each particle

Build a GLSL TOP from a Shadertoy URL, ID, or pasted source. Wires iChannels (defaulting to noise placeholders), exposes Speed (and optional Mouse) controls, and captures a prev...

Install a local package folder, zip, tox, or manifest into a local tdmcp package directory.

The Rhino-MCP-Platform plugin is not installed in Rhino ${version} (reason: ${reason}).

Load/open a project by name.

Search, list, inspect, doctor, dry-run install, stage, and uninstall manifest-driven TouchDesigner community packages. Dry-run is the default. Installs stage packages under ~/.t...

Dynamic MCP tool management. List canonical tools, view category counts, and enable/disable tools or categories at runtime.

Minimize a window.

Ingest 1..6 moodboard images and build a matching generative system in TouchDesigner. Uses the vision-capable local LLM when configured to extract palette + motion + generator p...

Hover over an element.

Move mouse relative to current position.

Move mouse to a UI element.

mouse_scroll

Move mouse to specific coordinates.

new_document

open_grasshopper_definition

Switch DaVinci Resolve to a different page.

Scan a network for cook-time bottlenecks and (optionally) fix them. By default it reports the slowest nodes with a concrete suggestion each. With apply:true it lowers the resolu...

Patch a fixture via grandMA3 command line.

press_hotkey

press_key

Quick Export the current timeline using a preset.

Reconstruct a live network inside a COMP from a serialize_network spec — the REBUILD half of a git-diffable round-trip. Takes a JSON spec of nodes (name, operator type, paramete...

Refresh the LUT list so Resolve discovers newly added LUT files.

[STUDIO ONLY] Regenerate an existing Magic Mask on a clip using DaVinci Neural Engine.

Hot-reload the bridge

Approve and execute a pending approval request using HMAC-signed authorization.

Create a new Incus system container or micro-VM on the BDB SaaS Host fleet with zero-trust guardrails.

remove_background_video

Restore a previously saved named view.

revolve_curve

right_click

right_click_element

run_grasshopper_definition

Replay a

run_rhino_command

Run the bridge test effects script to verify communication and apply test effects

Run a read-only script in After Effects

scale_objects

scale_objects_1d

Scale objects in two dimensions (planar scale preserving the third axis).

Scroll mouse wheel at current or specified position.

Select a list of objects in the Rhino viewport by GUID.

Send special key combinations.

Set the active Rhino viewport by name.

Toggle perform mode — the one switch the artist flips before going live.

Move the playhead to a specific timecode in the current timeline.

Brings a window to the foreground and activates it.

setLayerExpression

One-shot body tracking from a webcam: loads the free mediapipe-touchdesigner ENGINE (install it first with

One-shot face-landmark tracking from a webcam: loads the MediaPipe ENGINE (install first with

One-shot MediaPipe hand tracking from a webcam: loads the mediapipe-touchdesigner ENGINE (install with

One-shot selfie segmentation via the MediaPipe TouchDesigner engine (install with

Wire up an Ableton Live bridge inside a tdmcp-managed container. Auto mode probes

[STUDIO ONLY] Stabilize a timeline clip using DaVinci Neural Engine enhanced stabilization.

Start monitoring sensitive applications.

Start intruder detection.

Start rendering queued jobs.

Stop application monitoring.

Stop intruder detection.

Stop any currently active render process.

sweep_1_rail

sweep_2_rails

Test animation functionality in After Effects

Trigger a specific clip on a specific layer (1-indexed).

Build a teaching/selling companion for a network: snapshot the COMP

Type text at current cursor position.

Read-mostly git wrapper for the configured Obsidian vault directory.

Pause execution for specified seconds.

wait_for_element

Wait for a window with the specified title to become active.

Zoom to the extents of all objects (or selected objects only).

Zoom to show specific objects in a viewport.