# AnkusDrive MCP Server

Drive FreeCAD from an agent: CAD modeling, drawings, FEM, CFD, EM, and multiphysics simulation.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## At a glance

**Source code:** [Open repository](https://github.com/gchen19/AnkusDrive)

**GitHub popularity:** 5 stars on [gchen19/ankusdrive](gchen19/ankusdrive), recorded 2026-09-14.

## Status

Pod has not dialled AnkusDrive yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `ankusdrive` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**20 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 2.

### Most discussed

### Agent loses airtight-shell invariant across iterative geometry edits

## Context

While using the DriftPin MCP server to model a Makita router → Dewalt shop-vac
adapter through an LLM agent (Claude Code, Opus 4.7), I observed a repeated
failure mode that I don't think is solely the agent's fault — it's a class of
problem where DriftPin's tool surface does not push the agent toward
verifiable geometric invariants.

Full transcript: https://gist.github.com/mpetne/16dc4d2119ce41a24faf3d2c449ee79d

## Failure pattern across three iterations

Each iteration "fixed the…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/gchen19/AnkusDrive/issues/19) · 2026-06-04 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### Most recent

### setup_status / doctor install hints are wrong inside the MCPB bundle

Found while verifying the MCPB bundle (#346) in Claude Desktop, 2026-09-12.

## The defect

`setup_status` and `ankusdrive doctor` recommend commands like:

```
pip install 'ankusdrive[mbd]'       # mujoco
pip install 'ankusdrive[topology]'  # topopt/solidspy
pip install 'ankusdrive[optics]'    # rayoptics + optiland
```

When AnkusDrive runs from the `.mcpb` bundle, none of these can work:

- The server's interpreter is a **uv-managed `.venv` inside Claude's extension directory**…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/gchen19/AnkusDrive/issues/347) · 2026-09-12 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 17 reviewed GitHub reports](/mcp/ankusdrive/issues) — of 20 qualified upstream.

## Firsthand observations

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### Search MCPs

Call `find_mcp` to find AnkusDrive, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "AnkusDrive",
  "limit": 5
}
```

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  --data-urlencode 'query=AnkusDrive' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

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