# godot-mcp MCP Server

MCP server for Godot game engine integration — control the Godot editor with AI

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `godot-mcp-server` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**30 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### Server never connecting (win11/linux/ godot 4.6.1 asset store version)

I did everything according to the instructions and plugin is stuck on mpc connecting, tried to do npm install and point to the absolute directory but got the same results, im using LMStudio with mcp.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tomyud1/godot-mcp/issues/10) · 2026-03-14 · closed · external user · 8 comments

### Add screenshot support

Ability to render what the camera is seeing to a screenshot file for the agent to read. Either in editor, or running the game in development. Could allow agents to run the game and visualize what is happening, to inform decisions / fix bugs.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tomyud1/godot-mcp/issues/11) · 2026-03-14 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### Codex on Windows: Godot connects successfully, then MCP server shuts down and later tool calls fail with "Transport closed"

## Summary

On Windows, `godot-mcp-server` starts successfully in Codex and the Godot plugin connects successfully, but the connection drops shortly after when Codex probes the server via `/mcp`. After that, any Godot MCP tool call from Codex fails with:

`Transport closed`

This appears to be a runtime compatibility / lifecycle issue rather than an installation or initial setup issue.

## Environment

- OS: Windows
- MCP client: Codex CLI / Codex app
- Codex version: `0.117.0`
- Model: `gpt-5.4

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tomyud1/godot-mcp/issues/16) · 2026-03-27 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Delete .uid files

Hi, can i suggest a small behavior addition to delete_script tool? I have been using this MPC and noticed that the .uid files are not being deleted when the script is deleted, which is leaving orphaned .uid files in the project.

In my project, i added the code below to `godot_mcp/tools/script_tools.gd::delete_script` tool to adjust this behavior:
```gdscript
# =============================================================================
# delete_file
# ==========================================

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tomyud1/godot-mcp/issues/47) · 2026-05-02 · open · external user · 3 comments

### Feature: configurable timeout and port via environment variables

## Problem

1. The 30-second tool timeout (`DEFAULT_TIMEOUT` in `godot-bridge.ts`) is too short for some operations (e.g. `map_project` on large codebases). No way to override without editing source.
2. The WebSocket port (6505) is hardcoded. Multiple Godot instances or MCP sessions can't coexist.

## Proposed Fix

Two environment variables:
- **`GODOT_MCP_TIMEOUT_MS`** — override tool timeout (default: 30000)
- **`GODOT_MCP_PORT`** — override WebSocket port (default: 6505)

```typescript
const 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tomyud1/godot-mcp/issues/20) · 2026-03-28 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Most recent

### Primary MCP server lingers as orphan after its only stdio client (single DSH) exits, breaking the next session

## Summary

With a **single** MCP client (e.g. DeepSeek Harness DSH, or a lone Codex/Claude session), when the client exits, the **PRIMARY** \godot-mcp-server\ process **does not exit** (by design: \stdin close does NOT kill the server\). It keeps listening on :6505/:6506 while Godot stays connected.

On the next launch, the freshly spawned server detects the lingering PRIMARY via the :6506 probe and enters **PROXY mode** against that orphan. If the orphan's stdio is gone but it still holds the 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tomyud1/godot-mcp/issues/66) · 2026-08-25 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### run map_project cannot show visual

this is cursor tip:

"
The injected JSON is corrupted (unescaped newlines appear).
The HTML gets truncated by </script> in the middle of <script>.
The latter half of JSON/JS is rendered as plain text by the browser → you see 'a bunch of text'.
"
becase :" html.replace('"%%PROJECT_DATA%%"', () => dataJson)"

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tomyud1/godot-mcp/issues/63) · 2026-06-17 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Cannot run with opencode

When I try to run opencode with the godot-mcp server enabled I get
˘˘˘
list the nodes in this scene using the godot mcp

Internal error: rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = JSON schema conversion failed: Unrecognized schema: {"description":"New value (same shape as modify_node_property.value)"} Unrecognized schema: {"description":"New value for the property. ANY JSON value accepted: primitives (numbers, strings, booleans, null), arrays, or objects. Use the {type, ...} discriminated form for

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tomyud1/godot-mcp/issues/61) · 2026-05-30 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Godot Editor can not download Plugin from Github

Hi tomyud,
unfortunately I can not install your godot plugin, getting the following error:

Asset Download Error:
Can't connect to host: https://github.com/tomyud1/godot-mcp/archive/f794f7f4d3029172c06a7ebee02543e12dbf60ef.zip.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tomyud1/godot-mcp/issues/58) · 2026-05-29 · open · external user · 2 comments

### Error: signal connection

Hi got this error when asking to connect signals:

The script validation is returning "cannot be instantiated" which might indicate an issue. Let me run the scene to see what actual errors occur, and then deal with the signal connection differently.
Actually, the connect_signal tool has been unreliable here. Let me try a different approach: connect the signal programmatically in Game.gd's _ready() method using $Player.player_died.connect(_on_player_died). This achieves the same result but throug

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tomyud1/godot-mcp/issues/56) · 2026-05-18 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### Improvement: Clear output before running scene

What often happen is that when claude launch the scene, he read the output that have not been cleaned and think there is error. Then search for a moment till he understand and clear the output and run again. Would be easier if runing the scene just clear the output so it can clearly read the logs.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tomyud1/godot-mcp/issues/54) · 2026-05-06 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Improvement: Import animation

At the moment, it seems we can't import animation with animation files.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tomyud1/godot-mcp/issues/53) · 2026-05-05 · closed · external user · 2 comments

[See all 23 reports Pod holds for godot-mcp](/mcp/godot-mcp-tomyud1/issues) — of 30 qualified upstream.

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