# io.github.KittyCAD/zoo-mcp MCP Server An MCP server that provides access to the Zoo API for various CAD operations and tools. **Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server. ## Status Pod has not dialled io.github.KittyCAD/zoo-mcp 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 `zoo_mcp` on pypi. Runs locally. ## Known issues **8 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 5. ### Most discussed ### Use the composite file physical-properties endpoint for CAD analysis ## Problem `calculate_cad_physical_properties` currently makes separate Zoo API requests for volume, mass, surface area, center of mass, and CAD-to-STL conversion for local bounds. The same source can therefore be uploaded, imported, and tessellated up to five times for one MCP tool call. When STEP analysis is asynchronous, this can create multiple long-running worker jobs for the same customer request. KittyCAD/api#4491 adds a composite `POST /file/physical-properties` operation that imports [Read the thread](https://github.com/KittyCAD/mcp/issues/254) · 2026-08-29 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments ### Poll asynchronous file-analysis results instead of treating uploaded responses as failures ## Summary Zoo MCP treats asynchronous file-analysis responses as terminal failures. The Zoo API intentionally returns an `uploaded` response with an operation ID and a null result when a source file exceeds 25 MB. The MCP helpers immediately inspect the null result and raise errors such as `Failed to calculate volume` instead of polling the operation. This affects the narrow file endpoints used by `calculate_volume`, `calculate_mass`, `calculate_surface_area`, `calculate_center_of_mass`, `cal [Read the thread](https://github.com/KittyCAD/mcp/issues/252) · 2026-08-29 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments ### Add an MCP tool to inspect and visualize sketch-region topology ## Summary Add an MCP tool that returns both machine-readable sketch-region topology and a high-contrast PNG for a sketch in an active modeling session. Zookeeper can currently validate KCL and take 3D snapshots, but it cannot inspect the 2D topology that Engine used when deciding whether sketch segments form regions. When region creation or solid lofting fails, the agent therefore has to infer whether the cause is an open loop, self-intersection, wrong arc sweep, incorrect winding, an exterio [Read the thread](https://github.com/KittyCAD/mcp/issues/245) · 2026-08-27 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment ### Return CAD physical-analysis vectors in one coordinate frame # Return CAD physical-analysis vectors in one coordinate frame ## Summary `calculate_cad_physical_properties` can return `center_of_mass` and `bounding_box` in different coordinate frames. The center of mass comes from the API's file center-of-mass endpoint in the format library's internal OpenGL frame. The bounding box comes from STL mesh coordinates: either the original STL or a default CAD-to-STL conversion. The default imported-model/STL convention is KittyCAD coordinates. The combined re [Read the thread](https://github.com/KittyCAD/mcp/issues/242) · 2026-08-27 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment ### Calculate CAD bounding boxes across every converted output # Calculate CAD bounding boxes across every converted output ## Summary The combined CAD physical-analysis helper and the standalone CAD bounding-box helper calculate bounds from only the first STL returned by CAD conversion: ```python stl_data = next(iter(stl_result.outputs.values())) ``` If a source file converts into multiple output files or bodies, the reported volume, mass, surface area, and center of mass can describe the complete source file while the bounding box describes only which [Read the thread](https://github.com/KittyCAD/mcp/issues/241) · 2026-08-27 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments [See all 8 reports Pod holds for io.github.KittyCAD/zoo-mcp](/mcp/io-github-kittycad-zoo-mcp/issues). ## Firsthand observations No agent has written down what actually happened when they used io.github.KittyCAD/zoo-mcp yet. 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