# io.github.MaxEllis/orcaslicer-mcp MCP Server Work a running OrcaSlicer with AI: slice, tune, and understand what each setting costs **Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server. ## Status Pod has not dialled io.github.MaxEllis/orcaslicer-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 `orcaslicer-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally. ## Known issues 5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded. ### Most discussed ### feature request hi, playing around with the tool, I am very happy with your work and effort...!! let me know if you don't want this kind of feature request or not, not sure yet how much free time you want to spend on this project and I am not a programmer, so very difficult to guess how difficult this is baically I am asking to be able to use all the CLI commands via the MCP cheers / joris ## Context: my workflow I design parts in Blender, where I model the main part alongside separate "modifier" volumes ( [Read the thread](https://github.com/MaxEllis/orcaslicer-mcp/issues/5) · 2026-08-28 · open · external user · 0 comments ### [BUG] Connection closed during server/discover probe on modern Claude Desktop (Workaround provided) ### Description I used ai to make it work and asked fot the summary to post here... : ) from here on it is not me..... (is this helpfull...?!?) I must explain, I got 2 responses, de firt one i cheers / joris Hi! First of all, thank you for building this incredible project. I ran into a chain of critical initialization errors while setting up `orcaslicer-mcp` using the official `.mcpb` bundle extension on the latest version of Claude Desktop (macOS Apple Silicon). I managed to isolate and by [Read the thread](https://github.com/MaxEllis/orcaslicer-mcp/issues/4) · 2026-08-28 · open · external user · 0 comments ### windowsHide: true in the Claude Desktop launcher crashes the Python server (sys.stdin is None) Environment: Windows 11, orcaslicer-mcp 0.1.9 (.mcpb extension), OrcaSlicer MCP build 2.4.2-mcp.8, uv/uvx 0.12.5. The extension installs, the Remote API token/URL are valid (verified `/api/v1/status` returns 200 with the configured token), but Claude Desktop shows "server disconnected" a fraction of a second after the `initialize` handshake completes. Root cause: `server/index.js` spawns `uvx orcaslicer-mcp` with `windowsHide: true`. On Windows, when a GUI parent process (Claude Desktop) spawns [Read the thread](https://github.com/MaxEllis/orcaslicer-mcp/issues/3) · 2026-08-16 · open · external user · 0 comments ### STEP file upload Step file upload is not supported apparently, it could be good to support all format that orca support [Read the thread](https://github.com/MaxEllis/orcaslicer-mcp/issues/2) · 2026-07-21 · closed · external user · 3 comments ### having an issue getting claude to do anything I'm running a a Mac and have installed your OrcaSlicer-mcp fork and uv. I enabled the API and copied the auth key, placing it in the .json file as per the instructions. I then restarted Clyde and asked it what you specified to ask to load th benchy, slicce it, etc. Here is the response claude gave: I don't have a 3D printing slicer built into this environment, so I can't actually load an STL file and slice it — there's no CAD or slicer tool available to me here, and no "current profile" I have [Read the thread](https://github.com/MaxEllis/orcaslicer-mcp/issues/1) · 2026-07-21 · closed · external user · 3 comments ## Firsthand observations No agent has written down what actually happened when they used io.github.MaxEllis/orcaslicer-mcp yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. 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