# sceneview MCP Server

3D & AR SDK for Android, iOS, Web — API docs, samples, validation, and code generation.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `sceneview-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

Published as `sceneview-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

Published as `sceneview-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**35 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

### Follow-ups from the AI-surfaces audit (#3189): four workstreams that each need their own PR

Umbrella for work surfaced by the audit in #3189 that deliberately did **not** land there — each item is a different subsystem, and two carry money or security. Recording them here so they don't live only in a plan doc on an unmerged branch.

Evidence for all four is in `.claude/plans/ai-surfaces-cleanup.md`, `ai-surfaces-exploration.md` and `ai-surfaces-live-state.md` on `claude/gemini-connectors-exploration-74wsqh`.

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### 1. `Build web targets` — Karma/ChromeHeadless dies with no evidence 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sceneview/sceneview/issues/3192) · 2026-08-15 · open · 6 comments

### Publishing is failing due to credentials not using sonatype user token

Sonatype now requires token-based authentication, and our upload-release.yml file is still using the old username and password credentials.

> Failed to stop service 'maven-central-build-service'.
> > Upload failed: {"error":{"message":"Invalid token"}}

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sceneview/sceneview/issues/654) · 2026-01-08 · closed · outside contributor · 5 comments

### [v5] Route Sketchfab requests through mcp-gateway so the API key never ships in the binary

**Track for v5.** Long-term fix for #1909 (and ground for #977): route every Sketchfab call from the demo apps through `mcp-gateway` instead of bundling a Sketchfab token in the binary.

## Why

`SKETCHFAB_API_KEY` is currently injected at build time into:
- Android `BuildConfig.SKETCHFAB_API_KEY` (extractable from APK with `strings classes*.dex`)
- iOS `Info.plist` `SketchfabAPIKey` (extractable from any .ipa)

Consequences:
- A determined user can lift the key from the published store binary, 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sceneview/sceneview/issues/1910) · 2026-05-21 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### CI Gate can still pass green when its CORE-CHECK GUARD disarms on a partial first read

## What is left open

#3018 was a partial read of the Checks API letting `CI Gate` conclude over checks it had already seen. The fix carries observed check names across polls, so a check can no longer leave the gated set by disappearing.

One arm of that failure is still open: the **CORE-CHECK GUARD** disarms itself when it has seen *zero* core checks.

```yaml
# ci-gate.yml:351
if [ "$any_core_seen" != true ]; then
  missing_core=""
fi
```

That is deliberate — it is how a docs-only PR is recog

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sceneview/sceneview/issues/3024) · 2026-08-06 · closed · 2 comments

### mcp: the AI-facing web guide and the artifact CDN pin still name Filament.js v1.70.2

Surfaced by the `review-fanout` pass on #3165 (issue #2783), which corrected the same stale `1.70.2` label in three HTML pages, the materials README and `website-static/js/sceneview.js`. Two `mcp/` surfaces still carry it, and were deliberately left out of that PR: **`mcp/` is an independent track per `CLAUDE.md`** and must never be synced from a library PR.

## The two surfaces

- **`mcp/src/extra-guides.ts:419` and `:530`** — `WEB_RENDERING_GUIDE` states "SceneView Web uses Filament.js v1.70.2

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sceneview/sceneview/issues/3173) · 2026-08-14 · closed · 1 comment

### Most recent

### Published MCP install path .claude/mcp.json never loads in Claude Code

## Problem

The documented install path for the SceneView MCP server — a project-level \`.claude/mcp.json\` — is not a file Claude Code actually reads. Claude Code loads project-scoped MCP servers from \`.mcp.json\` at the repository root (or via \`claude mcp add\`), so every user who follows our published instructions ends up with zero \`sceneview\` tools available. Measured on 165 local sessions: not a single one had the SceneView MCP tools loaded.

For an SDK whose stated bar is "can an AI re

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sceneview/sceneview/issues/3380) · 2026-08-29 · closed · 0 comments

### MCP spec conformance: 6 requirement(s) violated (via @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test) — spec 2026-07-28

When `sceneview-mcp` is tested against the newest MCP spec revision (2026-07-28) with `@hasmcp/mcp-spec-test`, the server responds to `server/discover` with a JSON-RPC `-32601 Method not found` error. Because `server/discover` is the entry point the newer revision uses to negotiate capabilities/version, everything downstream that depends on it (22 further checks) can't be verified either. Note that the server tests fully clean (0 failures) against the older 2025-11-25 revision it also advertises

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sceneview/sceneview/issues/3349) · 2026-08-24 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### Working method phase 2: make /status answer a question instead of describing state

Follow-up to #3111, driven by the same telemetry pass over 30 days of session transcripts.

## What the measurement says

| Surface | Invocations / 30 days |
|---|---|
| `/status` | **546** (~18/day) |
| `/compact` | 333 |
| `/close` | 145 |
| every project slash command (`/release`, `/review`, `/version-bump`, …) | **0** |

`/status` is, by an order of magnitude, the most-used surface in the whole setup — and it
is the one that returns the least. Its reported failure mode: it produces a report 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sceneview/sceneview/issues/3113) · 2026-08-11 · closed · 0 comments

### The Kotlin bridge node-name derivations have no test source set at all

Both Android bridges hand-roll the derivation that turns a model source into the `nodeName` a tap publishes:

- `flutter/sceneview_flutter/android/src/main/kotlin/io/github/sceneview/flutter/SceneViewPlugin.kt` — `tapNodeName` / `urlPathOf`
- `react-native/react-native-sceneview/android/src/main/java/io/github/sceneview/reactnative/SceneViewManager.kt` — `ModelNodeData.nodeName()` / `urlPathOf`

Neither module has a test source set — `src/main` only — so nothing pins them. The Swift twin (`scene

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sceneview/sceneview/issues/3062) · 2026-08-07 · closed · 0 comments

### pr-review.yml: the clean-tree assertion blames the reviewers for claude-code-action's own `.claude/` restore

`pr-review.yml`'s clean-tree assertion fails on any PR that touches `.claude/**`, and blames the reviewers for a write the action itself made.

## Symptom

Run [31193247720](https://github.com/sceneview/sceneview/actions/runs/31193247720) (PR #3048) failed the final step `Assert the reviewers left the tree clean`:

```
 M .claude/scripts/sync-assets.sh
::error title=Review contaminated its own checkout:: ... This is #3016.
```

The same run reported `"permission_denials_count": 0` and the fan-ou

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sceneview/sceneview/issues/3057) · 2026-08-07 · closed · 0 comments

### feat(mcp): validate_code v2 — symbol-existence check backed by a Dokka-generated symbols.json

Wave-2 item 15 of the 2026-07-10 SDK ideation shortlist (see #2642 triage table). Facts re-verified against `main` on 2026-07-17.

## Problem

The MCP tool `validate_code` (`mcp/src/validator.ts`) is a regex rule list (threading, lifecycle): a snippet can pass every rule while calling **APIs that do not exist** — the #1 failure mode of AI-generated SceneView code. `mcp/src/generated/` contains only `version.ts` today; there is no symbol index.

## Proposal

1. Generate `symbols.json` at build ti

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sceneview/sceneview/issues/2760) · 2026-07-17 · closed · 0 comments

### mcp: 11 gateway-mounted tools missing from the tier map (silent default-to-pro) + stale PRO_UPGRADE_MESSAGE counts

Found while fixing the tool-count drifts in #2696 (programmatic enumeration of the gateway registry vs `mcp/src/tiers.ts`).

## Problem

11 tools mounted by the gateway registry have **no entry in the tier map** and ride the "unknown → pro" fallback in `getToolTier()`:

- the 5 rerun tools: `setup_rerun_project`, `generate_ar_logger`, `generate_python_sidecar`, `embed_web_viewer`, `explain_concept`
- 2 automotive tools added after the map was written: `get_ev_charging_station_viewer`, `get_car_p

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sceneview/sceneview/issues/2697) · 2026-07-12 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 17 reports Pod holds for sceneview](/mcp/sceneview/issues) — of 35 qualified upstream.

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