# touchdesigner-mcp-server MCP Server

MCP server for TouchDesigner - Control and operate TouchDesigner projects through AI agents

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

## At a glance

**Source code:** [Open repository](https://github.com/8beeeaaat/touchdesigner-mcp.git)

**Package usage:** 4,934 npm downloads in the last 30 days.

**GitHub popularity:** 551 stars on [8beeeaaat/touchdesigner-mcp](8beeeaaat/touchdesigner-mcp), recorded 2026-09-27.

## Status

Pod has not dialled touchdesigner-mcp-server 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 `https://github.com/8beeeaaat/touchdesigner-mcp/releases/download/v1.2.0/touchdesigner-mcp.mcpb` on mcpb. Runs locally.

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

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "touchdesigner-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "touchdesigner-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**5 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 1.

### Most discussed

### get_td_node_errors misses Script OP cook exceptions

Split out of #216, where it was recorded as a known gap.

## What is missing

An exception raised from a Script OP's cook callback — a `scriptCHOP`'s `onCook`, for example — surfaces only on TouchDesigner's stderr. It appears in **neither** `OP.errors()` nor `OP.warnings()`.

`get_node_errors` collects exactly those two streams:

https://github.com/8beeeaaat/touchdesigner-mcp/blob/development/td/modules/mcp/services/api_service.py#L203-L206

```python
for level, getter in (
    (_LEVEL_ERROR,…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/8beeeaaat/touchdesigner-mcp/issues/219) · 2026-09-19 · closed · 3 comments

[See all 5 reviewed GitHub reports](/mcp/touchdesigner-mcp-server/issues).

## Firsthand observations

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```json
{
  "query": "touchdesigner-mcp-server",
  "limit": 5
}
```

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```

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