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title: "Blender Lab MCP Server — 3D scenes tutorial and best practices for AI video"
description: "Blender's official MCP server: query and edit open scenes with Blender Python, bundled API docs and screenshots. Install in Claude Code, Codex and Grok with one command."
url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/blender-lab-mcp
updated: 2026-11-11
---

# Blender Lab MCP Server — guide skill for 3D scenes

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Blender's official MCP server: query and edit open scenes with Blender Python, bundled API docs and screenshots.

- **Type:** [Guide](https://varg.ai/how-to/guides.md) · [3D scenes](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/3d-scenes.md)
- **Slug:** `blender-lab-mcp`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Blender Foundation (vendor)
- **License:** GPL-3.0-or-later
- **Source:** https://www.blender.org/lab/mcp-server/
- **Works in:** Any MCP client
- **Requires:** Blender 5.1 or newer, The Blender Lab MCP add-on (mcp-1.0.3.zip from projects.blender.org; drag and drop into Blender twice), uv, An MCP client (stdio, or Streamable HTTP for llama.cpp)
- **Cost:** Free, GPL-3.0-or-later: runs locally with your own LLM client

## What it does

The Blender Foundation's lightweight MCP server from Blender Lab, for Blender 5.1 and newer. An add-on opens a local socket in Blender, and the server gives any stdio or HTTP MCP client tools to run Blender Python (`execute_blender_code`), summarise data-blocks, missing files, linked libraries and objects, search the bundled Python API reference and manual, and take window or area screenshots. Blender's own examples are scene analysis and clean-up: polygon outliers in the Classroom benchmark scene, fixing data-block names, documenting a Geometry Nodes setup. It is the official option next to the community `blender-mcp`, and it also targets local models through llama.cpp. Blender warns that it runs model-written code with no guards: use a virtual machine or a system without sensitive data.

## Use when

- ask questions about an open .blend file in plain language
- find heavy objects, bad normals or missing files in a scene
- rename, document or tidy data-blocks and Geometry Nodes setups
- let an agent run Blender Python through the official add-on
- use Blender with a local LLM through llama.cpp

## Not for

- Machines with sensitive data: Blender recommends a virtual machine
- Asset search or AI 3D generation: blender-mcp adds Poly Haven, Sketchfab and generators
- Blender 5.0 or older

## Install

- Any MCP client: `cd $HOME && git clone https://projects.blender.org/lab/blender_mcp.git && uv --directory $HOME/blender_mcp/mcp run blender-mcp`
- Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install blender-lab-mcp`

## More 3D scenes skills

- [Turn a brief into a Blender film written in Python](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/blender-code-film.md): A brief becomes a Blender film from one Python file: shots as data, stills first, critic loop, Eevee or Cycles.
- [Turn a browser game into a cinematic trailer](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/code-game-trailer.md): Record the browser game your agent built frame-exact, script shots and cameras, then cut a 1080p trailer on the beat.
- [Meshy 3D Generation](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/meshy-3d-agent.md): Meshy's official skill: text or image to a textured 3D model, then remesh, rig, animate and export it as GLB or FBX.
- [Roblox Studio MCP Server](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/roblox-studio-mcp.md): The MCP server built into Roblox Studio: agents edit scripts, run Luau, generate meshes and playtest your game.
- [Scenario 3D Worlds](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/scenario-3d-worlds.md): Walkable 3D worlds as Gaussian splats from text, a photo, a panorama or a video: Marble, HY World and TripoSplat.
- [Unreal Engine Skills for Claude Code](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/unreal-engine-mcp.md): Epic's official plugin: Claude Code drives a live Unreal Editor over MCP, from actors and materials to Sequencer.