houdini-agent-panel
An AI agent inside Houdini. One command to install, no terminal to keep open.
Ask for what you want in the scene. The agent works on the .hip you have
open — no ports to pick, no config to write.
🔧 Built on fxhoudinimcp
The scene tools are not ours. They come from
healkeiser/fxhoudinimcp —
189 MCP tools over Houdini's official hwebserver, and the reason an agent
can read geometry, build networks and cook nodes at all.
This project is the layer that makes them usable without a terminal: an ACP client, an installer, and a panel. Credit and any thanks for the tools themselves belong upstream. 🙏
⚡ Install
macOS · Linux
curl -fsSL --connect-timeout 15 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MAY4VFX/houdini-agent-panel/main/scripts/install.sh | sh
Windows (PowerShell)
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MAY4VFX/houdini-agent-panel/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iex
Already have uv?
uvx --from houdini-agent-panel python -m houdini_agent_panel install
Restart Houdini → Tab → Python Panels → Agent. 🎉
The installer finds every Houdini on the machine and installs into each one's
own Python. Verified locally: Houdini 20.5 uses Python 3.11 + Qt5, Houdini 21
uses Python 3.11 + Qt6, and Houdini 22 uses Python 3.13 + Qt6. pydantic's
compiled core means the 3.11 and 3.13 builds need separate dependency trees;
20.5 and 21 safely share the 3.11 tree.
Behind a proxy? Export it in the shell running the command above —
export HTTPS_PROXY=http://proxy.studio.local:8080 before the curl/irm
line. This install step runs before the panel exists, so it can't yet read
the Settings → Network field described in "Behind a studio proxy" below;
once it's installed, the panel picks up the same variable on its own.
🤖 Agents
Claude Agent · Codex · Gemini CLI · Grok Build · Kimi CLI · OpenCode
Pick one in the panel; only that one gets installed. Node comes bundled if your machine hasn't got it.
Two of them — Claude Agent and Codex — are ACP adapters published by the protocol project; the other four are the CLIs themselves with ACP built in.
The panel installs agents but never configures them. Providers, API keys and MCP servers stay in the agent's own files, exactly as in a terminal. An agent you already use will work here with nothing further to do.
🔑 Signing in
- Pick an agent — it installs and connects.
- Type
/loginand follow it. 🌐 - That's it. The panel stores no credentials and asks for none.
Some agents advertise their sign-in methods and get a proper sign-in screen
instead. OpenCode has no login at all: it reads a provider and a key from
~/.config/opencode/opencode.json.
⚙️ Settings
Install and update agents, pick what starts with the panel, and point it at your studio's network — see below.
🌐 Behind a studio proxy
Common in VFX: the firewall drops direct egress and everything goes out
through proxy.studio.local:8080, often with TLS inspection.
Fill in Settings → Network and it covers all of it — the agent's own
traffic, the npx fetch that installs an agent, and the panel's own
downloads (registry, updates, portable Node). No Houdini restart: the panel
offers to restart the agent right there.
| Field | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Proxy | http://proxy.studio.local:8080. Blank = inherit whatever the machine exports. |
| No proxy | Extra hosts to bypass. localhost is always excluded — the Houdini bridge must never take a detour. |
| CA bundle | For inspecting proxies that present their own certificate. Verification is never disabled — there is no setting for that. |
HTTP/HTTPS only — SOCKS is not supported. For SOCKS or NTLM/Kerberos,
put a local bridge like px or
cntlm in front and point the panel at that.
⚠️ A password typed into the proxy URL is stored in settings.json as plain
text. Prefer a proxy with no login, or one restricted by IP. Diagnostics
redact it; the file does not.
Already exporting HTTPS_PROXY in your shell profile? Then there is nothing
to do — the panel reads your login shell and hands the agent the same
environment you get in a terminal.
🔒 Privacy
Telemetry is off by default. Scenes, prompts and paths are never
collected — docs/privacy.md.
🛠 Development
uv venv --python 3.11 .venv
uv pip install --python .venv/bin/python -e ".[dev]"
.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q
Tests never touch the network and never write outside tmp_path — enforced
by fixtures, not by discipline.
The UI runs without Houdini, with real widgets and a fake session, and restarts itself on every save:
.venv/bin/python -m houdini_agent_panel.dev_preview --watch
More commands:
python -m houdini_agent_panel install --dry-run # show the plan, change nothing
python -m houdini_agent_panel doctor # what was found, what's broken
python -m houdini_agent_panel uninstall --purge # remove, data folder included
📚 Docs
Design · Architecture · Verified facts about Houdini, ACP and fx
License
MIT
1 maintainer
Metadata
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