rocketsmith 0.0.3

Let agents design, simulate, and build your rocket.

RocketSmith

Let agents design, simulate, and build your rocket.

Installation

uv add rocketsmith

OpenRocket

RocketSmith uses orhelper to interface with OpenRocket. orhelper 0.1.x targets the net.sf.openrocket Java package, which was present in OpenRocket 23.09 and earlier. OpenRocket 24+ reorganized its packages to info.openrocket and is not currently supported.

Install OpenRocket 23.09 and a Java runtime with a single command:

rocketsmith openrocket install

This will:

1. Install a Java runtime if none is found (via brew install openjdk on macOS, apt on Linux, winget on Windows)
2. Download the OpenRocket 23.09 JAR to ~/.local/share/openrocket/ (macOS/Linux) or ~/AppData/Local/OpenRocket/ (Windows)

To verify the installation:

rocketsmith openrocket version

Agent Setup

Claude Code

rocketsmith mcp install

Claude Desktop

rocketsmith mcp install claude-desktop --project-path /path/to/RocketSmith

Note: Restart Claude Desktop after installation for changes to take effect.

CLI Reference

Workspace

Workspaces are project folders that organize your .ork design files and simulation outputs.

Create a workspace:

rocketsmith workspace create <workspace-name>

Create a workspace with example files:

rocketsmith workspace create <workspace-name> --include-examples

This copies simple.ork into the openrocket/ subfolder of the workspace, ready to run simulations.

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OpenRocket

Install OpenRocket 23.09 and Java:

rocketsmith openrocket install

Check installed version:

rocketsmith openrocket version

Run all simulations in an .ork file:

rocketsmith openrocket run-simulation <filename.ork> --workspace <workspace-name>

Example:

rocketsmith workspace create my-rocket --include-examples
rocketsmith openrocket run-simulation simple.ork --workspace my-rocket

The --workspace / -w flag resolves the .ork file from <workspace>/openrocket/<filename.ork>. If your OpenRocket JAR is in a non-standard location, use --openrocket-path to point to it directly.