# scenario-blender-expert

Guides coding agents through modeling, retopology, rigging, and rendering in Blender via Python or an MCP bridge. Helpful for pre-export mesh audits.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 607 installs · ★ 1141
- Author: scenario-labs
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/scenario-labs/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/dcc/blender/scenario-blender-expert/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/scenario-blender-expert

## What it does

The skill establishes an execution protocol for Blender across two channels: an active GUI session connected via the Scenario Blender Plugin MCP bridge, or a headless terminal process. The agent inspects the scene via `scene_summary`, edits geometry, manages UV unwrapping, bakes textures, and inspects meshes for unapplied scale or flipped normals.

Headless jobs run with `blender -b` using `--factory-startup` to avoid interference from user add-ons. Heavy computations such as QuadriFlow on dense meshes or final renders are delegated to headless runs on a saved stage backup. This prevents UI lockups.

To run arbitrary scripts via `execute_python`, you must toggle Allow connected agents to run Python in the plugin preferences. Calls trigger a `PermissionError` without it. The skill targets Blender 5.2 LTS while retaining compatibility with 5.0 and 5.1.

## Requirements
- Works with: Blender

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-blender-expert -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/scenario-blender-expert/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/scenario-blender-expert/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-blender-expert -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/scenario-blender-expert/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-blender-expert -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/scenario-blender-expert/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install scenario-labs/skills scenario-blender-expert
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/scenario-blender-expert/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-blender-expert -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/scenario-labs/skills --path skills/dcc/blender/scenario-blender-expert
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/scenario-blender-expert/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill scenario-blender-expert -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/scenario-labs/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/dcc/blender/scenario-blender-expert/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- audit meshes for non-manifold geometry, inverted normals, and unapplied transforms
- execute QuadriFlow or Voxel remeshing in a headless Blender process
- refine AI-generated 3D meshes into production-ready assets
- adapt bpy automation scripts to Blender 5.x API deltas

## Example prompts
- Check the selected mesh for inverted normals, loose parts, and unapplied scale before exporting.
- Create a stage backup with save_as_mainfile and run QuadriFlow remesh headlessly.
- Inspect the scene with scene_summary and configure Cycles render settings.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: scenario-blender-expert
description: "Use when doing any 3D work in Blender through Python or an MCP bridge, headless or in a live session: modeling, sculpting a character or head, retopology, UV unwrapping, baking, texturing, rigging, animating, previs, geometry nodes, lighting and rendering, grease pencil, or finishing an AI-generated mesh into a production asset. Also before exporting or handing off an asset, to check it is ready for a game engine, a render or a 3D print (floating parts, z-fighting, inside-out normals, unapplied scale, missing UVs). Also when a bpy script fails on Blender 5.x API changes, a brush or sculpt operator fails or crashes headless, or a result has to be judged like a professional 3D artist would."
license: MIT
---

# Blender expert (router and agent protocol)

Expert-level Blender work is a loop, not a script: build big to small, and at every stage turn the
model, measure it and fix it before adding detail. This skill is the protocol every Blender task
follows and the map to the domain skills distilled from Blender Studio artists, Blender Conference
talks and top instructors (sources in each skill). If a sibling skill named here is missing from
your available skills, ask the user to install it
(`npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill <name>`); unattended, proceed from tool schemas and
flag the gap.

## 1. Execution channel

- **Live GUI Blender** (user's session over the MCP bridge), for anything interactive: real
  sculpt/paint brushes, weight painting, viewport screenshots. One short, idempotent script per call
  returning a compact result dict. Get-or-create by name. Never touch objects you did not create.
  Save a stage backup `bpy.ops.wm.save_as_mainfile(filepath=..., copy=True)` after each stage.
- **Headless helper** `blender -b [file] --factory-startup --python-exit-code 1 -P x.py -- args`,
  for renders, audits, batch ops, anything when no bridge is up. Use `--factory-startup` so the
  user's add-ons and preferences stay out of the run (an add-on can call the network or change
  defaults); the Scenario Blender Plugin's headless server,
  `blender --background scene.blend --command scenario_blender`, is the exception because it needs
  the extension loaded. Without `--python-exit-code` a failing script still exits 0. Print a final
  machine-readable result line.

Never open your own GUI Blender window to test things on the user's machine: windows steal focus and
pile up. Live work goes through the user's already-running Blender; everything else runs headless,
```
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