# onshape-mcp

> MCP server that drives the Onshape web UI — sketch, dimension, constrain and extrude from any MCP client.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/onshape-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Kayode Williams Olalere
- homepage: https://github.com/WilliamSamson/onshape-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/WilliamSamson/onshape-mcp
- version: 0.1.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, onshape, cad, model-context-protocol, playwright, automation
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:onshape-mcp

### Description (declared)

# onshape-mcp

I wanted a way to drive Onshape from a language model the way I drive it with
my hands. Click a face. Draw a sketch. Extrude. Chamfer. The existing Onshape
MCP wraps the REST API and FeatureScript, which works but feels like coding,
not modeling. This server aims at the other 70% of CAD work that lives in
the viewport.

It uses a vision-capable LLM (Gemini web, no API key, my Plus cookies) as
eyes, Playwright as hands, and an MCP surface so any MCP-aware client can
talk to it. Every action is journaled, so I can undo, replay, or branch.

## Status

- **M0** done: scaffold, smoke tests, public repo, safety rails.
- **M1** done: driver primitives, Onshape tool datasheet, 43 MCP tools across
  sketching, constraints, dimensions, features and feature-tree editing, plus
  the closed-loop `act(goal)` agent and a deterministic fast path that skips
  the LLM entirely for parseable goals.
- **M2** next: pattern, mirror_body, assembly.mate, sketch.constrain flyout,
  journal-replay undo, a real perceptual-diff for the stuck detector.

## A note on sizes

Sizes come from Onshape's dimension solver, not from pixel measurements.
Tools draw a rough shape at a scale derived from the live canvas, then drive
the true millimetre value in — so a rectangle or circle is exactly the size
you asked for regardless of zoom. All dimension arguments are millimetres
unless you write a unit (`"10 cm"`, `"2 in"`); bare numbers are never
reinterpreted. Polygon radius is currently drawn-to-scale but not
solver-driven; see the `ponytail:` note in `ui_actions.py`.

## What it looks like from the client side

Two ways to drive it:

**Direct tools.** I call individual MCP tools when I want fine control:
`screenshot`, `describe_view`, `viewport_size`, `journal_tail`, `tool_datasheet`,
`open_doc`, and the per-tool `onshape_*` ones. Useful when I want to see
each step and steer.

**Closed-loop `act`.** I just say what I want:
`act(goal="draw a 50x30mm rectangle on the top plane and extrud…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- infra.browser-automation (1, declared)
- media.3d (1, declared)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/onshape-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-12T08:20:33.521Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/onshape-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/onshape-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:onshape-mcp