# ovito-mcp

> MCP server for interactive work in OVITO Pro

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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/ovito-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://docs.ovito.org/reference/data_inspector/coding_agent.html
- repository: https://gitlab.com/ovito-org/ovito-mcp-server/-/issues
- version: 2026.3
- license: Proprietary
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, molecular-dynamics, ovito, visualization
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:ovito-mcp

### Description (declared)

# OVITO Pro MCP Server

Connects an AI coding agent to a running **OVITO Pro** session, so you can work with your
simulation data by describing what you want in plain language. The agent operates inside
the session you already have open — it can load files, build and adjust pipelines, analyze
results, and look things up in the OVITO documentation, while you watch each step happen
live in the GUI and keep working in the same window yourself.

Works with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenAI Codex, OpenCode, Google Antigravity, and
other coding agents that support MCP.

## Requirements

- **OVITO Pro 3.16 or later**, with a valid license
- **Python 3.10 or later**
- A supported coding agent, installed and set up separately (see
  [Agent configuration](#agent-configuration))

## Installation

Install the server:

```sh
pip install ovito-mcp
```

Verify the installation and check the version with:

```sh
ovito-mcp --version
```

The documentation-search tools provided by the OVITO MCP server use two small sentence-transformers models that are downloaded
once from the Hugging Face Hub (~180 MB total) and cached locally. The server downloads them
automatically in the background the first time it starts, and never touches the network for
them again. If you would rather do this one-time download up front — recommended on a slow or
restricted network, so it can't slow down the first search — run:

```sh
ovito-mcp --download-models
```

Then register it with your coding agent, using the **absolute path** to the `ovito-mcp` console
script. For Claude Code:

```powershell
# Windows (PowerShell)
claude mcp add ovito-mcp --scope user -- (Get-Command ovito-mcp).Source
```

```sh
# macOS / Linux
claude mcp add ovito-mcp --scope user -- "$(which ovito-mcp)"
```

See [Agent configuration](#agent-configuration) below for the other agents.

## Using it

In OVITO Pro, open the
[**AI Agent**](https://docs.ovito.org/reference/data_inspector/coding_agent.html) tab in
the data inspector …

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- analytics.reporting (1, declared)
- dev.docs-lookup (0.791, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/ovito-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T09:25:13.988Z)

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