Blender Foundation deployed an experimental MCP (Model Context Protocol) server as part of the Blender Lab initiative, offering users a way to control Blender using natural language commands sent through an external AI assistant such as Claude. The add-on requires Blender 5.1 or newer and is available as an opt-in experimental feature.

The Blender Lab MCP server is a lightweight add-on that implements the Model Context Protocol, an open standard that lets large language models (LLMs) connect to external tools. Users install a Blender add-on that opens a local TCP connection; an external LLM client (such as Claude Code or Cursor) then sends natural language instructions, which are translated into Blender Python API commands and executed inside the running Blender session. The server can inspect scenes, execute Python code, trigger renders, and navigate the interface. The project repository was first committed in February 2026 and a public page was published at blender.org/lab/mcp-server/.