In these uncertain and divisive times, we appreciate Anthropic offering support to the Blender project in the form of a Patron-level membership. This enables the Blender team to keep pursuing projects independently, and to focus on building tools for artists and creators.
Francesco Siddi, CEO at Blender
from anthropic’s announcement: “The Blender developers have created an MCP connector, which is now officially available for Claude.”
MCP stands for “modern context protocol” and is a tech developed by anthropic for ai integration. in effect, yes, blender is forced to integrate ai. not claude specifically, mind you, but still.
Okay, but how bad is that?
It is just an interface, or am i missing something here?
Anthropic has no control over the project.
They sponsored a feature that is still open to anyone to use or not use.
The project is intact for all I can tell?
Think about MCPs as an API for AI. It’s just an interface that let’s AI do a set of predetermined tasks/configurations. It’ll very likely be used for model generation via a prompt
Yeah, i get the gist of it.
Its just that I don’t really see a problem with Blender creating an API.
There are 2 options:
I don’t see how this is bad, honestly.
It’s ’model complex protocol’ and you can’t stop people from making them to integrate with software. Basically you can create instructions so that the agent can use other software. I bet even w/o entropic there are already more than one on GitHub.
It blew my mind when I played with the godot mcps for the first time not gonna lie.