Claude Desktop

Claude Desktop is Anthropic’s user-friendly chat app for Windows and Mac. With our connector installed, anything you ask Claude in the chat window can now happen in Rhino & Grasshopper.

1. Install Claude Desktop

Claude Desktop

2. Install the Claude connector

Download connector.mcpb.
Open Claude Desktop and go to Settings → Extensions → Advanced settings.
Click Install Extension and select the downloaded connector.mcpb.
Click Install to confirm.

That’s it. The connector is now wired up.

3. Install the Rhino plugin

The desktop connector can also install the plugin for you if you ask it to.

Paste the following into your AI agent. It will install it for you, so there is no need to open Rhino.

Prompt

Install the Rhino-MCP-Platform plugin into Rhino using Yak (Rhino’s Package Manager). $1 is the Rhino major version to target (e.g. 8). If omitted, default to 8.

Locate the Yak CLI for Rhino $1. It ships with Rhino:
- macOS: /Applications/Rhino $1.app/Contents/Resources/bin/yak
- Windows: C:\Program Files\Rhino $1\System\Yak.exe
Install the plugin from the public package server:
yak install Rhino-MCP-Platform
Restart Rhino $1 so the newly installed plugin is loaded.
In Rhino, run the MCPStart command to confirm the plugin is available.

To upgrade an existing install, run yak update Rhino-MCP-Platform. To remove it, run yak uninstall Rhino-MCP-Platform.

Try it out

Open Claude Desktop, start a new chat, and follow the prompts on the Try It Out page.

Getting Started Try It Out