Unity MCP (Server + Plugin)

Unity Version	Editmode	Playmode	Standalone
2022.3.61f1
2023.2.20f1
6000.0.46f1

Unity-MCP is a bridge between LLM and Unity. It exposes and explains to LLM Unity's tools. LLM understands the interface and utilizes the tools in the way a user asks.

Connect Unity-MCP to LLM client such as Claude or Cursor using integrated AI Connector window. Custom clients are supported as well.

The project is designed to let developers to add custom tools soon. After that the next goal is to enable the same features in player's build. For not it works only in Unity Editor.

The system is extensible: you can define custom tools directly in your Unity project codebase, exposing new capabilities to the AI or automation clients. This makes Unity-MCP a flexible foundation for building advanced workflows, rapid prototyping, or integrating AI-driven features into your development process.

✅New Core Features

🚀 1. Workflow Middleware Architecture

Architecture Overview:

AI Agent → MCP Protocol → McpServer (Workflow Middleware) → Unity Runtime
                              ↓
                        RPC Gateway → ModelUse/Unity etc.
                              ↓  
                        Workflow Orchestration Engine

Workflow Architecture

Layer 1: RPC Gateway

• ✅ Dynamic Unity Tool Discovery - Runtime discovery via ToolRouter_ListAll RPC
• ✅ Tool Calls - Auto-generated tool proxies
• ✅ Unified Interface - All RPC calls through unified IRpcGateway interface

Layer 2: Workflow Orchestration

• ✅ Expression Syntax Support - ${input.param}, ${step.result}
• ✅ Conditional Execution - Step conditions and retry policies
• ✅ Multiple Step Types - rpc_call, model_use, data_transform

2. AI Model Integration & ModelUse API

Provides Unity with complete AI model usage API:

• Bidirectional Communication: Unity Runtime ↔ MCP Server ↔ Agent
• Reverse Model Calls: Unity can actively request Agent's AI model capabilities
• Model Type Support: Text, vision, code analysis and other AI models
• Unified API Interface: Unified access to various AI services through ModelUse API

3. Interactive User Input System

• ✅ Ask User Input Tool - Interactive user input collection
• ✅ Undo & Redo System - Complete undo/redo functionality for GameObject operations

4. Tool System

Added numerous tool features

AI Tools

GameObject

• ✅ Create
• ✅ Destroy
• ✅ Find
• ✅ Modify (tag, layer, name, static)
• ✅ Set parent
• ✅ Duplicate
• ✅ Set Active/Inactive
• ✅ Set Component Active/Inactive

GameObject.Components

• ✅ Add Component
• ✅ Get Components
• ✅ Modify Component
• • ✅ Field set value
• • ✅ Property set value
• • ✅ Reference link set
• ✅ Destroy Component
• ✅ Missing Component Detection
• 🔲 Remove missing components

Editor

• ✅ State (Playmode)
  • ✅ Get
  • ✅ Set
• ✅ Get Windows
• ✅ Layer
  • ✅ Get All
  • ✅ Add
  • ✅ Remove
• ✅ Tag
  • ✅ Get All
  • ✅ Add
  • ✅ Remove
• ✅ Execute MenuItem
• 🔲 Run Tests

Editor.Selection

• ✅ Get selection
• ✅ Set selection

Prefabs

• ✅ Instantiate
• ✅ Create
• ✅ Open
• ✅ Modify (GameObject.Modify)
• ✅ Save
• ✅ Close

Package

• 🔲 Get installed
• 🔲 Install
• 🔲 Remove
• 🔲 Update

Animation

• ✅ Add Event
• ✅ Read Clip

Timeline Manager

• ✅ Create and Attach
• ✅ Add Track
• ✅ List Tracks
• ✅ Add Clip
• ✅ Add Marker
• ✅ Get Marker
• ✅ Add Signal Marker

Environmental Query System

• ✅ Intelligent spatial queries
  • ✅ Area of Interest
  • ✅ Hard Condition
  • ✅ Soft Scoring
  • ✅ Weight synthesis
• ✅ Location selection
• ✅ Object placement

Skeleton Analysis & Visualization

• ✅ Skeleton Hierarchy Analysis
• ✅ Bone Reference Detection

Interactive Tools

• ✅ Wait User Input

Assets

• ✅ Create
• ✅ Find
• ✅ Refresh
• ✅ Read
• ✅ Modify
• ✅ Rename
• ✅ Delete
• ✅ Move
• ✅ Create folder

Scene

• ✅ Create
• ✅ Save
• ✅ Load
• ✅ Unload
• ✅ Get Loaded
• ✅ Get hierarchy
• ✅ Search (editor)
• ✅ Raycast (understand volume)

Camera

• ✅ Camera Control
• ✅ Screen Capture

Materials

• ✅ Create
• ✅ Modify (Assets.Modify)
• ✅ Read (Assets.Read)
• ✅ Assign to a Component on a GameObject

Shader

• ✅ List All

Scripts

• ✅ Read
• ✅ Update or Create
• ✅ Delete

Scriptable Object

• ✅ Create
• ✅ Read
• ✅ Modify
• ✅ Remove

Debug

• ✅ Read logs (console)

Component

• ✅ Get All

AI Model Tools

• ✅ ModelUse Text
• ✅ ModelUse Vision
• ✅ ModelUse Code

Physics Tools

• ✅ Ray casting
• ✅ Sphere casting
• ✅ Box casting
• ✅ Capsule casting
• ✅ Overlap
• ✅ Line Of Sight
• ✅ MultiRay

Layer Tools

• ✅ List Layers
• ✅ Calculate LayerMask
• ✅ Decode LayerMask
• ✅ Scene Analysis

🚀 TODO Roadmap

Architecture Layer

McpServer Aggregator

• 🔲 Multi-model compatibility
• 🔲 Multi-upstream data flow
  • 🔲 Unity integration
  • 🔲 3dsMax integration
  • 🔲 Maya integration
  • 🔲 Houdini integration
  • 🔲 Figma integration
• 🔲 Custom middleware system
• 🔲 Shared context
• 🔲 Pipeline parallel execution

Workflow Engine

• ✅ Data flow orchestration
• ✅ Pipeline parallel execution
• 🔲 Error handling & rollback
• 🔲 Workflow templates

AI Tool Layer

Animation & Rigging

• 🔲 Animator state machine editor
• 🔲 Animator transition tools
• 🔲 AnimationClip processing
• 🔲 Bone detection tools
• 🔲 Attachment point tools

Advanced EQS

• 🔲 Enhanced spatial intelligence EQS

Visual Programming

• 🔲 Unity VisualScripting generation
• 🔲 Behavior Designer integration
• 🔲 NodeCanvas integration
• 🔲 Custom node creation
• 🔲 Flow graph analysis / test

UI & UX Tools

• 🔲 UXML\USS generation
• 🔲 USS generation
• 🔲 UI Toolkit integration
• 🔲 Data binding

Asset Layer

Asset Intelligence

• 🔲 Feature recognition
• 🔲 Asset indexing
• 🔲 Embedding / Metadata generation
• 🔲 Similarity detection
• 🔲 Auto-categorization
• 🔲 Dependency mapping

Legend: ✅ = Implemented & available, 🔲 = Planned / Not yet implemented

• Editor Automation: Provides rich APIs for automating Unity Editor operations
• AI Integration: Supports connection and interaction with AI models
• Asset Management: Provides tools for managing and manipulating Unity assets
• Animation Tools: Tools for reading and modifying animation clips
• Timeline Tools: Tools for manipulating Unity Timeline assets
• Component Operations: Provides APIs for accessing and modifying game object components
• Selection Tools: Used to get and set selections in the Unity Editor
• EQS Tools: Environmental Query System tools for intelligent spatial queries, location selection, and object placement
• RayCast Tools: Physics raycasting tools supporting multiple ray types (ray, sphere, box, capsule) and collision detection modes
• Console Logs: Get Console logs with a filter
• Streamlined and compressed the number of tools, ensuring that the model's performance doesn't degrade due to excessive tool calls.

Installation

1. Install .NET 9.0
2. Git Clone this repository locally and place it in Unity's Packages directory with the path Packages/com.miao.mcp/{repository content}
3. Manually add to manifest.json:

{
    "scopedRegistries": [
        {
        "name": "package.openupm.com",
        "url": "https://package.openupm.com",
        "scopes": [
            "org.nuget"
        ]
        }
    ]
}

Usage

1. Make sure your project path doesn't have a space symbol " ".

• ✅ C:/MyProjects/Project
• ❌ C:/My Projects/Project

1. Open Unity project, go 👉 Window/MCP Hub.

1. Install MCP client

• Install Cursor (recommended)
• Install Claude

1. Sign-in into MCP client
2. Click Configure at your MCP client.

1. Restart your MCP client.
2. Make sure AI Connector is "Connected" or "Connecting..." after restart.
3. Test AI connection in your Client (Cursor, Claude Desktop). Type any question or task into the chat. Something like:

  Explain my scene hierarchy

AI Configuration (Optional)

Add custom tool

⚠️ It only works with MCP client that supports dynamic tool list update.

Unity-MCP is designed to support custom tool development by project owner. MCP server takes data from Unity plugin and exposes it to a Client. So anyone in the MCP communication chain would receive the information about a new tool. Which LLM may decide to call at some point.

To add a custom tool you need:

1. To have a class with attribute McpPluginToolType.
2. To have a method in the class with attribute McpPluginTool.
3. [optional] Add Description attribute to each method argument to let LLM to understand it.
4. [optional] Use string? optional = null properties with ? and default value to mark them as optional for LLM.

Take a look that the line MainThread.Instance.Run(() => it allows to run the code in Main thread which is needed to interact with Unity API. If you don't need it and running the tool in background thread is fine for the tool, don't use Main thread for efficiency purpose.

[McpPluginToolType]
public class Tool_GameObject
{
    [McpPluginTool
    (
        "MyCustomTask",
        Title = "Create a new GameObject"
    )]
    [Description("Explain here to LLM what is this, when it should be called.")]
    public string CustomTask
    (
        [Description("Explain to LLM what is this.")]
        string inputData
    )
    {
        // do anything in background thread

        return MainThread.Instance.Run(() =>
        {
            // do something in main thread if needed

            return $"[Success] Operation completed.";
        });
    }
}

Add custom in-game tool

⚠️ Not yet supported. The work is in progress

🎯 Middleware Workflow

Workflow Definition Syntax:

{
  "id": "simple_equipment_binding",
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "find_character",
      "type": "rpc_call", 
      "connector": "unity",
      "operation": "GameObject_Find",
      "parameters": { "name": "${input.characterName}" }
    },
    {
      "id": "validate_character",
      "type": "model_use",
      "connector": "model_use", 
      "operation": "text",
      "parameters": { "prompt": "Validate: ${find_character.result}" }
    }
  ]
}

Contribution

Feel free to add new tool into the project.

1. Fork the project.
2. Implement new tool in your forked repository.
3. Create Pull Request into original Unity-MCP repository.

Attribution

This project is based on the original open-source project by Ivan Murzak and has been extensively modified and extended by MiAO.

Original Project

• Author: Ivan Murzak
• Original Repository: https://github.com/IvanMurzak/Unity-MCP
• License: Apache License 2.0

Modifications and Extensions

• Modified by: MiAO (ai@miao.company)
• Year: 2025
• Major Changes: [List major modifications here]

We thank the original author Ivan Murzak for his contributions to the open-source community!

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.

The project includes components from the original work by Ivan Murzak, also licensed under Apache License 2.0.