Regarding the latest AI developments, how great would it be to have some kind of AI SOP where you just have to type in a prompt with what you need instead of have to fiddle around with nodes or study mathematics and learn some kind of scripting language before you’re able to get what you want.

In many cases it would speed up things a lot, and make life in Houdini so much easier.

But I’m sure I’m not the only one that thinks about this , and SideFX is already working on some kind of AI-Agent.

Have you seen this one?
https://rart.gumroad.com/l/HoudiniAIAssistant?layout=discover&recommended_by=search&_gl=1 [rart.gumroad.com]

That looks interesting, thanks.

You can connect Houdini to AI(like Claude Code or Codex) through MCP(Model Context Protocol), there are few implementations:

https://github.com/capoomgit/houdini-mcp [github.com] and its forks some of them have more functionality like https://github.com/kleer001/houdini-mcp [github.com]

different implementation of MCP:
https://github.com/atayilgun/Houdini-claudecode-mcp [github.com]

I have my own, based on atayilgun's:
https://github.com/lecopivo/another-houdini-mcp [github.com]

I'm now experimenting with so called "Houdini AI Academy" in which I let the AI go over Houdini documentation, examples and let it play with the nodes. Then I ask it to write down its notes in the memory/ directory. My hope is that for each node it will gather useful information such that it can use the nodes more effectively next time. Feel free to run in on your machine and submit a PR

Its usefulness is hit or miss, right now but I find it quite useful when refactoring HDAs or doing other really tedious tasks.