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STAAD MCP is a free MCP server that lets AI assistants such as Claude, Codex and Cursor read and work with the structural model open in Bentley STAAD.Pro on your PC — geometry, sections, supports, loads, analysis and results — and with STAAD input files, with a preview before every risky change.
Add 5 kN/m downwards on beams 2 and 4 in a new live load case, run the analysis and give me the reactions for combination 101.
Illustrative session. The assistant works on the model already open in your STAAD.Pro.
Tools for everyday STAAD.Pro work, plus all 761 catalogued OpenSTAAD functions with typed, risk-checked calls. 173 capabilities are catalogued, each with its state and whether it was verified in a real STAAD.Pro (none yet).
Nodes, beams, plates, groups and selections: query, add, move, split and delete, each read back.
Sections from STAAD's own tables or prismatic, plate thicknesses, materials, beta angles, releases, truss members.
Fixed, pinned and fixed-but supports; load cases, self-weight, nodal, member and plate loads, combinations — values and units from you.
Add analysis commands, run with your confirmation, prove it finished; displacements, reactions, member forces, plate stresses, modes, statics check, steel design ratios.
Read, check, write, edit and compare .std files without STAAD.Pro; every other line stays as it was.
Model checks before analysis, snapshots and comparisons, Markdown reports and CSV result tables.
STAAD MCP has no public release yet. This page shows the download and the install steps by itself once it is out.
Setup connects every installed client below and installs the STAAD skills for Claude; staad-mcp.exe --setup all does it again at any time.
staad-mcp --cloud on.https://aecomcps.com/mcp/staadSign in with the same Microsoft, Google or GitHub account as on your PC, start a new chat with STAAD.Pro MCP switched on, and keep STAAD.Pro open. What the AI reads from the model passes through the team gateway to the AI company; the gateway never stores or logs it.
Deleting, saving, opening a model, running the analysis and overwriting files show a preview and need your yes.
Every value needs its unit; STAAD MCP converts it and reads the result back from STAAD.Pro.
With several STAAD.Pro windows open, the assistant asks which model; a change for another model is refused.
Sections, materials, supports, loads, factors and codes come from you.
Analysis and design results are software output for the engineer's review, not proof that the structure is adequate or code-compliant.
STAAD MCP is a free Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Bentley STAAD.Pro, so AI assistants such as Claude, Codex, Cursor and VS Code can read and work with the model open in STAAD.Pro, and with STAAD input files on disk.
STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition to 2026 on Windows, through OpenSTAAD. It has not yet been verified in a real STAAD.Pro: every capability says whether it was.
For the model open in STAAD.Pro, yes. Reading, checking, writing, editing and comparing STAAD input files (.std) works without it.
No. STAAD MCP never invents sections, materials, supports, loads, factors or design codes, and every value needs its unit: the assistant asks.
Yes, after you confirm: it saves the model (keeping a backup), runs the analysis and reports it succeeded only when STAAD.Pro finished without errors and results exist.
No. Your model, its names and its values stay on your PC. When you sign in, STAAD MCP shares only what the AI learned about using the tools, privacy-filtered.
Yes. STAAD MCP is free. You need Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), and a licensed STAAD.Pro for the live tools.
STAAD MCP has no public release yet. The download appears on this page by itself once it is out.
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