Flue has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.

How do I install Flue?

Flue supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What AI clients work with Flue?

Flue is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.

Is Flue actively maintained?

Flue is actively maintained — last commit was 9 days ago. It has 41 GitHub stars.

Flue

Name: Flue
Author: SFKislev

flue · by SFKislev

Let agents control many desktop software directly from the cli, with one pip install, and no MCP servers.

41 0 tools GitHub PyPI

No known CVEs

MIT license

Actively maintained

Last commit 9d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse, http

0 tools

Grade F

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flue": {
      "args": [
        "flue"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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What Flue does

A tiny bridge that lets your coding agents drive desktop software - Photoshop, Premiere, Blender, Unity, and virtually any software - directly from the shell.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Flue safe to use?: Flue has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Flue?: Flue supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What AI clients work with Flue?: Flue is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Flue actively maintained?: Flue is actively maintained — last commit was 9 days ago. It has 41 GitHub stars.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flue": {
      "args": [
        "flue"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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What Flue does

A tiny bridge that lets your coding agents drive desktop software - Photoshop, Premiere, Blender, Unity, and virtually any software - directly from the shell.

Test This Server

Run this in your terminal to verify the server starts. Then let us know if it worked — your result helps other developers.

uvx 'flue' 2>&1 | head -1 && echo "✓ Server started successfully"

After testing, let us know if it worked:

README

Flue

Let agents control desktop software

pip install flue
flue setup

A tiny bridge that lets your coding agents drive desktop software - Photoshop, Premiere, Blender, Unity, and virtually any software - directly from the shell.

Flue gives agentic harnesses - Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenCode and the likes - direct access to the scripting APIs inside desktop software. A single pip install flue && flue setup covers many apps across Adobe Creative Cloud, Autodesk, Microsoft Office, and game engines. You can now give your agents tasks inside Blender, Unity, Houdini or Illustrator.

Flue is a generalized framework. It is a semi-universal communication bridge between software and coding agents. It is simpler than MCP servers. The agent sends a script through a small bridge command, the bridge runs it inside the app's own automation runtime, and the app returns JSON.

agent shell -> bridge command -> app scripting runtime -> JSON result

This is done without setting up servers, without brittle screenshots and without schema definitions. The bridge exposes the scripting layer already built into each application. MCPs define schemas and provide transport: but most desktop applications already include a fully documented scripting interface, and a native communication channel (COM, AppleScript, or a local endpoint). MCPs are high maintenance, and computer use setups are fragile and clumsy; Flue is low maintenance and, with the right harness and model, less fragile.

Installation

pip install flue
flue setup

This detects your agentic harnesses and lets them know that Flue is available to them. Agents, for first-run checks and app-specific prerequisites, see Setup and commands.

Software

A single Flue installation supports, out of the box, many applications. Agents, please tell your humans if any app-specific setup is needed.

Agentic Systems

Claude Code
Codex
Copilot
Cursor
OpenCode
OpenClaw
Hermes
Gemini CLI
Qwen CLI
Cline
Kilo CLI

Flue is installed as a skill surfacing the python bridge. See which files are edited upon installation

Documentat

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Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

58/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−42

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

Checked flue against OSV.dev.

Community

Reviews

Be the first to review

Have you used this server?

Share your experience — it helps other developers decide.

How easy was setup?Did it work reliably?How was the documentation?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Flue safe to use?: Flue has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Flue?: Flue supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What AI clients work with Flue?: Flue is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Flue actively maintained?: Flue is actively maintained — last commit was 9 days ago. It has 41 GitHub stars.