Maya Pipeline Skill (Advanced)

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Domain skill, Maya asset pipeline orchestration: set up project directory structures, export scenes to USD, and coordinate multi-step DCC workflows. Use when initialising a Maya project or exporting assets for a downstream pipeline. Not for raw geometry editing, use maya-geometry for that. Not for low-level USD file inspection, use usd-tools for that.

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Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Maya Pipeline Skill (Advanced) skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-core in examples/skills/maya-pipeline/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Demonstrates the full advanced skill layout for dcc-mcp-core:

maya-pipeline/
├── SKILL.md                  # Frontmatter + instructions
├── scripts/
│   ├── setup_project.py      # Create Maya project structure
│   └── export_usd.py         # Export scene to USD
└── metadata/
    ├── help.md               # Detailed usage docs
    ├── install.md            # Installation / environment setup
    └── uninstall.md          # Cleanup instructions

Tools

`maya_pipeline__setup_project`

Create a Maya project directory with the standard folder hierarchy: scenes/, assets/, sourceimages/, renderData/, movies/.

`maya_pipeline__export_usd`

Export the current Maya scene (or selection) to Universal Scene Description. Integrates with usd-tools for post-export validation.

Composability

This skill depends on two other skills:

Dependency	Purpose
`maya-geometry`	Reuses geometry creation tools
`usd-tools`	USD validation after export

When loading via load_skill("maya-pipeline"), ensure the dependency skills are loaded first:

catalog.load_skill("maya-geometry")
catalog.load_skill("usd-tools")
catalog.load_skill("maya-pipeline")

Metadata directory

The metadata/ directory provides structured side-car documentation:

help.md — User-facing reference
install.md — Pre-install steps, environment variables, dependency checks
uninstall.md — Cleanup steps when removing the skill

Signals

GitHub stars: 48
Forks: 4
Last commit: Oct 2026

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Advanced

Item type: skill
Key: maya-pipeline
Source: github.com/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-core

github.com/dcc-mcp/dcc-mcp-core