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Building with an AI assistant

There are three ways an AI model can help you build on AR Clip, and they need very different things from you.

WayThe model can…Needs
The built-in assistantbuild and change your scene directlynothing — it is in the editor
Your own tools over MCPthe same, from Claude, Cursor, or anything that speaks MCPan API token
Any chat model (GPT, DeepSeek, Perplexity, …)advise, write scripts and patch graphs for you to pastethe brief

The built-in assistant

The quickest path: the top icon in the editor's left rail. Describe what you want, it builds it, and everything it makes is ordinary project content you can edit by hand afterwards.

AI assistant panel

Your own tools, over MCP

If you already work in a tool that speaks MCP — Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and others — you can point it at your project and let it build while you watch in the editor.

Connecting over MCP

Any other model

Models without MCP cannot touch your project, but they can still be genuinely useful — writing a script, designing a patch graph, working out why something is not firing.

They need context, because none of them know this platform. Point the model at one page:

Brief for assistants

Paste the brief, then ask your question

That page is written to be handed to a model as-is. It contains the mental model, the naming rules and the traps that most often produce confidently wrong answers.

What it is worth asking for

Concrete jobs, from running a workshop on one shared canvas to generating a project from a spreadsheet: what agents are good for here.

What to expect

An assistant is good at the tedious parts: making forty objects, wiring the same event onto a list of things, writing a script you could have written but would rather not, working out which step does what.

It is weaker at judgement: how your experience should feel, whether a marker will track in the room it will actually live in, how big something should be so it reads from three metres.

Assistants can find this on their own

The site publishes /llms.txt — the convention AI tools look for at a site root — with the brief as its first entry, and /llms-full.txt containing every page in one file.

So "read the AR Clip docs" is often enough of an instruction; you do not have to paste anything.

Nobody legitimate will ask you for a key in a chat

Not us, not a plugin, not an assistant. Tokens go in your account settings.