Adams MCP servers and AI agent skills

How AI connects to Adams

An MCP server or skill can only do what Adams lets programs do. Adams exposes 2 automation interfaces:

• Adams/View command language (CMD files) (Other): Adams/View models can be built and simulated from command files, plain-text scripts of Adams View commands that run in the GUI or in batch. The CAE Agent Hub server generates CMD files for bodies, revolute joints, gravity and motions, then runs them in isolated folders with timeouts. Batch CMD runs are the most reliable route because they don't depend on a session being open. Documentation
• Adams Python and the Command Server (Python): Adams View also has a Python interface that can run command-language statements from Python scripts, and a localhost Command Server that accepts command strings and expression queries from outside programs. The MCP server uses the Command Server for its live tools, restricted to allowlisted command prefixes, but that path is the part its author could not yet verify.

What Hexagon-Cadence offers

Adams is now sold by Cadence after its purchase of Hexagon's design and engineering business; the latest release shown on Hexagon's Nexus portal is Adams 2025.1, which adds acoustic, leafspring, bearing and gear improvements. No AI assistant or MCP server is announced for Adams. The portal lists ODYSSEE as a separate AI and machine-learning product.

Checked 4 Nov 2026. Sources: Adams on Hexagon Nexus

What you can do with Adams and AI

• Check the Adams installation, the configured release and whether the Command Server is listening, before any model work.
• Build a four-bar or driven-box mechanism from rigid bodies, revolute joints, gravity and a rotational motion, and save it as a CMD file.
• Run the model as a bounded Adams/View batch job and confirm the run produced the expected number of output samples.
• Export a joint reaction-force history and summarise its peak and mean values with hashes of the files used.

Taken from the listings' own documentation. Check each listing for exactly what it supports.

Installing

The listings here document setup for Codex. Install steps, copied from each project's own documentation, are on each listing's page. Most Adams integrations run on your own computer next to Adams, so you need Adams installed and licensed on the same machine unless the listing says otherwise.