Maxsurf MCP servers and AI agent skills

How AI connects to Maxsurf

An MCP server or skill can only do what Maxsurf lets programs do. Maxsurf exposes 1 automation interface:

• Maxsurf COM automation (COM automation): Maxsurf programs expose COM automation, which VBA in Excel and other COM-capable languages use to open designs, set inputs and run analyses. Bentley's troubleshooting article covers the usual failure: VBA projects bind early to a specific executable, so after an upgrade you re-add the reference or re-register the program. Maxsurf MCP uses the same COM layer, and its author notes you need the automation entitlement in your Bentley licence. Documentation

What Bentley offers

Bentley's MCP page lists official servers for STAAD.Pro and STAAD Foundation Advanced, MicroStation (restricted release) and, on request, ProjectWise, AssetWise, iTwin IoT and the PLS products. Maxsurf, SACS and MOSES aren't on it as of 4 November 2026, and Bentley has not announced an AI assistant inside Maxsurf.

Checked 4 Nov 2026. Sources: Bentley MCP servers

What you can do with Maxsurf and AI

• Read the surfaces, control nets and design grid of an open Modeler design and report its upright hydrostatics.
• Define tanks, load cases and damage cases in Stability and run equilibrium and GZ checks against a criteria set you choose.
• Pass a hull to Resistance, pick prediction methods and a speed range, run them and export the resistance curve.
• Run a strip-theory seakeeping case in Motions and export the response tables.
• Build a simple Multiframe beam model and run linear static and modal analyses.

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

Installing

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