Vulcan MCP servers and AI agent skills

How AI connects to Vulcan

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

• Vulcan Python class modules (maptek.vulcan, maptek.vulcan_gui) (Python): Vulcan bundles a Python installation with Maptek modules: maptek.vulcan for block models, Isis databases, triangulations, grids and design databases, and maptek.vulcan_gui for panels, screen selection and views, plus maptek.drillholes and maptek.gantt. The 2026 help counts over 900 functions. Maptek states that scripts using these class libraries run, and are supported, only from within Vulcan, and the GUI functions need Vulcan running. Documentation
• Maptek Python SDK (mapteksdk) (Python): mapteksdk on PyPI is a separate SDK that connects to a running Maptek application built on the shared MDF infrastructure, such as PointStudio, GeologyCore, BlastLogic and Evolution, and reads or creates objects in its project. Its PyPI page does not list classic Vulcan, so check which Maptek product you have before picking this route. Documentation

What Maptek offers

Maptek's machine learning product is DomainMCF, which generates domain boundaries from drillhole samples using cloud computing and produces block models you can open in Vulcan. Maptek's site describes no generative AI assistant, chat feature or MCP server for Vulcan as of this check.

Checked 4 Nov 2026. Sources: Maptek DomainMCF, machine learning for domain modelling, Maptek Vulcan product page

What you can do with Vulcan and AI

• Query a .bmf block model at given coordinates, or total volume, tonnage and mean grade above a cut-off, while Vulcan is open.
• Check triangulations and solids for closure and self-intersections and report their volume and surface area before using them as pit or stope shells.
• Read collars, surveys and assays from an Isis drillhole database and list high-grade intercepts.
• Draw temporary polylines in the Envisage viewport and capture a screenshot so the agent can see the result.

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

Installing

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