What Benchy is
Benchy is a research and product lab developing AI agents, open-source tools and workflows for software, automation, CAD and 3D printing.
Research and products
Our research explores how AI models, world models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), MCP servers and command-line tools can work together in systems that plan, create and act across software and the physical world.
You work in projects, on your own or with other people, and ask Benchy to help. Your own agents can work in the same projects. Your work stays in files you can download. World is where you share or sell 3D models.
Benchy is the company behind Benchy Studio and Benchy World. It is not the 3DBenchy, the small boat people print to calibrate a printer — the name is a nod to it.
Screenshot: a project open in Studio — its files, a canvas and the chat beside them.
The pieces
| Thing | What it is |
|---|---|
| Workspace | Holds your people, your plan and Credits, and everything you make. You get one when you sign up. |
| Project | Where you work: a brief in BENCHY.md, a folder of files, canvases and docs, and the chats about them. |
| Benchy | The agent. Chat with it on your own, or with other people and their agents. |
| Skill | Instructions you save once and run with /name. |
| Element | A character, product, place, brand or style in the workspace's library, with an @handle, so Benchy gets it right every time. |
| Plugin | Gives Benchy tools for an app on your Mac, such as Blender. |
| Connection | An account elsewhere, such as Google Drive, brought into Benchy. |
Where you use Benchy
One Benchy account signs you in everywhere.
| Place | Use it to |
|---|---|
Benchy Studio benchy.studio | Create with AI agents, tools and models in shared projects, chats, canvases and docs. Manage members, Credits and your plan. |
| Benchy Desktop | Work on your Mac with your agents, projects, slicer, printers and apps. |
World benchy.world | Publish, find, buy and sell 3D models, and share what you make from them: reviews, makes, remixes and collections. |
| Your other tools | Use Benchy from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, Blender and your terminal. |
Connect your agent
Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any other MCP client to connect it to one of your workspaces.
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Help me connect this agent to my Benchy account. Read https://benchy.world/docs/connect-your-agent and https://benchy.world/skills/getting-started-with-benchy.md for the current setup instructions. Benchy's hosted MCP endpoint is https://mcp.benchy.studio/api/mcp. Follow the instructions for this specific client under https://www.benchy.studio/dashboard/profile?tab=api-keys → Connect a client. Use browser sign-in with OAuth when supported, or guide me through configuring a scoped API key in the client's secure settings. Either way, I choose the one workspace this agent works in. Do not ask me to paste a key into chat. Once connected, discover the available tools, resources, and prompts. Verify the connection with a read, such as listing the projects in that workspace. Ask before making changes to my account.
Or install these docs as a skill, so an agent reads the current page instead of recalling it: /docs/skill.md.