tripo3d-rs

Unofficial Rust tooling for the Tripo 3D Generation API. Turn a text prompt, a single image, or a few multi-view photos into a 3D model — then convert formats, re-texture, rig, retarget animations, segment meshes, and more.

This repo ships three things, layered on one another:

• tripo-api — an async Rust SDK. Use it from a Rust app or service.
• tripo-cli — a tripo CLI built on the SDK. Use it from a shell or script.
• tripo-mcp — an MCP server built on the SDK. Use it to hand the API to Claude Code or any other MCP-aware agent.

Pick the one that fits how you want to call it. The SDK covers every operation; the CLI and MCP server are thin, complete wrappers over it.

The SDK — tripo-api

use tripo_api::{Client, TaskRequest, TextToModelRequest, WaitOptions};

let client = Client::new()?;                  // reads TRIPO_API_KEY
let id = client.create_task(TaskRequest::TextToModel(TextToModelRequest {
    prompt: "a red robot".into(),
    ..Default::default()
})).await?;
let task = client.wait_for_task(&id, WaitOptions::default()).await?;
client.download_task_models(&task, "./out".as_ref(), Default::default()).await?;

The CLI — tripo

export TRIPO_API_KEY=tsk_...
tripo text-to-model --prompt "a red robot" --output ./out
tripo image-to-model --input ./photo.jpg --output ./out
tripo rig-model --input <id> --rig-type biped --spec mixamo

See the CLI README for the full command list and exit codes.

The MCP server — tripo-mcp

Every Tripo operation shows up as an MCP tool. Drop this into your client config and your agent can generate 3D assets directly:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tripo": {
      "command": "tripo-mcp",
      "env": { "TRIPO_API_KEY": "tsk_..." }
    }
  }
}

See the MCP README for the full tool list and annotation hints.

Install

Pre-built binaries for Linux (x86_64, aarch64), macOS (x86_64, aarch64), and Windows x86_64 are attached to each release.

From source:

cargo install --path crates/tripo-cli    # tripo
cargo install --path crates/tripo-mcp    # tripo-mcp

Get an API key from the Tripo platform — it needs to start with tsk_.

License

MIT