Issue Nº 01 — October 15, 2026

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SummaryParametric 3D CAD in Rust with a built-in MCP server agents can drive.

Filed October 14, 2026. Price, as published by the maker: Free, open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0). No account..

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SolidCraft is open-source CAD in pure Rust: desktop, browser, and a headless CLI with MCP. github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft redirects to tangency-labs/solidcraft. Docs live at docs.solidcraft.io. Latest GitHub release as of October 19, 2026 is v0.16.2.

MODEL tested the Linux v0.11.1 CLI on simple parts (filleted box, plate with hole). The hands-on numbers, including what we did not test, are in Issue Nº 02.