td-pop-family SKILL.md skillA

td-pop-family from touchdesigner/tdmcpskills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add touchdesigner/tdmcpskills/td-pop-family@git:20260702.428ffeb

Pins git:20260702.428ffeb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
touchdesigner/tdmcpskills
Path
skills/td-pop-family/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20260702.428ffeb, committed Jul 2, 2026
First version recorded
Apr 15, 2026
Size
7,918 bytes
Repository stars
39
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

POP networks — particles, geometryCOMP lifecycle, feedback, forces, instancing. Use when building GPU point operations.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# POP Networks

GPU-accelerated point operations. POPs replace SOPs for 3D geometry with massively parallel GPU compute. See `reference.md` for operator decision tree and attribute reference.

## Core Concepts

- **Points with attributes**: P (position), N (normal), Color, Tex, custom
- **GPU-resident**: all data stays on GPU, downloading to CPU causes stalls
- **Memory model**: unmodified input attributes pass by reference (zero-copy)
- **Points alone don't render** — need Point Primitives (set Connectivity on generators)
- **Rendering**: POPs in geometryCOMPs, rendered by renderTOP. MATs read POP attributes
- **Data sourcing**: POPs can exist in any COMP (baseCOMP, etc.) for data extraction without rendering
- **GPU→CPU cost**: `poptoCHOP` and `poptoDAT` copy data from GPU to CPU — can be heavy for large point counts

## geometryCOMP Setup

1. Create geometryCOMP
2. **Delete auto-created torus** immediately
3. Build POP chain inside, end with nullPOP
4. Set `display=true render=true` on output nullPOP
5. Material: place MAT inside geometryCOMP, reference as `./mat_name`. See `td-mat-family` skill
6. For instancing: see `td-geometry-instancing` skill

## Feedback Simulation
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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add touchdesigner/tdmcpskills/td-pop-family@sha256:6094059c25aa2c07

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260702.428ffeb, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Source

GitHub

touchdesigner/tdmcpskills · 39 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bfkjgzzuhjv72gvb
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=touchdesigner/tdmcpskills/td-pop-family
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6094059c25aa2c079ce4570b6d6abed37b71ac9f3ab5dc37505bf1c4547881eb

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