Downloads
fAI Suite and fAI Keys For Houdini
Download the free standalone fAI Keys control surface, or buy fAI Suite for its complete skill-driven Houdini workflow.
Houdini automation
fAI Suite
Build and run Houdini skills, helpers, scheduled workflows, monitoring, and remote tools from one connected system.
Download for Windows
fAI Suite 1.1.1 · Win10/11 · approximately 80 MB
Includes Houdini 22 compatibility, package UI extensions, Remote access, task monitoring, security upgrades, and the Android companion tools.
Download for Linux
fAI Suite 1.1.1 · Linux · approximately 247 MB
Supports Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Rocky Linux, and compatible distributions.
Free Houdini control surface
fAI Keys Standalone
Put Houdini's context-aware Create menu and shelf tools on an Android tablet. The standalone edition pairs directly over your local network and does not require fAI Suite or Tailscale.
1. Install the Windows host
Installs the local fAI Keys daemon, Houdini startup hook, pairing screen, and tray controls.
2. Install the Android app
Sideload the standalone tablet app, then scan the pairing QR code from the Windows tray icon.
Release history
The current release is available above. The history remains here so you can see the fixes and improvements made to fAI Suite over time.
v1.1.1
Current Windows release- Updates the local Houdini Registry and installation discovery for Houdini 22 while retaining Houdini 20, 20.5, and 21 preferences.
- Removes retired experimental UI components while keeping normal Attribute Wrangle work and the VEX Library available.
- Keeps fAI Remote and fAI Keys compatible with the Linux pairing route, including a signed Tailnet IP fallback when MagicDNS is unavailable.
v1.1.0
Previous release- Adds fAI Remote for Android and paired mobile browsers, with Main chat, task status, monitoring alerts, QR pairing, and revocable device access over a private Tailscale connection.
- Adds fAI Keys, an Android tablet companion that follows the active Houdini context and provides its Create menus and shelf controls on a dedicated touch surface.
- Secures communication between the Web GUI, Bridge, Houdini, and paired devices with per-install credentials, protected local endpoints, stricter request validation, and hardened browser-session controls.
- Adds Scheduler monitoring for renders, caches, simulations, playblasts, and PDG work, including started, completed, cancelled, and failed task notifications.
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- Adds a unified UI builder for skill and helper packages, covering Houdini dialogs and panels, native Windows dialogs, structured HTML reports, and validated custom Web GUI pages.
- Adds visible progress for package workflows, keeps helper-launched work in the active Main session, and supports promoted controls on package-built Houdini subnets.
- Improves the Skills and Helpers Library with one shared website login, clearer installation feedback, automatic selection of the newest revision, and immediate enablement after installation.
- Adds OpenAI ChatGPT sign-in with configurable reasoning levels alongside API-key and local-provider options.
- Improves Houdini startup responsiveness while retaining the complete hrpyc and authenticated capability-service bootstrap across FX, Indie, Core, Houdini, and Apprentice.
- Restores fast viewport display and framing controls, including combined requests that change scene state and the viewport in one verified workflow.
- Improves installer compatibility on non-English Windows editions with language-independent configuration permissions.
- Strengthens fresh-session isolation, Web Main startup, Bridge reliability, and connection reporting without carrying previous test workflows into new work.
- Expands the Remote and package documentation with setup, pairing, monitoring, security, UI-building, and extension guidance.
v1.0.8
Stable release- Finds named Houdini nodes through the read-only full-network inventory when their parent network is not known.
- Keeps Houdini follow-up capability checks generic and declared-tool-only, with workflow decisions left to skills.
- Repairs an invalid post-operation model reply once in the agent instead of replacing it with a generic runtime message.
v1.0.7
Previous release- Reduces Main-turn evidence overhead by using compact skill catalog and capability evidence.
- Hardens Houdini Python follow-up handling by failing closed when an unsupported parameter receiver cannot be safely repaired.
- Adds focused Registry, VEX, runtime-boundary, and Houdini capability regression coverage.
v1.0.6
Previous release- Reworks the custom-helper guide around the Helpers-page form and the Main Chat handoff.
- Clarifies the bundled FFmpeg helper versus the integrations available through the Helper Library.
- Adds a regression check so the installed-versus-downloadable helper documentation cannot drift.
v1.0.5
Previous release- Adds fAI Python for Houdini and pipeline Python work with verification and helper boundaries.
- Audits and streamlines skill evidence so focused panels avoid unrelated workflow material.
- Adds installed package help for every user-visible built-in skill in the Web Docs page.
- Clarifies that FFmpeg is bundled while Resolve, Nuke, Maya, Blender, and YouTube are installed from the Helper Library.
v1.0.4
Previous release- Exports bounded, redacted, instruction-screened support bundles from the Web GUI Logs page.
- Lets buyers attach a screened text log bundle to a support ticket; attachments remain private to tracker staff.
- Keeps raw diagnostics outside Main, Scheduler, skills, and helpers.
v1.0.3
Previous release- Added installed package help for skills and atomic helper integrations in the Web Docs page.
- Added documented FFmpeg, Blender, Maya, Nuke, DaVinci Resolve, and YouTube helper packages.
- Formalized helpers as self-contained integration packages with their matching workflow skill and setup guidance.
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