The Manim MCP, built by abhiemj, provides generate mathematical animations using Manim directly from your AI assistant. It is community-built and best for Coding & Dev.
Its repository has had no commits since May 2025 (15 months ago).
by abhiemj
No commits in 15 months
The last commit GitHub reports for this project is from May 2025. The repository is not archived and the maintainer may return. Treat it as feature-frozen and check the alternatives below before you depend on it.
About
Generate mathematical animations using Manim directly from your AI assistant. Create explanatory videos, data visualizations, and animated diagrams with natural language.
Trust verdict
How grades are computed →Grade B (79/100, solid) from 1 measured signal, based on repository evidence. Only one signal stands behind it, so treat the grade as provisional.
What was measured
- Repository maintenance55/100 · weight 20
The last push or release is between six and eighteen months old. — last push 2025-05-19.
- Source verification100/100 · weight 25
The repository URL was confirmed to resolve against the live GitHub API and is not archived.
- Provenance65/100 · weight 10
Community-built. That is not a mark against it — most of the ecosystem is community-built — but there is no vendor accountable for keeping it working.
- Listing ↔ repository match100/100 · weight 5
The listing name lines up with the linked repository abhiemj/manim-mcp-server.
What could not be measured
These contributed nothing to the score — not a penalty, not a zero. They are why the confidence reads the way it does.
- Live MCP handshakeunknown
No remote endpoint to handshake — this server installs and runs locally over stdio, so there is nothing to probe from the outside.
- Measured uptimeunknown
No probe history recorded for this server yet.
- Tool-schema stabilityunknown
Drift is a difference between two successive checks, and this server has none recorded.
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Repo Health
Local/stdio install — runs on your machine, so there is no remote endpoint to verify live. Trust signal below is from the source repo.
- Last commit
- 1y ago
- Install
- pip
Quick Info
- Install Type
- pip
- Author
- abhiemj
- Categories
- 2
- Integrations
- 1
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