prusactl

prusactl mcp gives an agent such as Claude hands on your printer. It can:

• Watch: check state, temperatures, job progress, and (with Connect) the camera.

• Print: upload files, start them, pause, resume, stop, and queue.

• Control: heat, home, move, load and unload filament, and level the bed.

• Answer the printer: press the buttons on dialogs shown on its screen, such as runout or errors. Needs Connect.

• Run G-code: any G-code, over the direct connection.

It is one Go binary with no browser involved. Setup is two terminal prompts.

Things you can ask

How's the print going? Show me the camera.

Print ~/Downloads/bracket.bgcode.

Preheat for PETG.

Object 3 is spaghetti. Cancel just that one.

The printer is showing a dialog. What does it say?

What did I print this week, and how many failed?

Related MCP server: repetier-mcp

Install

Homebrew (macOS and Linux):

brew install trevin-lee/tap/prusactl

Tab completion for bash, zsh, and fish comes with it. Update with brew upgrade prusactl; remove with brew uninstall prusactl.

A downloaded binary: get the archive for your system from Releases: macOS (universal), Linux (x86-64, ARM64, ARMv7 such as a Raspberry Pi), or Windows (x86-64, ARM64). checksums.txt lists their SHA-256 sums.

tar -xzf prusactl_*_linux_arm64.tar.gz   # macOS and Linux: unpack the one you downloaded
sudo install prusactl /usr/local/bin/    # or any other folder on your PATH

On Windows, unzip it and put prusactl.exe in a folder on your PATH. The binaries aren't code-signed: if macOS won't open it because it can't verify the developer, run xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /usr/local/bin/prusactl. To update, replace the file with a newer release. prusactl help completion shows how to add Tab completion.

Go:

go install github.com/trevin-lee/prusactl/cmd/prusactl@latest

This puts it in $(go env GOPATH)/bin, which needs to be on your PATH. It needs Go 1.26.6 or newer; recent Go versions fetch that on their own.

Check it worked with prusactl --version.

Quick start

prusactl setup 192.168.1.50    # the printer's address; asks for its PrusaLink password
prusactl status

prusactl login                 # optional: Prusa Connect, for remote access, camera, dialogs

The PrusaLink password is on the printer under Settings → Network → PrusaLink. PrusaLink is on by default; if someone turned it off, turn it back on there.

Connect an AI agent

Claude Code:

claude mcp add --scope user prusa -- "$(command -v prusactl)" mcp

$(command -v prusactl) saves the full path, so it works even when the app isn't started from a terminal that has your PATH.

Any other MCP client: add prusactl as a stdio server, using the path that command -v prusactl prints (where prusactl on Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "prusa": { "command": "/opt/homebrew/bin/prusactl", "args": ["mcp"] }
  }
}

The MCP bundle: each release includes prusactl.mcpb, which carries its own copy of prusactl for macOS, Linux x86-64, and Windows x86-64. Open it in an app that installs MCPB extensions, such as Claude Desktop (double-click the file), and enter the printer's address and PrusaLink password when asked. The bundle covers the direct route; Prusa Connect sign-in still needs prusactl login from an installed copy.

prusactl is also listed in the MCP Registry as io.github.trevin-lee/prusactl, for clients that browse it.

How it works

flowchart LR
    agent["AI agent<br/>(Claude Code, …)"] -- "MCP over stdio" --> px["prusactl"]
    you["You, in a terminal"] --> px
    px -- "local network<br/>PrusaLink API" --> printer["Your printer"]
    px -. "internet, optional" .-> connect["Prusa Connect"]
    connect <-.-> printer
    px --- keychain[("OS keychain")]

prusactl reaches the printer two ways, and each tool picks one:

The direct route is used whenever the printer answers. Otherwise, or for Connect-only features, the tool goes through Connect. Every result says which route it used.

Signing in to Prusa Connect

prusactl login asks for your Prusa Account email and password, plus a 2FA code if your account has one. It fills in Prusa's own login page over HTTPS the same way a browser would. It then trades the resulting code for tokens, using the OAuth + PKCE flow of the Connect web app.

• Your password is sent only to account.prusa3d.com and is never stored.

• Where tokens are kept: the OS keychain (macOS Keychain, Secret Service, or Windows Credential Manager), under the service prusactl. A machine without one, such as a headless Raspberry Pi, gets secrets.json in prusactl's config directory instead, readable only by you; PRUSACTL_KEYRING=file forces that.

• Staying signed in: tokens refresh on their own. Prusa rotates refresh tokens, so refreshes are coordinated between processes. Several agents can share one session without signing each other out.

• Google or Apple sign-in accounts need a Prusa Account password set before this works.

The printer's PrusaLink password is kept in the same keychain.

MCP tools

Every printer argument accepts a name, serial number, or Connect UUID. With one printer you can leave it out. via: "direct" or via: "connect" forces a route.

CLI

prusactl setup [ADDRESS]           connect directly to the printer on your network
prusactl login                     optional: sign in to Prusa Connect
prusactl logout                    forget the Prusa Connect session
prusactl status                    printer state and how it is reachable
prusactl mcp                       run the MCP server on stdio
prusactl download PATH [DEST]      copy a file from the printer to this computer
prusactl api [METHOD] PATH [JSON]  /api/... to the printer, /app/... to Prusa Connect
prusactl completion bash|zsh|fish  print a shell completion script
prusactl help [COMMAND]            the command list, or one command's details
prusactl --version

prusactl help <command> (or <command> --help) explains a command and its flags, and flags work before or after the arguments. Tab completion covers commands, flags, and their values: Homebrew installs it for bash, zsh, and fish, and prusactl help completion shows how to add it otherwise.

prusactl setup --forget removes the saved printer. --api-key uses a PrusaLink API key instead of the password, and --password-stdin reads the secret from a pipe.

prusactl api masks API keys and tokens in responses (Connect's printer record carries the PrusaLink and Connect keys), so its output is safe to paste or hand to an agent. --raw shows them.

Limits

• It has no hands. It can't clear the build plate, swap a spool, or fix a clog. The tool descriptions tell the agent to check the printer (and the camera, if any) before starting a print or moving anything. Tools that start a job refuse a busy printer, and after a finished or stopped print they also need plate_clear: true, since the last part may still be on the plate.

• run_gcode runs as a tiny print job. So it only works while the printer is idle, and it shows up in the printer's history.

• Connect's API is unofficial. Prusa doesn't publish it; prusactl uses the same endpoints as connect.prusa3d.com, so a change on Prusa's side can break the Connect route. The direct route uses Prusa's documented PrusaLink API.

Configuration

Development

go test ./...
go vet ./...

Releases are cut by pushing a vX.Y.Z tag. CI builds the binaries, updates the Homebrew tap, attaches the MCP bundle, and publishes to the MCP Registry. See CHANGELOG.md.

License

MIT.

prusactl is an independent project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Prusa Research. Prusa and Prusa Connect are trademarks of Prusa Research a.s.