# text-to-reality
**Give your agent the power to build real things.**
text-to-cad makes a part. text-to-reality makes the working device.
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Describe something you want to exist. Your agent turns it into a build package
anyone can put together by following pictures:
- **a parts list** you can order, using parts that plug together
- **3D-printable parts** for the case and mounts
- **the wiring**, every wire and which connector it goes in
- **the code**, ready to load
- **a step-by-step picture guide** written for someone who has never built electronics
- **tests**, so you know it works
No soldering, no breadboard, no electronics experience required. It runs on your
machine: no account, no API key, and your projects are plain folders you own.
## Example: Agent Meter
> *"Build me a little desk character that shows what my coding agent is doing and
> how much of my Claude allowance is left."*
Agent Meter illustrates this workflow: a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-S3 and a small
screen inside a printed character, wired with plug-on connectors, with firmware and
a picture guide. Its face shows when your agent is working, finished or waiting on
you, plus your remaining allowance.
**[Get the Agent Meter kit →](https://www.jig-robotics.com/projects/agent-meter)**
## Install
### Ask your agent
```text
Install text-to-reality from https://github.com/ai-wes/text-to-reality
```
Or install it yourself. text-to-reality runs through [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/):
check it's installed with `uv --version`, or use
[uv's installer](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/). Then run the
commands for your agent and restart it.
### Claude Code
```bash
claude plugin marketplace add ai-wes/text-to-reality
claude plugin install text-to-reality@ai-wes
```
To update: `claude plugin marketplace update ai-wes`, then
`claude plugin update text-to-reality@ai-wes`.
### Codex
```bash
codex plugin marketplace add ai-wes/text-to-reality
codex plugin add text-to-reality@ai-wes
```
### Cursor
Cursor also loads the Claude Code plugin; if that's installed, skip this.
```bash
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-wes/text-to-reality ~/.cursor/plugins/local/text-to-reality
```
### Claude Desktop
Add the server to Claude Desktop's config (Settings > Developer > Edit Config), then
restart. If it can't find `uvx`, use its full path (`which uvx`).
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"text-to-reality": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["--no-config", "--managed-python", "--python", "3.13", "--from", "text-to-reality==0.1.1", "text-to-reality", "mcp"]
}
}
}
```
Projects are saved in `text-to-reality/` in the folder the app starts in; set
`TEXT_TO_REALITY_DIR` in `env` to choose another folder.
### Other agents
```bash
npx skills add ai-wes/text-to-reality
```
Then add the MCP server above to your agent's MCP config.
## Works with text-to-cad
text-to-reality plans the whole device; [text-to-cad](https://github.com/earthtojake/text-to-cad)
is great at the printed parts. Install both, and the agent uses text-to-cad for the
printed parts when it's available.
## How it works
Each build is a folder. The agent fills in seven stages and checks them:
| Stage | What's in it |
| --- | --- |
| Requirements | `brief.md`: what it does, size, power, budget, how you'll know it works |
| Parts | `bom.json`: every part and quantity |
| Printed parts | CAD source and STL/3MF files |
| Electronics | `wiring.json`: every wire, its color, and its connector |
| Code | firmware source and how to load it |
| Assembly | the picture guide |
| Testing | what to check, and what a pass looks like |
The local MCP server gives the agent tools to create projects, record files, catch
files edited after they were checked, validate the package, keep a build history, and
look up board header layouts and plug-on parts.
You can also check a folder yourself:
```bash
uvx text-to-reality check ./text-to-reality/my-build
```
## Parts that plug together
Loose jumper wires fall off and get swapped. [JIG_](https://jig-robotics.com) makes
connectors that turn the wires going to one row of pins into a single plug, so
wiring becomes plugging things in.
The agent uses JIG_ connectors by default. It looks up each board's pin rows, picks
one connector per row, lists what to buy, and notes any row a connector can't fit.
**[Get them at jig-robotics.com →](https://jig-robotics.com/support/dupont-housings)**
Each connector is a base that holds the wires in order and a cover that snaps on.
The picture guide shows how to load it, close it and plug it on.
## License
MIT