Runchat Updates: April 14, 2026

🦗 GRASSHOPPER AGENT [Research Preview]

• The chat agent from the Rhino plugin window can now see and interact with your active grasshopper document
• You can use this to ask questions about what the definition does, create and connect components, write scripts etc
• This also means you can do things like create a python script in Runchat, run it in Rhino, then ask the grasshopper agent to convert it to a parametric model etc
• Very, very research preview. There are great tools around like Raven that have been working on this for a long time. Our grasshopper agent is more like another tool in the swiss army knife

🤖 CLAUDE CODE ON THE CANVAS [Research Preview]

• We've exposed the set of tools the Runchat chat agent uses to interact with the canvas as an authenticated API
• You can find a skill for agents at runchat.com/api/skills/canvas that describes how this works
• Then give claude / chatgpt etc a Runchat API key and a url to your workflow and watch it make changes
• This means you can use claude / chatgpt subscriptions to write code and work on the runchat canvas instead of Runchat credits (though our agent will still be better in some ways)

Both of these are just proof of concepts but if you're using these tools perhaps they will be of interest.