Unity-MCP assets-refresh

Refreshes the AssetDatabase. Use it if any file was added or updated in the project outside of Unity API. Use it if need to force scripts recompilation when '.cs' file changed.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/IvanMurzak/Unity-MCP

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/IvanMurzak/Unity-MCP "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/Unity-MCP-Plugin/.claude/skills/assets-refresh" ~/.claude/skills/ivanmurzak-unity-mcp-assets-refresh && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: Unity-MCP-Plugin/.claude/skills/assets-refresh/SKILL.md

source content

Assets / Refresh

How to Call

unity-mcp-cli run-tool assets-refresh --input '{
  "options": "string_value"
}'

For complex input (multi-line strings, code), save the JSON to a file and use:

unity-mcp-cli run-tool assets-refresh --input-file args.json

Or pipe via stdin (recommended):

unity-mcp-cli run-tool assets-refresh --input-file - <<'EOF'
{"param": "value"}
EOF

Troubleshooting

unity-mcp-cli

is not found, either install it globally (

npm install -g unity-mcp-cli

) or use

npx unity-mcp-cli

instead. Read the /unity-initial-setup skill for detailed installation instructions.

Input

Name	Type	Required	Description
`options`	`any`	No	Asset import options.

Input JSON Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "options": {
      "$ref": "#/$defs/UnityEditor.ImportAssetOptions"
    }
  },
  "$defs": {
    "UnityEditor.ImportAssetOptions": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "Default",
        "ForceUpdate",
        "ForceSynchronousImport",
        "ImportRecursive",
        "DontDownloadFromCacheServer",
        "ForceUncompressedImport"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output

This tool does not return structured output.