# Web Dev API Runner For Ignition AI Agents

URL: https://www.ignitionaiskills.com/api-runner

Last updated: 2026-06-24

## Summary

The Ignition AI Skills Web Dev API Runner is a controlled Ignition 8.1 Gateway workflow for approved AI agents. It lets an AI agent inspect a development or staging Gateway, validate generated resources, apply approved work, read focused logs, create backups, and roll back changes when needed.

It is not meant to be a wide-open production remote-control endpoint. It should be used with HTTPS, authentication, roles, network restrictions, logging, backups, review, explicit write confirmations, and site approval when used beyond local development.

## Why It Exists

Generic AI agents can write code, but Ignition 8.1 work needs Ignition-specific feedback:

- Perspective routes and views must exist in the real project.
- Tag providers, tag paths, and UDT structures should be discovered instead of guessed.
- Jython scripts must follow Jython 2.7.3 rules, not Python 3 assumptions.
- SQL and Named Query work should be previewed safely.
- Gateway logs should be checked after changes.
- Risky applies should have backups and rollback points.

The Web Dev API Runner gives the agent a proof loop:

Inspect -> Generate -> Dry-run -> Apply -> Validate -> Read logs -> Revise

## Core Capabilities

- Gateway health and context checks.
- Perspective route and view discovery.
- Perspective page validation.
- Tag provider browsing.
- Tag browsing and tag reads.
- UDT scaffold and tag configuration workflows.
- Named Query discovery and capped read-only previews.
- Style, theme, image, and reusable resource discovery.
- Recent Gateway log queries.
- Dry-run and apply workflows.
- Backups and rollback.
- Runner self-update workflow.

## Best Use Cases

- Letting an AI agent build Perspective pages against a reachable development Gateway.
- Validating generated import packages before trusting them.
- Checking whether routes, views, tags, resources, and logs agree.
- Building UDT-aware screens without hardcoded tag paths.
- Troubleshooting AI-generated Ignition changes with evidence.

## Offline Alternative

If the AI agent cannot reach the Gateway, use the Perspective Import Zip Builder skill. That workflow produces portable Ignition 8.1 Perspective import packages for human review and import.

## Product Context

The Web Dev API Runner is included in the Ignition AI Toolkit from Ignition AI Skills.

Main site: https://www.ignitionaiskills.com/

Toolkit overview: https://www.ignitionaiskills.com/

Related article: https://www.ignitionaiskills.com/blog/ignition-web-dev-api-ai-agent

LLM summary: https://www.ignitionaiskills.com/llms.txt