Ignition AI Skills8.1 now // 8.3 next

// Ignition AI Toolkit skills

Each skill gets its own job. That is the point.

These pages show what each Ignition skill is for, when it needs the Web Dev runner, and the kind of output a buyer can expect from an AI agent using the toolkit.

Perspective Import Zip Builder

PIZ-01 - Skill v1.0.111

Perspective Import Zip Builder

Create reviewable Ignition 8.1 Perspective packages.

No API required

This skill is for the offline scenario: the agent cannot touch the Gateway, so it should deliver a portable package that targets Ignition project-resource shape, plus install notes and validation steps.

  • Prototype a Perspective dashboard for a customer who will import it later.
  • Package reusable views, routes, and page config for a development Gateway.
  • Create a starter faceplate or process overview without granting host access.
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Web Dev API Builder

PHB-02 - Skill v1.0.130

Web Dev API Builder

Let the AI inspect, apply, and validate on a Gateway.

API runner required

This is the live-workflow skill. It teaches the agent how to use the Web Dev runner for discovery, dry runs, apply steps, backups, log reads, and page validation.

  • Apply and validate a generated Perspective page on a reachable Gateway.
  • Discover tag paths, style classes, views, routes, and Named Queries before building.
  • Iterate on a page until route mapping, dependencies, and logs are clean.
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Perspective Button Logging

PBL-03 - Skill v1.0.73

Perspective Button Logging

Turn operator clicks into traceable evidence.

API runner optional

A Start button should leave a trail: who clicked it, what the screen thought was allowed, what the helper checked, what write result came back, and what the operator saw afterward. This skill turns that pattern into reusable Ignition 8.1 guidance instead of another one-off click script.

  • Start, stop, acknowledge, reset, mode-select, and one-shot command buttons.
  • UI-only actions that still matter later, such as popups, navigation, and blocked commands.
  • Operator actions that need audit, SQL, tag, logger, and browser evidence.
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Ignition Log Diagnostics

LOG-04 - Skill v1.0.77

Ignition Log Diagnostics

Turn noisy Gateway evidence into next steps.

API runner optional

Ignition failures rarely arrive as one neat error. This skill teaches the AI to preserve timestamps, source labels, logger names, caps, and time windows so it can separate the first useful signal from the follow-on chatter.

  • Perspective errors after a page deploy.
  • Gateway startup, module load, or service wrapper failures.
  • Noisy logs where the first useful error is buried under repeated warnings.
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Ignition UDT Builder

UDT-05 - Skill v1.0.97

Ignition UDT Builder

Model equipment once, then scale the screens.

API runner optional

This skill helps the AI design UDTs that can survive real projects: parameters, nested members, alarms, expressions, event scripts, and Perspective-friendly discovery patterns.

  • Pump, valve, motor, tank, skid, and instrument models.
  • Faceplate contracts and equipment-list screens.
  • Reusable alarm metadata, runtime counters, and maintenance counters.
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Jython Script Builder

JSB-06 - Skill v1.1.128

Jython Script Builder

Keep AI scripts inside Ignition's Jython reality.

No API required

Ignition 8.1 scripting is Jython, not modern CPython. This skill keeps the AI honest about syntax, scope, system.* functions, tag quality, datasets, logging, and readbacks. The current toolkit is tested around Ignition 8.1.53 / Jython 2.7.3.

  • Project Library helpers that multiple Perspective views can call.
  • Perspective button scripts, message handlers, transforms, and custom methods.
  • Gateway timer, startup, shutdown, and tag-change scripts.
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Named Query Builder

SQB-07 - Skill v1.0.199

Named Query Builder

Preview bounded SQL before it drives a dashboard.

API runner required

This skill teaches the agent to discover real queries and schemas, preview bounded data, and connect SQL output to Perspective tables, charts, labels, and filters.

  • Downtime, quality, work order, production, and maintenance dashboards.
  • Perspective tables and charts backed by Named Queries.
  • Tag Historian, Named Query, and Postgres-style reporting patterns.
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SQL Builder Without API

SKILL-13 - Skill v1.0.73

SQL Builder Without API

Work from exports without pretending it was live-tested.

No API required

This is the offline SQL workflow: no Gateway, no database, and no runner. The AI works from exported Named Queries, schemas, screenshots, Perspective JSON, errors, and pasted rows, then hands back bounded SQL guidance plus the target-side checks still required.

  • Reviewing exported Named Query resources.
  • Designing bounded SQL from a schema snippet or screenshot.
  • Fixing Perspective binding parameter maps from JSON.
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HMI/SCADA Styling

HMI-08 - Skill v1.0.22

HMI/SCADA Styling

Make generated screens readable for operators.

No API required

This skill is for the moment after the function is known and the page needs to look like an operator can actually use it. It turns generic AI UI into a disciplined HMI/SCADA screen: calm normal state, clear abnormal state, readable hierarchy, and controls that do not look like indicators.

  • Pump, valve, tank, line, and cell overview screens.
  • MES, OEE, downtime, quality, and maintenance dashboards.
  • Alarm-heavy pages and operator command panels.
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Expression Builder

EXP-09 - Skill v1.0.38

Expression Builder

Write valid bindings, tags, states, and quality checks.

API runner optional

Ignition expressions have their own syntax, refresh behavior, and failure modes. This skill helps the AI name the surface first, write the smallest useful expression, and check the returned value, type, and quality.

  • Dynamic labels, state text, colors, and enable/visible bindings.
  • Expression Tags and UDT calculated members.
  • Quality-aware status logic for equipment faceplates.
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Alarm Pipeline Orchestrator

ALM-10 - Skill v1.0.32

Alarm Pipeline Orchestrator

Trace alarm status, history, delivery, and proof.

API runner optional

This skill helps the AI separate current alarm state from journal history, audit events, logs, notification delivery clues, shelving, acknowledgement, and nuisance-alarm patterns.

  • Troubleshoot alarms that did not notify the right person.
  • Review shelving, acknowledgement, clear, and escalation behavior.
  • Find nuisance alarm patterns before changing priorities or delays.
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Historian Forensics

HIS-11 - Skill v1.0.18

Historian Forensics

Find why a trend does not match the process.

API runner optional

Historian problems get muddy fast: the current tag is Good, the chart is blank, a query returns buckets, and store-and-forward may still be catching up. This skill makes the AI separate stored data from queried and rendered data before it names a cause.

  • Power Chart, Easy Chart, or Perspective history bindings with blank, flat, delayed, or sparse data.
  • Good current values that do not prove the historical rows were stored.
  • Store-and-forward, quarantine, database connection, pruning, or retention questions.
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Perspective Performance Profiler

PERF-12 - Skill v1.0.173

Perspective Performance Profiler

Measure slow pages before tuning them.

API runner required

This skill helps the AI move from vague page-speed complaints to evidence: sessions, metrics, logs, bindings, polling, embedded views, tables, trends, Named Queries, historian reads, and one small change at a time.

  • Perspective pages that open slowly or become sluggish in runtime.
  • High Gateway or session load after a dashboard deploy.
  • Large table, trend, Alarm Table, Flex Repeater, embedded view, SVG, runScript, or Named Query reviews.
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Host-side workflow

Some skills work offline. Some get much stronger with the API runner.

The product pages call that out directly so buyers know when they are buying an importable artifact workflow versus a Gateway-connected build-and-validate workflow.

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