Ignition MCP

Overview

Ignition MCP is an AI-assisted development server designed to support Ignition developers during application design and implementation.

The goal of this project is not to replace the developer, but to act as an AI Junior Developer that performs repetitive and implementation-heavy tasks while architectural and engineering decisions remain under the control of experienced Ignition developers.

Ignition MCP enables AI agents to understand Ignition project structures and assist with creating, modifying, validating, and refactoring Perspective applications and related resources.

Aim

To provide an AI-powered development assistant for Ignition that helps developers accelerate project implementation while preserving human control over architecture and engineering decisions.

The developer remains responsible for:

System architecture
Project structure
UDT design
Naming conventions
Alarm philosophy
Historian strategy
Performance requirements
Security considerations
UI/UX decisions

The AI focuses on:

Repetitive implementation tasks
Resource generation
Configuration assistance
Validation
Refactoring
Documentation support

Vision

Ignition Developer
        ↓
Architecture & Design Decisions
        ↓
Ignition MCP (AI Junior Developer)
        ↓
Implementation & Validation
        ↓
Human Review
        ↓
Deployment

Key Features

Perspective Development

Create Perspective views
Add and configure components
Manage view parameters
Generate layouts
Configure navigation
Support reusable component patterns

Tag Management

Create tags and folders
Create and manage UDTs
Generate UDT instances
Organize tag structures
Maintain naming consistency

Binding Assistance

Property bindings
Tag bindings
Expression bindings
Indirect bindings
Transform configuration

Alarm Configuration

Alarm creation
Alarm property configuration
Alarm validation
Standardized alarm patterns

Historian Support

Historian tag configuration
Trend screen generation
Historical data integration

Project Understanding

Read existing projects
Analyze project structures
Search components and resources
Identify dependencies
Understand relationships between views and tags

Validation

Detect duplicate resources
Validate paths and references
Verify bindings
Identify common configuration issues
Reduce implementation mistakes

Refactoring Assistance

Improve maintainability
Remove duplicated configurations
Apply reusable patterns
Support project cleanup

Documentation and Knowledge

Perspective best practices
Binding examples
Component usage examples
Naming conventions
Reusable implementation patterns

Design Philosophy

Ignition MCP follows a clear separation of responsibilities:

Human Developer

Responsible for:

Architectural decisions
Engineering trade-offs
Standards and conventions
Performance considerations
System design

AI Assistant