Through the TE1000 Automation Interface it can walk the System Manager tree, author PLC code, configure EtherCAT IO, link variables, build and deploy, with runtime actions confirmation-gated and off by default.
For controls: use an MCP client beside a running XAE Shell to draft POUs and IO maps the way an engineer would in the GUI, without giving the agent unsupervised download rights.
It checks a view against the Perspective schemas on your Ignition install, deploys it to a sandbox project on a development gateway, and opens it in a headless browser so clipped text, bad tags and script errors come back on the component. It is for development gateways only, and it is not affiliated with Inductive Automation.
For controls engineers: have an agent build a Perspective view, deploy it to a dev gateway, and read back what failed.
Hitachi's field agents are deployed, Santee Cooper's 75% faster modeling is a forecast, and Constellation's agents are planned. The digest notes none of the documents mention NERC CIP. It gives operators a quick way to tell which AI claims are already running and which are still promises.
A ready-made skill folder you can add to Claude Code, Claude.ai or the API so it works with spreadsheets the same way every time.
For industrial sales: turn a customer's spec sheet into a priced quote in Excel.