EPLAN agent skill — for EPLAN Electric P8

Agent-agnostic skills for EPLAN Electric P8 development: C# scripting, the
EPLAN API and Remote Client. The router picks the right reference and documentation index for the task.

Teaches your agent the traps that only show up in production:

• silent compile failures;
• the command-blocking issue;
• dispose discipline;
• the CS0234 namespaces that are reachable anyway.

Distilled from working code and live testing against a real installation, not from the manual alone.

EPLAN EEC Pro (mechatronic model, typicals, formulas, Job Server, generation) now has its own skill:
eec-pro-skill. The two pair well, because EEC Pro's
output is a P8 project, but each installs on its own.

Install

Any agent (skills CLI)

The skills CLI installs into 60+
agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Windsurf, …):

npx skills add Canary-ECAD/eplan-scripting-skill

As a Claude Code plugin

The plugins are published through the single Canary E-cad marketplace,
eplan-tools, which lives in eplan-mcp:

/plugin marketplace add Canary-ECAD/eplan-mcp
/plugin install eplan@eplan-tools            # router + P8 skill + P8 doc RAGs
/plugin install eplan-scripting@eplan-tools  # Electric P8 skill only
/plugin install eec-pro@eplan-tools          # EEC Pro (from eec-pro-skill)

Update later with /plugin marketplace update eplan-tools.

Coming from the old eplan-skills marketplace or the eplan-development skill?
Remove them (/plugin marketplace remove eplan-skills) and install from
eplan-tools as above. The P8 skill is now called eplan-scripting.

Manually

git clone https://github.com/Canary-ECAD/eplan-scripting-skill

# Windows - personal skills, available in every project.
# ~/.agents/skills is the universal dir most agents read; use ~/.claude/skills for Claude Code.
xcopy /E /I eplan-scripting-skill\skills\eplan-p8\eplan-scripting "$env:USERPROFILE\.agents\skills\eplan-scripting"

# macOS / Linux — universal dir (Amp, Codex, Cline, …). Use ~/.claude/skills for Claude Code.
cp -r eplan-scripting-skill/skills/eplan-p8/eplan-scripting ~/.agents/skills/
cp -r eplan-scripting-skill/router ~/.agents/skills/router

For a single project, copy into <your-project>/.agents/skills/ (or
.claude/skills/) instead.

The MCP servers

The skills are host-agnostic — useful on their own. Paired with the remote
documentation RAGs, the agent can
query the EPLAN documentation. The local action server in
eplan-mcp can drive a running EPLAN.

This repo ships a .mcp.json with the two remote P8 doc RAGs
from eplan-cloudflare-rags.
They are already deployed, so no local data is needed:

Or register them by hand:

claude mcp add eplan-rag       --transport http https://rag2026.covaga.xyz/mcp
claude mcp add eplan-wiki-2027 --transport http https://rag2027.covaga.xyz/mcp

The EEC Pro doc index (eecpro-rag) ships with eec-pro-skill.

The local action server (eplan, ~200 tools: run actions/scripts inside a
running EPLAN, introspect the API live) installs separately — it needs Python +
pythonnet on the EPLAN machine. See
eplan-mcp.

What's inside

eplan-scripting-skill/
├── .mcp.json                   # the two remote P8 doc-RAG MCP servers
├── router/
│   └── SKILL.md                # classifies the task → right reference + doc index; EEC Pro → eec-pro-skill
└── skills/
    └── eplan-p8/
        └── eplan-scripting/
            ├── SKILL.md        # the three dev models, lookup order, golden rules
            └── references/     # script-basics, actions, core-classes,
                                # api-data-access, e3d-installation-spaces,
                                # eec-typicals, remoting, pitfalls, integration

Each SKILL.md is the entry point; the agent pulls in only the reference file
that matches the task, so it costs little context until needed.

Coverage

• EPLAN Electric P8 2022–2027 — with the version-specific notes called out:
  ribbon API since 2022, remoting defaults 2023 vs "Remote Client Access" + gRPC
  in 2025, the ...Netu assemblies in 2027, .NET Framework 4.8.1 targeting.

Pairs well with

• eec-pro-skill — the EPLAN EEC Pro skill: model,
  typicals, formulas, Job Server, generation into P8.

• eplan-mcp — the local MCP
  server that lets the agent execute inside a running EPLAN.

• eplan-cloudflare-rags —
  the remote documentation RAGs (the P8 ones are configured in .mcp.json).

• eplan-ctxmenu-kit — a
  worked example of the context-menu material: adding right-click entries and
  reading the row the user clicked.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Disclaimer: this is an independent community project by Canary E-cad. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by EPLAN GmbH & Co. KG. EPLAN and EPLAN Electric P8 are trademarks of their respective owner.