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Your gateway, readable by an AI agent.

Artek-MCP turns an Ignition gateway into a Model Context Protocol server. 87 tools work the moment it installs: projects, tags, alarms, history, config, security and diagnostics. Read-only until you decide otherwise.

Free and unsupported — provided AS IS. You’ll see the terms before you download, and the Gateway shows the full licence at install.

What it is

One signed module, working the moment it installs.

Artek-MCP runs inside the gateway as one signed Java module. Nothing extra to deploy, nothing to write before it's useful.

87 TOOLS

Working on install

Gateway health, projects, tags and UDTs, alarms, history, config, Perspective sessions, security, audit log, EAM and store-and-forward. All ready to call.

IN-GATEWAY

Nothing in between

A gateway module speaking streamable-HTTP MCP at /data/artek-mcp/mcp. Nothing runs between the agent and the gateway.

8.3.4+

On shipping Ignition

Runs on released Ignition 8.3.4 and later.

Security model

Read-only by default, and honest about what that means.

The defaults are the safe ones, and the docs say plainly where the limits are.

  • Write tools ship disabled. readOnly is on by default, and the allowlist blocks everything until you add to it.
  • Authenticated at the edge. API key, or OAuth bearer tokens when you enable them.
  • Every call is logged on the gateway.
  • Read-only is not secret-safe. A valid key can read project source, tag values, audit records and the user list. Treat any key like a gateway credential.
  • Write-enabled means admin authority. Turn off read-only and a caller can write resources the gateway then runs. We say so up front.
  • No telemetry. The module never calls home. It only talks to endpoints you set.
Verify what you downloaded

Signed, hashed, and checkable before you install it.

PropertyValue
Version1.33.0
FileArtek-MCP.modl · 336694 bytes
SHA-2568ea91e3315a6a6fd9e8c77aadf79c0d16de6cebd04373cdeb7481a84da07a222
Signing certificate (SHA-1)8a507cf6ad4f4d16fb40f411a4dea2faa54d6025
Certificate subjectC=US, O=Artek Integrated Solutions, OU=Engineering, CN=Artek Integrated Solutions
RequiresIgnition 8.3.4 or later · gateway scope
ProtocolModel Context Protocol · revision 2025-06-18 (also accepts 2025-03-26, 2024-11-05)

Run sha256sum Artek-MCP.modl and match it to the value above. The Gateway also checks the signature and rejects a changed file.

Install

Four steps.

  1. Download the .modl and verify its SHA-256.
  2. In the Gateway, go to Config → Modules, choose Install or Upgrade a Module, and upload the file.
  3. Read and accept the End User License Agreement the Gateway presents. The module will not run until you do.
  4. Open the module's settings page, generate an API key, and point your MCP client at /data/artek-mcp/mcp.

Installing headlessly through modules.json? The entry needs a licenseAgreementHash (the CRC32 of license.html inside the modl) or the gateway stalls in commissioning.

Let's talk

Running this on something that matters? Talk to the team that wrote it.

The module is free. The engineering judgement behind it is what we sell.

Get in touch
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