Artek-Designer: An AI Assistant Inside the Ignition Designer

Where it fits

The assistant works on your screen, under your control.

The AI client talks to the gateway, the gateway relays each edit to your Designer, and nothing reaches the project until you save.

Edits travel from the AI client through the gateway to your open Designer. The project changes only when you press Save.

A working session

Four steps from a request to a saved view.

Open the Designer on your project and switch Claude on in the docked Claude panel.
Ask the assistant for what you need: a new view, a table bound to a query, a report layout.
Watch each change land on the canvas. Any change you do not want is one Ctrl+Z.
Press Save when the view is right. Until then, nothing has reached the gateway.

What it builds

Views, bindings, scripts and reports.

Perspective views. Create a view, add, wrap, replace and reorder components, and set their properties.
Bindings and events. Tag, query and expression bindings, event handlers, message handlers and custom methods.
Reports. Lay out a report, set its parameters and data sources, and preview pages.
It reads before it writes. The assistant can read the open view, look up a component's properties and take a screenshot of the canvas to check its own work.

Safety model

Off until you switch it on, and nothing is saved without you.

You decide

Off in every Designer by default

The module ships read-only. An administrator enables edits, and each engineer switches the assistant on in their own Designer, with a Stop button that discards whatever is in flight.

One person, one key

Keys bound to a single user

Each API key belongs to one Ignition user and drives only that user's Designers, on the projects the key is granted. Every call, allowed or refused, writes one audit line.

No surprises

Scripts that run are refused

Content that can execute before you save, such as a binding that writes a tag, is refused unless an administrator allows it. If the project changes on the gateway while you work, the panel warns you before you save.

What do I need to run it? +

Ignition 8.3.4 or later with Perspective, and an AI client that speaks MCP: Claude Code, Codex CLI or Claude Desktop.

Which gateways is it for? +

Development and test gateways. Build and review there, then move the project to production the way you already do.

Does my project leave the building? +

The module adds no cloud service of its own. Your AI client connects to your gateway, and that client’s provider sees what the client sends it, the same as any other use of an AI assistant.

Where is the documentation? +

At docs.artek.io: install, configure, connect a client, the tools and troubleshooting.

An AI assistant that builds views in your open Designer.