Service Commissioning File Skill

Install the Agent Skill for service commissioning files in any AI coding agent that supports the Agent Skills format.

The service commissioning file skill lets your AI coding agent create and edit service commissioning files. It downloads the schema for your Connectware version and reads the documentation for that version before writing any YAML, so property names, required fields, and allowed values come from the version you run.

Always verify the service commissioning file

The skill checks the service commissioning file against the schema, not against a running Connectware instance. Install it on a development instance first, and see Validate the Output for the full check.

Requirements

To use the skill, you need the following:

• An AI coding agent that supports Agent Skills, can run shell commands, and can connect to Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

• The jq command line tool, which the skill uses to query the schema.

• Connectware 2.0.0 or later. Cybus publishes schema downloads from that version onward. For older Connectware versions, the skill falls back to the latest schema, which does not match the version you run.

Network Requirements

The skill needs outbound HTTPS on port 443 to:

• download.cybus.io for the schema.

• docs.cybus.io for the documentation MCP server.

Installing the Skill

1. Download the skill and add it to your AI coding agent in the way it expects.

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1. Connect your AI coding agent to the Cybus documentation MCP server, using transport http and URL https://docs.cybus.io/~gitbook/mcp. Doing it now avoids the skill asking for the server mid-task. Without the MCP server, the skill works from the schema alone. The command depends on which one you use:

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http cybus-docs https://docs.cybus.io/~gitbook/mcp

GitHub Copilot in VS Code

code --add-mcp '{"name":"cybus-docs","type":"http","url":"https://docs.cybus.io/~gitbook/mcp"}'

Using the Skill

Ask your AI coding agent to create or edit a service commissioning file:

Create a service commissioning file for a Modbus/TCP PLC at 192.168.1.100. Read holding registers 0 to 9 every second and publish each value under factory/line-1/press-01.

Add a Rule Engine transform to the temperature endpoint in this file that converts the value from Celsius to Fahrenheit.

Data Privacy

The skill runs inside your AI coding agent on your own machine and fetches public files from download.cybus.io and docs.cybus.io. Cybus does not receive your prompts, your service commissioning files, or your machine data. Your prompts and the generated service commissioning file do reach the model provider your AI coding agent uses, under that provider's terms.

What the Skill Does Not Do

• It does not install the service commissioning file or check it against a running Connectware instance.

• It does not know your project conventions, such as topic naming or which values belong in parameters. Record those in a context file.

• It does not cover custom connectors. The schema lists only the protocols shipped with a Connectware version, so the skill reports a custom connector protocol as unavailable, even though Connectware installs the service commissioning file.

Next Steps

Read Writing Service Commissioning Files with AI Assistance alongside this page. It covers the project conventions the skill cannot know, and the checks to run before you install what it generates.