Ignition UDT Forensic Analyzer

by: RIA

Created from 10+ years of manufacturing and industrial automation experience across food packaging, planter-part manufacturing, and Tier 1 automotive environments, with Ignition used in production-facing work over that span. The skill packages practical SCADA judgment around maintainable expressions, operator-safe behavior, troubleshooting habits, and realistic Designer/Gateway validation workflows.

What This Skill Helps With

Ignition UDT Forensic Analyzer reviews Ignition 8.1 User Defined Type evidence packages for configuration risk. It is built for offline work where the AI cannot reach the Gateway and must reason from supplied exports, screenshots, diagnostics, snippets, alarm/tag configuration, and pasted context.

Use it when you need help with:

• Auditing UDT definitions, instances, member tags, parameters, nested UDTs, and inherited overrides.
• Reviewing expression tags, Reference tags, tag event scripts, writable surfaces, command-like tags, and dependency paths.
• Checking alarms, priorities, labels, display paths, pipelines, setpoints, historian settings, and history diagnostics.
• Comparing configured state against screenshots, diagnostics, logs, operator notes, and other supplied validation evidence.
• Separating export-verified findings from screenshot-supported, diagnostic-supported, inferred, and unverified claims.
• Producing a risk-ranked report with concrete affected paths, recommended fixes, next validation steps, and evidence gaps.

Designed For

• Ignition developers reviewing inherited UDT structures before reuse or cleanup.
• Controls and automation engineers investigating UDT-related project risk from exported evidence.
• SCADA teams comparing UDT definitions to instances, overrides, alarms, historian settings, and dependency assumptions.
• Buyers who want structured UDT forensic review without giving the AI live Gateway access, credentials, or tag-browse access.

Example Prompt

Audit this attached Ignition 8.1 UDT evidence package offline. Files include tag-export.json, udt-definitions.xml, alarm-screenshot.png, historian-diagnostics.csv, and operator-notes.txt. Focus on the MixerMotor and CIPValve UDTs. Identify configuration risks, evidence gaps, and recommended next validation steps. Do not connect to a Gateway or make changes.

Example Output

Offline UDT Forensic Audit: Ignition 8.1 evidence package only.

Executive Summary: Reviewed 2 UDT definitions, 14 instances, 96 member tags, 18 alarms, 6 event scripts, and 11 history-enabled tags. Main risk is command-like writable tags mixed with parameterized references that cannot be validated from export evidence alone.

High Findings:

• MixerMotor/StartCmd and StopCmd appear writable and command-like. Evidence: exported-json. Recommendation: verify permissions, audit trail expectations, and operator workflow from separate evidence.
• CIPValve/FeedbackRef uses parameterized sourceTagPath. Evidence: exported-json. Recommendation: replace with explicit validated paths or provide target-path evidence for each instance.

Medium Findings:

• MixerMotor/SpeedSP alarm setpoint is parameter-driven, but three instances override MaxSpeed as a string instead of a number. Evidence: exported-json. Recommendation: normalize parameter typing before relying on inherited alarm thresholds.
• CIPValve/State has history enabled with no historian diagnostic match in the supplied CSV. Evidence: export plus diagnostic snippet. Recommendation: confirm whether history storage is expected or remove history configuration.

Evidence Gaps:

• Export cannot confirm live tag quality, OPC permissions, script execution, or actual historian writes.
• Screenshot is cropped and does not show alarm pipelines for all instances.

Offline Capafy Edition

This Capafy edition is a download skill for offline Ignition UDT forensic review from user-provided evidence. It does not require live Gateway access, does not call external APIs, does not request credentials, does not browse tags, and does not import or modify a running Ignition system.

Live Gateway reads, writes, tag browsing, production imports, project edits, credential handling, remote execution, or connected validation are outside this download edition and require separate authorization, backups, and target-side validation by the buyer.

Suggested Tags

Ignition 8.1, UDT Audit, Tag Exports, Alarms, SCADA

Support

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