EPLAN MCP servers and AI agent skills

How AI connects to EPLAN

An MCP server or skill can only do what EPLAN lets programs do. EPLAN exposes 2 automation interfaces:

• EPLAN API and C# scripts (.NET): EPLAN Platform runs C# scripts that are compiled when loaded, and a method marked with the [Start] attribute can be run through the ExecuteScript action with extra parameters. EPLAN functions are exposed as named actions; the 2026 API reference on eplan.help documents them, eplan-mcp wraps 183 documented actions as typed tools, and it reaches about 1,050 more that exist only as GUI buttons through a catalogue read from the install. Documentation
• Remote Client (.NET): Remote Client lets an outside program send actions to a running EPLAN once Allow remote access via Remote Client is switched on in the workstation settings. eplan-mcp connects this way from Python through pythonnet, picking .NET Framework for EPLAN 2026 and older and coreclr for 2027, and it can reach an instance on another machine by host and port. Documentation

What EPLAN offers

Eplan launched Eplan Copilot at Eplan Next26 in May 2026 as a cloud service inside the Eplan Platform. It takes natural-language requests, searches schematics, works with the Eplan Data Portal, prepares support tickets and draws only on knowledge Eplan has checked; actions in Electric P8 are planned for later. Eplan mentions no API or MCP access, so it can't be used from Claude.

Checked 4 Nov 2026. Sources: This is Eplan Copilot (Eplan blog), Eplan Copilot (Eplan)

What you can do with EPLAN and AI

• Open an Electric P8 project and run exports or reports (PDF, parts lists, labelling) unattended, with each action run in QuietMode so no dialog stops it.
• Query functions and pages in the open project and set function texts or connection designations through the live data model.
• Write and test an EPLAN C# script or add-in, then restart EPLAN, reload the add-in and read EPLAN's system messages to check it.
• Look up EPLAN API actions and parameters in the hosted P8 2026 or 2027 documentation before calling them.
• Identify an electrical symbol from a cropped image of a schematic and return the EPLAN symbol name.

Taken from the listings' own documentation. Check each listing for exactly what it supports.

Installing

The listings here document setup for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and GitHub Copilot. Install steps, copied from each project's own documentation, are on each listing's page. Most EPLAN integrations run on your own computer next to EPLAN, so you need EPLAN installed and licensed on the same machine unless the listing says otherwise.