PowerFactory MCP servers and AI agent skills

How AI connects to PowerFactory

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

• Python interface (powerfactory module) (Python): PowerFactory ships Python folders for several interpreter versions (PowerFactory 2024 includes Python 3.8 to 3.12), and the powerfactory module gives scripts full access to the data model. External scripts can start the engine without the GUI, which is how both MCP servers work: they load the module, open a project and activate a study case. DIgSILENT's scripting reference for Python and DPL runs to more than 750 pages and is installed with the program. Documentation
• DPL and the C++ API (Other): DPL, DIgSILENT's own C-like scripting language, runs inside PowerFactory with access to all objects and can call external code through a C interface. A separate C++ API allows full external control, and the Task Automation tool runs calculations and scripts in parallel. The powerfactory-mcp installer also indexes the DPL reference locally so the agent can search it. Documentation

What DIgSILENT offers

DIgSILENT's AI page describes an Artificial Intelligence toolbox that trains neural networks, on an NVIDIA GPU, to approximate load flow results in quasi-dynamic simulations. It is a calculation accelerator, not an assistant, and neither it nor the scripting page mentions an LLM copilot or an MCP server, so there is no official route for Claude to drive PowerFactory.

Checked 4 Nov 2026. Sources: PowerFactory Artificial Intelligence (DIgSILENT), Scripting and Automation (DIgSILENT)

What you can do with PowerFactory and AI

• Run load flow, IEC 60909 or VDE short-circuit and N-1 contingency studies on the active study case and list buses outside a voltage band such as 0.95 to 1.05 pu.
• Simulate a three-phase fault with RMS or EMT simulation, read the results back as CSV and plot rotor angles to judge stability.
• Check protection by computing relay tripping times for a fault location and drawing time-overcurrent coordination curves.
• Build equipment from published parameter catalogues (EvEMTBench transformers, lines, cables, loads, machines) or bootstrap a new grid with buses, then export the single-line diagram as PDF.
• Work on an in-memory copy of the database in parallel mode while the PowerFactory GUI stays open, so exploratory changes don't touch your real projects.

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

Installing

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