tia-devices-general

tia-devices-general is a skill for Claude Code from Czarnak/totally-integrated-claude. It costs 15 tokens per session (606 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A C# implementation guide for device-level operations in Siemens TIA Portal through the Openness API, Siemens' automation interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list, create or delete devices, read or change device settings, configure hardware parameters and access PLC or HMI software containers.
Why use it?
It keeps device work in the correct C# workflow and points to the relevant instructions for each kind of hardware operation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the totally-integrated-claude plugin — 19 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to list, create or delete devices, read or change device settings, configure hardware parameters and access PLC or HMI software containers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/czarnak/totally-integrated-claude/tia-devices-general
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Czarnak/totally-integrated-claude --skill tia-devices-general
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Czarnak/totally-integrated-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install totally-integrated-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 606 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00015 $0.00606
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00303
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00061

Measured 12d ago against content hash a6750aea2969, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tia-devices-general scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/tia-devices-general/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

tia-devices-general

Scope

Device-level engineering — full C# Openness implementation.

When the roadmap routes here, the entire solution is C#. Do not mix with Python wrapper calls. Always load tia-csharp-common first (done by roadmap).


Reference files

Load ONLY the reference file(s) relevant to the task. Do not load all files at once.

Reference file Load when the task involves
references/device-enumeration.md Listing, finding, or iterating devices; device groups; ungrouped devices; navigating DeviceItems.
references/device-creation.md Creating or deleting devices; understanding TypeIdentifier formats (OrderNumber, GSD, System).
references/device-attributes.md Reading/writing basic device or device-item attributes; using GsdDevice service; managing Application IDs (CustomIdentityProvider).
references/hardware-parameters.md Setting specific hardware parameters via SetAttribute (e.g., IO addresses, diagnostic settings, module-specific enums).
references/software-container.md Accessing PlcSoftware or HmiTarget from a device; using the SoftwareContainer service.
references/device-item-operations.md Plugging, moving, copying, or deleting device items/modules; changing device/module types; hardware catalog queries.
references/device-item-interfaces.md NetworkInterface service; IOController/IOConnector attributes; hardware identifiers; managing addresses and channels.
references/networks-and-connections.md Opening hardware/network editors; querying targets from a network perspective; address object attributes.

For tasks spanning multiple areas, load all relevant reference files before generating code.


Execution pattern

  1. Access Project.Devices composition (or DeviceGroups / UngroupedDevicesGroup)
  2. Resolve the exact existing object or exact TypeIdentifier; never select the first catalog/device/device-item match
  3. Before create, plug, move, copy, change-type, attribute write, import, or delete, obtain explicit authorization for the exact project, object identity, and requested mutation
  4. Navigate the complete recursive DeviceItem hierarchy as needed
  5. Access SoftwareContainer via GetService<SoftwareContainer>() when PLC, classic HMI, or Unified HMI software is needed
  6. Put supported project mutations in ExclusiveAccess plus a transaction and allow exceptions to roll it back (see tia-csharp-common)
  7. Use ICompilable for hardware or software compile and inspect the full CompilerResult (see tia-project-general/references/compile.md)
  8. Do not save when selection is ambiguous, a service is unavailable, a mutation reports an error, or compile/consistency validation fails

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 49 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A a6750aea2969

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tia-devices-general is a skill published in the GitHub repository Czarnak/totally-integrated-claude (57 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 606 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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