industrial-aiops-energy — Energy Edition (Substation / Utility)
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The energy edition of Industrial-AIOps,
split out into its own repo: read-only OT connectors for substation / utility
telecontrol protocols, built on top of iaiops.core.
- IEC 60870-5-104 (
c104) — RTU / substation telemetry
- DNP3 / IEEE 1815 (
pydnp3) — outstation monitoring
- IEC 61850 MMS (
pyiec61850, linux-only wheel) — substation IED reads
It reuses the base package's shared governance (audit / budget / risk-tier /
undo), cross-protocol brain (data-flow / alarm / OEE / downtime RCA on the
normalized ISA-95/18.2 model), and MCP server infrastructure — this repo only adds
the three energy connectors + their session builders + MCP tools. Read-first: no
control-direction writes are exposed.
Current release: 0.2.0 (requires iaiops>=0.29.0,<1.0; tested against iaiops 0.31.0). On the wire: 80 tools, 75 read-only, 0 destructive (the energy connectors plus the base brain tools mounted on this server). New in 0.2.0 — every MCP call on
this server is audited with which front-end and which client made it (origin=mcp, the
client's self-reported name, one id per connection); before this, calls here reached the trail
as origin unknown. Upgrade note: iaiops 0.29 hashes those fields into the audit chain,
and an older base verifying a trail 0.29 has written to reports row_hash mismatch — so
upgrade every process sharing one IAIOPS_HOME (this server, iaiops-mcp, the CLI,
enterprise) together. The base's new HTTP bearer-token requirement does not apply here: this
server speaks stdio only. See CHANGELOG.md. Previously in 0.1.12 — the package
reports its own version: __version__ had been hard-coded at 0.1.3 for eight releases, and
the MCP handshake reported the SDK's version as this server's; both now come from the installed
package metadata. Previously in 0.1.11 — all three
monitor paths are CI-gated for the first time, and a skipped live test now fails the build
instead of passing it. DNP3 was the holdout: pip install pydnp3 fails on any current Linux,
so this repo inherited the ecosystem's "unbuildable on hosted runners" and
tests/test_dnp3_live.py skipped on every build. It is not unbuildable — opendnp3 compiles
clean, and the 2019 binding layer needed three mechanical fixes, now scripted in
scripts/build_pydnp3.sh and running on real GitHub runners. Also inherits two governance
fixes from iaiops 0.20.3 (pin raised): a call that failed is no longer audited as a
success (which also mis-informed the pattern circuit breaker on every failure), and the
runaway guard can now see a caller retrying a denial forever. Previously in 0.1.10 — a security
fix inherited from the base package: three egress tools this edition mirrors
(stream_publish, stream_publish_event, historian_push) wrote their credential — a NATS
auth token, a TSDB password — into the audit log in the clear, and audit_forward shipped
that row to the configured SIEM. They are defined in iaiops, so this edition could not fix
it alone; the pin moves to iaiops>=0.20.2, and a contract test now fails the build if the
whole registered surface ever again carries an undeclared credential parameter. If you have
passed a token or historian password to these tools, rotate it and check existing audit
rows. The energy connectors themselves take no credential parameters. Previously in 0.1.9 — every tool
ships the MCP ToolAnnotations hints (readOnlyHint / destructiveHint / openWorldHint),
derived from the @governed_tool harness rather than hand-written, so a client can tell a
monitor read from a tool that acts without parsing the [READ]/[WRITE] docstring tag. On the
wire that was (in 0.1.9) 59 tools, 55 read-only and 0 destructive — this edition exposes no control
direction, and that is now enforced by a test rather than only documented. They are hints, not a
gate: the MCP spec forbids relying on annotations for security decisions, and enforcement stays in
@governed_tool. The base pin moved to iaiops>=0.20.1 so the hint derivation is imported from
mcp_server.hints instead of duplicated here.
Previously in 0.1.8 — the base
IAIOPS_READ_ONLY gate was removed in iaiops 0.19.0 (read/write authorisation is the
caller's decision — agent judgement / account management — not the tap's; every tool is
governed and audited via the base @governed_tool harness), so this edition drops it too.
It keeps the IAIOPS_NO_EGRESS=1 gate — a data-exfiltration / airgap axis that withholds
data-shipping tools from list_tools() at registration time. This edition runs its own
FastMCP instance, so the gate is wired into its own main(); without it IAIOPS_NO_EGRESS=1
would still expose historian_push, rca_narrate and the stream_publish* pair mirrored in
from the base brain. The energy connectors themselves are monitor-only and survive the gate
intact. See CHANGELOG.md.
Previously in 0.1.6 — an
audit-hardening pass over the three read-only connectors: DNP3 no longer reports an
offline outstation as online or returns a partial integrity-poll database; IEC-61850 gained
a bounded connect/request timeout and stopped fabricating 0.0/empty-success on failure; the
substation analyzer no longer calls a lone breaker-open a "selective trip"; tests isolate
IAIOPS_HOME; and the base pin was raised to iaiops>=0.14 so the governance endpoint-scoping
fix applies. See CHANGELOG.md §0.1.6. (0.1.5 verified the IEC-104 monitor path — a real c104
client↔server round-trip in a Linux container, tests/test_iec104_live.py.)
Physical RTU / IED remains unverified. Since 0.1.3 the server has
its own MCP identity — iaiops-energy-mcp runs a dedicated FastMCP("iaiops-energy")
instance with energy-specific instructions (IEC-104 / DNP3 / IEC-61850, read-first,
no control/operate), with the base cross-protocol brain tools mirrored onto it — plus
an edition skill (skills/iaiops-energy/SKILL.md, anti-drift-tested against the
registered tool surface) and protocol-consistency contract tests (every tool must
carry the governance marker, a [READ]-style risk tag, an Args: section, and the
canonical {error, hint} error shape; the server refuses to start if any registered
tool lacks the governance marker).
🧪 Beta testing & co-creation
Live substation RTU / IED / IEC-104 field testing is what this package needs most.
The IEC-104, DNP3 and IEC-61850 monitor paths are library-loopback-verified, and all three
now run on every CI build — a skip fails the build rather than passing it. (Since
2026-08-01: DNP3's evidence used to be a single manual run on 2026-07-02, because pydnp3
was believed unbuildable on hosted runners. That belief was wrong — see
scripts/build_pydnp3.sh.) Real RTU / IED hardware remains unverified. If you can run
iaiops doctor against real substation gear in an authorised test environment, we would
very much like to hear the result — verified devices are credited by name in the support
matrix. Report results (protocol + device model + iaiops doctor output) via the base
repo's pinned issue:
👉 industrial-aiops#28 — Call for field-testing partners (v0.10.0)
Why a separate repo
Energy targets a distinct buyer (utilities / substations), has heavier
platform-specific deps (pyiec61850 is a linux-only SWIG wheel; pydnp3 builds a
native ext), and its own compliance surface (China's Security Protection of Power
Monitoring Systems regime). Splitting keeps
the base install light. See the base repo's docs/ENERGY-SPINOUT.md for the plan.
Install
pip install iaiops-energy[energy] # all three energy protocols
pip install iaiops-energy[iec104] # just IEC-104
iaiops-energy pulls in iaiops (the shared core) automatically.
Use (MCP)
iaiops-energy-mcp # brain + energy tools over stdio
Point a target at your substation gear in ~/.iaiops/config.yaml
(protocol: iec104|dnp3|iec61850, host, port, common_address / unit_id).
Edge deployment & ecosystem (edge-native / Margo)
Like the base package, the energy edition rides on a hardened, centrally-managed edge host as a
portable, governed edge application — mapping onto the Margo
edge-interoperability roles (immutable host · compliant orchestrator · iaiops-energy = the
OT-domain app), deployable as an OCI Managed Container (outbound-only to substation RTUs/IEDs,
no inbound). A container + margo.org/v1-alpha1 application-description skeleton is in
deploy/margo/; the full alignment + honest gap analysis lives in the base repo's
docs/MARGO-ALIGNMENT.md.
The descriptor is validated against Margo's published margo.org/v1-alpha1 LinkML schema on every
PR (CI job margo-descriptor) and passes clean — structural validity only, see
deploy/margo/schema/PROVENANCE.md.
Honest status: a natural Margo edge application, but NOT Margo-compliant yet — image build,
hosted+signed package, and a published conformance result are roadmap ⏳. No claim of compliance
until that result exists, and the schema pass above is not a step toward it: the compliance
test suite cannot be run today because it does not exist yet (no conformance repo in the margo
org; a first PR1 vertical slice was still being scoped as of 2026-01-15).
Validation status (honest)