Your personal assistant
The CDP AI Assist
The AI Assist is there to assist you and make developing systems faster and easier. It is your personal CDP Studio expert that understands your project, the CDP Framework, your application structure, internal tools and the complete CDP documentation.
From how-to guidance and intelligent no-code generation to AI-assisted coding with built-in Code Assist and GitHub Copilot support, AI Assist helps you develop industrial automation systems faster while remaining safe, transparent, and in control.
Fast or with reasoning
AI modes
The AI Assist is available to all users. An advanced model offers commercial subscribers deeper reasoning and more comprehensive support for complex technical challenges.
CDP or general engineering
How to … questions
You know what you want to achieve but are unsure how to get there. With AI Assist, you can ask, “How do I…?” and receive concise, relevant explanations tailored to your situation as the AI Assist is context-aware. From configuring the premade functions to setting up communication protocols, which UI widget properties to use, and following best practices for secure deployments. Whether your question concerns CDP Studio, the CDP Framework, UI widgets, communication protocols, software architecture or general engineering topics, AI Assist provides answers tailored to your current project.
NO-code assist
AI-assisted No-Code Programming
A powerful feature of AI Assist is its ability to generate and configure no-code blocks that can be directly inserted into your project. This is ideal when learning new functionality, creating larger configurations from natural language, or simply automating repetitive engineering tasks. Using Advanced mode, it’s possible to create more complex configurations, such as the following example.
1. AI proposing a solution
2. AI implementing and explaining the solution
3. The AI-generated no-code state machine
code assist
AI-Assisted Software Development with full control
AI Assist now extends beyond configuration and no-code development to support software coding directly inside CDP Studio.
Unlike general-purpose coding assistants, AI Code Assist understands CDP projects, components, application structures, and the CDP Framework. It can explain existing code, propose modifications, generate new code, and help solve implementation problems, all while using the context of your current project.
AI-generated changes are presented as diffs before they are applied, allowing you to review every modification before accepting it. Longer-running AI tasks can execute in the background while you continue working, keeping your workflow uninterrupted.
AI Code Assist features:
- Helps troubleshoot implementation issues and build new functionality
- Understands CDP Framework concepts and project structure
- Generates and explains C++ code
- Suggests modifications to existing software
- Reviews code before applying changes using safe diff views
- Runs longer AI tasks in the background
- Can execute local shell tools when enabled
Use GitHub Copilot together with CDP AI Assist
GitHub Copilot complements the CDP AI Code Assist with intelligent code completion and inline suggestions directly in the editor.
Add your Github Copilot key and start using copilot in the code editor.
Whether you’re configuring no-code applications, writing advanced C++ components or building complete industrial automation systems, AI Assist helps you develop faster, learn quicker and stay in full control of every change.
The AI Assist can make mistakes. CDP Technologies or the underlying AI engines do not use your data to train the models.