Cimatron Api

Cimatron API — Claude Code Plugin

A Claude Code plugin that gives Claude first-class knowledge of the Cimatron API and the workflows that surround building plugins against it.

Prerequisites

This plugin is for Windows 10/11. Install these once before you start — the plugin's /cimatron-api:setup-env check will re-verify them for you and offer to install anything missing.

What	Why	How to install
Git	/plugin marketplace add clones this repo over git	winget install -e --id Git.Git  ·  or git-scm.com/download/win
Claude Code	The host for this plugin	winget install -e --id Anthropic.ClaudeCode
VS Code	F5 build → deploy → debug into Cimatron	winget install -e --id Microsoft.VisualStudioCode --scope user  ·  or code.visualstudio.com
C# Dev Kit (VS Code extension)	Managed debugger that attaches to Cimatron (.NET Framework 4.8 / x64)	code --install-extension ms-dotnettools.csdevkit
.NET Framework 4.8 Developer Pack	Plugins compile against net48 (the runtime alone is not enough)	winget install -e --id Microsoft.DotNet.Framework.DeveloperPack_4  ·  or dotnet.microsoft.com
Cimatron 2024.0 or newer (2026 recommended)	The plugin DLL loads into this	Use your Cimatron distributor's installer — not auto-installable

After installing Git/VS Code via winget, open a fresh terminal so the new git / code commands land on your PATH before continuing.

Already set up? If you have Claude Code, Git, VS Code + C# Dev Kit, and the .NET 4.8 Developer Pack, skip straight to Install below.

Install

In Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add cimatron-dev/Cimatron-API-Claude-Docs
/plugin install cimatron-api@cimatron-claude

Then restart Claude Code. Verify with /mcp — you should see a cimatron-api server connected with search, read_file, and list_index tools.

Once installed, sanity-check the rest of your toolchain from inside Claude Code with:

/cimatron-api:setup-env

It reports a pass/fail table for Git, VS Code, the C# Dev Kit, the .NET 4.8 Developer Pack, and your installed Cimatron versions — and offers to install anything that's missing.

What you get

Capability	Where
Search the Cimatron SDK docs	cimatron-api-docs agent + cimatron-api skill, backed by a hosted MCP server
Scaffold a new Cimatron 2026 API plugin	/cimatron-api:new-cimatron-api
Add a toolbar command to an existing plugin	/cimatron-api:add-command
Register / unregister a plugin in ExternalCommands.ini	/cimatron-api:register-command, /cimatron-api:unregister-command
Audit a plugin against the project standard	api-reviewer agent
Generate command icons	icon-creator agent
Add a feature-guide UI to an existing command	feature-guide-scaffold agent
One-off scaffolding outside the standard commands	api-scaffold agent

The doc-search side talks to a hosted MCP server at https://cimatron.digitalexample.com/Cimatron-API-Claude-Docs-MCP/mcp — no local install of the doc corpus is required.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.