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: 0.1.11 (requires iaiops>=0.20.3,<1.0). New 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 is 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)

Related MCP server: EnergyAtIt MCP Server

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)

The same honesty ladder as the base repo. Driver codec / API surface is verified against the real libraries; the mock/monkeypatched unit tests run in CI without hardware. See the base repo's docs/PREVIEW-VERIFICATION.md runbook for how a protocol is promoted.

¹ All three monitor paths are now CI-gated, and a skip fails the build rather than passing it (no live protocol test may skip). This used to read: "only IEC-104 is CI-gated; DNP3 and IEC-61850 rest on out-of-CI runs, not on the green badge." That was true and is no longer.

DNP3 was the last one, and the reason is worth recording because the old note here — and the CI job, and this README — all repeated the same wrong conclusion for months: pip install pydnp3 fails on any current Linux, so it was taken as unbuildable on hosted runners. It is not. opendnp3 itself compiles clean; what had rotted was the 2019 binding layer. Three mechanical fixes, no patches to opendnp3:

1. Python headers must be present (python3-dev) — without them the build dies at Python.h: No such file or directory, which is what "unbuildable" looked like;

2. 214 vendored headers #include <python2.7/Python.h>, rewritten to <Python.h>;

3. the vendored pybind11 predates CPython 3.11 (it reads PyFrameObject internals that 3.11 made opaque) and GCC 13 (std::uint16_t without <cstdint>) — replaced with pybind11 v2.13.6.

scripts/build_pydnp3.sh applies all three and verifies the import. ~3 min cold on two cores. The lesson generalises: "the ecosystem says it cannot be built" is a claim to test, not to inherit.

DNP3 notes: read-only / monitor direction only (no control). Its DNP3Manager.Shutdown() can block in a long-lived interpreter, so the connector bounds teardown (_Pydnp3MasterAdapter.shutdown) and the test drives the round-trip in a short-lived child process.

License

MIT — © wei. Part of the vendor-neutral, governed Industrial-AIOps line.