Andrew Kear from Clockwork Creative Technology, with deterministic specs for Script, Layout, Table, Field & Value List XML.

Every entry is verified by round-trip testing against FileMaker 2026 and confirmed in production use. Nothing goes in on inference alone.

They give Claude a guardrail against hallucinating functions or steps, and map the many silent failure paths that block a successful paste.
Right first time, minimised token use.

They're the quickest way to start your AI journey: drop one straight into a Claude chat as your first experiment.
Next, load it as an organisation skill so it's always on hand and loads itself when relevant.

And if you're building more complex agentic tooling, these can be loaded as part of your pack — as they already are with a number of vendors.

Free to use as a base for agentic projects. They give a stable foundation for working with AI. CC BY 4.0.

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FileMaker AI Vocabulary Every FileMaker 26 function and script step in ~7,000 tokens, so an AI stops inventing things that don't exist. The cheapest way to make any model better at FileMaker — no XML required.

Generation — paste-ready FileMaker XML

Script XML Skill (XMSS, XMSC, XMFN) The full script step ID dictionary, plus the hidden paste-handler rules that decide whether your XML survives the trip into FileMaker.

Layout XML Skill (XML2) All 18 layout object types mapped, every flag decoded, element order confirmed against native output. Verified across 45+ layouts in 10 production files.

Field, Table & Value List Definitions (XMFD, XMTB, XMVL) Field, table and value list definition XML — auto-enter, validation, storage, calculation options, and the three value list source arms — verified down to the individual option level.

Analysis — read, audit and clean existing XML

XML Inspector (SaXML) Full-catalog dependency analysis of a Save as XML export, entirely in the browser. Finds unreferenced fields, silent-failure risks, broken references, and diffs two versions of a solution against each other.

XML Scrubber (SaXML + others) Strips API keys, passwords and internal hostnames out of FileMaker XML before you hand it to an AI tool.

Claris FileMaker Pro Skill is a skill in the pure sense, and a good one. It ships reference catalogs — all 360 calculation functions, all 155 script steps, the error codes, the help-center URLs — with a local-first, live-verify strategy and even a version-drift detector that flags when a fetched doc references a newer FileMaker version than the skill was built against. What it fixes is what the model knows: it stops your model from hallucinating a function signature or inventing an error code. That is real value. But it is, by design, a knowledge layer. The model still authors the XML; the skill just makes sure the model is better informed while it does that.