EPICS Control System

SkillMonitoring & ops

EPICS control system skill for accelerator and beamline instrument control and monitoring

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Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the EPICS Control System skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by a5c-ai/babysitter in library/specializations/domains/science/physics/skills/epics-control-system/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Purpose

Provides expert guidance on EPICS for accelerator and beamline control systems, including IOC configuration and channel access.

Capabilities

IOC configuration and deployment
Channel Access protocol
Archiver integration
Alarm handling
OPI screen development
Python/caproto scripting

Usage Guidelines

IOC Setup: Configure Input/Output Controllers
Channels: Define process variables and records
Archiving: Set up archiver for data logging
Alarms: Configure alarm handling
Python Integration: Use caproto or pyepics for scripting

Tools/Libraries

EPICS
caproto
pyepics
phoebus

Signals

GitHub stars: 2k
Forks: 112
Last commit: Sep 2026

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Item type: skill
Key: epics-control-system
Source: github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter

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