Skill Claude · ChatGPT / MCP

Find EPDs

Find environmental product declarations for a material shortlist.

What it does

Give Norma the product or material category and the project criteria. Norma searches original declaration sources and returns candidates with product coverage, dates and links for your review.

Install

Connect Arch Studio in Claude or ChatGPT, then return to your conversation and ask Norma for the task. Your assistant uses its available file access and tools to carry out the skill.

Versions and source

Arch Studio 1.5.1.2 · MCP

Available as MCP workflow instructions in compatible Claude and ChatGPT connections. The assistant performs the work with its own tools and permissions and verifies the actual result before reporting completion.

Arch Studio 1.5.1.2 · Open source

Included in the public plugin for Claude Code and Codex. In this version: Find EPDs — Find environmental product declarations by material or product category.

Usage

Ask Norma in plain language. With Arch Studio connected through MCP, no $ or / command is required. Norma is your assistant working with Arch Studio.

Use Arch Studio to find EPDs for the insulation products in this shortlist. Keep the original declaration links, product coverage and validity dates. Flag regional or variant mismatches before recommending declarations for comparison.

The full catalog lives in your assistant once Arch Studio is connected. Ask: Norma, what can you do? List the skills, tools, agents and workflows available in this host, grouped by practice area.

What it finds

Declarations

Norma searches program-operator registries and manufacturer sources for the requested products.

Product coverage

Norma checks whether a declaration covers the selected product, variant and relevant market.

Validity and gaps

Norma retains declaration identity and validity information, and flags inaccessible or uncertain matches.

Workflow

  1. Scope — Norma confirms the material and search criteria.
  2. Search — Norma finds matching original declarations.
  3. Screen — Norma presents candidates and evidence gaps; you choose which ones to investigate further.

Pairs with

Read EPDs. Norma can extract the reported metrics from a declaration selected during research.