Skill Claude · ChatGPT / MCP
Research products
Find product candidates that fit your design brief.
What it does
Give Norma the brief, budget, market and selection criteria. Norma researches actual products and returns a shortlist with sources, tradeoffs and open questions. You choose the products to carry forward.
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.
Add to Claude
Add to ChatGPTVersions 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: Research products — Find and compare FF&E candidates for a design brief, with sourced purchasing facts.
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 research task chairs for this workplace brief. Compare fit, dimensions, selected configurations and verified prices. Give me a shortlist with sources and open questions before saving or adopting any product.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 researches
Fit to the brief
Norma compares function, scale, material and other requested criteria across candidates.
Product specifications
Norma retains source-backed dimensions, model identities and configuration information.
Price and availability
Norma reports prices or availability only where supported and keeps missing evidence visible.
Selection status
Norma keeps a researched candidate separate from an adopted selection or saved library record.
Workflow
- Scope — Norma turns your brief into search criteria.
- Research — Norma finds candidates and reads their actual sources.
- Compare — Norma presents the shortlist and tradeoffs for your selection.
Pairs with
Product Audit. Norma can check a selected candidate in more detail before you adopt it or prepare a product sheet.