Bridge the Gap Between FileMaker and AI

Low-latency Vibe Coding for FileMaker. Turn Microsoft VS Code, VSCodium, Cursor, Antigravity, Kiro, Devin, TRAE, or Qoder into a full FileMaker IDE — free — with autocomplete, live validation, hover docs, and autoformat for .fmscript. Then unlock the licensed XSLT round trip to copy script steps from FileMaker as readable text, edit with any AI agent (Claude, Codex, Gemini, Copilot, local LLMs), and paste straight back.

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The Translation Pipeline

A seamless, bi-directional bridge for your Script Workspace.

1. Copy from FileMaker

Select script steps in FileMaker and copy. Press Ctrl+Alt+T in your IDE to translate the clipboard XML into readable script text.

2. Ask the AI

Let Claude, Codex, Gemini, Copilot — or any local LLM — refactor, document, or extend the script in plain text. No training, no retention.

3. Paste back into FileMaker

Press Ctrl+Alt+F to validate and rebuild FileMaker-native XML on the clipboard. Switch to FileMaker and paste — exact round trip.

Vibe Coding for FileMaker

Start a script in FileMaker. Pull it into your editor as plain text. Hand it to Claude, Codex, or Gemini — refactor, document, shrink it — and drop it straight back into the Script Workspace. Iterate in seconds, not minutes.

Because scripts live as text files in your IDE, AI coding agents see the whole relationship graph at once — and your scripts become Git-versionable like any other source code.

One live demo case: a 525-line script reduced to roughly half its size with identical behavior, via a single Claude + Gemini optimization round.

Why the clipboard?

FileMaker's Script Workspace has always refused pasted text. The only historical options were typing scripts by hand or fragile XML tricks.

ai2fm uses the system clipboard as a bridge: FileMaker's native XMSS format in, readable .fmscript out — and back again, fully validated, all 214+ script steps supported on macOS and Windows.

Features

Two layers: a free clipboard bridge and a licensed XSLT transform pipeline.

Free — Full FileMaker IDE

Turns each officially supported editor into a full FileMaker IDE — at no cost.

✅ Copy XML from editor to FileMaker clipboard (XMSS, XMFN, XMSC, XMFD, XMTB, XMLO)
✅ Read FileMaker clipboard into editor
✅ Auto-detect clipboard type from XML content
✅ Built-in script step templates
✅ Autocomplete for .fmscript, including If / Loop templates
✅ Step documentation on hover (local FileMaker KB + Book quirks)
✅ Live .fmscript validation with squiggles and Problems-panel updates as you type
✅ Autoformat for .fmscript documents
✅ Windows and macOS support

Licensed — XSLT Transform Pipeline

The server-side round trip between FileMaker XML and readable script text.

✅ FM → Text (Ctrl+Alt+T): FM clipboard XML to readable script text
✅ Text → FM (Ctrl+Alt+F): edited text back to FM clipboard
✅ XML ↔ Text in the editor, with a preview-before-copy mode
✅ Book-syntax validation before reverse conversion
✅ Supports all 214+ FileMaker script steps
✅ AI hallucination detection and anomaly guardrails
✅ Multi-line step handling via a bracket-depth parser
✅ Localization: script step labels auto-translated to your FileMaker install language (e.g. English → German) on paste-back
✅ Missing TO, field, and sub-script references are commented out with a note for manual mapping — nothing silently lost
✅ Optional UTF-16 character restriction for reliable cross-platform conversion

Keyboard Shortcuts

Windows

Ctrl + Alt

Ctrl+Alt+G

Read FM clipboard into editor (raw XML)

Free

Ctrl+Alt+V

Copy editor XML as XMSS to FM clipboard

Free

Ctrl+Alt+T

FM → Text: clipboard XML to readable script

Licensed

Ctrl+Alt+F

Text → FM: validate script text, rebuild FM clipboard XML

Licensed

macOS

Cmd + Opt

Cmd+Opt+G

Read FM clipboard into editor (raw XML)

Free

Cmd+Opt+V

Copy editor XML as XMSS to FM clipboard

Free

Cmd+Opt+T

FM → Text: clipboard XML to readable script

Licensed

Cmd+Opt+F

Text → FM: validate script text, rebuild FM clipboard XML

Licensed

Announcements

The latest product updates, launch milestones, and community news.

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July 2026 · Product Update

ai2fm v2.5 Brings FileMaker 2026 Support and Unicode-Safe Round Trips

The next ai2fm release adds full FileMaker 2026 script-step support, a real 2025 ⇄ 2026 migration bridge, in-editor controls, plugin-aware hover help, and full CJK/Unicode integrity.

VS Code showing ai2fm warning that FileMaker 2025 may have dropped the Prompt Template Name value on copy. — ai2fm warns when FileMaker 2025's clipboard copy does not contain the full step data.

VS Code showing ai2fm warnings that FileMaker 2026 may have dropped New position values on copy. — v2.5 also catches incomplete clipboard data from affected FileMaker 2026 steps.

During v2.5 R&D we documented 17 FileMaker clipboard serialization bugs with reproducible files. ai2fm now detects, translates, preserves, or warns where FileMaker's own clipboard can lose fidelity.

Every new and changed FileMaker 2026 script step round-trips through ai2fm.
Target FileMaker Version lets teams move safely between 2025 and 2026.
Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and every other multi-byte writing system survive large-script round trips exactly.

Read v2.5 Update Protect Your Scripts

July 23, 2026 · Industry Analysis

Claris Just Published the Architecture We've Been Building

Claris Community Live 49 laid out agentic FileMaker development as a split between model-driven intent and deterministic structure. That is the architecture ai2fm was built around.

The FileMaker AI tooling category is now public and named. FMForums maps the ecosystem, and ai2fm appeared in the Community Live audience tooling poll alongside other community initiatives.

Models decide intent; deterministic tools assemble structure from templates.
Claris' first toolkit target is FileMaker 2026 and local closed files.
ai2fm ships the clipboard bridge today and expands into a local modernization pipeline in v3.

Read Analysis Watch Claris Video

Talks & Press

ai2fm proud sponsor of fmCat 2026 in Barcelona

fmCat 2026 · October 16, 2026 · Barcelona

ai2fm Sponsors fmCat 2026

ai2fm is proud to support Barcelona's FileMaker developer conference as an official event sponsor.

fmCat brings the FileMaker community together for a full day of engineering, integration, and agentic-development sessions.

Official sponsor of fmCat 2026.
Barcelona, October 16, 2026.
Supporting the people moving FileMaker development forward.

FM meets Mozart · September 15, 2026 · Salzburg

AI2FM Comes to FM meets Mozart

A 90-minute AI2FM introduction and a hands-on workshop bring deterministic, agentic FileMaker development to Salzburg.

Dimitris demonstrates how ai2fm's officially supported editors become FileMaker IDEs, then takes participants through AI2FM's V3 solution-analysis workflow.

Live validation, autocomplete, hover help, and autoformatting.
Structured .fmscript folders, ERDs, and dependency analysis.
Copy/paste and FileMaker Upgrade Tool patching workflows.

Latest Videos

Security intelligence and reproducible FileMaker engineering evidence from ai2fm.

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Threat analysis of a coordinated GitHub malware campaign targeting FileMaker developers.

Security Alert · August 4, 2026 · Cyber-FM

FileMaker Malware Campaign: Reverse Engineering the Fake XML Scrubber

A coordinated campaign is impersonating legitimate FileMaker community tools through deceptive GitHub repositories, encrypted payloads, and remote-execution instructions.

The video dissects the fake XML Scrubber lure and the campaign behind it, while the Cyber-FM report records the wider infrastructure, takedowns, replacements, warning signs, and incident-response guidance.

Verify the provenance of FileMaker utilities before running them.
Never execute remote PowerShell or shell commands from an unverified README.
Preserve evidence and report suspicious repositories and accounts separately.

Watch Threat Analysis Read Security Alert

Seventeen verified FileMaker clipboard bugs with reproducible test files.

Engineering Evidence · August 1, 2026 · ai2fm

Bug 1: FileMaker 2025 Drops the Prompt Template Name

The first video in the 17-bug evidence series reproduces how Perform Find by Natural Language loses its Prompt Template Name during FileMaker 2025 clipboard copy.

The saved .fmp12 remains safe. The loss occurs when FileMaker serializes the step to clipboard XML. The video demonstrates the defect; the evidence page provides the exact FileMaker files, clipboard captures, and ai2fm round-trip results.

Open the same reproducer file and verify the clipboard yourself.
See where ai2fm warns that FileMaker already dropped the value.
Re-enter the value and rebuild a deterministic, working clipboard.

Watch Bug 1 Reproduce Bug 1 Protect Your Investment

Privacy-First Architecture

The XSLT transform runs server-side, but your script content never stays there. Payloads move over TLS, are processed entirely in volatile memory, and are discarded the instant the response is sent.

Zero-retention pipeline

FileMaker XML and translated output are never written to disk, never logged, never used to train AI. See the Data Retention Policy for the technical detail.

✅ TLS in transit, memory-only processing at the server
✅ No disk writes, no logs of script content, no backups of payloads
✅ No AI training on customer code — ever
✅ Local device fingerprint: raw hostname / MAC / platform never leave your machine

Developer Pricing

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Free · 21 days

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Full Bi-directional Translation
Unlimited Code Transformations
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Professional Seat

$120 / yr

Annual subscription. Server stays live as long as you subscribe.

Full Bi-directional Translation
Unlimited Code Transformations
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