IEEE SA Standards Search

Search the IEEE Standards Association website (standards.ieee.org) for IEEE and ANSI standards.

When to use

• User asks for an IEEE or ANSI standard by number (e.g. "C93.1", "IEEE 4")
• User searches for an IEC standard and needs the IEEE counterpart (e.g. IEC 60358 → IEEE C93.1)
• User wants to find standards on a specific topic (e.g. "power line carrier coupling")
• ieee-search on IEEE Xplore returned no results for a standards query

Important: This skill searches standards.ieee.org, NOT ieeexplore.ieee.org. These are different websites with different structures.

IEC ↔ IEEE Standard Cross-Reference

Common cross-references for the PLC / coupling capacitor / HV test domain:

IEC Standard	IEEE Counterpart	Topic
IEC 60358-1/-2/-3/-4	IEEE/ANSI C93.1-1999 + PC57.13.9 (Draft)	PLC coupling capacitors / CCVT
IEC 60481	IEEE C93.4-2012	PLC line-tuning equipment (30–500 kHz)
(line trap)	IEEE C93.3-2017	PLC line traps (30–500 kHz)
(PLC application)	IEEE 643-1980	PLC application guide
IEC 60060-1/-2	IEEE 4-2013	High-voltage testing techniques
IEC 60085	IEEE P1 (Draft) + IEEE C57.12.60-2020	Insulation thermal evaluation / thermal class
IEC 61869-5	(no direct IEEE counterpart)	CVT additional requirements

Steps

Step 1: Navigate to IEEE SA search

Use navigate_page to:

https://standards.ieee.org/search/?q={QUERY}

Where {QUERY} is the URL-encoded search terms from $ARGUMENTS.

Always include initScript:

initScript: "Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'webdriver', {get: () => undefined})"

Step 2: Extract results

Use evaluate_script with built-in waiting:

async () => {
  // Wait for search results to load (up to 10s)
  for (let i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
    if (document.body.innerText.includes('result') || document.body.innerText.includes('Sorry')) break;
    await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 500));
  }

  const pageText = document.body.innerText;

  // Check for no results
  if (pageText.includes('no results were found')) {
    return { results: [], noResults: true, query: new URL(window.location.href).searchParams.get('q') || '' };
  }

  // Extract results by parsing the page structure
  // IEEE SA search results are rendered as cards/sections with standard number + description
  const results = [];
  const resultBlocks = document.querySelectorAll('.search-results .result, article, .card');

  if (resultBlocks.length > 0) {
    resultBlocks.forEach((block, i) => {
      const link = block.querySelector('a');
      const title = link?.textContent?.trim() || '';
      const href = link?.href || '';
      const desc = block.textContent.trim().substring(title.length).trim().substring(0, 300);
      if (title) {
        results.push({ rank: i + 1, title, href, description: desc });
      }
    });
  }

  // Fallback: parse from page text if DOM selectors don't match
  if (results.length === 0) {
    // IEEE SA search results appear as standard number + title + description in page text
    const lines = pageText.split('\n').map(l => l.trim()).filter(Boolean);
    let current = null;
    for (const line of lines) {
      // Match patterns like "IEEE C93.1™-1999" or "IEEE 4™-2013" or "PC93.4™"
      const stdMatch = line.match(/^(IEEE[\/\s].*?™.*?\d{4}|P[A-Z\d]+.*?™|IEEE\s+\d+.*?™.*?\d{4})/);
      if (stdMatch) {
        if (current) results.push(current);
        current = { rank: results.length + 1, standardNumber: line, title: '', description: '' };
      } else if (current && !current.title && line.length > 20 && !line.startsWith('Last modified')) {
        current.title = line.substring(0, 200);
      } else if (current && line.startsWith('Last modified')) {
        current.lastModified = line;
      } else if (current && current.title && !current.description && line.length > 30) {
        current.description = line.substring(0, 300);
        results.push(current);
        current = null;
      }
    }
    if (current) results.push(current);
  }

  // Extract result count
  const countMatch = pageText.match(/(\d+)\s+results?\s+found/);
  const resultCount = countMatch ? countMatch[1] + ' results found' : '';

  return { results: results.slice(0, 20), resultCount, url: window.location.href };
}

Step 3: Present results

IEEE SA Standards Search: "{query}"
{resultCount}

1. **{standardNumber}**
   {title}
   {description}
   Last modified: {lastModified}

2. ...

Step 4: Handle no results

If no results found:

• Suggest alternative search terms (broader keywords, different standard number format).
• If searching for an IEC standard, check the cross-reference table above and suggest the IEEE counterpart.
• Suggest searching IEEE Xplore (ieee-search) for related papers and IEEE standards that are also published there.

Notes

• IEEE SA website (standards.ieee.org) is the official home for IEEE standard project pages, NOT IEEE Xplore.
• IEEE Xplore hosts the full text of published IEEE standards for download (with subscription).
• IEEE SA hosts the catalog entries with descriptions, status, and project information.
• For downloading the actual standard document, users need to go to the IEEE Xplore link or the IEEE SA shop.
• The search on standards.ieee.org returns standards, drafts, projects, and governance documents.
• This skill uses 2 tool calls: navigate_page + evaluate_script.
• IEC/ISO standards are NOT on standards.ieee.org either — they must be obtained from IEC Webstore (webstore.iec.ch).