Maia Make Capabilities
Introduction
Maia Make capabilities are grouped into a conversational interface, which is available in Studio Pro 11.8 and above.
To use this interface and Maia Make capabilities, an internet connection and signing in to Studio Pro are required.
Maia Make is a set of AI-assisted development capabilities in Studio Pro that are available through a unified conversational interface. Describe your requirements in natural language, and Maia generates development artifacts such as data structures, overview pages, and microflows.
You can also ask Maia to provide explanations of your existing logic and pages. Moreover, this interface allows you to integrate with external tools via MCP Servers (Playwright, Figma, and others) and it supports story-based development by generating app artifacts based on existing user stories.
The key Maia Make capabilities are as follows:
- Conversational assistance for general Mendix development queries
- Logic and page explanations to clarify existing implementation details
- Domain model generation from natural language descriptions
- Overview page generation from natural language descriptions
- Microflow generation including XPath constraints and expressions
- External tool integration via compatible MCP Servers (such as Playwright, Figma)
- Story-based development to help realize existing user stories
- PDF and image support to help Maia understand your requirements better
- Add relevant logic and pages to the interface to give Maia a more desired context
Using Maia Make Capabilities
Maia Make capabilities are enabled by default. You can disable them in Studio Pro Preferences, via the Maia tab.
To access the conversational interface and Maia Make capabilities, in the upper-right corner of Studio Pro, click the Maia pane. It appears under the Chat tab:
Alternatively, you can also click View at the Studio Pro top bar and select Maia to open the interface.
In Studio Pro 11.7 and below, the Chat tab is only used for Maia Chat where you can ask questions about all aspects of Mendix.
There is also the Learn tab under the Maia pane. It is a separate Maia capability that is not part of Maia Make capabilities. For more information, see Maia Learn.
Maia Make Capabilities Interface Overview
The conversational interface includes the following options:
- New chat - It allows you to clear the messages and start a new conversation which does not reference your current chat.
- Configure MCP Connections ( icon) - It allows you to connect external MCP servers to Maia, giving it access to third-party tools during chat. For more information on how to configure MCP connections, see Maia MCP Client.
- Add (Image, Story, PDF) - With this option, you can attach images, PDFs, or user stories to help Maia understand your requirements better.
- Add file to Maia Chat (@ icon) - It allows you to add certain logic or pages to Maia as context. You can also access this option by right-clicking the documents (microflows or pages) in the App Explorer and it appears in the context menu.
For more information on how each Maia Make capability work, refer to the following documents:
In Studio Pro 11.8 and above, most of the features described in the documents above are available only through the chat interface. There are no separate entry points to these features in their respective editors. Maia Explain is an exception. You can still access this feature by right-clicking the documents (microflows or pages) in the App Explorer and the Maia Explain option is in the context menu.