v0.3.0: linear cut-list optimization skill, pipeline + RFQ integration, linear stock contract

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Summary

This PR delivers v0.3.0: the roadmap's highest-value deferred engine — one-dimensional member/length optimization — built to the same trustworthy-pipeline standard as the rest of pi-steel, plus its full integration and a canonical-contract extension for linear stock.

New steel-cutlist skill

• Deterministic 1D bar nesting for long products (beams, channels, angles, HSS, tube, pipe) with explicit saw kerf and end-trim allowances and a documented fit contract.
• Strategy portfolio per designation + grade group (mixed-stock greedy plus each single-stock-length restriction) ranked by fewest unplaced members, least purchased stock length, lowest known cost, fewest purchased bars, then least total length — same input, same plan, every time.
• Independent post-placement verification (bar overcommitment, material mismatch, duplicate/missing member instances) gates publication; the per-bar cutting_list.csv (decimal-exact, sixteenth-inch safe) is emitted only for verified, fully placed runs.
• Member weights from explicit unit_weight_plf or the bundled AISC database; unknown weights are visible warnings, never silent zeros. Bar diagrams, purchase summary, drop candidates, and a versioned rfq_linear.json handoff.

Pipeline and RFQ integration

• steel-estimate optimizes member items onto configurable mill lengths (--mill-lengths-ft, default 40,50,60); cut-list blockers and members longer than every mill length gate the run exactly like nest blockers (cutlist_partial diagnostics).
• The draft RFQ workbook renders a "LINEAR STOCK / CUT-LIST REFERENCE" section from a schema-validated, staleness-checked handoff; the standalone compiler accepts --linear.

Linear stock in the canonical contract

• Additive stock_form: "linear" schema variant: vendor-declared purchasable lengths (which replace the default mill lengths for their group) and on-hand sticks requiring the same hash-bound reviewer confirmation as on-hand plate.
• On-hand stock is finite, carries no cost basis, and ranks as zero purchase outlay — confirmed sticks eliminate purchases whenever they genuinely can, and every report labels on_hand rows explicitly.

Quality

• An adversarial review round on the diff surfaced 8 findings (negative-quantity crash, a missing-grade regression, misleading verification status on blocked runs, per-row utilization, CSV precision, non-finite CLI input, helper duplication, a loop-invariant hoist) — all fixed with regression tests.
• Shared helpers (is_sha256, missing_optional_modules, normalize_designation) deduplicated into pi_steel; new cutlist-result schema and cutlist_partial/cutlist_verified package statuses; CHANGELOG added with history reconstructed from the git record.

Test plan

• Suite grew 134 → 169 tests, all passing (npm test), including engine invariants, CLI publication contract, pipeline gating, and golden updates.
• npm run release:check fully green: lint, privacy, pack contents, provenance.
• Full-render tier requires LibreOffice + Poppler and runs in CI.

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• New Features

  • Added steel linear cut-list optimization for beams, channels, angles, HSS, tube, and pipe.
  • Generates verified cutting lists, layouts, utilization and purchasing reports, weights, costs, and linear RFQ data.
  • Supports mill lengths, finite on-hand stock, kerf, end trim, drops, and deterministic material nesting.
  • Integrated linear cut-list results with steel estimating and RFQ workflows.

• Documentation

  • Added usage guidance, templates, examples, provenance details, and a changelog.
  • Updated package documentation and version to 0.3.0.

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• README.md
• skills/steel-cutlist/scripts/cutlist.py
• skills/steel-estimate/scripts/build-estimate-package.py
• tests/test_cutlist_engine.py
• tests/test_estimate_pipeline.py
• tests/test_full_render_smoke.py

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The project adds a 1D steel cut-list engine with deterministic nesting, independent verification, stock handling, reports, and RFQ output. The estimate pipeline and RFQ generator now consume linear-stock data and cut-list handoffs. Shared schemas, validation helpers, tests, and version documentation were updated.

Changes

Linear cut-list workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared contracts and validation skills/_shared/pi_steel/*, skills/_shared/schemas/*, skills/steel-nest/scripts/nest.py	Added shared hash, designation, and optional-module helpers. Added linear-stock validation, package statuses, and cut-list and estimate schema contracts. Updated steel-nest to use the shared helpers.
Cut-list engine and publication skills/steel-cutlist/scripts/cutlist.py, skills/steel-cutlist/SKILL.md, skills/steel-cutlist/references/*, tests/test_cutlist_engine.py, tests/test_cutlist_cli_contract.py	Added job normalization, deterministic bar nesting, verification, weight and cost handling, drop classification, RFQ output, reports, CSV output, diagrams, run publication, CLI behavior, fixtures, and comprehensive tests.
Estimate pipeline integration skills/steel-estimate/scripts/build-estimate-package.py, skills/steel-estimate/SKILL.md, tests/test_estimate_pipeline.py, tests/golden/pipeline/ready-artifacts.json	Added linear-stock parsing, cut-list job construction, on-hand stock selection, cut-list status handling, QA data, artifacts, layouts, configuration, CLI options, and pipeline tests.
Linear RFQ handoff skills/steel-rfq/scripts/generate-rfq.py, skills/steel-rfq/SKILL.md	Added versioned handoff validation, identity checks, workbook reference rows, configuration hashing, metadata, and the --linear option.
Release documentation README.md, CHANGELOG.md, package.json, pyproject.toml	Updated documentation and package metadata for version 0.3.0. Added the changelog to published package files.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 568c9

The PR adds linear cut-list optimization and RFQ integration, but the current implementation can misread invalid stock flags, reject valid on-hand-plus-purchased stock combinations, and publish a cutting list for otherwise blocked estimates. These can lead to incorrect purchasing information or misleading deliverables, so the issues should be fixed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant EstimatePipeline
  participant CutlistEngine
  participant RFQGenerator
  participant Workbook
  EstimatePipeline->>CutlistEngine: Build and run linear cut-list job
  CutlistEngine-->>EstimatePipeline: Return verified result and linear RFQ handoff
  EstimatePipeline->>RFQGenerator: Supply linear handoff
  RFQGenerator->>Workbook: Render linear stock and cutting-plan rows

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Actionable comments posted: 4

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Inline comments:
In `@README.md`:
- Around line 74-75: Update the steel-cutlist member list in the README
description to include channels and tube alongside beams, HSS, angles, and pipe,
matching the supported types declared in the changelog.

In `@skills/steel-cutlist/scripts/cutlist.py`:
- Around line 355-368: Update the stock validation around the unlimited
assignment in the stock-processing function to accept only actual boolean
values, rejecting strings and other truthy values instead of coercing them with
bool(). Preserve the existing on_hand validation and quantity handling for valid
booleans, and add a regression test proving a string such as "false" is
rejected.
- Around line 401-410: Update the generated stock identity hash in the
stock-processing logic to include stock_kind alongside name, designation, grade,
and length, ensuring anonymous on-hand and purchasable rows with matching
attributes receive distinct stock_id values. Add a regression test covering both
row kinds with the same length.

In `@skills/steel-estimate/scripts/build-estimate-package.py`:
- Around line 983-991: Update the cutting-list publication condition around
cutlist_result["outcome"] so cutting_list.csv is written only when the run-level
blocked flag is false and the cutlist outcome is ready. Preserve the existing
rendering, readiness, and media type arguments in publisher.write_bytes.

Apply the same fix in `@skills/steel-rfq/scripts/generate-rfq.py` around lines 554
- 561.

Apply the same fix in `@skills/steel-rfq/scripts/generate-rfq.py` around lines 564
- 611.

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• CHANGELOG.md
• README.md
• package.json
• pyproject.toml
• skills/_shared/pi_steel/__init__.py
• skills/_shared/pi_steel/cli.py
• skills/_shared/pi_steel/contracts.py
• skills/_shared/pi_steel/parsing.py
• skills/_shared/pi_steel/run_manifest.py
• skills/_shared/pi_steel/validation.py
• skills/_shared/schemas/cutlist-result.schema.json
• skills/_shared/schemas/estimate-package.schema.json
• skills/_shared/schemas/nest-result.schema.json
• skills/steel-cutlist/SKILL.md
• skills/steel-cutlist/references/FIXTURE_PROVENANCE.md
• skills/steel-cutlist/references/example_job.json
• skills/steel-cutlist/references/job_template.json
• skills/steel-cutlist/scripts/cutlist.py
• skills/steel-estimate/SKILL.md
• skills/steel-estimate/scripts/build-estimate-package.py
• skills/steel-nest/SKILL.md
• skills/steel-nest/scripts/nest.py
• skills/steel-rfq/SKILL.md
• skills/steel-rfq/scripts/generate-rfq.py
• skills/steel-takeoff/scripts/validate-bom.py
• tests/golden/pipeline/ready-artifacts.json
• tests/test_cutlist_cli_contract.py
• tests/test_cutlist_engine.py
• tests/test_estimate_pipeline.py

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🤖 Lab Code Review (draft opinion)

I found 5 issues, ordered by severity:

1. skills/steel-cutlist/scripts/cutlist.py:1494 - Loop invariant not hoisted: stock_by_group.get(k) inside loop uses undefined variable k (should be key). Fix: Change stock_by_group.get(k) to stock_by_group.get(key).

2. skills/steel-cutlist/scripts/cutlist.py:1493 - Sorting by repr is unstable and meaningless for tuple keys. Fix: Change sorted(units_by_group, key=repr) to sorted(units_by_group).

3. skills/steel-cutlist/scripts/cutlist.py:1154 - Missing validation for negative/zero stock quantity when unlimited=False. Fix: Add if quantity < 0: findings.append(_validation_finding("negative_stock_quantity", f"{path}.qty", "Stock quantity cannot be negative.")) after quantity parsing.

4. skills/steel-cutlist/scripts/cutlist.py:1088 - Missing validation for negative/zero member quantity. Fix: Add if quantity < 0: findings.append(_validation_finding("negative_quantity", f"{path}.qty", "Quantity cannot be negative.")) after quantity parsing.

5. skills/steel-cutlist/scripts/cutlist.py:1496 - Unused variable group_unplaced in loop. Fix: Change group_bars, group_unplaced = _solve_group(...) to group_bars, _ = _solve_group(...).

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I verified each of the five Lab Code Review findings against the current head (81eedaf); none require a change:

1. Undefined k in stock_by_group.get(k) — the actual code (cutlist.py:683) reads stock_by_group.get(key, []); there is no k anywhere in run_job. The cited line 1494 doesn't correspond to this code (the file's group loop is at lines 675–687).
2. sorted(units_by_group, key=repr) "unstable" — repr of (designation, grade) string tuples is deterministic, so the ordering is stable across runs; it also matches the established key=repr idiom used in nest.py for group keys and stays safe if a key ever contains a non-comparable member. Keeping it as-is.
3. Missing negative stock-quantity validation — cutlist.py:376 requires quantity >= 0 and quantity == float(...); a negative quantity fails this and records the invalid_stock_quantity finding.
4. Missing negative member-quantity validation — cutlist.py:257 requires quantity > 0; failures record invalid_quantity and clamp to zero, covered by test_negative_quantity_blocks_without_crashing.
5. Unused group_unplaced — cutlist.py:686 consumes it: unplaced_units.extend(group_unplaced).

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