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Summary

Irregular plate parts (gussets, brackets, notched profiles) previously required a hand-declared area and rendered as hatched bounding boxes. They can now carry a true polygon outline — a deterministic stepping stone toward true-shape nesting.

What outlines give you

  • Exact areas and weights: an optional geometry.outline vertex list (part-local frame, simple polygon, bounding box spanning 0..width × 0..height) yields the exact shoelace area, reported as the new outline_exact approximation status — no more hand-computed area values (declared areas are still accepted, and cross-checked against the outline when both are present).
  • True hole verification: holes are checked against the real profile with exact circle-edge distance and rectangle-corner/edge tests — a hole that sits inside the bounding box but in a notch now blocks the run instead of slipping through.
  • Real profiles in drawings: layouts (PNG/PDF) and reference DXFs draw the actual outline, with the bounding box dotted for context.

What deliberately did not change

  • Placement is still by bounding box; the engine makes no true-shape nesting claim.
  • Any irregular part still suppresses burn DXFs and keeps the run review_required.
  • Validation runs identically at the canonical contract (validation.py) and in the direct nesting engine, with shared polygon helpers in pi_steel.geometry_verify (simple-polygon check, ray-casting containment, point-segment distance).

Contract changes (additive)

  • estimate-package schema: geometry.outline.
  • nest-result schema: placement outline and the outline_exact approximation enum value.
  • Version 0.4.0 with changelog; steel-nest SKILL.md and README updated.

Test plan

  • 188 tests pass locally including the full-render tier, plus lint, privacy, provenance, and pack gates via npm run release:check.
  • New test_outline_geometry.py (9 tests): polygon helpers on L-shape/bowtie cases, exact-area weights, notch-hole blocking, self-intersection/bbox-mismatch/area-mismatch/outline-on-rect rejection, DXF+PNG rendering of true outlines, canonical validator acceptance and rejection paths, and pipeline passthrough.

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  • New Features
    • Irregular parts can now include true polygon outlines for exact area and weight calculations.
    • Holes are validated against the actual profile, and true outlines appear in layouts and reference DXF files.
    • Outline geometry is preserved throughout estimating and nesting workflows.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved detection of invalid, self-intersecting, or mismatched outlines and incorrectly positioned holes.
  • Documentation
    • Updated guidance for irregular parts, outline usage, nesting behavior, and the 0.4.0 release.

claude added 13 commits August 23, 2026 06:31
Add steel-cutlist, a deterministic 1D bar-nesting engine for long
products (beams, HSS, angles, pipe) that packs required member lengths
onto purchasable mill lengths with explicit kerf and end-trim
allowances.

- Strategy portfolio per designation+grade group: mixed-stock greedy
  plus each single-stock-length restriction, ranked by unplaced count,
  total stock length, known cost, then bar count.
- Independent post-placement verification (overcommitment, material
  mismatch, duplicate or missing instances) gates publication.
- Weights resolve from explicit plf or the bundled AISC database;
  unknown weights surface as warnings, never silent zeros.
- Publishes manifested runs: bar diagrams, purchase summary, drop
  candidates, rfq_linear.json handoff, and a cutting_list.csv emitted
  only for verified fully placed runs.
- Register cutlist_partial/cutlist_verified package statuses and add a
  versioned cutlist-result schema.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MquyTzVAPKpV1V8Vt3XxnJ
Wire the steel-cutlist engine into the review-gated estimate pipeline
and carry its results into the draft RFQ workbook.

- Member items (designation + length, no plate geometry) now optimize
  onto configurable mill lengths (--mill-lengths-ft, default 40,50,60)
  with cut-list kerf, end-trim, and drop-threshold settings.
- Cut-list validation errors, verifier findings, and unplaced members
  gate the pipeline exactly like nest blockers; a member longer than
  every mill length blocks the run as cutlist_partial.
- Ready runs publish cutlist-result.json, rfq-linear.json, a verified
  cutting_list.csv, and reference bar diagrams alongside the nest
  artifacts.
- The RFQ compiler accepts a validated linear handoff (--linear on the
  standalone CLI) and renders a LINEAR STOCK / CUT-LIST REFERENCE
  section, with staleness checks against the estimate identity.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MquyTzVAPKpV1V8Vt3XxnJ
- Add CHANGELOG.md with dated release history from the git record.
- README: cut-list section, skill table row, workflow diagram, prompts.
- steel-estimate and steel-rfq SKILL.md document the cut-list stage and
  the --linear handoff; steel-nest description defers long products to
  steel-cutlist to keep trigger boundaries unambiguous.
- Bump package and runtime versions to 0.3.0 and ship CHANGELOG.md in
  the npm package.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MquyTzVAPKpV1V8Vt3XxnJ
- A negative member quantity now records its finding and publishes a
  structured blocked run instead of crashing instance expansion.
- Members without a grade are excluded from pipeline cut-list
  optimization with an explicit warning, restoring the pre-cutlist
  review_required outcome instead of hard-blocking the estimate.
- Blocked runs report verification.status 'not_run' rather than
  claiming a verification that never executed; schema updated.
- rfq_linear rows carry their own stock group's utilization instead of
  the job-wide blend.
- --mill-lengths-ft rejects non-finite entries as a usage error and no
  longer double-wraps its own failure message.
- Display formatting is decimal-exact, so cutting_list.csv preserves
  sixteenth-inch lengths instead of rounding at six significant digits.
- Deduplicate is_sha256, missing_optional_modules, and
  normalize_designation into the shared pi_steel package; nest, takeoff,
  and cutlist now share one copy.
- Hoist the placed-instance set out of the per-unplaced-row loop.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MquyTzVAPKpV1V8Vt3XxnJ
Extend the estimate-package contract with stock_form 'linear' entries so
vendor lengths and on-hand sticks flow into cut-list optimization.

- Schema: additive linearStock variant (designation, grade, length_ft,
  quantity, optional unlimited for purchasable supply, and the same
  hash-bound reviewer_confirmation as plate stock).
- Validation: unlimited on-hand linear stock is a blocker; new
  eligible_on_hand_linear_stock and linear_purchasable_stock helpers
  mirror the plate gating.
- Engine: stock entries carry stock_kind; on-hand stock must be finite
  and carries no cost basis, reports as cost_basis 'on_hand', and never
  degrades cost-known status. The portfolio now ranks by purchased
  length first (on-hand consumption is free), then known cost,
  purchased bars, and total length, so confirmed sticks eliminate
  purchases whenever they genuinely can.
- Pipeline: declared purchasable linear lengths replace the default
  mill lengths for their designation+grade group; confirmed on-hand
  sticks join as finite inventory; plate nesting skips linear entries.
- Purchase summaries, rfq_linear rows, bar reports, and the text report
  label on_hand rows explicitly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MquyTzVAPKpV1V8Vt3XxnJ
The full-render smoke caught two problems with the cut-list additions:

- cutting_list.csv was published with geometry_verified readiness even
  when the overall run was review_required (e.g. irregular plate
  geometry), breaking the invariant that non-ready runs carry no
  verified-authority artifacts. The verified cutting list now requires
  the whole run to be ready, mirroring burn-DXF suppression, with a
  base-tier regression assertion.
- The workbook PDF page-count assertions assumed one total page, but
  the linear reference section grows the sheet and pagination varies by
  LibreOffice version (24.2 renders one page where CI renders two).
  The smoke test now asserts the actual contract: uniform page width
  (one page wide), all words within their own page bounds,
  document-order section ordering across pages, page-1 logo bounds,
  and a sanity cap on total pages.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MquyTzVAPKpV1V8Vt3XxnJ
- Reject non-boolean 'unlimited' values with an invalid_unlimited_flag
  finding instead of coercing truthy strings into unlimited supply,
  which could understate purchase requirements.
- Include stock_kind in generated stock identities so anonymous on-hand
  and purchasable rows of the same designation, grade, and length no
  longer collide as duplicates.
- README: list channels and tube among supported cut-list member types,
  matching the changelog.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MquyTzVAPKpV1V8Vt3XxnJ
- Small designation+grade groups (up to 12 pieces) now run a
  deterministic branch-and-bound search over complete bar assignments,
  seeded and pruned by the portfolio rank with a fixed node budget; it
  only ever replaces the greedy plan with a strictly better one. On the
  classic best-fit-decreasing failure (5,5,4,4,3,3,3,3 onto capacity
  10) it finds the 3-bar optimum where the greedy needs 4.
- The ranking objective is now economically honest: when every stock
  entry in a group carries a known cost basis, lowest purchase cost
  decides before purchased length (buying cheaper beats buying
  shorter); unpriced groups keep the least-purchased-length objective.
  Without prices, the exact search finds a 230 ft plan on the reference
  case where the greedy bought 240 ft.
- output-contract.md documents cutlist artifacts and cutlist_partial;
  the estimate-package example gains member items and vendor linear
  stock; version 0.3.1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MquyTzVAPKpV1V8Vt3XxnJ
The branch-and-bound now branches over leaving each piece unplaced
(stock_exhausted) in addition to every placement, so when finite stock
cannot hold everything it finds the partial plan stranding the fewest
members instead of falling back to the greedy's weaker cut. Pruning
compares (unplaced, primary objective) lexicographically — both grow
monotonically along a path — and the never-worse guarantee is
unchanged. Adds docstrings to the search internals and a regression
test where the greedy strands three pieces but the optimum strands two.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MquyTzVAPKpV1V8Vt3XxnJ
Two capacity-10 bars with pieces 8,6,4,4,4: the exact search strands
only the 8 where the greedy stranded two 4s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MquyTzVAPKpV1V8Vt3XxnJ
Irregular plate parts may now carry geometry.outline — a simple-polygon
vertex list in the part's local frame whose bounding box matches the
declared size.

- Exact shoelace areas and weights replace hand-declared estimates,
  reported as the new outline_exact approximation status.
- Holes are verified against the true profile: a hole inside the
  bounding box but in a notch now blocks instead of passing.
- Layouts and reference DXFs draw the real outline (with the bounding
  box dotted for context); placement stays by bounding box and burn-DXF
  suppression for irregular parts is unchanged.
- Outline validation (>=3 finite vertices, non-crossing edges, positive
  area, bbox spanning 0..width x 0..height, declared-area consistency)
  runs in both the canonical validator and the direct nesting engine;
  polygon helpers live in the shared geometry module.
- Schemas: estimate-package geometry.outline, nest-result placement
  outline and outline_exact enum. Version 0.4.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MquyTzVAPKpV1V8Vt3XxnJ
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The change adds optional polygon outlines for irregular parts. It validates polygon and hole geometry, calculates exact areas, propagates outlines through nesting, renders true profiles, updates schemas and documentation, and adds pipeline tests.

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Polygon outline support

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Geometry contracts and validation
skills/_shared/schemas/estimate-package.schema.json, skills/_shared/schemas/nest-result.schema.json, skills/_shared/pi_steel/geometry_verify.py, skills/_shared/pi_steel/validation.py, skills/_shared/pi_steel/parsing.py
Schemas accept outlines. Geometry helpers validate polygons and hole containment. Irregular parts use shoelace area when a valid outline exists.
Nesting and profile rendering
skills/steel-estimate/scripts/build-estimate-package.py, skills/steel-nest/scripts/nest.py
Nesting preserves and rotates outlines, reports outline_exact, and draws polygon profiles in layouts and DXF output.
Geometry and pipeline tests
tests/test_outline_geometry.py
Tests cover geometry, validation, nesting, rendering, canonical packages, and end-to-end outline propagation.
Release documentation and metadata
package.json, pyproject.toml, CHANGELOG.md, README.md, skills/steel-nest/SKILL.md
Version metadata and documentation describe polygon outlines, exact areas, hole checks, rendering, and bounding-box placement.

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The change adds true polygon outlines, but the current implementation can accept malformed placement geometry, reject distinct irregular parts as duplicate inputs, and generate incorrect areas or drawings for certain self-touching profiles. The PR is not merge-ready until these bounded correctness issues are addressed.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Package as Estimate package
  participant Validator as Geometry validator
  participant Nest as steel-nest
  participant Output as Layout and DXF output
  Package->>Validator: Provide geometry.outline
  Validator->>Validator: Validate polygon and holes
  Validator->>Nest: Pass valid outline and exact area
  Nest->>Nest: Rotate outline and attach it to Placement
  Nest->>Output: Send placed outline
  Output->>Output: Render polygon profile
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In `@skills/_shared/pi_steel/geometry_verify.py`:
- Around line 71-99: Update _segments_properly_intersect and polygon_is_simple
so every non-adjacent edge intersection is rejected, including endpoint contact,
collinear overlap, and containment, rather than only proper crossings. Also
reject repeated vertices and zero-length edges, while preserving valid adjacent
ring closure handling; add a regression test covering the provided
reused-boundary outline before exact-area and reference-DXF processing.

In `@skills/_shared/pi_steel/parsing.py`:
- Around line 170-171: Update the fallback source identity construction in the
parsing flow to include a canonicalized outline value when present, alongside
the existing name, dimensions, shape, and area fields. Ensure different
irregular profiles produce distinct source_id values while retaining stable
identity generation for parts without an outline.

In `@skills/_shared/schemas/nest-result.schema.json`:
- Around line 282-290: Update the outline schema to allow only an empty array or
arrays containing at least three coordinate pairs, while preserving the existing
two-number coordinate-pair constraints. Use the outline items definition to
enforce the nonempty minimum and ensure the nesting producer’s empty-array
result remains valid.
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Comment thread skills/_shared/pi_steel/geometry_verify.py
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Comment thread skills/_shared/schemas/nest-result.schema.json
Address review findings on the outline feature:

- polygon_is_simple now rejects repeated vertices and ANY contact
  between non-adjacent edges (endpoint touches and collinear overlaps
  included, not just proper crossings), so reused-boundary and pinched
  rings can no longer claim exact areas or reach reference DXFs.
- Fallback source identities include the outline when one is present,
  so two legacy parts sharing a name and bounding box but different
  profiles no longer collide as duplicates; identities for parts
  without outlines stay byte-stable.
- The nest-result placement outline schema now permits only an empty
  list or three-plus vertex pairs, matching what the engine emits.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MquyTzVAPKpV1V8Vt3XxnJ
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