bim-scripting

bim-scripting is a skill for Claude Code from Abhinavbwj/Claude-skills-for-Computational-Designers. It costs 40 tokens per session (10,355 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to automating Building Information Modeling, or BIM: digital building models whose walls, doors, rooms, and systems also hold structured information. It covers Revit, Dynamo, pyRevit, IFC, and related tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for model checks, parameter updates, automated documentation, clash detection, Revit scripting, and exchanging data between BIM tools.
Why use it?
It reduces slow, error-prone manual work when inspecting, changing, documenting, or exchanging large building models.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the Claude-skills-for-Computational-Designers plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for model checks, parameter updates, automated documentation, clash detection, Revit scripting, and exchanging data between BIM tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abhinavbwj/claude-skills-for-computational-designers/bim-scripting
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Abhinavbwj/Claude-skills-for-Computational-Designers --skill bim-scripting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abhinavbwj/Claude-skills-for-Computational-Designers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install Claude-skills-for-Computational-Designers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,355 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00040 $0.10355
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.05178
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.02071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.01035

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0c489d9e8e57, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bim-scripting scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/bim-scripting/SKILL.md · 1,087 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,087 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BIM Scripting

Comprehensive reference for automating Building Information Modeling workflows through scripting, API access, and interoperability platforms. This skill covers the full spectrum of BIM automation --- from visual programming with Dynamo through deep Revit API scripting, pyRevit extension development, IFC/openBIM data exchange, model checking, automated documentation, and cross-platform interoperability via Speckle, BHoM, and Rhino.Inside.Revit.


1. BIM Automation Philosophy

Why Script BIM

BIM models are databases disguised as 3D geometry. Every wall, door, room, and duct segment carries structured data --- type, dimensions, material, cost code, fire rating, acoustic class, phase, workset, design option. Manual manipulation of that data does not scale. A 200-unit residential project may contain 40,000+ elements, each with 30--80 parameters. Changing a naming convention, verifying parameter completeness, or exporting coordinated drawing sets by hand is not just slow --- it is error-prone and unrepeatable.

Scripting BIM means treating the model as a programmable data source:

  • Read element properties at scale (audit, validate, report).
  • Write parameter values in batch (standards enforcement, data enrichment).
  • Create elements procedurally (repetitive layouts, adaptive placement).
  • Transform geometry computationally (facade panelization, structural optimization).
  • Export deliverables automatically (sheets to PDF, models to IFC, data to dashboards).

Manual vs. Automated BIM Workflows

Workflow Manual Approach Automated Approach Time Savings
Parameter QA Open each element, check value Script scans all elements, flags violations 95%
Sheet creation Place views, adjust crops, add tags one by one Script generates sheets from template rules 90%
Clash detection Visual inspection in section views Navisworks / script-based interference check 85%
Export to IFC File > Export > IFC, configure, repeat per model Batch script exports all linked models with preset mappings 80%
Room finish schedule Manual schedule, manual formatting API-generated schedule with conditional formatting 75%
Design option comparison Duplicate views, switch options, compare Script generates comparison report with metrics 90%
Naming convention enforcement Manual review of browser tree FilteredElementCollector + regex validation 98%

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,087 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 1,087 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 0c489d9e8e57

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bim-scripting is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abhinavbwj/Claude-skills-for-Computational-Designers (212 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 10,355 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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