abaqus-optimization

abaqus-optimization is a skill for Claude Code from Cai-aa/CAE-Agent-Hub. It costs 36 tokens per session (978 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for configuring Tosca optimization tasks in Abaqus. It covers design responses, objectives, constraints, and SIMP material interpolation, a method that represents material density during topology optimization.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define optimization objectives and constraints, choose design responses, configure material interpolation, and prepare topology or shape optimization workflows.
Why use it?
It helps translate an engineering goal—such as reducing weight or improving stiffness—into an optimization setup with limits and manufacturing considerations. It also checks for prerequisites such as a converging static analysis and the required Tosca license.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to define optimization objectives and constraints, choose design responses, configure…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cai-aa/cae-agent-hub/abaqus-optimization
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 Cai-aa/CAE-Agent-Hub --skill abaqus-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cai-aa/CAE-Agent-Hub

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 978 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 $0.00036 $0.00978
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00489
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00098

Measured 7d ago against content hash 03a0f6fcbf5c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

abaqus-optimization 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 7d 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.

Skill/abaqus/optimization/abaqus-optimization/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Abaqus Optimization Skill

This skill configures optimization tasks in Abaqus. It's the base module - for complete workflows, route to /abaqus-topology-optimization or /abaqus-shape-optimization.

When to Use This Skill

Route here when user mentions:

  • "design response", "objective function", "optimization constraint"
  • "SIMP penalty", "material interpolation"
  • Low-level optimization setup (not complete workflows)

Route elsewhere:

  • Complete topology optimization workflow → /abaqus-topology-optimization
  • Complete shape optimization workflow → /abaqus-shape-optimization
  • Running the optimization → /abaqus-job

Prerequisites

Before optimization setup:

  1. ✅ Working static analysis that converges
  2. ✅ Appropriate mesh density
  3. ✅ Full Abaqus license with Tosca (not Learning Edition)

Workflow: Setting Up Optimization

Step 1: Understand User's Goal

Ask if unclear:

  • What to optimize? Weight, stiffness, frequency, stress?
  • What constraints? Volume limit, stress limit, displacement limit?
  • Manufacturing? Casting (draw direction), additive (min feature size)?

Step 2: Choose Objective-Constraint Pair

User Wants Objective Constraint
Lightest structure that's stiff enough Minimize volume Compliance ≤ limit
Stiffest structure at given weight Minimize compliance Volume ≤ 30%
Avoid resonance Maximize frequency Volume ≤ target
Reduce peak stress Minimize max stress Volume ≤ target

Most common: Minimize compliance with volume ≤ 30%

Step 3: Define Design Responses

Design responses are the quantities optimization tracks:

Response When to Use
VOLUME Almost always (for volume constraint)
STRAIN_ENERGY Stiffness optimization
EIGENFREQUENCY Vibration/resonance
STRESS Stress-constrained design
DISPLACEMENT Deflection limit

Step 4: Set Objective Function

The objective is what gets optimized:

  • MINIMIZE_MAXIMUM - For compliance, stress
  • MAXIMIZE_MINIMUM - For frequency

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 7d ago First seen · 130 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 03a0f6fcbf5c

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abaqus-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cai-aa/CAE-Agent-Hub (839 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 978 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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