cad-gcode-skill

A skill that turns 3D mesh files into G-code using a slicer and a specified printer profile. A slicer converts a model into the layer-by-layer instructions a 3D printer follows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Slicing STL, OBJ, 3MF, PLY, GLB, or GLTF models into printer-profiled G-code.
Why use it?
It provides inspection, dry-run, and validation steps before generating the printer instructions, without contacting a printer.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/darellchua2/opencode-config-template/cad-gcode-skill
Any agent
npx skills add darellchua2/opencode-config-template --skill cad-gcode-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/darellchua2/opencode-config-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,441 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00053 $0.01441
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00720
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00144

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7cd140e9fc33, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cad-gcode-skill 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/gcode_tool.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

opencode_app/.opencode/skills/cad-gcode-skill/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

G-code

Provenance: maintained in earthtojake/text-to-cad. Use the installed local skill files as the runtime source of truth; the repository link is only for provenance and release review.

Use this skill for plain .gcode generation from mesh files. It is printer-agnostic and never uploads, starts, or packages print jobs.

Workflow

  1. Confirm the input is a supported mesh: .stl, .obj, unsliced .3mf, .ply, .glb, or .gltf.
  2. Require an explicit printer/profile wrapper JSON. Do not invent real-printer profiles.
  3. Discover slicer backends when the backend is unknown:
python scripts/gcode_tool.py discover
  1. Inspect the input:
python scripts/gcode_tool.py inspect --input path/to/model.stl --json
  1. Dry-run the slicer command before executing:
python scripts/gcode_tool.py slice \
  --input path/to/model.stl \
  --output /tmp/model.gcode \
  --profile path/to/profile.json \
  --backend auto \
  --dry-run
  1. Execute only after the dry-run command and profile are appropriate:
python scripts/gcode_tool.py slice \
  --input path/to/model.stl \
  --output /tmp/model.gcode \
  --profile path/to/profile.json \
  --backend auto \
  --execute
  1. Validate the generated G-code:
python scripts/gcode_tool.py validate \
  --gcode /tmp/model.gcode \
  --profile path/to/profile.json \
  --json

CAD Viewer Handoff

After completing G-code work that creates or modifies a plain .gcode, you must ALWAYS hand the explicit file path to the cad-viewer-skill (load via skill tool) when that skill is installed. the cad-viewer-skill (load via skill tool) must start CAD Viewer if it is not already running and return link(s) to the relevant created or updated file(s); the preview is diagnostic only and does not replace this skill's static validation. If the cad-viewer-skill (load via skill tool) is unavailable or startup fails, report that instead of silently omitting the handoff.

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 2d ago First seen · 143 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 7cd140e9fc33

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cad-gcode-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository darellchua2/opencode-config-template (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,441 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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