print-preparation

print-preparation is a skill for Claude Code from ppak10/RocketSmith. It costs 25 tokens per session (1,025 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing print orientation and settings when slicing rocket parts for FDM 3D printing; slicing converts a 3D model into printer instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify STEP files and choose printing settings for body tubes, motor mounts, rings, fins, fairings, and nose cones.
Why use it?
It helps match infill, wall count, material, and orientation to each part’s strength and weight requirements.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the rocketsmith plugin — 7 skills, 6 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to verify STEP files and choose printing settings for body tubes, motor mounts, rings, fins, fairings, and nose cones.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ppak10/rocketsmith/print-preparation
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 ppak10/RocketSmith --skill print-preparation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ppak10/RocketSmith

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rocketsmith, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 6 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,025 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 $0.00025 $0.01025
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00513
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00103

Measured 7d ago against content hash 61405cb274a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

print-preparation 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.

skills/print-preparation/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Slicing converts STEP files into printer-ready gcode. Settings vary significantly by part — structural components need full infill and strong layer orientation; fairings and nose cones can use partial infill to save mass.

Core principle: Mass is the enemy of apogee. Use the minimum infill and wall count that still meets structural requirements for each part.

When to Use

  • STEP files are generated and verified
  • User asks to prepare parts for printing
  • Choosing orientation, infill, or material for a specific part

Steps

1. Confirm STEP Files Exist

Verify all parts listed in <project_dir>/gui/component_tree.json have corresponding STEP files in <project_dir>/cadsmith/step/. If any are missing, use rocketsmith:generate-structures (Pass 1) and rocketsmith:modify-structures (Pass 2) to produce them from the manifest.

2. Choose Settings Per Part

Part Orientation Infill Perimeters Notes
Body tubes (all sections) Vertical (tube axis = Z) 40–60% 4–6 Layer lines along stress axis
Motor mount Vertical 60–80% 4–6 High thermal load near motor
Centering rings Flat (ring in XY) 100% 4 Print ×2
Nose cone Tip-up or tip-down 20–40% 3–4 No supports if shoulder at base
Lower airframe with fins Vertical 40–60% 4–6 Fins will have cross-grain layers — acceptable at model scale

2.5. Check the Reference Collection for Print Gotchas

For parts with unusual geometry (thin walls, overhanging fin tips, large bridges), query rag_reference(action="search", collection="print_gotchas", query=f"{part_name} {distinctive_feature}", n_results=3). Fall back to the heuristic table above if no results; proceed silently on errors. Skip for simple parts that match the table cleanly.

3. Slice Each Part

prusaslicer_slice(model_file_path=<step_path>)

If out_path is omitted, gcode saves alongside the STEP file with .gcode extension.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

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 · 89 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 61405cb274a5

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print-preparation is a skill published in the GitHub repository ppak10/RocketSmith (21 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,025 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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