b123d-modeling

b123d-modeling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pzfreo/build123d-mcp. It costs 0 tokens per session (6,858 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for creating or changing 3D parts and assemblies with build123d, a Python-based computer-aided design tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build parts from descriptions, drawings, dimensions, or STEP/STL files, including designs with fasteners, bearings, or threads.
Why use it?
It breaks modeling into small checked steps so you can measure and verify the shape instead of discovering errors only at the end.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to build parts from descriptions, drawings, dimensions, or STEP/STL files, including designs with fasteners, bearings, or threads.

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npx agentmods add skills/pzfreo/build123d-mcp/b123d-modeling
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add pzfreo/build123d-mcp --skill b123d-modeling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pzfreo/build123d-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,858 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.03429
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.01372
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00686

Measured 7d ago against content hash 60ee72b0e0ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

b123d-modeling 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.

src/build123d_mcp/skills/b123d-modeling/SKILL.md · 489 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 489 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build 3D Geometry with build123d

Use this skill when asked to model, build, or modify a 3D part or assembly with build123d — from a text description, a technical drawing (image or PDF), dimensions in a spec, or an existing STEP/STL file.

Use the build123d-mcp MCP server as the execution and verification authority. Build incrementally with execute() by default and checkpoint the first valid model. If matching-view evidence then shows a body-family/global-form mismatch, keep the replacement in one canonical model.py and run it with execute_file(); then use measure()validate()render_view() before exporting it. execute_file() runs in a clean namespace and preserves the previous valid model if the rebuild fails, so a necessary global correction does not sacrifice the verified checkpoint. Do not globally rebuild a checkpoint merely because a canonical source file is available.


Step 0 — Start the session

  1. reset(), then execute("from build123d import *").
  2. Read the build123d://quickref resource before writing build code — it has accurate API syntax for the current build123d version.
  3. If the part uses fasteners, bearings, or threads, read build123d://bd_warehouse and probe catalogue sizes before scripting.

Step 1 — Extract the spec before modeling

Do not model while reading the input. First convert it into a parameter block.

From a technical drawing (image or PDF):

  • Identify the views — front / plan (top) / side — and the projection convention; the title block states first- or third-angle, the SCALE (e.g. 2:1), and the units/tolerance standard.
  • Printed dimension callouts are real part dimensions. Never replace one with a pixel-derived value, and never multiply a printed dimension by drawing scale.
  • Hidden (dashed) lines are internal features — holes, pockets, bores. Centrelines (long-short chain) mark hole centres and symmetry axes. Section hatching shows solid material in a cut view.
  • Symbols: Ø diameter (not radius), R radius, M6/M8… threads, ⌴ counterbore, ⌵ countersink, typical hole note 4× Ø6.6 THRU.
  • Cross-check every feature in at least two views before trusting it — a circle in plan with no matching hidden lines in front is probably a boss, not a hole.

Read the full file on GitHub · 489 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 Changed · +39 lines 60ee72b0e0ab
  2. 11d ago First seen · 450 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 79749e74e222

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b123d-modeling is a skill published in the GitHub repository pzfreo/build123d-mcp (85 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 6,858 tokens. 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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