model-compare

model-compare is a skill for Claude Code from rawwerks/VibeCAD. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,438 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for comparing two 3D CAD models by measuring how closely their shapes match. It supports STEP, BREP, and STL files and can calculate measures such as IoU, Dice, precision, and recall.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare CAD revisions, evaluate generated models against reference files, inspect geometric differences, or produce similarity data for machine-learning training.
Why use it?
It turns visual or geometric differences between models into measurable results that can be inspected or used in training workflows.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the build123d plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare CAD revisions, evaluate generated models against reference files, inspect geometric differences, or produce similarity data for machine-learning training.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rawwerks/vibecad/model-compare
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 rawwerks/VibeCAD --skill model-compare
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rawwerks/VibeCAD

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install build123d, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,438 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 $0.00089 $0.01438
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00719
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00144

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6dab1b37e573, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

model-compare 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/model_diff.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.

plugins/build123d/skills/model-compare/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

3D Model Comparison Tool

Compare CAD models using boolean operations to compute similarity metrics like IoU, Dice, precision, and recall. Useful for:

  • Evaluating ML-generated models against gold references
  • Comparing revisions of CAD designs
  • Computing metrics for training 3D generative models
  • Visualizing geometric differences

Quick Start

# Compare two STEP files
uvx --from build123d python scripts/model_diff.py reference.step generated.step

# JSON output for training pipelines
uvx --from build123d python scripts/model_diff.py ref.step gen.step --json --no-export

# Demo mode (no files needed)
uvx --from build123d python scripts/model_diff.py --demo

Supported Formats

Format Extension Notes
STEP .step, .stp Recommended - full CAD fidelity
BREP .brep OpenCASCADE native format
STL .stl Mesh format - may have boolean issues

Output Metrics

Primary Metrics (for ML training)

Metric Range Description
IoU (Jaccard) 0-1 `
Dice (F1) 0-1 `2
Precision 0-1 `
Recall 0-1 `

Diagnostic Metrics

Metric Description
volume_ratio B/A volume ratio (1.0 = same size)
center_offset Distance between centers of mass
bbox_iou Bounding box IoU (coarse alignment)
size_ratio_x/y/z Per-axis scale comparison
surface_ratio Surface area comparison

Interpretation

The tool provides automatic interpretation:

  • Over-generating: Low precision, high extra geometry
  • Under-generating: Low recall, missing geometry
  • Size issues: Volume ratio far from 1.0
  • Position issues: Large center offset

CLI Options

usage: model_diff.py [-h] [-o OUTPUT_DIR] [--json] [--no-export] [--demo]
                     [reference] [generated]

positional arguments:
  reference          Reference/gold model file (STEP, BREP, or STL)
  generated          Generated/predicted model file to compare

options:
  -o, --output-dir   Output directory for GLB files (default: .)
  --json             Output only JSON metrics (for pipelines)
  --no-export        Skip exporting GLB visualization files
  --demo             Run with built-in demo models

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 161 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6dab1b37e573

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model-compare is a skill published in the GitHub repository rawwerks/VibeCAD (117 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,438 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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