workbench-sim

workbench-sim is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from svd-ai-lab/sim-cli. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,355 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for connecting an AI coding agent to Ansys Workbench, a desktop application that organises engineering simulation projects and passes work to tools such as Mechanical and Fluent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Inspecting Workbench projects, running journal scripts, maintaining sessions, handing work to Mechanical, and reporting files and results.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a structured way to inspect projects, run bounded journal scripts, keep sessions open, and report saved artifacts instead of making unobserved changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Inspecting Workbench projects, running journal scripts, maintaining sessions, handing work to Mechanical, and reporting files and results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/svd-ai-lab/sim-cli/workbench
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 svd-ai-lab/sim-cli --skill workbench
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/svd-ai-lab/sim-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,355 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 $0.00070 $0.01355
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00542
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00136

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7d4a3d814901, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workbench-sim 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 4 executable files (base/snippets/01_smoke_test.py, base/snippets/02_create_static_structural.py, base/snippets/04_run_journal.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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/workbench/src/sim_plugin_workbench/_skills/workbench/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

workbench-sim

You are connected to Ansys Workbench via sim-cli. This file is the index. It tells you where to look for actual content — it does not contain the content itself.

The /connect response told you which active layers apply via:

"skills": {
  "root":               "<sim-skills>/workbench",
  "active_sdk_layer":   "0.4",
  "active_solver_layer": "24.1"
}

Always read the index for base/, then your active sdk/<version>/, then your active solver/<version>/. Later layers override earlier ones on identically-named files.


base/ — always relevant

Concepts, API patterns, and version-agnostic reference:

Path What's there
base/reference/pyworkbench_api.md PyWorkbench SDK API surface: launch_workbench, run_script_string, upload_file, download_file, start_mechanical_server, start_fluent_server. Read first.
base/reference/journal_scripting.md IronPython .wbjn scripting reference: SetScriptVersion, GetTemplate, CreateSystem, GetContainer, and the result file convention.
base/reference/system_templates.md Live template discovery and resolver workflow. Template names are product/configuration dependent; treat any examples as non-authoritative.
base/reference/file_transfer.md File upload/download patterns between client and server.
base/reference/sub_solver_integration.md Starting PyMechanical, PyFluent, PySherlock servers from within a Workbench session.
base/snippets/ Numbered IronPython journal snippets (01 through 05). Each writes results to %TEMP%/sim_wb_result.json.
base/examples/ Official PyWorkbench examples from pyansys.com — Fluent workflow, PyMechanical integration, logging, cooled turbine blade, cyclic symmetry, axisymmetric rotor, material designer.
base/workflows/static_structural/ Validation guidance for Static Structural workflows. Use the API reference and snippets to build the intended project.
base/workflows/project_review_loop.md Required checkpoint loop: inspect health, project identity, systems summary, then run one bounded journal step.
base/workflows/debug_failed_exec.md Failure triage loop for failed Workbench snippets and RunWB2 journals.
base/workflows/mechanical_handoff.md Workbench-to-Mechanical checklist for Static Structural workflows.
base/known_issues.md Vendor quirks, SDK version constraints, IronPython limitations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 2d ago First seen · 106 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 7d4a3d814901

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workbench-sim is a skill published in the GitHub repository svd-ai-lab/sim-cli (239 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,355 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-19.

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