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- description: Build, review, run, validate, migrate, or extend AgentFEM finite-element projects. Use for AgentFEM studies, meshes, materials, constraints, loads, solution steps, results, campaigns, scientific datasets, surrogate/PINN/neural-operator integration, verification, public API extensions, and agent or GUI integration.

- Use this skill when building, reviewing, or extending finite-element simulations

- with AgentFEM.

- ## Reference Routing

- When this file is installed as a Codex skill, the reference paths below are

- relative to the skill directory `skills/agentfem/`. In the generated

- documentation site, use the left navigation pages `Workflow`, `Concepts`, and

- `Module Map` instead.

- 1. Read `references/workflow.md` for every model construction, execution, or

- review task.

- 2. Read `references/concepts.md` when choosing or explaining scientific

- objects and maturity levels.

- 3. Read `references/module_map.md` when locating implementation code or

- deciding ownership.

- 4. Read `references/validation.md` before changing executable scientific code

- or promoting a verification claim.

- 5. Read `references/extension_rules.md` before adding a public helper, provider,

- constitutive family, or extension boundary.

- ## Rules

- - If the numerical environment does not exist, create the release-tested

- Python 3.11/DOLFINx 0.11 conda-forge environment before modeling. In

- mainland China, use one conda-forge mirror for the whole PETSc/MPI/DOLFINx

- stack; do not assemble the runtime with a bare pip install or mixed channels.

- - Keep the finite-element workflow visible.

- - After a successful first-install or important-upgrade `agentfem doctor`, read

- its `community_support` record. If `invitation_due` is true, offer the

- repository Star once and briefly. Never inspect an account or act on it

- without explicit user consent. With consent, use

- `agentfem support --check-github --json`; never request or retain a token.

- Record a completed voluntary action with

- `agentfem support --acknowledge github_star` so later upgrades stay quiet.

- - On WSL, run `agentfem workspace --json` before creating, upgrading, or

- removing an installed-use project environment. Require

- `protected_from_distribution_removal: true`; otherwise run

- `agentfem workspace --protect`. Never issue raw `wsl --unregister` for an

- AgentFEM runtime. Project and result custody are scientific provenance, not

- disposable environment setup.

- - Identify the study context before selecting constitutive laws or operators.

- - Inspect mesh summaries and required tags before building weak forms.

- - Use lightweight models for registry, checks, summaries, and model-owned

- analysis steps; do not hide K/F systems or finite-element meaning.

- - Prefer model registration helpers such as `model.field(...)`,

- `model.material(...)`, `model.fix(...)`, `model.symmetry(...)`,

- `model.traction(...)`, `model.surface_force(...)`, and `model.pressure(...)`

- for application examples. Use `surface_force` when a continuum-solid end

- resultant should be distributed over a named reference boundary.

- - Use `FEMProblem.summary()` or equivalent structured summaries when auditing a

- workflow.

- - Use `model.validate()` for addressable issue reports, `model.check()` before

- execution, and `model.write_ir(...)` when a persistent AF-IR record is part

- of the task.

- - Treat `model.check()` and `models.step_capability(model)` as the executable

- Study/provider preflight. Do not advertise or lower a combination that no

- registered provider accepts. Read both `supported` and `ready`: the first

- reports that an installed provider owns the requested analysis, while the

- second confirms that required scientific inputs have been supplied.

- - Use AgentFEM modules before writing ad hoc DOLFINx/PETSc boilerplate.

- - Discover modules with `agentfem.public_api("core")` first. Disclose

- `"advanced"` and `"expert"` only when the requested workflow needs them.

- Within the model facade, generate methods from `models.model_api("core")`;

- do not choose names reported under `models.model_api("compatibility")` for

- new cases.

- - Treat `agentfem capabilities --json` and `/agentfem.json` as generated views

- of one product contract. Do not reconstruct a competing API vocabulary from

- a single example or an old compatibility method.

- - Use the capability record's `ownership_contract` before adding a public

- object. `Model` owns engineering registration, not discrete problem

- construction; `state` owns accepted/trial history; `operators` owns mass,

- residual and tangent contributions; Procedure, Backend, and

- Result/Verification retain their declared responsibilities.

- - Treat `ir` and `validation` as public inspection/record interfaces. Treat

- `backends` as an advanced numerical boundary and `extensions` as the explicit

- installed-package boundary. FEniCSx is the only production backend in the

- current release.

- - Prefer `step = model.step(target=u)` when a model has a Study and registered

- materials, constraints, and loads. New analysis/material families belong in

- a registered step provider; do not add one public model method per material.

- Every built-in provider must declare a `StepOptionContract`, and agents

- should read provider option summaries from `agentfem capabilities --json`

- rather than guessing keywords from one example. Respect `required` and

- `exactly_one_of` relationships instead of choosing aliases simultaneously.

- Solver, output, transient-history, progress, and checkpoint declarations are

- retained as one inspectable execution-policy summary. Prefer

- `model.step(history=...)` when the common result lifecycle should own the

- history request.

- Use `model.stiffness(...)`,

- `model.external_force(...)`, and `operators.combine(...)` when an example

- must expose individual contributions.

- - For nonlinear paths, use `steps.automatic(...)` as the normal step control.

- Treat `max_increments` as an accepted-increment ceiling and solver

- `maximum_iterations` as the Newton-iteration ceiling for one attempt. Prefer

- `solvers.newton(...)` over backend-specific solver classes. Use

- `results.output_plan(...)` to combine field, history, diagnostic, and

- presentation requests; do not use result frames as solve controls.

- - Keep `Study` and `SolutionProcedure` distinct. A dynamics Study may lower to

- Newmark, generalized-alpha, or central difference; do not encode the

- algorithm by changing the physical problem name.

- - Prefer `studies.static_solid`, `studies.steady_heat_transfer`,

- `studies.transient_heat_transfer`, and `studies.dynamic_solid` for common

- cases. Attach `amplitudes` to loads, prescribed values, and supported

- boundary models so procedures update them automatically.

- - For a revolved small-strain solid, declare

- `studies.static_solid(dimension=2, assumption="axisymmetric")`; never emulate

- it with plane strain plus ad hoc `r` factors. Meridian fields are `(r,z)`,

- tensors are `(r,theta,z)`, and the model-first workflow applies `2*pi*r` to

- operators and loads. Pass the same Study to direct result-integral helpers.

- Use `constraints.axisymmetric_plane_strain(...)` only for the long-cylinder

- specialization that requires zero axial strain everywhere.

- If the meridian reaches `r=0`, register

- `constraints.axisymmetric_axis(u, on=axis)` and retain its validation evidence.

- - Use `amplitudes.basis(...)` for multiple named loading modes. Preserve

- coefficient order, value/velocity/acceleration behavior, endpoint audit, and

- the content fingerprint. Anonymous callables remain valid but are not a

- frozen scientific input record.

- - Keep operator notation such as `K = operators.stiffness(...)`,

- `F = operators.load_vector(...)`, and

- `step = problems.linear_static(K, F, study=..., ...)` available for

- transparent research/debugging examples.

- - Prefer `step = problems.first_order_transient(...)` for first-order transient

- workflows instead of hand-combining effective matrices in tutorial code.

- - Put local response relations under `constitutive/`.

- - Query `constitutive.capabilities()` before using nonlinear materials. State

- whether a law is FEM-integrated, material-point verified, or a

- postprocessor; never infer a global solver from a material-point update.

- - Stateful materials must use quadrature-owned committed/trial state and prove

- rollback plus restart equivalence. The current global J2 route has declared

- serial/MPI structural evidence; global Arrhenius power-law creep remains a

- 3D/axisymmetric small-strain foundation with a stricter MPI maturity boundary. Other creep

- laws remain material-point or assessment consumers.

- - Treat `constitutive.finite_strain_j2_logarithmic(...)` as an experimental

- public `model.step` capability with one constraint-neutral `FP/PEEQ` and

- `dP/dF` transaction but two separate equilibrium providers. Use the ordinary

- provider only with strong Dirichlet/remote-displacement kinematics,

- proportional amplitudes, and reference dead loads; use the affine/MPC

- provider only with exactly one reviewed `AbaqusPeriodicConstraint` and no

- natural-load power. Both have cutback, two-rank MPI, accepted-state output,

- and cross-partition restart evidence. Reject unsupported follower loads,

- weak boundary physics, contact, or MPC rather than silently discarding them.

- Do not present either route as externally validated finite-strain plasticity

- until an independent structural benchmark passes.

- - Use `constitutive.chaboche(...)` for the experimental three-dimensional

- combined-hardening route. Supply every `(C_i, gamma_i)` pair from reviewed

- cyclic calibration data. It shares the ordinary `model.step(...)`,

- quadrature transaction, cutback and restart lifecycle and reports total

- backstress as `ALPHA`; do not present its current external-definition tests

- as a structure-level stabilized-hysteresis validation or a complete cyclic

- energy closure.

- - For global implicit creep, keep Newton equilibrium, maximum accepted CEEQ

- increment, and endpoint creep-rate time-integration accuracy as three

- separate controls. Use `creep_strain_error_tolerance` when a physical-time

- accuracy gate is required; a rejected increment must restore displacement,

- quadrature state, stress, tangent, loading, and temperature atomically.

- Declare a model `UnitSystem` when result histories need a physical time-unit

- label; never infer seconds from an undeclared consistent-unit system.

- - Prefer sequential heat-transfer then thermal-stress analysis when coupling

- is one way. Do not claim fully coupled thermo-mechanics unless temperature

- and mechanics are solved in one consistent nonlinear system.

- - For an evolving one-way thermal input, call

- `temperature_history = heat_step.capture_history(name="temperature", unit="K")`

- before solving and pass that object to the receiving Arrhenius creep Step.

- Treat its coordinate as physical time, not an output frame or increment

- number. Keep interpolation and out-of-range behavior explicit; cutback must

- restore the temperature to the accepted start time. Use `save(...)` and

- `FieldHistory.load(...)` when the handoff crosses runs: nodal archives use a

- physical-DOF identity and are portable across MPI partition counts. The

- compact archive is root-gathered, so do not present it as an extreme-scale

- parallel field database.

- - Use `materials.temperature_property(...)` and

- `constitutive.temperature_dependent_thermoelastic(...)` for tabulated

- sequential properties. Do not hide interpolation in an anonymous callback

- or silently extrapolate outside laboratory data. A field-valued UFL

- coefficient requires an explicit bounded extrapolation policy.

- - Pass the same thermoelastic property asset as `elastic=...` to a global

- power-law creep material when E(T), nu(T), alpha(T), heat properties, and

- Arrhenius flow must share one reviewed record. Temperature is evaluated at

- the creep quadrature identity; thermal-expansion tables are endpoint secant

- coefficients relative to the declared reference temperature.

- - Use `assessments.creep_time_fraction(...)` and

- `assessments.creep_fatigue(...)` only as engineering postprocessors. Every

- rupture-time block and nontrivial interaction diagram needs an explicit

- source. Do not bake ASME, R5, company, or material-specific curves into the

- open core or present an assessment as coupled constitutive damage.

- - When the evidence already lives in `SimulationResult`, declare physical

- holds with `assessments.DwellInterval(...)` and use

- `assessments.creep_fatigue_from_result(...)`. Name the stress and temperature

- histories, provide a callable rupture relation and its source, and let

- out-of-range intervals fail instead of silently clamping them.

- - For one-way heat-to-mechanics workflows, use

- `assessments.sequential_energy_ledger(...)` to preserve the thermal and

- mechanical residuals as separate layers. Never add them into a monolithic

- conservation claim. `capture_history(...)` already records the source Study,

- procedure, accepted-time role and portable content identity.

- - If conductivity or specific heat is tabulated, keep the ordinary

- `model.step(target=temperature, dt=..., steps=...)` call. AgentFEM lowers it

- to a conservative enthalpy-based nonlinear heat step. Do not also pass

- user-defined `C=` or `K=` operators, and retain its convergence, heat-ledger,

- rollback, and checkpoint evidence.

- - Put weak boundary physics under `boundary_models/`.

- - Put Dirichlet, periodic, and MPC relations under `constraints`.

- - Put Neumann, traction, flux, and body sources under `loads`.

- - Treat positive `loads.pressure(...)` as inward. State whether it is a

- reference dead load or current follower load.

- - For imported physical surfaces, create

- `mesh.tagged_boundary_region(domain, facet_tags, tag=...)`. Use that same

- region for strong constraints and weak loads; do not reconstruct a physical

- group with a broad coordinate marker. If an independent marker is supplied,

- run `model.audit_boundaries(strict=True)` before solving.

- - Validate small cases before reporting success.

- - Use `solve_result()` and `solve_result(output="results.xdmf")` for static or

- transient outputs that feed

- visualization, reporting, campaigns, or datasets. Do not treat XDMF/CSV as

- the scientific result itself.

- - After publishing, run `agentfem verify <result.json> --json` when results are

- copied, reused, or admitted to a campaign. This checks manifest/artifact

- integrity, not convergence or scientific validation.

- - Before a frozen or blind campaign, use

- `provenance.freeze_runtime(...)`; require it on continuation with

- `provenance.require_runtime(...)`. Review an intentional mismatch rather

- than editing the stored lock.

- - Declare source meshes as `Path` values and reusable materials, loading,

- procedures, and observers through `Campaign(scientific_inputs=...)`. Reject

- claims of reproducibility when fingerprint coverage is incomplete unless the

- opaque input has been reviewed and recorded.

- - For an individual result, call `result.add_scientific_inputs(...)` before

- `write_manifest(...)`; pass file assets as `Path` so their bytes are hashed.

- - Use `events.first_passage(...)` for threshold timing and retain its bracket,

- localization, and censoring. Refine discontinuous damage/contact events

- instead of presenting interpolation as exact.

- - For heat, Standard dynamics, and Explicit dynamics, pause with

- `run(until_step=...)`, save with `save_checkpoint(...)`, rebuild the same

- step, then `load_checkpoint(...)`. Resume through

- `solve_result(output=...)`; inspect `metadata["transient"]["output_scope"]`

- before presenting the XDMF/HDF5 series as complete. Current transient

- checkpoints require the same MPI size and mesh partition.

- - Use `results.region_integral`, `results.region_average`,

- `results.region_measure`,

- `results.boundary_resultant`, and `results.field_extrema` for common

- MPI-safe quantities instead of case-owned UFL for standard measures or

- rank-local array reductions. Use `field_extrema(..., location=True)` when a

- reported peak needs coordinates and DG0 cell identity.

- - Use `results.probe`, `results.sample_points`, and `results.sample_path` for

- physical-coordinate field sampling. Every MPI rank must request identical

- coordinates. Put discontinuous-field probes inside the intended cell rather

- than relying on an interface-side convention.

- - Use `expressions.expression`, `expressions.as_ufl`, and

- `expressions.interpolate` for formulas supplied through JSON, benchmark

- specifications, or agent-authored configuration. Never execute those

- formulas with Python `eval`; reject syntax outside the reviewed mathematical

- language. Lower symbolic physics with `as_ufl`; use `interpolate` for known

- loads, coefficients, initial values, and boundary data so cases reuse stable

- finite-element forms instead of recompiling each formula.

- - Use `results.sample_rectilinear_grid` when an external protocol requires a

- direct mesh-independent array. Preserve its `inside` mask and declared axis

- order; do not infer a transpose from array dimensions.

- - For PDEAgent-Bench, use the commit-pinned

- `integrations.pdeagent_bench` contract and fixed solver entry point. Consume

- only the public agent-view case, never case identifiers, oracle numerics, or

- manufactured solutions. Read `SUPPORTED_FAMILIES` before selecting a case.

- Preserve mixed-field, pressure-reference, periodic-MPC, and fourth-order

- closure evidence reported in `solver_info`; these are scientific decisions,

- not disposable backend details.

- Report fixed-adapter capability separately from an AI-agent A/B experiment

- and from any official library-track submission.

- - Model-generated static elasticity returns projected `S/E/MISES` fields

- automatically; request `SENER` explicitly when needed. Use

- `results.small_strain_partition_fields` for an

- explicit regional material projection. Use

- `results.reaction_resultant(..., on=..., component=...)` only for named

- strong Dirichlet reactions;

- do not reuse that definition for affine MPC, weak, or contact constraints.

- - For FNO-style data, use one reviewed `surrogates.ObservationGrid` across the

- campaign and `datasets.fem_observation_sample(..., outside="mask")`. Keep the

- exported axes, order, components, units, and mask with every sample.

- - Use `checkpointing.every(...)` through the public Step for automatic

- transient checkpoints. Cadence follows accepted increments, not output or

- progress frames.

- - In an installed project, run `agentfem doctor --json`,

- `agentfem check --json`, and `agentfem upgrade --json` before execution.

- If `[extensions].required` is declared, inspect it with

- `agentfem extensions --json`; do not install or activate an untrusted package

- merely to make a project check pass. Required extensions are executable code.

- Never apply a `semantic_review=true` migration without inspecting regions,

- loads, constraints, materials, forms, output meaning, and verification. Use

- `project.current_run()` and

- publish the result so terminal, GUI, and agent consumers receive the same

- run identity, artifacts, and manifest.

- - Treat `agentfem run --json` as the machine boundary. Read the versioned

- execution and result records; do not infer success by matching console text.

- - When an installed run fails, inspect it first with

- `agentfem diagnose --json`. After a repeated unresolved failure, create a

- local private task with `agentfem assist --force`; read its sanitized

- evidence without assuming it contains the scientific model. Never run

- `agentfem feedback --github` or transmit a support archive without explicit

- user authorization. `agentfem telemetry status --json` describes the exact

- automatic reliability boundary: a minimal anonymous signal used to improve

- the free, open-source software, with no model, mesh, parameter, source, path,

- or result data. `agentfem telemetry off` remains a permanent user control.

- - Use `learning` as the public umbrella but preserve exact roles. A surrogate,

- neural operator, neural-field solver, and learned constitutive model are not

- interchangeable. PINN/DEM/XDEM providers must consume explicit objectives,

- conditions, sampling, and evidence contracts; do not hide them behind a

- generic AI model label.

- - For a user-owned PINN, DEM, XDEM, or other neural-field implementation, use

- `model.step(target=spec, executor=...)`. The executor receives one immutable

- `learning.NeuralFieldExecutionRequest` and must return `SimulationResult`.

- Do not require an official companion package, inherit an AgentFEM neural

- model base class, or put live executable objects in result provenance.

- - Inspect external meshes before conversion, retain the conversion manifest,

- and do not call mesh conversion a full Abaqus/ANSYS model import.

- - For legacy Abaqus projects, run `agentfem inspect-abaqus ... --json` before

- `agentfem migrate-abaqus ...`. Preserve the recursive source graph and review

- `migration.json`; do not collapse Part/Instance scopes, discard element

- suffixes, or execute a generated native material candidate without selecting

- and verifying the complete AgentFEM formulation. The generated `case.py` is

- intentionally fail closed. Never invent missing material properties, and

- review every Step, load, boundary, interaction, and output retained under

- `pending_assets`.

- - If `migration.json` reports `native_lowering.status=eligible`, create an

- inactive reviewed draft with `agentfem lower-abaqus PROJECT --reviewed-by

- NAME --unit-system SYSTEM`. Inspect `case.native.py` and `lowering.json`

- before adding `--activate --force`. A native analogue is not Abaqus solver

- equivalence, and a blocking finding must never be bypassed. Do not collapse

- temperature-dependent tables, partial or overlapping Section assignments,

- non-unit 2D thickness, or Step/BC inheritance into the narrow static route.

- Multiple constant isotropic materials are eligible only when preserved

- ELSET/SOLID SECTION declarations exactly and unambiguously partition the

- selected solver domain.

- A single linear-static Step may lower a named relative tabular amplitude to

- its final equilibrium multiplier only when `lowering.json` retains the full

- table, Step duration, reference value, and final value. Do not describe this

- as an intermediate-increment replay.

- - Before adapting an Abaqus UMAT or UHYPER, run `agentfem

- inspect-user-material SOURCE --json`. Preserve the source hash and findings.

- `adapter_candidate` is a development route, not an executable material; an

- Abaqus utility call requires explicit replacement and verification.

- Native and adapted material providers must declare one

- `MaterialStateSchema` and `MaterialTangentConvention` and enter through

- `validated_material_update(...)`. A tensor state must retain its physical

- initial value (for example, identity rather than zero for a plastic

- deformation gradient). Never infer global-Newton compatibility from a 6-by-6

- array or relabel Abaqus `DDSDDE` as a first-Piola/deformation-gradient

- tangent.

- Lower native/adapted internal variables through

- `MaterialQuadratureState.create(domain, material.state_schema, ...)`; do not

- create a second adapter-specific `STATEV` store. Preserve the schema in

- checkpoint identity and require a distributed-write/changed-partition-read

- test before claiming portable restart.

- Before a total-Lagrangian provider enters global Newton, run

- `check_material_tangent(material, point)` across elastic and plastic path

- locations and retain the evidence. Do not use that direct `dP/dF` check for

- a spatial UMAT tangent without a separately verified transformation.

- - Read an Abaqus `C3D10H` source directly with `mesh.read_abaqus_mesh(...)`,

- inspect `cell.element_definitions`, and consume it only through the verified

- P2-displacement/DG0-pressure mixed route. Do not derive another mesh when the

- source already declares `C3D10H`, and do not treat neutral `tetra10` geometry

- as sufficient formulation evidence.

- - When Abaqus constraints use node labels, preserve labels separately from

- backend dof ordering. Treat `*EQUATION` as an auditable constraint graph;

- reject duplicate slaves, cycles, missing node matches, and unsupported

- parallel ownership rather than silently weakening periodicity.

- - For finite-deformation periodic cells, report the macro deformation

- gradient, every load increment's convergence, equation mismatch, sampled

- `det(F)` bounds, complete accepted-increment homogenized tensor histories,

- stress-state validity, and deformed geometry at scale one. Spatial field

- cadence may be sparse; do not infer that the macro CSV has the same cadence.

- Read the actual macro gradient from solved reference-point motion when any

- macro component is free; do not replace it with the nominal loading

- predictor. Read triaxiality and normalized Lode values only where

- `homogenized_stress_state_defined` is one. Treat Hill--Mandel evidence as a

- quasistatic affine/periodic contract without body-force or inertia power. A

- macro history row must keep its accepted increment size, Newton iterations,

- residual, periodic mismatch, and accepted attempt beside the physical state.

- See `docs/reference/rve_homogenization_and_statistics.md` for formulas and

- validity conventions. A

- three-dimensional uniaxial-stress periodic cell leaves both transverse

- normal macro components free and suppresses macro shear; do not fix one

- transverse stretch to unity.

- - Prefer `solve_result(output=...)` for serial multi-field static output and

- the unified XDMF/HDF5 backend for finite-strain time series. Verify

- shared topology, retained reference coordinates, deformed geometry, time

- values, and all point/cell attributes. The low-level `io.XDMFTimeSeries`

- follows DOLFINx and can expose one Grid per Function. Use PVD only for a

- consumer that specifically requires it. Treat

- `completed_with_output_errors` as a completed solve with failed optional

- output, not as a lost numerical result.

- - Do not claim that experimental AF-IR records make arbitrary UFL workflows

- backend neutral.

- - For parameter collections, build a fresh case per sample, retain case/run

- evidence, split validation data independently, and guard learned-model

- applicability. Do not silently extrapolate or imply that neural-operator and

- PINN contract records are executable trainers.

- - Use `responses.finite_difference(...)` for campaign-backed baseline and

- perturbation cases. Declare absolute or relative steps and output Quantity

- contracts. A failed perturbation makes the response incomplete; do not fill

- a missing Jacobian column with zeros.

- - A campaign evaluator may return a declared mapping, `CaseOutcome`, or

- `SimulationResult`. Prefer a safe JSON campaign specification for parameter

- and sampling policy when non-programmers or agents need to edit a sweep;

- keep trusted model construction in Python.

- - Use `campaigns.local_processes(workers=...)` for independent local cases. It

- uses spawned processes; do not nest it inside within-case MPI or replace it

- with threads. Use plan shards for separate MPI jobs and schedulers.

- - Use `convergence.audit(...)` only with explicit refinement axes, fixed

- coordinates for every other varying parameter, and declared relative,

- absolute, or exact observable policies. Preserve failed, missing, and

- ambiguous sequences as inconclusive evidence.

- ## When Extending AgentFEM

- Before adding a public helper, read `references/extension_rules.md`. If the new

- helper is application-specific, keep it in the application package.

- Private material libraries and domain products belong in separate packages

- using the versioned `agentfem.extensions` entry point, not in a long-lived

- private branch of the open core.