jeremylongworth-source/agentcadcam/toolpath-strategy-planner

Toolpath Strategy Planner

Use this skill to organize CAM strategy decisions after design, machine, setup, and tooling context are known enough for planning.

Workflow

• Map features and stock condition to roughing, finishing, contouring, drilling, entry/exit, and sequencing strategies.
• Identify accessibility, engagement, chip evacuation, workholding, residual stock, and finish risks.
• Record the parameter inputs that must come from authoritative machine, tool, material, and CAM sources.
• Produce alternatives and tradeoffs where strategy depends on unresolved geometry or setup information.

Hard rules

• Never invent feeds, speeds, stepovers, depths of cut, spindle speed, coolant, or material parameters.
• Missing authoritative process inputs return SOURCE_VERIFICATION_REQUIRED or MISSING_CONTEXT.
• A strategy recommendation is not a toolpath, simulation result, NC program, or approval.
• Return REVIEW_REQUIRED and identify the CAM programmer/manufacturing reviewer.

Output contract

Return feature-to-strategy mapping, sequencing, assumptions, source requirements, alternatives, risks, blockers, and verification/simulation needs.