# Mechanical

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-adeerkhan-vitruvius-mechanical`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [adeerkhan](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/adeerkhan)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [adeerkhan](https://github.com/adeerkhan)
- **Source:** https://github.com/adeerkhan/vitruvius/tree/main/skills/mechanical

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-adeerkhan-vitruvius-mechanical
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Mechanical Engineering Research

Activate the `/skill:engineering-research` method and run it with this
domain payload. Do not restate the research loop here.

## Evidence landscape

- **Standards/codes:** ASME (BPVC, B31 piping), ASTM, ISO, SAE, AWS, AGMA,
  API. When a code governs the question, cite the exact section.
- **Handbooks:** Machinery's Handbook, Marks', Shigley's, ASME/ASM
  handbooks — use only when a direct primary read is possible.
- **Primary sources:** manufacturer datasheets, bearing/coupling catalogs,
  material property data from the issuing body, patent documents, peer-
  reviewed journals. For journal literature use the
  `/skill:scholarly-research` discovery layers (OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar,
  arXiv).
- **Prior art / practice:** documented field failures, failure analyses,
  trade association guidance (e.g. ASME B31, AGMA, NFPA).

## Verification criteria

- **Units:** every number carries a unit; state the unit system (SI, US
  customary) and convert explicitly. Flag mixed-unit claims.
- **Sign conventions:** tension/compression, torque direction, load sign.
- **Material properties:** a property value must trace to a named grade +
  specification (e.g. A36 per ASTM A36), not to a vague "steel".
- **Design basis:** design factor / factor of safety must be stated and traced
  to code or practice (e.g. ASME BPVC design factor), not assumed.
- **Code provisions:** verify the standard exists, cite the section number,
  and read the actual provision before summarizing it.
- **Calculations:** any derived number must show the formula, inputs, and
  units so it can be re-run.

## Deliverable shape

Follow the method's artifact contract (`outputs/.plans/.md` → draft →
cited → final + `.provenance.md`). In the final artifact, end with a
**Sources** section citing standard + section, and mark every load, factor,
and material property `verified`, `inferred`, or `blocked`.

## Invocation Flags

Accept `--deep` and `--quick` flags and pass them through to the
`engineering-research` method. See that skill for flag semantics.

## Gap Detection

If research hits an evidence dead-end — no standard, paper, or dataset
addresses the question after exhausting the discovery layers — suggest running
`/gap-analysis mechanical ` to formally validate and document the
gap. Do not invoke gap-analysis automatically; offer it as a next step and
wait for the user to confirm.

## Scope and Boundaries

- This skill produces research — it does NOT produce final designs or construction documents.
- **Research-only, not for final engineering sign-off.** Licensed engineers must review and approve any design based on this research.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [adeerkhan](https://github.com/adeerkhan)
- **Source:** [adeerkhan/vitruvius](https://github.com/adeerkhan/vitruvius)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-adeerkhan-vitruvius-mechanical
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/adeerkhan
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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