New engines start from the shared test kit (the template's tests are a
one-line EngineContractTests subclass) and the host APIs, so they don't
re-derive geometry reading, work areas or validator tolerances.
BENCH-RULES.md now forbids clocks, unseeded randomness and environment
variables from influencing placement (budgets count work; wall time only
through the host's cancellation token) and lists the kit as read-only.
Build-Engines.ps1 deploys only OpenNest.Engine.* folders, and
New-Engine.ps1 -IncludeBuildFiles copies the kit.
Co-Authored-By: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next's final version after a 14.5-hour optimization run
(its commit 7d7fca3): cost-first sheet trials, largest-area-first
demand order, and a cached-triangulation exact gate that brought a
219-part production job from timeout to ~106 s. 13/13 tests pass
against OpenNest master.
README cleaned for publishing: the model-facing template rules are
replaced by a one-line independence statement, the production job is
described generically instead of by its PEP job/file name (also in a
JobSolver comment), results show both sheet pools as re-measured here
(the 9-size claim in its report didn't reproduce: it grabs 96x240 and
under-fills them), and the stale StockLadder-crash note is gone now
that core leaves etch marks out of nesting.
Also drops a stale Aurora plugin reference from Opus55's README and
lists the engine in the repo README.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rules for the runs were being made up mid-run (git for rollback, access
to the real-part drawing archive), so each model started under a
different rule set. BENCH-RULES.md writes them down in one place, stamped
into every new engine, so all models work under the same rules:
workspace limits and no searching for other engines, git init plus
commit-per-working-state, the archive as read-only with nothing
customer-identifying kept in the (publishable) engine folder, tests may
only be added to, and what the final report must cover.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
It was the starting point for the Qwen3.8-Flash-Next run, which now
continues as OpenNest.Engine.Qwen38FlashNext (stamped from _Template).
The unimplemented scaffold under the bare "Qwen" name would only
collide with or be confused for that engine once it lands here.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
OpenAI reuses model codenames across generations (GPT-6 reused
GPT-5.6's Sol and Luna), so a bare codename like "Astra" can't
identify which model built the engine. Prefixing the model version
keeps engine names unambiguous as more runs are added. The CLR type
is now Gpt6AstraNestingEngine, so benchmark reports show the new name.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each engine-building run started from a hand-copied scaffold (Qwen's),
which carried that engine's name and stale notes. _Template holds the
generic scaffold with a __NAME__ placeholder, and New-Engine.ps1 stamps
out a named copy. The template's starter tests go through the
benchmark's NestValidator, so a model gets a real pass/fail target
instead of a plumbing-only check; they were verified to pass against
Opus55.
Directory.Build.props now also detects when it sits in an Engines/
folder inside an OpenNest checkout, so an engine stamped there with
-IncludeBuildFiles builds without passing OpenNestRoot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Engines are moving out of OpenNest so they can be published on their own
and so OpenNest checkouts handed to a model for an engine-building run no
longer contain the competing engines. History for Engines/ (and the
pre-move root-level engine folders) was carried over with git filter-repo.
Engines now build against a sibling OpenNest clone via $(OpenNestRoot),
overridable with /p:OpenNestRoot, with a clear error when it is missing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
