diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index af2fc746..ada49cdd 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ dotnet test OpenNest.Server.Tests/OpenNest.Server.Tests.csproj -c Release
dotnet test OpenNest.WinForms.Tests/OpenNest.WinForms.Tests.csproj
```
-Keep desktop-dependent tests in `OpenNest.WinForms.Tests`, never add a WinForms reference to `OpenNest.Tests`. Optional CHR fixtures use local `OpenNest.Tests/test-config.json` and skip when absent. On Linux, build Windows projects with `-p:EnableWindowsTargeting=true`; this is not Windows runtime verification. The headless console builds independently with `dotnet build OpenNest.Console/OpenNest.Console.csproj`.
+After changing planning, contour preparation or geometry checks, run the [problem-nest corpus](docs/problem-nests.md) (`Category=ProblemNests`, opt-in via `OPENNEST_PROBLEM_NESTS_SERVER`); no plate may rank below its baseline. Keep desktop-dependent tests in `OpenNest.WinForms.Tests`, never add a WinForms reference to `OpenNest.Tests`. Optional CHR fixtures use local `OpenNest.Tests/test-config.json` and skip when absent. On Linux, build Windows projects with `-p:EnableWindowsTargeting=true`; this is not Windows runtime verification. The headless console builds independently with `dotnet build OpenNest.Console/OpenNest.Console.csproj`.
Releases: follow [the release procedure](docs/releasing.md) and `scripts/Publish-Windows.ps1`; workflow artifacts are candidates, not published releases. GitHub (`ajisaacs/OpenNest`) is the primary repository; Gitea is a read-only backup mirror.
diff --git a/OpenNest.Tests/CuttingPlanning/ProblemNestRegressionTests.cs b/OpenNest.Tests/CuttingPlanning/ProblemNestRegressionTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4fb7ac39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/OpenNest.Tests/CuttingPlanning/ProblemNestRegressionTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+using System.Diagnostics;
+using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
+using OpenNest.CNC.CuttingStrategy;
+using OpenNest.Data;
+using OpenNest.Engine.CuttingPlanning;
+using OpenNest.IO;
+using Xunit.Abstractions;
+
+namespace OpenNest.Tests.CuttingPlanning;
+
+///
+/// Plans every nest on a dedicated problem-nest OpenNest server and fails when a plate's outcome is
+/// worse than its recorded baseline. Opt-in and private: the nests and their baselines stay on the
+/// server, never in the repository. See docs/problem-nests.md.
+///
+[Trait("Category", "ProblemNests")]
+public partial class ProblemNestRegressionTests(ITestOutputHelper output)
+{
+ internal const string ServerVariable = "OPENNEST_PROBLEM_NESTS_SERVER";
+ internal const string TimeoutVariable = "OPENNEST_PROBLEM_NESTS_TIMEOUT";
+ internal const string Timeout = "Timeout";
+ // A corpus is a handful of nests; more means the variable names a production archive.
+ internal const int MaximumNests = 200;
+
+ [SkippableFact]
+ public async Task ProblemNests_PlanNoWorseThanTheirBaselines()
+ {
+ var server = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable(ServerVariable);
+ Skip.If(string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(server), $"Set {ServerVariable} to the OpenNest server URL to plan its problem nests.");
+ using var repository = new RemoteNestRepository(server!);
+ var records = await ProblemNests(repository);
+ var limit = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(int.TryParse(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable(TimeoutVariable), out var seconds)
+ && seconds > 0 ? seconds : 120);
+ Assert.True(records.Count > 0, $"No nests on {server}.");
+
+ var failures = new List();
+ foreach (var record in records)
+ {
+ var bytes = await repository.GetFileAsync(record.Id)
+ ?? throw new InvalidOperationException($"'{record.Name}' has no file.");
+ using var stream = new MemoryStream(bytes);
+ var nest = new NestReader(stream).Read();
+ var baseline = Baseline(record.Comments);
+ var observed = new SortedDictionary();
+ for (var index = 0; index < nest.Plates.Count; index++)
+ {
+ var plate = nest.Plates[index];
+ if (plate.Parts.Count == 0)
+ continue;
+ var number = index + 1;
+ var watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
+ var (outcome, planned) = Plan(plate, number, limit);
+ observed[number] = outcome;
+ var expected = baseline.GetValueOrDefault(number);
+ output.WriteLine($"{record.Name} plate {number}: {outcome} (baseline {expected ?? "none"}), "
+ + $"{planned?.Result.Expansions ?? 0} expansions, {watch.Elapsed.TotalSeconds:0.0} s");
+ if (expected == null)
+ continue;
+ if (Rank(outcome) < Rank(expected))
+ failures.Add($"{record.Name} plate {number}: {outcome}, worse than baseline {expected}. "
+ + string.Join(" | ", planned?.Result.Findings.Take(3).Select(f => f.Message) ?? []));
+ else if (outcome != expected)
+ output.WriteLine($" changed from {expected}; update the baseline if this is intended.");
+ }
+ var line = "planning: " + string.Join(" ", observed.Select(p => $"{p.Key}={p.Value}"));
+ if (baseline.Count == 0)
+ failures.Add($"{record.Name} has no baseline. Add this line to its comments: {line}");
+ else if (baseline.Keys.Except(observed.Keys).Any() || observed.Keys.Except(baseline.Keys).Any())
+ failures.Add($"{record.Name}: baseline plates do not match the nest's plates. Observed: {line}");
+ }
+ Assert.True(failures.Count == 0, string.Join(Environment.NewLine, failures));
+ }
+
+ // Capture and planning share the limit; a plate that never finishes must not hang the run.
+ private static (string Outcome, CuttingPlanPlateResult Planned) Plan(Plate plate, int number, TimeSpan limit)
+ {
+ using var cancellation = new CancellationTokenSource(limit);
+ try
+ {
+ var planned = CuttingPlanBatch.Capture([plate], plate.CuttingParameters ?? DefaultParameters(),
+ preservePartOrder: false, [number], cancellation.Token).Plan(token: cancellation.Token).Plates[0];
+ return (planned.Result.Status == CuttingPlanStatus.Cancelled ? Timeout : Outcome(planned), planned);
+ }
+ catch (OperationCanceledException)
+ {
+ return (Timeout, null);
+ }
+ }
+
+ internal static async Task> ProblemNests(RemoteNestRepository repository)
+ {
+ var page = await repository.QueryAsync(new NestQuery
+ {
+ Sort = NestSortField.Name,
+ Descending = false,
+ Limit = MaximumNests,
+ });
+ if (page.Total > MaximumNests)
+ throw new InvalidOperationException($"The server holds {page.Total} nests, more than a problem-nest "
+ + $"corpus of at most {MaximumNests}. Point {ServerVariable} at the dedicated corpus server.");
+ return page.Items;
+ }
+
+ /// Plate number to outcome, from a "planning: 1=Ready 2=BestEffort" comment line.
+ internal static Dictionary Baseline(string comments)
+ {
+ var line = (comments ?? "").Split('\n').Select(l => l.Trim())
+ .FirstOrDefault(l => l.StartsWith("planning:", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
+ return line == null ? []
+ : BaselineEntry().Matches(line).ToDictionary(m => int.Parse(m.Groups[1].Value), m => m.Groups[2].Value);
+ }
+
+ // Ready means replayed and overlap-clear; a ready route with overlapping parts is still blocked.
+ internal static string Outcome(CuttingPlanPlateResult planned) =>
+ planned.IsReady ? "Ready" : planned.IsRouteReady ? "Overlap" : planned.Result.Status.ToString();
+
+ internal static int Rank(string outcome) => outcome switch
+ {
+ "Ready" => 3,
+ nameof(CuttingPlanStatus.BestEffort) => 2,
+ nameof(CuttingPlanStatus.NoSolutionWithinBudget) => 1,
+ Timeout => -1,
+ _ => 0,
+ };
+
+ // A plate without its own settings uses the lead-ins problem nests were reported with.
+ internal static CuttingParameters DefaultParameters()
+ {
+ var parameters = new CuttingParameters();
+ parameters.ExternalLeadIn = new LineLeadIn { Length = 0.15, ApproachAngle = 90 };
+ parameters.InternalLeadIn = new LineLeadIn { Length = 0.15, ApproachAngle = 90 };
+ parameters.ArcCircleLeadIn = new LineLeadIn { Length = 0.15, ApproachAngle = 90 };
+ return parameters;
+ }
+
+ [GeneratedRegex(@"(\d+)\s*=\s*(\w+)")]
+ private static partial Regex BaselineEntry();
+}
+
+public class ProblemNestBaselineTests
+{
+ [Fact]
+ public void Baseline_ReadsThePlanningLineAmongOtherComments()
+ {
+ var baseline = ProblemNestRegressionTests.Baseline(
+ "Plan blocked on unsupported geometry.\r\nplanning: 1=NoSolutionWithinBudget 2 = BestEffort\nnotes");
+
+ Assert.Equal(new Dictionary { [1] = "NoSolutionWithinBudget", [2] = "BestEffort" }, baseline);
+ Assert.Empty(ProblemNestRegressionTests.Baseline("no baseline yet"));
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Rank_OrdersReadyAboveBestEffortAboveBudgetAboveBlockedAboveTimeout()
+ {
+ var ranks = new[] { "Ready", "BestEffort", "NoSolutionWithinBudget", "UnsupportedGeometry", "Overlap", "Timeout" }
+ .Select(ProblemNestRegressionTests.Rank).ToArray();
+
+ Assert.Equal([3, 2, 1, 0, 0, -1], ranks);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/docs/problem-nests.md b/docs/problem-nests.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ffe5f135
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/problem-nests.md
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# Problem-nest regression corpus
+
+Real nests that once failed to plan are kept on a dedicated OpenNest server that holds nothing
+else, not in this repository: they carry customer geometry and names. After a change to planning, contour preparation or
+the geometry checks, plan them all and confirm that no plate got worse.
+
+## Running
+
+```sh
+# Windows PowerShell: $env:OPENNEST_PROBLEM_NESTS_SERVER = "http://:"
+OPENNEST_PROBLEM_NESTS_SERVER=http://: \
+ dotnet test OpenNest.Tests/OpenNest.Tests.csproj -c Release \
+ --filter "Category=ProblemNests" --logger "console;verbosity=detailed"
+```
+
+Without the variable the test skips, so routine runs never reach the network. With it, an
+unreachable server or an empty corpus fails instead of passing silently.
+`ProblemNestRegressionTests` downloads every nest on the server. A server holding more than 200
+nests is refused, since it is not a corpus. It plans each plate that has parts on its own, the way Plan Cutting
+does (whole-part reorder, falling back to the current order). It prints each plate's outcome,
+search expansions and time. Each plate has a time limit covering both capture and planning:
+120 s by default, or `OPENNEST_PROBLEM_NESTS_TIMEOUT` seconds. A plate that hits it is recorded
+as `Timeout`, so a plate that never finishes cannot hang the run.
+
+Each plate is ranked: `Ready` (replayed with no overlaps) above `BestEffort` above
+`NoSolutionWithinBudget` above every blocked outcome (`UnsupportedGeometry`,
+`ConstraintConflict`, `InvalidInput`, `Overlap`) above `Timeout`. The test fails when a plate ranks below its
+baseline, when a nest has no baseline, or when the baseline's plate numbers differ from the
+nest's. A different outcome at the same or a better rank is only reported. When it is
+intended, update the baseline.
+
+Plates use their own cutting parameters. A plate without them uses line lead-ins of 0.15 at
+90 degrees (external, internal and arc/circle) and no lead-outs.
+
+## Adding a nest
+
+1. In the desktop app, point **File > Storage Mode...** at the corpus server, then drag the
+ `.nest` file onto the window. Switch the server back afterwards.
+2. In **Nest > Nest Info**, name it after the problem, and in the comments describe what failed
+ and which commit fixed it, if any.
+3. Add a baseline line to the comments, with plate numbers counted from the first plate:
+ `planning: 1=NoSolutionWithinBudget 2=BestEffort`.
+ To get the line, save without one and run the test: the failure prints the observed line.
+4. Save. Every save keeps the earlier versions, so a baseline change can be reviewed later.
+
+Record the outcome the code produces today, not the outcome you want. A nest that is still
+blocked guards against getting worse, and its baseline moves up once a fix lands.