diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
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--- a/AGENTS.md
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@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Releases: follow [the release procedure](docs/releasing.md) and `scripts/Publish
 - `OpenNest.Core`: domain (`Nest -> Plate -> Part -> Drawing -> CNC.Program`), geometry, cutting strategies and diagnostics. Angles are radians; use `Tolerance.Epsilon` for geometry comparisons. `OpenNest.Math` shadows `System.Math`, so qualify the latter.
 - `OpenNest.Engine`: whole-job API in `Jobs/`, interactive proposals via `PlateFillService`, fill strategies, best-fit pairs, packing, sequencing and rapid planning. `INestingEngine.Solve(NestJob)` returns stock IDs/poses; boundary adapters map drawings and materialize results. `NestJobRunner` validates its candidates before committing demand/stock accounting. Do not assume arbitrary plug-in output or interactive paths received that validation. Job identity is reference-based, not drawing-name-based.
 - Built-in whole-job engines live in `OpenNest.Engine/NestingEngines/<Name>/`, named for the jobs they suit; see [nesting engines](docs/nesting-engines.md). A change must beat that engine's current benchmark result with every layout valid. External plug-ins implement `INestingEngine` with a public parameterless constructor and load from `Engines/` beside the host; keep their projects out of this solution.
-- `OpenNest.IO`: ACadSharp import/export and ZIP-based `.nest` persistence. All DXF-to-Drawing conversion goes through `CadImporter`: `Import` + `BuildDrawing` for editable/reporting flows, `ImportDrawing` for headless callers. Preserve source offsets, entity IDs, suppressed entities and bends. Bend repair is opt-in, requires explicit source units and may not alter cut geometry or unrelated marks.
+- `OpenNest.IO`: ACadSharp import/export and ZIP-based `.nest` persistence; depends on Core only (an IO.Tests guard enforces it). Best fits persist only when callers pass `BestFitCacheStore.Shared` as `NestReader`/`NestWriter.BestFitStore`. All DXF-to-Drawing conversion goes through `CadImporter`: `Import` + `BuildDrawing` for editable/reporting flows, `ImportDrawing` for headless callers. Preserve source offsets, entity IDs, suppressed entities and bends. Bend repair is opt-in, requires explicit source units and may not alter cut geometry or unrelated marks.
 - `OpenNest`: WinForms UI (`Forms/`, `Controls/PlateView`, `Actions/`). `OpenNest.Data` holds cross-platform persistence; new-nest defaults live in `%APPDATA%\OpenNest\defaults.json`. Posts live in `Posts/OpenNest.Posts.<Name>/` and deploy to the desktop output's `Posts/` directory.
 - `OpenNest.Console`, `OpenNest.Mcp`, `OpenNest.Api`: front ends; `OpenNest.Benchmark`: whole-job engine comparisons; `OpenNest.Gpu`: GPU evaluators; `OpenNest.Training`: ML data collection. Benchmark timing comparisons require `--parallel 1`; validate layouts and fulfillment, not just elapsed time.
 
diff --git a/docs/nest-file-format.md b/docs/nest-file-format.md
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@@ -125,6 +125,26 @@ Name, quantity, and color edits leave placed programs alone. The properties
 editor previously called `LayoutPart.Update`, a color refresh, not `Part.Update`;
 it now explicitly refreshes only the edited drawing's layout colors.
 
+## Saved best-fit pairs (cache only)
+
+Optional `bestfits/bestfit-N` entries hold drawing N's cached best-fit pair
+results: a JSON array of sets, each with `plateWidth`, `plateHeight` and
+`spacing` (the plate size and part spacing it was filtered for) and `results`.
+Each result has `part1Rotation`, `part2Rotation`, `part2OffsetX`,
+`part2OffsetY`, `strategyType`, `testNumber`, `candidateSpacing`,
+`rotatedArea`, `boundingWidth`, `boundingHeight`, `optimalRotation`, `keep`,
+`reason`, `trueArea` and `hullAngles`. Angles are radians; pair geometry is in
+the drawing's canonical frame.
+
+The entries are only a cache: readers may ignore them and writers may omit
+them, at the cost of recomputing pairs. Writers save only sets whose
+(width, length, spacing) matches a plate in the nest, and only kept results; a
+drawing without such a set gets no entry. `NestReader` and `NestWriter` touch
+these entries only when given an `IBestFitStore` through `BestFitStore`;
+without one, a reader skips them unparsed and a writer writes none. The front
+ends pass the engine's `BestFitCacheStore.Shared`, which adds loaded sets to
+the process-wide `BestFitCache` without replacing sets already computed.
+
 ## Verification and limits
 
 The automated tests cover save/reopen/re-save, rotated/manual/locked parts,