tooling-risk-assessment
Assess an injection-mold or production tooling decision before cutting steel — soft vs hard tooling tradeoff, tool life vs forecast, cavitation math, T1 sample timeline, cost of design changes after tooling, and kill criteria. Use when asked whether to kick off tooling, choose soft vs hard tools, size cavities, review a tooling quote, or assess the risk of tooling before the design is frozen. Produces a tooling risk assessment with capacity math, a decision recommendation, and explicit kill criteria.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill tooling-risk-assessment --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Tooling Risk Assessment Skill Cutting steel converts design uncertainty into cash at the worst exchange rate in hardware. This skill assesses a tooling decision the way a seasoned NPI/ME lead does: match tool class to forecast confidence, do the cavitation math against peak demand, put the T1→T2→T3 timeline on the calendar, price the "what if the design changes after tooling" scenario honestly, and write the kill criteria before the money moves. ## What This Skill Produces - A soft vs hard tooling recommendation per part, with the tradeoff shown - Cavitation and capacity math against the forecast ramp - A T1 sample timeline with tuning-loop buffer - An ECO-after-tooling cost narrative (steel-safe vs weld territory) - Explicit kill criteria and total capital-at-risk summary ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided; if forecast confidence is unstated, assume it is low and label the assumption: - **Part list going to tool** — which parts, materials, cosmetic surfaces - **Forecast** — peak monthly/weekly demand and lifetime volume, with confidence - **Design maturity** — which build validated this geometry (pre-EVT? post-DVT?) - **Cycle time estimates** and target resin(s) -
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Tooling Framework
- Output Format
- Tooling risk assessment: [product / part set]
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the tooling-risk-assessment skill do?
Assess an injection-mold or production tooling decision before cutting steel — soft vs hard tooling tradeoff, tool life vs forecast, cavitation math, T1 sample timeline, cost of design changes after tooling, and kill criteria. Use when asked whether to kick off tooling, choose soft vs hard tools, size cavities, review a tooling quote, or assess the risk of tooling before the design is frozen. Produces a tooling risk assessment with capacity math, a decision recommendation, and explicit kill criteria.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill tooling-risk-assessment --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.