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100 AI skills for systems and hardware engineers: requirements review, electrical and mechanical interfaces, power and mass budgets, environmental qualification, FMEA and verification. Includes local MCP file tools.

allocate-performance-budget

Allocate a system performance limit across contributing stages and calculate remaining margin.

allocate-requirements-systems

Propose requirement-to-system allocations with a reasoned ownership boundary.

allocate-system-functions

Perform functional allocation: allocate stated system functions to responsible subsystems and reveal unowned or overlapping behavior.

allocate-system-reliability-target

Propose traceable subsystem reliability budgets that satisfy an approved system success target under explicit architecture assumptions.

assess-common-cause-redundant-systems

Examine shared exposures and dependencies that can defeat claimed redundancy in a defined architecture.

assess-engineering-tool-qualification

Assess qualification need from a tool’s intended use, output credit, and downstream error detection.

assess-interface-change-impact

Trace a proposed Interface revision across both endpoints, requirements, integration, and evidence.

assess-make-or-buy

Assess technical feasibility and integration consequences of building versus buying a component.

assess-requirement-change-impact

Trace a proposed Requirement revision to affected design, interfaces, tests, and evidence.

assess-test-results

Assess executed data against a specific requirement and approved acceptance rule.

build-fault-tree-hazardous-event

Construct a traceable Boolean fault tree for one defined top event and analyze its minimal cut sets and assumptions.

build-requirement-traceability-matrix

Build a requirement traceability matrix (RTM) from stable IDs, recorded links, and verification evidence.

build-requirements-verification-matrix

Build a traceable matrix from requirements to planned verification evidence.

build-system-mass-budget

Build a mass budget from component estimates, configuration, and a stated system allowance.

build-system-power-budget

Build a mode-specific electrical power budget from loads and source capability.

build-technical-review-action-closure-matrix

Track review actions from finding to evidence-backed closure recommendation without losing original board decisions.

build-tender-compliance-matrix

Organize bidder response obligations against tender clauses with evidence and unresolved exceptions.

calculate-system-reliability-component-data

Calculate a bounded system reliability estimate from component data and a defined success model.

check-configuration-baseline-completeness

Check whether a proposed baseline contains the intended scope, revisions, documents, and review evidence.

check-do178c-software-assurance-evidence

Map supplied software lifecycle evidence to the applicable DO-178C objectives for an approved software level.

check-do254-hardware-assurance-evidence

Assess airborne electronic hardware evidence against the approved DO-254/ED-80 basis and hardware DAL.

check-engineering-margins

Calculate signed engineering margin and judge it only against stated requirements and conventions.

check-requirement-verifiability

Assess whether objective evidence could decide a requirement at the stated level and configuration.

check-test-procedure-coverage

Compare an existing procedure’s actions and criteria with the full requirement obligation.

check-units-and-dimensions

Check calculation expressions for unit consistency, conversions, and physical dimensional meaning.

clean-map-requirements-spreadsheet

Prepare a source-preserving column map and reviewed import proposal from a messy requirements spreadsheet.

compare-architecture-alternatives

Compare feasible architectures against stated decision criteria, assumptions, and evidence.

compare-child-parent-requirements

Assess whether existing children preserve, cover, or exceed a parent requirement.

compare-engineering-baselines

Compare two exact engineering baselines and explain material model and evidence changes.

compare-interface-specifications

Compare two parties’ interface specifications and record matches, conflicts, and missing evidence.

compare-requirements-specification-versions

Produce a semantic change register between two controlled specification versions.

decompose-system-into-subsystems

Perform functional or product decomposition: propose a System hierarchy from responsibilities and physical or logical boundaries.

define-acceptance-criteria

Turn an approved requirement into observable pass/fail criteria without inventing thresholds.

define-system-boundary

Define a system-of-interest boundary, external actors, and crossings from a stated mission or product scope.

define-system-interface

Define an engineering exchange between two Systems and propose its Interface relationship content.

define-technical-performance-measures

Define a small set of decision-useful TPMs with sources, trends, and project-approved action thresholds.

define-test-campaign-entry-exit

Draft auditable readiness and completion gates for a bounded verification campaign.

derive-interface-requirements

Turn an agreed system boundary and exchanged items into candidate interface obligations.

derive-safety-requirements-hazard-analysis

Turn approved hazard controls into proposed measurable safety requirements with traceable rationale.

derive-sub-requirements

Propose child requirements that partition an approved parent obligation without losing or inventing intent.

develop-operational-scenarios

Write normal and off-nominal operational scenarios with triggers, actions, responses, and recovery paths.

diagnose-integration-failure

Use integration logs and configuration evidence to narrow a failure and propose discriminating checks.

extract-customer-requirements

Extract candidate obligations from a customer document with exact source trace and ambiguity flags.

identify-conflicting-requirements

Find requirements whose simultaneous obligations cannot be reconciled under the same conditions.

identify-duplicate-requirements

Identify exact and semantic duplicates while preserving distinct conditions and source obligations.

identify-missing-interface-requirements

Find interface behaviors that lack an explicit, allocated, verifiable Requirement.

identify-missing-scenario-requirements

Find unsupported scenario transitions and exceptions that need requirement decisions.

identify-stale-evidence

Identify verification evidence whose tested configuration may no longer support the changed model.

identify-undefined-requirement-terms

Find terms whose missing or inconsistent definitions materially change interpretation or verification.

identify-unverified-requirements

Find baseline obligations lacking adequate planned Tests or current evidence.

import-reqif-requirements-links

Map ReqIF objects and relations into a reviewed local requirements proposal while preserving external IDs.

perform-failure-modes-effects-analysis

Analyze credible item failure modes, their local and system effects, detection, and existing controls for a configured design.

perform-functional-hazard-assessment

Assess loss and malfunction of intended functions across operating conditions and document candidate failure conditions.

perform-preliminary-hazard-analysis

Identify credible early lifecycle hazards and record assumptions, controls, and follow-up evidence for a defined system concept.

perform-technical-risk-assessment

Identify and assess credible technical risk scenarios against project objectives and existing controls.

plan-change-reverification

Choose targeted re-verification actions after a change using actual affected obligations and evidence.

plan-system-integration-order

Sequence subsystem integration using dependencies, test access, and fault-isolation needs.

prepare-critical-design-review

Prepare a CDR packet assessing whether detailed design and build-to data are mature for implementation and integration.

prepare-engineering-change-request

Prepare a reviewable engineering change request with rationale, exact deltas, impacts, and validation.

prepare-operational-readiness-review

Prepare an ORR packet assessing deployed system, support products, people, procedures, and contingency readiness.

prepare-preliminary-design-review

Prepare a PDR packet that tests preliminary architecture, interface choices, margins, and path to detailed design.

prepare-system-requirements-review

Prepare a decision-ready SRR packet focused on requirements completeness, feasibility, and baseline readiness.

prepare-test-readiness-review

Prepare a TRR packet checking test article, facility, procedures, personnel, safety, and data capture readiness.

resolve-requirement-tbds-tbcs

Prepare source-backed decisions for unresolved requirement placeholders without silently choosing values.

review-data-interface

Review a data exchange for syntax, semantics, timing, state, and error behavior.

review-development-assurance-allocation

Review the reasoning and authority trail for functional, item, software, and hardware assurance allocations.

review-deviation-or-waiver

Review a proposed deviation or waiver against a specific requirement, configuration, evidence, and authority.

review-ecss-compliance-closure

Assess whether a proposed closure addresses a stated ECSS finding using current, applicable evidence.

review-electrical-interface

Review an electrical interface for complete, consistent power, signal, grounding, and fault parameters.

review-environmental-qualification-coverage

Check that qualification evidence spans approved environments, configurations, and requirement limits.

review-fault-detection-isolation-recovery

Review FDIR sequences against fault effects, timing, safe-state behavior, and verification evidence.

review-fmea-missing-failure-modes

Find credible omissions in an existing FMEA against actual functions, interfaces, and operating modes.

review-functional-architecture

Find missing or weakly allocated functions by walking scenarios, requirements, and function flows.

review-hazard-mitigations-closure-evidence

Check whether each claimed hazard control has applicable, current, and sufficient implementation and verification evidence.

review-interface-latency-budget

Review end-to-end interface latency by tracing stages, bounds, clocks, and operating conditions.

review-maintainability-requirements

Check maintainability requirements for measurable repair, access, support, and operating context.

review-mechanical-interface

Review mating geometry, loads, tolerances, access, and installation assumptions across two Systems.

review-nasa-software-mapping-matrix

Check applicability, tailoring, evidence, and approval in an NPR 7150.2D Appendix C mapping matrix.

review-reliability-block-diagram

Check whether a reliability block diagram represents the actual success logic, dependencies, and mission scope.

review-requirement-ecss

Review one requirement against an inspected, applicable edition of ECSS-E-ST-10-06 and return source-grounded findings.

review-requirement-incose

Review one requirement against a user-accessible licensed INCOSE guide edition without inventing rules.

review-requirement-rationale

Assess whether rationale explains the obligation and supports future change decisions.

review-risk-register-statements

Find missing technical risks and rewrite vague entries as cause-event-consequence statements.

review-safety-argument-evidence

Challenge the links among safety claims, assumptions, subclaims, and configuration-specific evidence.

review-single-points-of-failure

Identify architecture elements whose single failure may defeat a stated function or mission outcome.

review-standards-applicability-tailoring

Review the basis, scope, rationale, and approval of an engineering standards applicability matrix.

review-supplier-compliance-evidence

Challenge supplier claim strength against exact requirement, configuration, and supplied proof.

review-supplier-technical-deliverable

Review a specific supplier engineering deliverable against agreed content, interfaces, evidence, and configuration.

review-system-modes

Review operating modes, guards, transitions, and recovery for ambiguous or unreachable behavior.

review-technology-readiness-evidence

Evaluate claimed TRL or technology maturity against what was demonstrated in the relevant environment.

review-verification-evidence-configuration

Decide whether existing verification evidence applies to the current requirement and product configuration.

review-verification-matrix-ecss

Review matrix completeness and source-grounded ECSS-E-ST-10-02 obligations for a controlled edition.

rewrite-requirement-ears

Rewrite a requirement in an appropriate EARS pattern while preserving its engineering intent.

select-verification-method

Choose a defensible inspection, analysis, demonstration, or test approach for one requirement.

trace-requirements-stakeholder-needs

Build an evidence-backed trace from technical requirements to stated stakeholder needs.

write-concept-of-operations

Draft a concept of operations (ConOps) connecting actors, goals, phases, modes, and outcomes for a defined system.

write-interface-control-document

Draft an interface control document (ICD) from agreed System endpoints and controlled exchange details.

write-requirement-test-procedure

Draft executable steps and records that can verify a requirement on a defined article.

write-risk-mitigation-plan

Plan concrete actions, triggers, and evidence to reduce a stated technical risk scenario.

write-verification-closeout-report

Synthesize verification status and open exceptions for a named baseline and article.