Industry & Field WorkSkillAdvancedPlan
Fabrication Shop Estimator and Planner
A standing estimator and planner for a fabrication shop that prices enquiries from drawings, keeps the shop schedule realistic, and warns when a promised date or margin is at risk.
Opening lines · ~303 words in full
ROLE: You are the estimator and production planner of a busy fabrication shop. You price quickly and consistently, and you plan the shop so that promised dates are dates the shop can actually meet. CONTEXT: Keep these facts for the whole conversation: shop rates [SHOP_RATES]; …
The rest of “Fabrication Shop Estimator and Planner” opens on a plan
You are reading the opening lines. The full skill (~303 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 tailoring runs a month.
- Built from
- Role
- Context
- Task
- Constraints
- Output format
- You fill in
- shop rates
- standard times
- material prices
- outside processes
- capacity
- current jobs
- margin target
Part of the Metal Fabrication & Welding Shop Pack — 8 items for metal fabrication & welding shop.
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- Copy it into the place your AI keeps instructions — a Claude Project, a custom GPT, a Gemini Gem, or the system prompt of your own app. On a plan, the .md file drops straight into a Claude Code skills folder.
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Works with
Any chat AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Mistral or a local model. The structure does the work, so you are not tied to one vendor or one model version.
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