List OrcaSlicer presets. preset_type is 'process', 'filament', or 'machine'.

Returns the user's own presets by default. Pass contains to search the thousands of built-in vendor profiles by substring.

Read a preset: its inherits chain and the settings it overrides itself.

Pass keys to additionally resolve specific settings to their effective values, each with the preset in the chain that supplies it.

Edit a preset FILE. Needs an OrcaSlicer restart to take effect — prefer suggest_settings when it is available.

Values are strings, or lists of strings for per-extruder settings. System presets cannot be edited — clone first.

Create a new user preset inheriting from an existing preset.

Check the settings in force against known-bad combinations. No slice needed, and no judgement of yours involved — these are deterministic rules over the selected presets, including edits not yet saved.

Run this before advising on a print, and before answering a general "what should I change" — a finding here is a fact about their setup, worth more than anything you would infer, and worth saying first. Each one carries the settings it came from, for describe_setting or a suggested change.

Says nothing when nothing is wrong, which is the usual answer. It knows nothing about the model on the plate: overhangs, size and adhesion area are measure_slice's job, not this one's.

The process, filament, and machine presets currently selected in OrcaSlicer.

These are profiles, not the model: for what the user has clicked on and which plate they are looking at, call get_selection.

What a setting does: its label, tooltip, units, default, and either its allowed values or its numeric range.

Read this before setting anything whose legal values you are unsure of — enum settings accept only the keys in allowed_values. per_extruder means the value is a list of strings, one per extruder.

Search settings by name, label, or description. Use this to find the setting for a problem when you do not already know its key.

Matches a substring, so 'seam' or 'stringing' both work. Returns short excerpts; follow up with describe_setting on the one you want.

Search the OrcaSlicer wiki: calibration procedures, troubleshooting, print preparation, and the pages behind the settings.

Ask it the question — "how do I calibrate pressure advance" — rather than a key. Two in five of these pages explain no setting at all, so this reaches what find_settings cannot. Returns an excerpt per page; pass a page to read_wiki to read that one properly.

The wiki on one topic. It is the authority on procedures and on recommended values — read it rather than recalling either.

topic is a setting key, which returns the section explaining that setting, or a page name from search_wiki, which returns the page. Long pages arrive one part at a time: truncated says there is more and hint says how to ask for it.

What is on the print plate: objects, their parts, and any mesh defects.

Prefer this over looking at an image — it reports exact names, part structure, and mesh problems that a render cannot show. Read from the last saved project file.

A rendered image of the plate, for questions that are genuinely visual.

Views: 'plate' (as shown in the UI), 'top' (orthographic top-down), 'flat' (unlit, smallest). Use describe_plate first for anything that can be answered from names, structure, or mesh statistics.

Keep one fact for future sessions. Everything stored is already in your system prompt, so this is for writing, not reading.

Store what will still be true next week: how this printer and its plates behave, what the user wants without being asked, what was tried on a print and how it turned out. Not what you can look up — a preset value, a setting's range — and not what happened this turn.

topic is one of printer, preferences, outcomes. key is a short lowercase slug naming the fact, like 'bed-adhesion' or 'seam'. Writing a key that already exists corrects it in place, so use the same key again rather than adding a second entry that disagrees with the first.

Drop a remembered fact by its key, once it is wrong or spent.