What problem does it solve? Working in PTC Windchill (PDMLink) is risky because a Released revision is a controlled baseline that manufacturing, procurement, and service all build against. This Skill gives an AI agent the operator judgment to classify every Windchill action as read, reversible write, committing write, or destructive, so consequential actions like releasing a change, altering effectivity, or obsoleting a part pause for human approval instead of silently re-pointing the plant. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Operation classification and gating: Maps Windchill operation families (check-in, Revise, promotion, Change Notice completion, effectivity changes, Obsolete, delete, ESI publish) to read / write / destructive classes with matching approval gates. - Configuration reasoning: Explains config specs (Latest / Released / Baseline / Effectivity / As-Stored), iteration vs revision versioning, EBOM vs MBOM views via MPMLink, baselines, and Options & Variants so the agent acts on the correct structure. - Change lifecycle guidance: Covers the PR -> CR -> CN -> Change Task flow, promotion requests, workflow voting, checkout locking, contexts / domains / OIRs, and IP / ITAR export-control boundaries. - Use Case: A field failure on bracket BRK-1000 requires a design change. The Skill walks the agent through where-used analysis, raising a PR and CR, revising to a new In Work revision, applying serial effectivity from unit 5000, transforming the EBOM change into the MBOM, and completing the Change Notice that publishes to ERP. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to walk you through safely revising and releasing a released Windchill part under a Change Notice, including where-used analysis and effectivity.
