v0.5 groundwork: true-shape compaction plan and polygon clearance primitives

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Summary

Groundwork for the next placement-quality milestone, following the repo's plan-then-build convention.

Plan document

docs/plans/2026-08-23-002-feat-true-shape-compaction-plan.md designs v0.5: a deterministic post-placement compaction pass that slides outlined irregular parts toward the plate origin until their true profiles (not their bounding boxes) reach kerf+gap clearance — recovering the plate area that bounding-box packing wastes on interlockable shapes like L-gussets.

Safety posture is explicit and unchanged from v0.4.0:

• an independent polygon-clearance verifier must prove every compacted plate; a failed proof discards compaction and keeps the bounding-box layout (never blocking a run that would otherwise pass),
• burn-DXF suppression and review_required gating for irregular parts are untouched,
• full no-fit-polygon nesting and curved outlines remain non-goals.

This PR is the natural place to veto or redirect the approach before the heavy geometry lands.

U1: polygon clearance primitives (implemented)

Shared, behavior-neutral geometry in pi_steel.geometry_verify:

• polygon_min_distance — exact minimum distance between simple polygons, zero on any contact/overlap, with a per-edge-pair bounding-box early exit,
• polygons_overlap, polygon_within_rect, and rect_outline so mixed rect/irregular plates verify uniformly.

No placement or verification behavior changes yet — the compactor (U2) and verifier gate (U3) build on these in follow-up work.

Test plan

• 192 tests pass locally including the full-render tier; lint and privacy gates green.
• New primitive tests cover touching, overlapping, nested, diagonally separated, and notch-adjacent polygon pairs, plus containment edge cases.

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• New Features

  • Added geometry validation for outlined parts, including overlap detection, minimum-distance checks, and containment within rectangular layouts.
  • Documented the planned v0.5 true-shape compaction behavior, including safe fallback handling and reporting requirements.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for separated, touching, overlapping, nested, diagonal, and concave polygon scenarios.

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The change documents a true-shape compaction plan and adds polygon geometry utilities. The utilities detect overlap, calculate minimum distance, generate outlines, and verify containment. Tests cover separated, touching, overlapping, nested, diagonal, and concave polygons.

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True-shape compaction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
True-shape compaction plan docs/plans/2026-08-23-002-feat-true-shape-compaction-plan.md	Defines deterministic axis-aligned sliding, polygon-clearance checks, fallback to the original layout, reporting fields, work units, and non-goals.
Polygon verification primitives skills/_shared/pi_steel/geometry_verify.py, tests/test_outline_geometry.py	Adds polygon overlap, minimum-distance, rectangle-outline, and containment utilities. Tests cover multiple polygon relationships and an L-shaped outline.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 09b2a

This PR adds polygon-clearance primitives and documents future compaction behavior without changing current placement output. The documented slide algorithm is not reliable for concave profiles and should be corrected before compaction implementation proceeds; the current changes are otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up.

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In `@docs/plans/2026-08-23-002-feat-true-shape-compaction-plan.md`:
- Around line 90-95: The placement slide algorithm must not rely solely on
binary search because clearance can be non-monotonic for concave profiles.
Replace the binary-search-only step in the placement sweep with interval
scanning and refinement for continuous sliding, or enumerate feasible intervals
when only the final position matters, then select the largest valid offset; also
add a concave alternating-clearance fixture before U2.

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🤖 Lab Code Review (draft opinion)

• skills/_shared/pi_steel/geometry_verify.py:114: The early-exit condition in polygon_min_distance uses min(ax1, ax2) - minimum > max(bx1, bx2) which is incorrect; it should be max(ax1, ax2) < min(bx1, bx2) - minimum (or equivalent) to check if box A is left of box B by more than current minimum. Current logic can fail to exit early when it should, hurting performance but not correctness. Fix: replace the four conditions with proper separation checks: if max(ax1, ax2) < min(bx1, bx2) - minimum or max(bx1, bx2) < min(ax1, ax2) - minimum or max(ay1, ay2) < min(by1, by2) - minimum or max(by1, by2) < min(ay1, ay2) - minimum: continue.
• skills/_shared/pi_steel/geometry_verify.py:256: _segment_min_distance incorrectly handles collinear overlapping segments by returning min of endpoint distances, which can be positive when segments overlap (should be 0.0). Fix: add a collinear overlap check before endpoint distances: if segments are collinear and projections overlap, return 0.0.
• skills/_shared/pi_steel/geometry_verify.py:270: _polygon_edges assumes outline is non-empty; zero-length outline causes division by zero in modulo. Fix: add if not outline: return [] at start.
• tests/test_outline_geometry.py:406: Uses undefined variable L_SHAPE in test, causing NameError. Fix: define L_SHAPE as a constant list (e.g., [[0,0],[4,0],[4,2],[1,2],[1,4],[0,4]]) or import it.
• docs/plans/2026-08-23-002-feat-true-shape-compaction-plan.md: No code issues; it's a plan document. No fix needed.

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Verified each Lab Code Review finding against head e082941; none require a change:

1. Early-exit direction in polygon_min_distance — the existing min(ax1, ax2) - minimum > max(bx1, bx2) means "edge A lies entirely right of edge B by more than the current minimum", and together with its three mirrored conditions it covers exactly the same four separation cases as the proposed max(ax1, ax2) < min(bx1, bx2) - minimum form (which is "A entirely left of B" — the mirror of condition 2). The two formulations are logically equivalent; there is no missed early exit.
2. Collinear overlap in _segment_min_distance — the function's first line delegates to _segments_touch, which detects collinear overlap via _point_on_segment (two overlapping collinear intervals always place at least one endpoint of one on the other). Verified by execution: _segment_min_distance((0,0),(4,0),(2,0),(6,0)) and the contained case both return 0.0.
3. Empty outline in _polygon_edges — range(0) produces no iterations, so the modulo expression never evaluates; the function returns [] for an empty outline (verified by execution). There is no division by zero.
4. Undefined L_SHAPE — it is defined at module top (tests/test_outline_geometry.py:28); the file's 13 tests pass locally and CI is green on this head.

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