SWMM Report Export Skill

Purpose

Assemble a reproducible, client-deliverable Word (.docx) report from the artifacts produced by swmm-experiment-audit and swmm-plot. The script reads only existing files; it never re-runs SWMM or modifies the run directory.

Prerequisite: the run directory must contain a 09_audit/ subdirectory with at least experiment_provenance.json. Run aiswmm audit --run-dir <path> first if that directory is absent.

CLI usage

# Standalone script
python3 skills/swmm-report/scripts/generate_report.py \
    --run-dir <path>         # required: audited run directory
    [--out <path.docx>]      # default: <run-dir>/report.docx
    [--template <path>]      # YAML or JSON template (default: built-in)

# CLI verb (registered in aiswmm CLI)
aiswmm report --run-dir <path> [--out <path.docx>] [--template <template.yaml>]

Exit codes: 0 = success; 1 = missing dependency, missing audit dir, or template error; 2 = argument error.

python-docx dependency: install with pip install 'aiswmm[report]'. The script exits immediately with a clear message if python-docx is absent.

Agent tool: generate_report

Registered in AgentToolRegistry. Direct handler (not MCP-routed) — shells out to generate_report.py, writes <run-dir>/report.docx (or the path supplied via out).

generate_report(run_dir="runs/my_run/")
generate_report(run_dir="runs/my_run/", out="deliverables/run_report.docx")
generate_report(run_dir="runs/my_run/", template="templates/client_a.yaml")

is_read_only=False — QUICK profile prompts the user (tool writes files).

If python-docx is not installed the tool returns a failure dict whose summary carries the install hint pip install 'aiswmm[report]'.

Executed example

# Create a minimal synthetic fixture
mkdir -p /tmp/swmm_report_fixture/09_audit
cat > /tmp/swmm_report_fixture/09_audit/experiment_provenance.json << 'EOF'
{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "run_id": "smoke-test-run",
  "generated_at_utc": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "metrics": {"peak_flow": {"value": 1.23, "time_hhmm": "06:30"},
              "continuity_error": -0.5, "swmm_return_code": 0},
  "qa": {"checks": [{"id": "continuity", "ok": true, "detail": "within tolerance"}]},
  "repo": {"git_head": "abc1234", "git_branch": "main"},
  "tools": {"swmm5_version": "5.1.015", "python_version": "3.11"},
  "artifacts": {
    "model.inp": {"role": "input", "sha256": "4840dbe4abcdef", "exists": true,
                  "produced_by": "builder"}
  },
  "generated_by": "aiswmm"
}
EOF

python3 skills/swmm-report/scripts/generate_report.py \
    --run-dir /tmp/swmm_report_fixture \
    --out /tmp/swmm_report_smoke.docx
# Output: Report written to: /tmp/swmm_report_smoke.docx

The generated .docx follows engineering-report conventions:

• Pure black text: Normal, Heading 1, Heading 2, and Title styles all use

RGB(0,0,0) — no Word default blue or grey.

• Numbered body sections: 1 Run Summary, 2 Model Description, … assigned

automatically from template order. The cover title is unnumbered.

• Table captions above each table: Table N — <text> with bold Table N prefix,

numbering sequential across the whole document.

• Narrative paragraph below each table: a short explanatory paragraph stating what

the table shows and where the numbers come from (text sourced from template).

• Figure captions below each figure: Figure N — <stem>, with a separate counter

from the table counter.

• Page number in footer: right-aligned Word PAGE field inserted via OOXML

(fldChar begin + instrText " PAGE " + fldChar end) so Word/LibreOffice renders a live page number.

Template override

Pass --template <path> (YAML or JSON) to control which sections appear and in what order. The built-in template at skills/swmm-report/templates/default.yaml uses all nine sections:

A custom template only needs the sections it uses. Unknown section IDs are warned and skipped — they do not abort the build.

Determinism contract

• No random state, no timestamps injected by the script itself.
• All metadata (run ID, generated-at, SHA-256) comes from existing JSON

artifacts, not re-computed at report time.

• Identical inputs produce bit-identical .docx output (python-docx's

internal XML is deterministic for a given template + data combination).

Scripts

• scripts/generate_report.py — single entrypoint; stdlib + python-docx + PyYAML only.

Templates

• templates/default.yaml — built-in nine-section template.

Dependencies

Part of

PRD_report_export.md — Report Export skill. PR1: generate_report.py + default template. PR2 (this): ToolSpec wiring + CLI verb + SKILL.md.