Generalist AI does not know your standards.
Ship repair is governed by revisions, tables, notes, and cross-references. Naval Yard Expert grounds your agent in served source text and registered external-standard references, with citations to the document, revision, paragraph, table, note, or page behind supported answers.
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Why generalist AI fails in ship repair
Generic answers
Ask about surface preparation for exterior steel above the boottop and you'll get a plausible-sounding paragraph. It may not mention the correct NSI, table, or line — because the model was never trained on the current fiscal-year package.
Outdated information
Standard Items change on fiscal-year cycles. A model trained on public web data has no concept of "FY-28 versus FY-26." It will cite the wrong revision with the same confidence it cites the right one.
Uncited facts
Without a provenance trail, you cannot verify a claim against the controlling document. In ship repair, "I read it somewhere" is not good enough — the cognizant SUPERVISOR and the contract require the exact source.
Held text and referenced standards
- NAVSEA Standard Items FY-28 CH-1 held text
- JFMM Rev D volumes held text
- JFMM Appendix 4-E FY-28 held text
- SUPSHIP SOM Rev 3 Chg 36 held text
- Standard Phraseology FY-19 reference sample
- MIL-STDs Selected held extracts
- External standards Invoked AWS, ASTM, SSPC/NACE, and NFPA references
Supported answers trace to a specific document, revision, and page. Naval Yard Expert distinguishes held source text from referenced-not-held external standards.
One hard question, answered from the source
A real agent session, condensed. The prompt, the tool trail, and the cited answer it returned. Every claim in the answer carries the source id and page it came from.
- You
- “Use the naval-yard-expert MCP server. Do not answer from memory. For a surface ship work item involving exterior steel above the boottop, determine the applicable NAVSEA Standard Item, the specific table and line to use, the surface preparation requirement, the primer and coating system choices, and any important notes or caveats. Cite source ids and pages.”
- Agent · working
- find_sources “exterior steel above boottop” → yardos:nsi/FY-28/009-032 get 009-032 → “Cleaning and Painting Requirements; accomplish” · pp. 280–419 query_table #table-2 → Line 1, “Exterior surfaces above boottop” · cols A–G · pp. 348–371 get notes (2) (8) (33) (64) → caveats resolved · pp. 321–327
- Agent
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The governing item is NSI 009-032, “Cleaning and Painting Requirements; accomplish.” For exterior steel above the boottop, use Table 2, “Steel Surfaces / Surface Ships,” Line 1 — vertical surfaces read from column G. Line 1 is one valid line in its row group; adjacent lines carry alternative coating systems. yardos:nsi/FY-28/009-032#table-2/line-1 · pp. 348–371
Surface preparation is near-white metal — NACE 2 / SSPC-SP 10 abrasive blast or WJ-2/M waterjetting. Spot-and-sweep may substitute with SUPERVISOR approval. …#table-2/line-1/col-A · note (33), p. 323
Coating system: primer MIL-PRF-23236 Type V/VI Class 5/7, 4–8 mils; a stripe coat of the same; topcoat Haze Gray MIL-PRF-24635 Type V/VI Class 2, 5–8 mils. The primer must share a manufacturer with the rest of the system; below 50 °F, low-temperature limits come from the NAVSEA-reviewed ASTM F718. …#table-2/line-1 · cols B, C, G · notes (64) p. 327, (8) p. 321
This answer is grounded in served source text, but the official NAVSEA publication, contract requirements, and the cognizant SUPERVISOR remain controlling.
It answers the way an expert does
Name the governing standard, quote the relevant passage, and show where the answer came from.
- Orientation
- Start from the task at hand and find the controlling document fast.
- Passage lookup
- The governing paragraph, quoted, with its revision and page.
- Table facts
- Line-and-column values read straight from standards tables.
- Concept to source
- Ask in plain language; land on the exact item and section.
- Cross-references
- Follow invoked standards from document to document.
- Feedback
- Flag a gap or a citation for review without leaving the workflow.
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