How the AI works

Whichever AI designs, your Claude through the connector, Claude Code, or Claude or another AI on your own key, it builds the same way and is held to the same checks.

The same parts, the same checks

An AI does not draw a model; it proposes parts, and Brickworks decides. Every design goes through the checks a part you place by hand does, and more:

• Real parts only, found by search in the catalogue, in colours each was really made in.
• Each part where it fits, on studs, pins, axles, clips and hinges, by its connectors, never passing into another.
• The check by real shapes: finished, every part is held by a stud, a joint or what catches it, judged by the parts' exact shapes.
• It stands: balance and the strength of each joint, as Check stability weighs them.

A design that fails is sent back with what failed, part by part, and the AI fixes it before it is kept. What lands on your baseplate is one step of Undo.

How it builds well

Brickworks hands the AI what a set designer knows:

• Patterns for shapes: a curve, a taper, a dome, a wall with windows, said as a pattern and laid in real parts.
• How real sets build it: pieces of real sets found by what they are (a wheel arch, a roof ridge, a minifigure's chair) with pictures of real sets of the kind.
• Worked constructions: hinged panels, SNOT walls, shells of hinged plates turned any way.
• Figures on joints: people, animals and heads laid on joints that turn and hold.
• Its own best work: the best-scored earlier design of the nearest subject, and what was faulted in it.
• A surface pass that settles studs, tiles and greebles once the shape stands.

The AI sees its own work in pictures with the studs counted along each side, so it can judge sizes, and then gets fresh eyes.

Never limited

AI is never limited, on any plan. You bring your own AI, so Brickworks never meters it or pays for it: whatever you ask of it, its maker bills your plan or key, never Brickworks. What each plan includes is on Plans and billing.

Tips

• Say the size: a minifigure-scale house, 16 by 16 studs, a Technic car about 30 cm long.
• Say the subject and its parts: a lighthouse with a red and white tower, a gallery round the lamp and a keeper's cottage.
• Sketch first when you are not sure you have said what you mean: three cheap massings, then the one you pick.
• Change a part, not the whole: select it and Ask Claude about this, so nothing else moves.
• Build together: the AI and your hands can work on one model; each change is its own undo step.
• Own the result: you can change any part by hand, and what you share is yours, credited to you.