$npx -y skills add Power-Agent/PowerSkills --skill short-circuit-mitigationSenior power-engineer playbook for excessive fault current and breaker over-duty. Use whenever a short-circuit study shows fault duty above interrupting ratings, or a new interconnection raises fault levels near equipment limits. Triggers on "fault duty", "breaker over-duty", "sh
| 1 | # Short-circuit mitigation |
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| 3 | Start with the over-dutied buses and breakers, the fault type, and the study assumptions that produced them. |
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| 5 | ## Preferred action order |
| 6 | 1. Confirm the duty is real: machine subtransient data, motor contribution, pre-fault voltage assumption, fault type (three-phase vs single-line-to-ground), and the X/R used for asymmetry — over-duty findings are often data findings. |
| 7 | 2. Apply operational fixes first: split buses, open bus-tie or loop points, and re-dispatch nearby generation where switching alone relieves the duty. |
| 8 | 3. Add impedance on the offending paths: series reactors or higher-impedance transformer choices for new connections. |
| 9 | 4. Screen fault-current limiters where switching and impedance are not enough. |
| 10 | 5. Recommend breaker replacement or uprating as the planning fix, with an interim operating guide until installed. |
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| 12 | ## Working rules |
| 13 | - Check maximum (all-sources-in) and minimum (credible outage) fault cases — protection settings need the minimum, breaker duty needs the maximum. |
| 14 | - Single-line-to-ground duty can exceed three-phase duty near grounded transformer banks; do not screen on three-phase faults alone. |
| 15 | - Bus splitting changes power-flow transfer paths and N-1 performance; re-run the contingency screen after any topology fix and route findings to `contingency-mitigation`. |
| 16 | - Keep the protection engineer in the loop: any fix that changes fault levels changes relay reach. |
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| 18 | ## Deliver |
| 19 | - The over-dutied equipment, its rating basis, and the computed duty. |
| 20 | - The mitigation sequence tried, from switching to reinforcement. |
| 21 | - The residual duty margin and any protection re-coordination still required. |