MOOSEnger -- a Domain-Specific AI Agent for the MOOSE Ecosystem

Abstract

MOOSEnger is a tool-enabled AI agent tailored to the Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE). MOOSE cases are specified in HIT ".i" input files; the large object catalog and strict syntax make initial setup and debugging slow. MOOSEnger offers a conversational workflow that turns natural-language intent into runnable inputs by combining retrieval-augmented generation over curated docs/examples with deterministic, MOOSE-aware parsing, validation, and execution tools. A core-plus-domain architecture separates reusable agent infrastructure (configuration, registries, tool dispatch, retrieval services, persistence, and evaluation) from a MOOSE plugin that adds HIT-based parsing, syntax-preserving ingestion of input files, and domain-specific utilities for input repair and checking. An input precheck pipeline removes hidden formatting artifacts, fixes malformed HIT structure with a bounded grammar-constrained loop, and resolves invalid object types via similarity search over an application syntax registry. Inputs are then validated and optionally smoke-tested with the MOOSE runtime in the loop via an MCP-backed execution backend (with local fallback), translating solver diagnostics into iterative verify-and-correct updates. Built-in evaluation reports RAG metrics (faithfulness, relevancy, context precision/recall) and end-to-end success by actual execution. On a 125-prompt benchmark spanning diffusion, transient heat conduction, solid mechanics, porous flow, incompressible Navier--Stokes, phase field and plasticity, MOOSEnger achieves a 0.90 execution pass rate versus 0.06 for an LLM-only baseline.