aec-datasets-tools

aec-datasets-tools is a skill for Claude Code from Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar. It costs 110 tokens per session (1,535 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide to datasets, benchmarks, and research software used in architecture, engineering, and construction studies. It covers areas such as building energy, BIM, computer vision, structural analysis, and computational design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose software, open datasets, and benchmarks for AEC research, simulation, data analysis, and computational design.
Why use it?
It helps researchers find relevant tools and data while reminding them to check licenses, availability, versions, and citation details.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the aec-scholar plugin — 11 skills, 36 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose software, open datasets, and benchmarks for AEC research, simulation, data analysis, and computational design.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abhinavbwj/aec-scholar/aec-datasets-tools
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar --skill aec-datasets-tools
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aec-scholar, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 36 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,535 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00110 $0.01535
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00767
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00153

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8d13376c685e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aec-datasets-tools scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

aec-scholar/skills/aec-datasets-tools/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AEC Research Datasets & Tools — Reference

Point researchers to credible tools and (where they exist) open datasets/benchmarks, and remind them to cite software and data (version + DOI) and to verify licenses and current availability before use.

1. Building energy & performance

  • EnergyPlus (DOE) — whole-building energy simulation (the research standard); OpenStudio SDK/GUI; EnergyPlus + Python (eppy, pyenergyplus), besos, eppy for parametric runs.
  • Modelica ecosystem — Buildings library (LBNL), Spawn-of-EnergyPlus, Dymola/OpenModelica.
  • Ladybug Tools (Ladybug/Honeybee/Butterfly) in Grasshopper — daylight (Radiance), energy, CFD.
  • Radiance — daylight/glare; CONTAM — airflow/IAQ; OpenFOAM — CFD (ventilation, urban microclimate).
  • TRNSYS, IDA ICE, IES-VE, DesignBuilder — common (mostly commercial) BES tools.
  • Weather data: EnergyPlus/EPW files (climate.onebuilding.org), TMY3; UBEM: UMI, CityEnergyAnalyst (CEA).
  • Open datasets/benchmarks: ASHRAE Great Energy Predictor III (Kaggle), Building Data Genome Project 1/2, the DOE Commercial/Residential Prototype Building Models, and NREL ResStock/ComStock (verify current terms).

2. BIM / openBIM / interoperability

  • IfcOpenShell (Python/C++) — parse, query, geometry from IFC; BlenderBIM/Bonsai — open BIM authoring.
  • xBIM Toolkit (.NET), IFC.js / web-ifc / That Open Engine — IFC in the browser.
  • Speckle — open data hub / interoperability across AEC tools; Solibri — model checking (commercial).
  • buildingSMART resources: IFC schema, IDS samples, bSDD; Linked Building Data: IFCtoLBD, BOT ontology.
  • Datasets: IFC sample files (buildingSMART, KIT IFC examples). Curated open BIM datasets are scarce — note this limitation; many studies build their own.

3. Computer vision, point clouds & ML in construction

  • Point clouds: PDAL, Open3D, CloudCompare, PCL; photogrammetry/SLAM: COLMAP, Meshroom.
  • Benchmarks/datasets: S3DIS, ScanNet, Semantic3D, KITTI (general 3D/segmentation); construction- specific: SODA / MOCS / ACID (site object/worker detection), Structured3D, building-defect crack datasets (e.g. SDNET2018, METU concrete crack) — verify licenses & current links, and report dataset size/splits honestly (AEC ML datasets are often small/narrow).
  • ML frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow/Keras, scikit-learn, Ultralytics YOLO; GNN: PyTorch Geometric/DGL.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 80 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 8d13376c685e

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aec-datasets-tools is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar (18 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 1,535 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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