urban-calculator

urban-calculator is a skill for Claude Code from Abhinavbwj/Urban-Design-Skills-Claude. It costs 91 tokens per session (1,860 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of Python calculators for common urban-design measures. It calculates figures such as population density, floor area ratio, walkability, parking needs, green-space provision, and block dimensions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to calculate development capacity, estimate walkability, size parking, check access to green space, or test block layouts. Floor area ratio compares a site's total building floor area with the site's land area.
Why use it?
It replaces repeated manual calculations with reusable command-line tools that return both readable results and structured data. This makes quantitative design checks easier to repeat and compare.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the Urban-Design-Skills-Claude plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to calculate development capacity, estimate walkability, size parking, check access to green space, or test block layouts. Floor area ratio compares a site's total building floor area with the site's land area.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abhinavbwj/urban-design-skills-claude/urban-calculator
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/Urban-Design-Skills-Claude --skill urban-calculator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abhinavbwj/Urban-Design-Skills-Claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install Urban-Design-Skills-Claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,860 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 $0.00091 $0.01860
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00930
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00372
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00186

Measured 12d ago against content hash c1d9795d2b57, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

urban-calculator 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/block_optimizer.py, scripts/density_calculator.py, scripts/far_calculator.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/urban-calculator/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Urban Calculator

A suite of Python computational tools for precise urban design metric calculations. Each script is self-contained, accepts inputs via command-line arguments, and outputs both human-readable text and structured JSON.

Available Calculators

Script Purpose Key Inputs Key Outputs
density_calculator.py Population and dwelling density Site area, FAR, unit sizes, efficiency DU/ha, persons/ha, population
far_calculator.py FAR and GFA optimization Site area, coverage, floors, uses FAR, GFA per use, total GFA
walkability_scorer.py Walk Score estimation Amenity distances, network connectivity Score 0-100, category
parking_calculator.py Parking requirements Uses, areas, ratios, reductions Total spaces, area needed
green_space_analyzer.py Green space adequacy Population, park areas, distances Per capita m2, service coverage
block_optimizer.py Block dimension optimization Target FAR, height, coverage, daylight Optimal block dimensions

Usage Instructions

All scripts are located in the scripts/ subdirectory relative to this skill. Run them with Python 3 via the command line. Every script supports a --json flag to output structured JSON instead of formatted text.

Density Calculator

Calculate population and dwelling density for a development site:

python scripts/density_calculator.py --site-area 20000 --far 2.5 --avg-unit-size 85 --efficiency 0.75 --household-size 2.5 --residential-pct 0.7 --streets-pct 0.30

Minimal example (uses defaults for optional parameters):

python scripts/density_calculator.py --site-area 15000 --far 3.0

JSON output:

python scripts/density_calculator.py --site-area 20000 --far 2.5 --json

FAR Calculator

Calculate Floor Area Ratio and Gross Floor Area by use:

python scripts/far_calculator.py --site-area 10000 --coverage 0.6 --floors 4,6,8 --use-split "res:60,com:25,civic:10,open:5"

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 195 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A c1d9795d2b57

Subscribe to this mod's changes

urban-calculator is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abhinavbwj/Urban-Design-Skills-Claude (129 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,860 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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