alterlab-cirq

alterlab-cirq is a skill for Claude Code from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills. It costs 158 tokens per session (2,988 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python framework for creating, simulating, and running quantum circuits. Quantum circuits are programs made from operations on quantum bits, and Cirq can connect them to simulators and supported quantum hardware.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build measured or parameterized circuits, simulate repeated runs, design circuits for Google's quantum systems, or run noise-characterization experiments.
Why use it?
It lets you test circuit behavior and account for hardware noise before or while running experiments on quantum processors. It also supports connections to several hardware providers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the alterlab-domain-specific plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to build measured or parameterized circuits, simulate repeated runs, design circuits for Google's quantum systems, or run noise-characterization experiments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/alterlab-cirq
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-cirq
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install alterlab-domain-specific, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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Per session 158 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,988 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00158 $0.02988
Opus 5.5 $0.00063 $0.01195
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00598
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00299

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 416192d81e0e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alterlab-cirq 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 1mo 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.

skills/domain-specific/alterlab-cirq/SKILL.md · 366 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 366 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cirq - Quantum Computing with Python

Cirq is Google Quantum AI's open-source framework for designing, simulating, and running quantum circuits on quantum computers and simulators.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user wants to:

  • Build and simulate circuits in Cirq (state-vector, density-matrix, parameter sweeps)
  • Model Google hardware noise or run on the Quantum Virtual Machine (willow_pink, weber, rainbow)
  • Submit Cirq circuits to Google Quantum Engine (approved partners), IonQ, AQT, Pasqal, or Azure Quantum
  • Run characterization experiments (randomized benchmarking, XEB) or ReCirq-style studies

Does NOT Trigger

Scenario Use Instead
IBM Quantum hardware, Qiskit Runtime primitives, or Qiskit transpilation alterlab-qiskit
Gradient-trained quantum ML / hybrid models with autodiff alterlab-pennylane
Lindblad master equations, decoherence, or cavity-QED dynamics (no circuits) alterlab-qutip

Installation

uv pip install cirq          # Python ≥ 3.11; current 1.7.x as of 2026-09

The cirq package is a meta-package that already pulls in cirq-core, cirq-google, cirq-ionq, cirq-aqt, cirq-pasqal, and cirq-web; install cirq-core alone for a lightweight simulation-only environment. Optional extras:

# OpenQASM import (cirq.contrib.qasm_import needs `ply`), quimb tensor-network tools
uv pip install "cirq-core[contrib]"

# Azure Quantum — its `cirq` extra pins cirq-core 1.6.x, so use a separate environment
uv pip install "azure-quantum[cirq]"

Quick Start

Basic Circuit

import cirq
import numpy as np

# Create qubits
q0, q1 = cirq.LineQubit.range(2)

# Build circuit
circuit = cirq.Circuit(
    cirq.H(q0),              # Hadamard on q0
    cirq.CNOT(q0, q1),       # CNOT with q0 control, q1 target
    cirq.measure(q0, q1, key='result')
)

print(circuit)

# Simulate
simulator = cirq.Simulator()
result = simulator.run(circuit, repetitions=1000)

# Display results
print(result.histogram(key='result'))

Read the full file on GitHub · 366 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. 1mo ago Changed · +18 lines · +23 tokens per session 416192d81e0e
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 348 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A 0afb3f84e6c0

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alterlab-cirq is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (78 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 158 tokens to every session and 2,988 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-05.

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