astronomy-cosmology

astronomy-cosmology is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from beita6969/ScienceClaw. It costs 58 tokens per session (827 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for analysing observations of space and models of the universe, including stars, galaxies, exoplanets, black holes, and cosmology.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for work such as photometry, spectroscopy, orbital calculations, stellar classification, galaxy analysis, and estimating cosmological parameters.
Why use it?
It gives a structured way to define an astronomy question, process telescope data, and derive physical properties from it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for work such as photometry, spectroscopy, orbital calculations, stellar classification, galaxy analysis, and estimating cosmological parameters.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/beita6969/scienceclaw/astronomy-cosmology
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 beita6969/ScienceClaw --skill astronomy-cosmology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beita6969/ScienceClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 827 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 $0.00058 $0.00827
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00083

Measured 11d ago against content hash 47de090a5a62, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

astronomy-cosmology 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 11d 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/astronomy-cosmology/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to Trigger

Activate this skill when the user mentions:

  • Telescope observations, photometry, spectroscopy, astrometry
  • Celestial mechanics, orbital calculations, Kepler's laws
  • Stellar evolution, HR diagram, spectral classification
  • Galaxy morphology, redshift, distance ladder
  • Cosmological models, dark matter, dark energy, CMB
  • Exoplanet detection, transit method, radial velocity
  • Gravitational waves, black holes, neutron stars

Step-by-Step Methodology

  1. Define the astronomical question - Specify the object type (star, galaxy, nebula, exoplanet), observational band (optical, radio, X-ray, IR), and physical quantity of interest (distance, mass, luminosity, composition).
  2. Data acquisition - Identify relevant surveys and archives: Gaia for astrometry, SDSS for optical spectra/photometry, 2MASS/WISE for IR, Chandra for X-ray. Download data using VO (Virtual Observatory) tools or API queries.
  3. Calibration and reduction - Apply bias subtraction, flat-fielding, wavelength/flux calibration. For photometry: aperture or PSF fitting. For spectroscopy: sky subtraction, continuum normalization. Report signal-to-noise ratios.
  4. Physical parameter derivation - Compute distances (parallax, standard candles, redshift-distance relation using appropriate cosmology). Derive masses (Kepler's third law, virial theorem, mass-luminosity relation). Determine compositions from spectral line analysis.
  5. Modeling - Fit observational data with physical models: stellar atmosphere models (ATLAS, PHOENIX), N-body simulations for dynamics, cosmological models (LCDM, wCDM). Use MCMC or nested sampling for parameter estimation.
  6. Cosmological calculations - Use standard cosmological parameters (H0, Omega_m, Omega_Lambda). Compute comoving distances, lookback times, luminosity distances. Note current tensions (H0 tension between early and late universe).
  7. Visualization - Produce standard astronomical plots: HR diagrams, light curves, spectra, sky maps in appropriate coordinate systems (equatorial, galactic). Use logarithmic scales where appropriate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. 11d ago First seen · 54 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 47de090a5a62

Subscribe to this mod's changes

astronomy-cosmology is a skill published in the GitHub repository beita6969/ScienceClaw (898 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 827 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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