nonlinear-solvers

nonlinear-solvers is a skill for Claude Code from beita6969/ScienceClaw. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,837 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for solving equations with unknown values and optimization problems, including cases where you want to minimize an error or cost.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for root-finding, optimization, least-squares problems, Jacobian checks, line searches, trust regions, and convergence analysis.
Why use it?
It helps choose a suitable solver and diagnose why an iterative calculation is slow or fails to converge.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for root-finding, optimization, least-squares problems, Jacobian checks, line searches, trust regions, and convergence analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/beita6969/scienceclaw/nonlinear-solvers
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add beita6969/ScienceClaw --skill nonlinear-solvers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beita6969/ScienceClaw

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,837 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 $0.00063 $0.01837
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00919
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00367
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00184

Measured 5d ago against content hash d412671996e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nonlinear-solvers 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/convergence_analyzer.py, scripts/globalization_advisor.py, scripts/jacobian_diagnostics.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/nonlinear-solvers/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nonlinear Solvers

Goal

Provide a universal workflow to select a nonlinear solver, configure globalization strategies, and diagnose convergence for root-finding, optimization, and least-squares problems.

Requirements

  • Python 3.8+
  • NumPy (for Jacobian diagnostics)
  • SciPy (optional, for advanced analysis)

Inputs to Gather

Input Description Example
Problem type Root-finding, optimization, least-squares root-finding
Problem size Number of unknowns n = 10000
Jacobian availability Analytic, finite-diff, unavailable analytic
Jacobian cost Cheap or expensive to compute expensive
Constraints None, bounds, equality, inequality none
Smoothness Is objective/residual smooth? yes
Residual history Sequence of residual norms 1,0.1,0.01,...

Decision Guidance

Solver Selection Flowchart

Is Jacobian available and cheap?
├── YES → Problem size?
│   ├── Small (n < 1000) → Newton (full)
│   └── Large (n ≥ 1000) → Newton-Krylov
└── NO → Is objective smooth?
    ├── YES → Memory limited?
    │   ├── YES → L-BFGS or Broyden
    │   └── NO → BFGS
    └── NO → Anderson acceleration or Picard

Quick Reference

Problem Type First Choice Alternative Globalization
Small root-finding Newton Broyden Line search
Large root-finding Newton-Krylov Anderson Trust region
Optimization L-BFGS BFGS Wolfe line search
Least-squares Levenberg-Marquardt Gauss-Newton Trust region
Bound constrained L-BFGS-B Trust-region reflective Projected

Script Outputs (JSON Fields)

Script Key Outputs
scripts/solver_selector.py recommended, alternatives, notes
scripts/convergence_analyzer.py converged, convergence_type, estimated_rate, diagnosis
scripts/jacobian_diagnostics.py condition_number, jacobian_quality, rank_deficient
scripts/globalization_advisor.py strategy, line_search_type, trust_region_type, parameters
scripts/residual_monitor.py patterns_detected, alerts, recommendations
scripts/step_quality.py ratio, step_quality, accept_step, trust_radius_action

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 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. 5d ago First seen · 181 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A d412671996e1

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nonlinear-solvers is a skill published in the GitHub repository beita6969/ScienceClaw (896 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,837 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 2026-09-03.

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