ScienceClaw is an agent system for scientific work that completes tasks as typed, executable workflows and turns replay-verified improvements into reusable skills and operators. It is intended for AI-assisted research across natural and social science disciplines. The catalogue entries are its skills and instruction for use with the system.
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.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00063 | $0.01837 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00025 | $0.00735 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00367 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00184 |
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 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.
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 |
What ships with it
10 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.
- references/convergence_diagnostics.md 8.5 KB
- references/globalization_strategies.md 8.8 KB
- references/method_catalog.md 9.1 KB
- references/solver_decision_tree.md 8.0 KB
- scripts/convergence_analyzer.py 7.6 KB runs code
- scripts/globalization_advisor.py 7.7 KB runs code
- scripts/jacobian_diagnostics.py 6.7 KB runs code
- scripts/residual_monitor.py 8.4 KB runs code
- scripts/solver_selector.py 7.8 KB runs code
- scripts/step_quality.py 7.2 KB runs code
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 181 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A d412671996e1
nonlinear-solvers is a skill published in the GitHub repository beita6969/ScienceClaw (1,018 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,837 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.
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