seismic-picker-selection

seismic-picker-selection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from benchflow-ai/skillsbench. It costs 52 tokens per session (846 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A comparison guide for detecting earthquake signals and identifying their P- and S-wave arrival times, known as seismic phase picking. It compares STA/LTA, manual review, deep learning, and template matching.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when selecting an approach for finding earthquake events and marking seismic-wave arrival times in recordings.
Why use it?
It helps you choose a detection or picking method based on accuracy, speed, false detections, and whether prior waveform knowledge is available.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when selecting an approach for finding earthquake events and marking seismic-wave arrival times in recordings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/benchflow-ai/skillsbench/seismic-picker-selection
About the project

SkillsBench is a benchmark for measuring how effectively AI agents use modular skills—folders containing instructions, scripts, and resources—to complete specialized tasks. It helps researchers and developers evaluate both skill quality and agent behavior, including tasks that require combining multiple skills. The catalogue’s skills and instructions are evaluated as part of this workflow.

benchflow-ai/skillsbench · 1,757 stars · on GitHub · skillsbench.ai

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 benchflow-ai/skillsbench --skill seismic-picker-selection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benchflow-ai/skillsbench

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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agentmods badge for seismic-picker-selection

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for seismic-picker-selection

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 846 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 $0.00052 $0.00846
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00423
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00085

Measured 7d ago against content hash 20ff09362d21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seismic-picker-selection 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 7d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

tasks/earthquake-phase-association/environment/skills/seismic-picker-selection/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Seismic Event Detection & Phase Picking Method Selection Guide

Overview: Method Tradeoffs

When choosing an event detection and phase picking method, consider these key tradeoffs:

Method Generalizability Sensitivity Speed, Ease-of-Use False Positives
STA/LTA High Low Fast, Easy Many
Manual High High Slow, Difficult Few
Deep Learning High High Fast, Easy Medium
Template Matching Low High Slow, Difficult Few
  • Generalizability: Ability to find arbitrary earthquake signals
  • Sensitivity: Ability to find small earthquakes

Key insight: Each method has strengths and weaknesses. Purpose and resources should guide your choice.

STA/LTA (Short-Term Average / Long-Term Average)

Advantages

  • Runs very fast: Automatically operates in real-time
  • Easy to understand & implement: Can optimize for different window lengths and ratios
  • No prior knowledge needed: Does not require information about earthquake sources or waveforms
  • Amplitude-based detector: Reliably detects large earthquake signals

Limitations

  • High rate of false detections during active sequences
  • Automatic picks not as precise
  • Requires manual review and refinement of picks for a quality catalog

Template Matching

Advantages

  • Optimally sensitive detector (more sensitive than deep-learning): Can find smallest earthquakes buried in noise, if similar enough to template waveform
  • Excellent for improving temporal resolution of earthquake sequences
  • False detections are not as concerning when using high detection threshold

Limitations

  • Requires prior knowledge about earthquake sources: Need template waveforms with good picks from a preexisting catalog
  • Does not improve spatial resolution: Unknown earthquake sources that are not similar enough to templates cannot be found
  • Setup effort required: Must extract template waveforms and configure processing
  • Computationally intensive

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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. 7d ago First seen · 82 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 20ff09362d21

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seismic-picker-selection is a skill published in the GitHub repository benchflow-ai/skillsbench (1,757 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 846 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.