plate-tectonics-analysis

plate-tectonics-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench. It costs 26 tokens per session (571 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to comparing earthquake locations with tectonic plates, the large moving sections of Earth's crust. It uses the PB2002 plate and boundary datasets with GeoPandas, a Python tool for geographic data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find earthquakes inside a plate, identify nearby plate boundaries, and analyse their geographic relationship.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of joining earthquake points to plate areas and boundaries on a map.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to find earthquakes inside a plate, identify nearby plate boundaries…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cxcscmu/skilllearnbench/plate-tectonics-analysis
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench --skill plate-tectonics-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 571 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.
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 $0.00026 $0.00571
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00285
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00057

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2ac5e8df55d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plate-tectonics-analysis 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 3d 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/b1-one-shot-claude-opus-4-6/earthquake-plate-calculation/plate-tectonics-analysis/SKILL.md · 73 lines

What it actually says

Plate Tectonics Analysis with PB2002 Dataset

PB2002 Dataset Structure

Plates (PB2002_plates.json)

  • GeoJSON FeatureCollection with Polygon geometries
  • Properties include PlateName (e.g., "PA" for Pacific)
  • Each feature is a tectonic plate polygon

Boundaries (PB2002_boundaries.json)

  • GeoJSON FeatureCollection with LineString geometries
  • Properties: PlateA, PlateB (2-letter plate codes), Name, Type
  • Pacific plate code: "PA"
  • Boundaries involving Pacific: PlateA == "PA" or PlateB == "PA"

Common Plate Codes

  • PA: Pacific, NA: North America, SA: South America
  • EU: Eurasia, AF: Africa, AN: Antarctica
  • AU: Australia, IN: India, NZ: Nazca

Workflow: Find Earthquakes Inside a Plate

import geopandas as gpd

# Load plate polygons and earthquake points
plates = gpd.read_file("PB2002_plates.json")
earthquakes = gpd.read_file("earthquakes.json")

# Get Pacific plate polygon
pacific = plates[plates["PlateName"] == "PA"]

# Spatial join: earthquakes within Pacific plate
eq_in_pacific = gpd.sjoin(earthquakes, pacific, predicate="within")

Workflow: Get Plate Boundaries

boundaries = gpd.read_file("PB2002_boundaries.json")

# Filter boundaries of Pacific plate
pa_bounds = boundaries[
    (boundaries["PlateA"] == "PA") | (boundaries["PlateB"] == "PA")
]

# Merge all boundary segments into one geometry
pa_boundary_union = pa_bounds.unary_union

Workflow: Distance from Earthquake to Plate Boundary

# Project both to a suitable CRS
proj_crs = "+proj=aeqd +lat_0=0 +lon_0=-160 +datum=WGS84 +units=m"

eq_proj = eq_in_pacific.to_crs(proj_crs)
boundary_proj = pa_bounds.to_crs(proj_crs)
boundary_union_proj = boundary_proj.unary_union

# Calculate distances
eq_proj["dist_to_boundary"] = eq_proj.geometry.distance(boundary_union_proj)
eq_proj["dist_km"] = eq_proj["dist_to_boundary"] / 1000

# Find the earthquake furthest from boundary
furthest = eq_proj.loc[eq_proj["dist_km"].idxmax()]
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. 3d ago First seen · 73 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 2ac5e8df55d4

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plate-tectonics-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench (83 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 571 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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