rpi-knowledge

rpi-knowledge is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from D-Robotics/moss. It costs 296 tokens per session (3,077 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference for Raspberry Pi boards, their hardware differences, GPIO pins, camera software, and where AI processing runs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing GPIO libraries, checking Pi 4, Pi 5, or Compute Module 4 compatibility, setting up cameras, or deciding where inference should run.
Why use it?
It helps avoid using older instructions on newer boards, especially Pi 5, where some traditional GPIO libraries no longer work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/d-robotics/moss/rpi-knowledge
Any agent
npx skills add D-Robotics/moss --skill rpi-knowledge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/D-Robotics/moss

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 296 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,077 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00296 $0.03077
Opus 5 $0.00148 $0.01538
Sonnet 5 $0.00059 $0.00615
Haiku 4.5 $0.00030 $0.00308

Measured 4d ago against content hash b28bfde763bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rpi-knowledge 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/board_selector.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.

packages/moss-agent/assets/rdk-knowledge/skills/rpi-knowledge/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Raspberry Pi Knowledge

This skill is about the Raspberry Pi platform itself: board specs, the RP1 I/O chip, GPIO library choice, the camera stack, and where AI inference actually runs. The single fact that trips up the most people: on a Raspberry Pi 5 the GPIO pins live on the RP1 chip, not the main SoC — so any library that pokes /dev/mem registers directly (classic RPi.GPIO, wiringPi) silently fails or errors. Catch that first whenever GPIO "doesn't work on Pi 5."

Sources: official raspberrypi.com documentation and product pages (Pi 5 / Pi 4B / CM4 spec pages, the camera-software docs, the GPIO best-practices white paper), verified against the source for every spec line. Nothing invented.

The two facts that matter most

  1. Pi 5 GPIO moved off-SoC into RP1. On Pi 4B and earlier the GPIO controller is inside the BCM SoC and old code memory-maps its registers. On Pi 5 the 40-pin header is driven by the RP1 southbridge over PCIe, so those register mappings no longer exist. Classic RPi.GPIO (and wiringPi) do not work on Pi 5. Use the character-device path: gpiozero (official recommendation, lgpio backend) → lgpio/libgpiod for lower level → rpi-lgpio as a drop-in shim for legacy RPi.GPIO code.
  2. No Raspberry Pi has an on-board NPU. Pi 5/4B/CM4 run AI on the CPU (ONNX Runtime / TFLite / PyTorch aarch64). For real acceleration you add a Hailo AI HAT+ (PCIe, Pi 5 only) and run HEF models. Don't promise NPU performance the board doesn't have.

Board decision cheat-sheet

Confirm the board first (cat /proc/device-tree/model), then everything follows. All three current boards are 0 TOPS (no NPU) and run AI on CPU unless a HAT accelerator is added.

Board SoC CPU RAM variants RP1? GPIO lib AI path
Raspberry Pi 5 BCM2712 Cortex-A76 @2.4GHz 1/2/4/8/16GB LPDDR4X Yes gpiozero / lgpio (NOT RPi.GPIO) CPU; or Hailo AI HAT+ (HEF)
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B BCM2711 Cortex-A72 @1.8GHz 1/2/4/8GB LPDDR4 No gpiozero / lgpio / RPi.GPIO still works CPU / ONNX / TFLite
Compute Module 4 BCM2711 Cortex-A72 @1.5GHz 1/2/4/8GB LPDDR4-3200 No gpiozero / lgpio / RPi.GPIO still works CPU / ONNX / TFLite

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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.

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. 4d ago First seen · 104 lines · 296 tokens per session scan A b28bfde763bb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rpi-knowledge is a skill published in the GitHub repository D-Robotics/moss (142 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 296 tokens to every session and 3,077 once invoked, about $0.0015 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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