embodied-carbon-esg

embodied-carbon-esg is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from datadrivenconstruction/DDC_Skills_for_AI_Agents_in_Construction. It costs 47 tokens per session (649 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A construction carbon-accounting and ESG reporting tool that estimates emissions from materials and work items. Embodied carbon means the emissions created by making, transporting, and using building materials, while ESG reporting covers environmental, social, and governance information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to calculate life-cycle carbon for materials and work items, roll results up across a project, and prepare sustainability reporting.
Why use it?
It puts carbon estimates alongside quantities and costs at the bill-of-quantities level. It also helps prepare reports aligned with EU Taxonomy and CSRD requirements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to calculate life-cycle carbon for materials and work items, roll results up across a project, and prepare sustainability reporting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/datadrivenconstruction/ddc_skills_for_ai_agents_in_construction/embodied-carbon-esg
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add datadrivenconstruction/DDC_Skills_for_AI_Agents_in_Construction --skill embodied-carbon-esg
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/datadrivenconstruction/DDC_Skills_for_AI_Agents_in_Construction

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 649 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 $0.00047 $0.00649
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00260
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00065

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0e7094dac745, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

embodied-carbon-esg 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.

5_DDC_Innovative/embodied-carbon-esg/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Embodied Carbon & ESG for Construction (2026)

Why it matters now

From 2026 the EU CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) and EU Taxonomy force contractors and developers to report embodied carbon (A1–A5 life-cycle modules), not just operational energy. Estimators need carbon numbers next to price numbers at the BOQ line level.

Method

Carbon = quantity × carbon factor, applied per material resource line — exactly parallel to quantity × unit price = cost.

work item → components[] → material lines → quantity × EF (kg CO₂e / unit) → line carbon
BOQ roll-up: Σ line carbon = project embodied carbon (A1–A3) + transport/waste (A4–A5)

Data sources for factors

Source Coverage License
ÖKOBAUDAT (DE) building materials open
INIES (FR) FDES products open
ICE Database (UK) embodied carbon free registration
EPD libraries (ECO Platform) manufacturer EPDs varies

The CWICR bases already carry per-resource quantity and unit — attach an EF (kg CO₂e/unit) column for the materials and the roll-up is automatic.

What to compute per project

  • A1–A3 embodied carbon per BOQ section and per trade (from material lines).
  • A4–A5 transport + site waste assumptions (distance bands, waste rates per material).
  • kg CO₂e / m² and / m³ intensity benchmarks for early design.
  • Hotspot report: top 10 carbon lines (usually concrete, steel, aluminium, insulation).

EU Taxonomy / CSRD alignment

  • Map each work item to the taxonomy activity (construction of new buildings 7.1, renovation 7.2, …).
  • Report DNSH (Do No Significant Harm) screening: circularity, waste, water for the top materials.
  • Keep the evidence trail: factor source + version per line (auditors ask).

Honest limits

  • Carbon factors are regional and versioned — never mix databases without noting it.
  • BIM takeoff gives geometry; carbon needs material takeoff (from CWICR resource_name + resource_quantity).
  • Early-phase estimates are ±30–50%; label them as such.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 1mo ago First seen · 56 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 0e7094dac745

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embodied-carbon-esg is a skill published in the GitHub repository datadrivenconstruction/DDC_Skills_for_AI_Agents_in_Construction (374 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 649 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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