route-researcher

route-researcher is a skill for Claude Code from dreamiurg/claude-mountaineering-skills. It costs 87 tokens per session (11,734 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A mountain-route research assistant for peaks in North America. It combines route information with weather, avalanche conditions, daylight, trip reports, and access details from several outdoor sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a peak, plan a climb or hike, review current conditions, and create a route-beta report—a practical summary of how to approach and complete the route.
Why use it?
It brings scattered climbing and hiking information together, while noting that coverage may be limited for poorly documented peaks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the mountaineering plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to research a peak, plan a climb or hike, review current conditions, and create a route-beta report—a practical summary of how to approach and complete the route.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dreamiurg/claude-mountaineering-skills/route-researcher
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add dreamiurg/claude-mountaineering-skills --skill route-researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dreamiurg/claude-mountaineering-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mountaineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 11,734 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

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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 $0.00087 $0.11734
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.05867
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.02347
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.01173

Measured 12d ago against content hash 50605c1a60c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

route-researcher 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 8 executable files (tools/cloudscrape.py, tools/fetch_conditions.py, tools/test_cloudscrape.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.

skills/route-researcher/SKILL.md · 917 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 917 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Route Researcher

Research mountain peaks across North America and generate comprehensive route beta reports combining data from multiple sources including PeakBagger, SummitPost, WTA, AllTrails, weather forecasts, avalanche conditions, and trip reports.

Data Sources: This skill aggregates information from specialized mountaineering websites (PeakBagger, SummitPost, Washington Trails Association, AllTrails, The Mountaineers, and regional avalanche centers). The quality of the generated report depends on the availability of information on these sources. If your target peak lacks coverage on these websites, the report may contain limited details. The skill works best for well-documented peaks in North America.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user requests:

  • Research on a specific mountain peak
  • Route beta or climbing information
  • Trip planning information for peaks
  • Current conditions for mountaineering objectives

Examples:

  • "Research Mt Baker"
  • "I'm planning to climb Sahale Peak next month, can you research the route?"
  • "Generate route beta for Forbidden Peak"

Progress Checklist

Research Progress:

  • Phase 1: Peak Identification (peak validated, ID obtained)
  • Phase 2: Peak Information Retrieval (coordinates and details obtained)
  • Phase 3: Data Gathering (parallel execution)
    • Phase 3a: Python conditions fetch (weather, air quality, daylight, avalanche, peakbagger stats/ascents)
    • Phase 3b: Researcher agents (3 in parallel - web sources + trip reports)
    • Phase 3c: Results aggregated
    • Phase 3d: Access/permits (inline WebSearch)
  • Phase 4: Route Analysis (synthesize route, crux, hazards)
  • Phase 5: Report Generation (Report Writer agent)
  • Phase 6: Report Review & Validation (Report Reviewer agent)
  • Phase 7: Completion (user notified, next steps provided)

Orchestration Workflow

Phase 1: Peak Identification

Goal: Identify and validate the specific peak to research.

Read the full file on GitHub · 917 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. 12d ago First seen · 917 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 50605c1a60c4

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route-researcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository dreamiurg/claude-mountaineering-skills (33 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 11,734 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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