ethereum-package: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/kurtosis-ethereum/SKILL.md

kurtosis-ethereum is a skill for Claude Code from ethpandaops/ethereum-package. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,651 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for running local Ethereum test networks with Kurtosis and the ethpandaops Ethereum package. Ethereum uses separate consensus and execution clients, so these networks can test how different clients work together.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create and inspect devnets, test public-network synchronization, validate fork transitions and shadowforks, run assertoor checks, collect logs and traces, and debug consensus/execution client interactions.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable local environment for checking client synchronization, network upgrades, and cross-client behavior without relying only on a public network.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

This is ethpandaops/ethereum-package's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ethereum-package itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ethereum-package configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ethpandaops/ethereum-package. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ethpandaops/ethereum-package/main/.claude/skills/kurtosis-ethereum/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ethpandaops/ethereum-package

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,651 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00078 $0.01651
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00826
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00330
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00165

Measured 11d ago against content hash 574475407d05, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kurtosis-ethereum scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (kurtosis-ref.sh), 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s http://127.0.0.1:<cl-port>/eth/v1/beacon/states/head/finality_checkpoints | jq
.claude/skills/kurtosis-ethereum/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kurtosis Devnet

Run Ethereum consensus/execution client devnets via kurtosis + ethereum-package.

Config Principle

Only include fields that differ from defaults. If the task doesn't mention a setting, don't include it. Shorter configs are better — let the defaults handle the rest.

Quick Start

# ALWAYS start the OTel stack first — runs an OTel collector + ClickHouse on the
# Docker host for centralized log (and trace) collection while debugging.
# Docker-only. Logs are stamped with the enclave name; traces require the
# `otel` additional_service (see below). ClickHouse on :18123, OTLP on :14317/:14318.
kurtosis otel start

# Write a network_params.yaml, then:
kurtosis run github.com/ethpandaops/ethereum-package \
  --enclave <name> \
  --args-file network_params.yaml \
  --image-download always

kurtosis enclave ls                    # list enclaves
kurtosis enclave inspect <name>        # inspect services + ports
kurtosis service logs <enclave> <svc>  # view logs
kurtosis enclave rm -f <name>          # cleanup

If you are told to use a fork or a branch of the ethereum-package, then replace github.com/ethpandaops/ethereum-package with github.com//ethereum-package@branch

If you want to quickly sanity check something, then use preset: "minimal". This will lead to much faster networks, but do not default to this approach. Only use it when you are sure you want to quickly check something. When the user expects it to behave like mainnet, then use preset: "mainnet".

Config Structure (network_params.yaml)

participants

Each entry is a CL+EL node. Only specify fields you need to override:

participants:
  - el_type: geth           # geth, reth, nethermind, besu, erigon
    cl_type: lighthouse      # lighthouse, lodestar, prysm, teku, nimbus

Available overrides (only use when needed):

  • el_image / cl_image / vc_image — custom Docker images
  • el_extra_params / cl_extra_params / vc_extra_params — extra CLI flags
  • el_max_cpu / el_max_mem / cl_max_cpu / cl_max_mem — resource limits (millicores / MB)
  • vc_type — separate validator client type (creates a dedicated vc service)
  • use_remote_signer: true + remote_signer_type: web3signer — remote signing
  • count — number of identical instances (default: 1)
  • validator_count — validators assigned (default: from network config)

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 195 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 574475407d05

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kurtosis-ethereum is a skill published in the GitHub repository ethpandaops/ethereum-package (477 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,651 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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