aria-knowledge

aria-knowledge is a skill for Claude Code from facebookresearch/projectaria-plugins. It costs 234 tokens per session (5,184 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A knowledge guide to Project Aria Gen 2 and the Aria Research Kit, the hardware and software used to collect and process smart-glasses sensor data. It explains concepts such as calibration, coordinate systems, recordings, and outputs from perception systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Learning how Aria sensors, data formats, time domains, localisation, point clouds, and hand tracking fit together before using the related development tools.
Why use it?
It gives developers the background needed to understand Aria data and points them to current documentation or source code when details may change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the aria-ark plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Learning how Aria sensors, data formats, time domains, localisation, point clouds, and hand tracking fit together before using the related development tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/facebookresearch/projectaria-plugins/aria-knowledge
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.

Any agent
npx skills add facebookresearch/projectaria-plugins --skill aria-knowledge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/facebookresearch/projectaria-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aria-ark, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 234 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,184 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 $0.00234 $0.05184
Opus 5.5 $0.00094 $0.02074
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00047 $0.01037
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00518

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b1ebcabca63f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aria-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 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.

projectaria_ark_plugin/skills/aria-knowledge/SKILL.md · 420 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 420 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Aria Knowledge

This skill is the knowledge index for Project Aria Gen 2 and the Aria Research Kit (ARK). It encodes the high-level concepts that are stable across releases, and for specifics that drift (sensor specs, CSV column lists, exact API signatures, CLI flags) it tells you where the source-of-truth lives so you can fetch a current answer rather than guess.

How to use this skill

Question type                         → Action
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
What is X? / How does Y work?         → Answer from this skill
Specific numeric value / schema       → Read the public doc page this skill
                                        names (under `DOCS_BASE` below)
Exact API call / API signature        → Read the code (see corresponding
                                        skill for header locations)
Exact CLI flag                        → Run `<cmd> --help`
Hands-on workflow                     → Defer to the matching plugin skill
                                        (listed at the end of each section)

Source-of-truth rule. Anything that may change with a release — sample rates, profile JSON, stream IDs, calibration model parameters, MPS service versions, API names, CSV columns — lives in the docs or the source code. This skill repeats only the conceptual definitions that are unlikely to evolve.

Where to look (source-of-truth map)

Source URL
DOCS_BASE — Aria Gen 2 public docs https://facebookresearch.github.io/projectaria_tools/gen2
Open-source PAT library https://github.com/facebookresearch/projectaria_tools
VRS file-format library https://github.com/facebookresearch/vrs
Project Aria home https://www.projectaria.com/

Throughout this skill, paths like /technical-specs/device/als are relative to DOCS_BASE — prepend the base to construct a fetchable URL. The four top-level sections of the public docs site:

Section Covers
/ (root) Welcome / Gen 2 platform overview
/ark/... Aria Research Kit user docs (devices, recording, streaming, MPS, companion app, support)
/research-tools/... Open Science Initiative, projectaria-tools (PAT), open datasets, pre-trained models
/technical-specs/... Hardware specs, profiles, calibration, VRS format, MPS data formats, coordinate systems, client SDK reference

Read the full file on GitHub · 420 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 · 420 lines · 234 tokens per session scan A b1ebcabca63f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aria-knowledge is a skill published in the GitHub repository facebookresearch/projectaria-plugins (14 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 234 tokens to every session and 5,184 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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