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.claude/skills/usgs_integrate_gauges/SKILL.md

usgs_integrate_gauges is a skill for Claude Code from gpt-cmdr/ras-commander. It costs 175 tokens per session (2,918 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for finding and using USGS stream gauges in hydraulic models. USGS gauges are monitoring stations that record water levels and flow in rivers and streams.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for discovering gauges, downloading current or historical readings, matching gauges to model features, generating boundary and starting conditions, monitoring live data, and calculating validation measures such as NSE and KGE.
Why use it?
It brings gauge observations into the model workflow, reducing the manual work of finding stations, retrieving data, creating model inputs, and checking model results against real measurements.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is gpt-cmdr/ras-commander's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ras-commander 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 ras-commander configures →

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

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gpt-cmdr/ras-commander

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Per session 175 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,918 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 $0.00175 $0.02918
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.01459
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00584
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00292

Measured 7d ago against content hash 6d7a8b33a4bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

usgs_integrate_gauges 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 7d 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.

.claude/skills/usgs_integrate_gauges/SKILL.md · 293 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 293 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Integrating USGS Gauges

Lightweight skill navigator -- Read authoritative sources instead of duplicating content.

Primary Documentation Sources

CANONICAL PACKAGE CONTRACT:

  • ras_commander/usgs/AGENTS.md - canonical local contract
    • Workflow stages from discovery through validation
    • Core module map
    • Critical service, matching, boundary, and validation rules

WORKING EXAMPLES:

  • examples/911_usgs_gauge_data_integration.ipynb - Complete workflow (discovery → validation)
  • examples/912_usgs_real_time_monitoring.ipynb - Real-time monitoring examples
  • examples/913_bc_generation_from_live_gauge.ipynb - Boundary condition generation
  • examples/914_model_validation_with_usgs.ipynb - Model validation workflow
  • examples/910_usgs_gauge_catalog.ipynb - Catalog generation (v0.89.0+)

CODE DOCSTRINGS:

  • All classes have comprehensive docstrings with examples
  • Read docstrings for detailed parameter documentation

Quick Navigation Guide

What to Use When

Task Primary Source Secondary Source
API reference Code docstrings ras_commander/usgs/AGENTS.md
Complete workflows Example notebooks ras_commander/usgs/AGENTS.md
Spatial discovery ras_commander/usgs/AGENTS.md and source docstrings 421_usgs_*.ipynb
Data retrieval ras_commander/usgs/AGENTS.md and source docstrings 421_usgs_*.ipynb
Gauge matching ras_commander/usgs/AGENTS.md and source docstrings 421_usgs_*.ipynb
Boundary generation ras_commander/usgs/AGENTS.md and source docstrings 423_bc_*.ipynb
Initial conditions ras_commander/usgs/AGENTS.md and source docstrings 423_bc_*.ipynb
Real-time monitoring ras_commander/usgs/AGENTS.md and source docstrings 422_*.ipynb
Catalog generation ras_commander/usgs/AGENTS.md and source docstrings 420_*.ipynb
Model validation ras_commander/usgs/AGENTS.md and source docstrings 424_*.ipynb
Visualization ras_commander/usgs/AGENTS.md and source docstrings 424_*.ipynb
Troubleshooting Example notebooks (see errors/warnings) Code comments

Read the full file on GitHub · 293 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. 7d ago First seen · 293 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A 6d7a8b33a4bb

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usgs_integrate_gauges is a skill published in the GitHub repository gpt-cmdr/ras-commander (79 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 175 tokens to every session and 2,918 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-09-03.

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