grasping-with-planner

grasping-with-planner is a skill for Claude Code from graph-robots/open-robot-skills. It costs 139 tokens per session (2,833 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A robot grasp planner that tries a straight top-down approach first and uses the cuRobo motion planner when that route is unreachable or would collide with something. It keeps the gripper’s orientation fixed during the final vertical descent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for single-object top-down grasps, such as picking items from a tabletop, when the robot needs either a fast direct motion or a collision-free planned route.
Why use it?
It handles flat objects that are easy to grasp by lowering straight down while still providing a fallback for difficult reach or collision situations.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the open-robot-skills plugin — 39 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for single-object top-down grasps, such as picking items from a tabletop, when the robot needs either a fast direct motion or a collision-free planned route.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/graph-robots/open-robot-skills/grasping-with-planner
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add graph-robots/open-robot-skills --skill grasping-with-planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/graph-robots/open-robot-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install open-robot-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills.

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Per session 139 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,833 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 $0.00139 $0.02833
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.01417
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00567
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00283

Measured 11d ago against content hash c800ad6e389a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grasping-with-planner 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/approach_above.py, scripts/build_world.py, scripts/compute_align_pose.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/grasping-with-planner/SKILL.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

grasping-with-planner

Top-down grasping with a fast axis-locked linear descend and a collision-aware cuRobo fallback. The primary path rises to a hover height, translates over the target while rotating to the grasp yaw, and descends straight down (Z-only, orientation locked) onto the object — which, unlike a goalset planner, happily grips a flat object by simply lowering onto it. If the straight-line solve is infeasible, the same node hands off to the cuRobo planner, which builds a per-observation collision world and searches the whole candidate fan for a reachable, collision-free wrist. This is the grocery_packing grasp motion, distilled to the general single-object case.

Install

This skill depends on the curobo tool bundle (curobo.plan_directed_linear, curobo.plan_to_grasp_poses). cuRobo JIT-compiles CUDA extensions at install time — build isolation must be off and CUDA_HOME must point at a toolkit matching your torch build:

export CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda
uv sync --extra curobo   # (pip: pip install -e "open-robot-skills[curobo]" --no-build-isolation)

See tools/curobo/SKILL.md for the full recipe and gotchas.

When to use

  • Default grasping skill whenever curobo is deployed — clean or cluttered.
  • Flat / low-profile objects (a butter box, cream cheese) where a goalset planner struggles but a straight lower-on-top succeeds.

When NOT to use

  • curobo not deployed. Use grasping-direct-ik instead.
  • The graspable region is NOT the OBB centroid — bowl rim, mug / moka-pot / frying-pan handle, or any off-center grasp. The OBB top-down candidates from geometry.top_down_grasp_candidates are centered on the OBB XY, so they slip on hollow centers and miss handles. Use grasping-short-axis for elongated handles, where the centroid is graspable but orientation is what matters.

6 states, in order:

open → compute_grasp → goto_grasp → observe → close → grasped

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 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. 11d ago First seen · 225 lines · 139 tokens per session scan A c800ad6e389a

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grasping-with-planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository graph-robots/open-robot-skills (41 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 139 tokens to every session and 2,833 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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