calculus-variations-lagrangian-mechanics

calculus-variations-lagrangian-mechanics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hamzabellouch/agent-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (341 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A mathematics skill guide to calculus of variations and Lagrangian mechanics, methods for finding paths or motions from a quantity called an action. It covers the Euler–Lagrange equation, generalized coordinates, and constraints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to model systems such as simple and double pendulums, constrained motion, and geodesics as shortest paths.
Why use it?
It provides a systematic way to derive equations of motion and shortest paths, reducing the need to handle each force or coordinate directly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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Good fit Use it to model systems such as simple and double pendulums, constrained motion, and geodesics as shortest paths.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hamzabellouch/agent-skills/calculus-variations-lagrangian-mechanics
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Any agent
npx skills add hamzabellouch/agent-skills --skill calculus-variations-lagrangian-mechanics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzabellouch/agent-skills

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 341 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.
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 $0.00045 $0.00341
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00136
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00034

Measured 6d ago against content hash cdaeee374afc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

calculus-variations-lagrangian-mechanics 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 6d ago.

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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.

Math/Mathematical_Methods_for_Physics_and_Engineering/calculus-variations-lagrangian-mechanics/SKILL.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

Calculus of Variations and Lagrangian Mechanics

ID: math.variational_lagrange
Domain: Mathematics → Analytical Mechanics
Difficulty: 4/5

Prerequisites

  • math.odes
  • math.vector_calculus

Core Concepts

  • functional
  • Euler-Lagrange equation
  • action principle
  • constraints
  • generalized coordinates

Key Equations

$$ S = \int L(q,\dot q,t), dt $$ $$ \frac{d}{dt}\frac{\partial L}{\partial\dot q_i} - \frac{\partial L}{\partial q_i} = 0 $$

Methods

  • Write the Lagrangian in generalized coordinates
  • Apply the Euler-Lagrange equations
  • Include constraints via multipliers

Typical Problem Types

  • Simple pendulum via Lagrangian
  • Double pendulum
  • Geodesics as shortest paths

Common Pitfalls

  • Forgetting velocity dependence of kinetic energy
  • Wrong sign in potential term
  • mech.kinematics.constraints
  • math.tensor_calculus

References

  • Goldstein Ch.2
  • Landau & Lifshitz Mechanics
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. 6d ago First seen · 57 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A cdaeee374afc

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calculus-variations-lagrangian-mechanics is a skill published in the GitHub repository hamzabellouch/agent-skills (8 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 341 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-10.

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