orbital-motion-kepler-s-laws

orbital-motion-kepler-s-laws is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hamzabellouch/agent-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (372 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A physics study guide for describing how objects move around a larger body, using Kepler’s laws, orbital energy, and the vis-viva equation. It covers circular and elliptical paths, including satellite transfers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to solve orbital-speed, orbital-period, energy, and satellite-transfer problems. It also highlights common mistakes such as confusing the semi-major axis with the distance from the central body.
Why use it?
It provides the equations and problem-solving steps needed to avoid treating every orbit as circular or using the wrong orbital measurements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to solve orbital-speed, orbital-period, energy, and satellite-transfer problems. It also highlights common mistakes such as confusing the semi-major axis with the distance from the central body.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hamzabellouch/agent-skills/orbital-motion-kepler-s-laws
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 hamzabellouch/agent-skills --skill orbital-motion-kepler-s-laws
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzabellouch/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 372 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 $0.00040 $0.00372
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00149
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00037

Measured 7d ago against content hash 909cd352ae13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orbital-motion-kepler-s-laws 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.

Physics/Classical_Mechanics_and_Kinematics/orbital-motion-kepler-s-laws/SKILL.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

Orbital Motion and Kepler's Laws

ID: mech.gravitation.orbits_kepler
Domain: Mechanics → Gravitation
Difficulty: 4/5

Prerequisites

  • mech.gravitation.field_potential
  • mech.rotation.ang_momentum_conservation

Core Concepts

  • Kepler's laws
  • circular orbit
  • elliptical orbit
  • vis-viva equation
  • orbital energy

Key Equations

$$ T^2 \propto a^3 $$ $$ \frac{dA}{dt} = \text{const} $$ $$ E = -\frac{GMm}{2a} $$ $$ v^2 = GM\left(\frac{2}{r}-\frac{1}{a}\right) $$

Methods

  • Use vis-viva for speed at any radius
  • Use energy and angular momentum conservation
  • Apply Kepler's third law for periods

Typical Problem Types

  • Circular orbit speed
  • Elliptical orbit energy
  • Satellite transfer orbits

Common Pitfalls

  • Assuming circular when the orbit is elliptical
  • Forgetting that a is the semi-major axis
  • mech.gravitation.escape_velocity
  • rel.general.schwarzschild

References

  • Kleppner & Kolenkow Ch.9
  • Taylor Ch.8
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. 7d ago First seen · 63 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 909cd352ae13

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orbital-motion-kepler-s-laws is a skill published in the GitHub repository hamzabellouch/agent-skills (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 372 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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