differentiation-schemes

differentiation-schemes is a skill for Claude Code from HeshamFS/materials-simulation-skills. It costs 125 tokens per session (3,224 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for choosing numerical methods that approximate derivatives in ordinary and partial differential equations. It creates finite-difference formulas for different accuracy levels and boundary conditions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select central, upwind, compact, or spectral methods, generate derivative formulas, handle boundary points, and estimate approximation error.
Why use it?
It helps avoid choosing a method that is inaccurate or unstable for the grid, boundaries, or sharp changes in the data.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the core-numerical plugin — 8 skills shipped together , and of full

Good fit Use it to select central, upwind, compact, or spectral methods, generate derivative formulas, handle boundary points, and estimate approximation error.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/heshamfs/materials-simulation-skills/differentiation-schemes
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add HeshamFS/materials-simulation-skills --skill differentiation-schemes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HeshamFS/materials-simulation-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install core-numerical, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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When invoked 3,224 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00125 $0.03224
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01612
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00645
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00322

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1a0c442c91ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

differentiation-schemes 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/scheme_selector.py, scripts/stencil_generator.py, scripts/truncation_error.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/core-numerical/differentiation-schemes/SKILL.md · 240 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 240 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Differentiation Schemes

Goal

Provide a reliable workflow to select a differentiation scheme, generate stencils, and assess accuracy for simulation discretization.

Requirements

  • Python 3.10+
  • NumPy (for stencil computations)
  • No heavy dependencies

Inputs to Gather

Input Description Example
Derivative order First, second, etc. 1 or 2
Target accuracy Order of truncation error 2 or 4
Grid type Uniform, nonuniform uniform
Boundary type Periodic, Dirichlet, Neumann periodic
Smoothness Smooth or discontinuous smooth

Decision Guidance

Scheme Selection Flowchart

Is the field smooth?
├── YES → Is domain periodic?
│   ├── YES → Use central differences or spectral
│   └── NO → Use central interior + one-sided at boundaries
└── NO → Are there shocks/discontinuities?
    ├── YES → Use upwind, TVD, or WENO
    └── NO → Use central with limiters

Quick Reference

Situation Recommended Scheme
Smooth, periodic Central, spectral
Smooth, bounded Central + one-sided BCs
Advection-dominated Upwind
Shocks/fronts TVD, WENO
High accuracy needed Compact (Padé), spectral

Script Outputs (JSON Fields)

Script Key Outputs
scripts/stencil_generator.py offsets, coefficients, order, accuracy, scheme
scripts/scheme_selector.py recommended, alternatives, notes
scripts/truncation_error.py error_scale, order, reduction_if_halved

Workflow

  1. Identify requirements - derivative order, accuracy, smoothness
  2. Select scheme - Run scripts/scheme_selector.py
  3. Generate stencils - Run scripts/stencil_generator.py
  4. Estimate error - Run scripts/truncation_error.py
  5. Validate - Test with manufactured solutions or grid refinement

Conversational Workflow Example

User: I need to discretize a second derivative for a diffusion equation on a uniform grid. I want 4th-order accuracy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 240 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. 10d ago First seen · 240 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A 1a0c442c91ee

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differentiation-schemes is a skill published in the GitHub repository HeshamFS/materials-simulation-skills (66 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 3,224 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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