clio-kit-scientific-modernization

clio-kit-scientific-modernization is a skill for Claude Code from iowarp/clio-kit. It costs 91 tokens per session (1,708 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A staged process for updating, porting, rewriting, packaging, or replacing established scientific software. It checks new results against an outside scientific reference and addresses compatibility and stewardship.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to modernize scientific software while checking that its behavior remains scientifically equivalent.
Why use it?
It distinguishes a working rewrite from one that still produces different scientific results or lacks a plan for responsible maintenance.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the clio-coder-skills plugin — 39 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to modernize scientific software while checking that its behavior remains scientifically equivalent.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iowarp/clio-kit/clio-kit-scientific-modernization
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 iowarp/clio-kit --skill clio-kit-scientific-modernization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iowarp/clio-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,708 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 $0.00091 $0.01708
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00683
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00342
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00171

Measured 9d ago against content hash 06e051b7651f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clio-kit-scientific-modernization 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 9d 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.

skills/clio-coder-skills/skills/clio-kit-scientific-modernization/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Host compatibility

This copy is adapted from Clio Coder. Apply the procedure using the current host's available tools and the user's authorized scope. The tool names, /skill invocations, .clio-coder paths, fleets, approval gates and completion gates below describe Clio Coder; they are not installed or enforced by this skill in another host. Use the host's actual skill invocation and equivalent tools. If no equivalent exists, report the missing capability. Do not assume a tool is unavailable merely because the original headless workflow says so. A referenced agent or skill must be installed before relying on it. Scientific MCPs must be configured separately.

Adapted skills use the clio-kit- prefix to distinguish them from upstream audited skills. For a companion skill named below, select its clio-kit- copy from this collection; native agents, fleets and external programs retain their original names.

Scientific Modernization

Modernization preserves scientific behavior and stewardship; it is not source translation. Faster code, a clean build, and passing self-authored unit tests do not establish scientific equivalence. Work the stages below in order; each has an explicit exit condition.

Arguments

/skill clio-kit-scientific-modernization <what to modernize, port, rewrite, or replace, and why>

There is no operator in a headless run: ask_user is not registered, so any call is refused as an unregistered tool rather than answered. Stage 1's "the user has seen them" exit condition means, headlessly: state the four bullets in your reply and proceed, never stall waiting for acknowledgment. Every other stage gate below works the same way — state the decision and its reasoning, then continue.

The six stages are the plan; do not open a task list for them — tasks sits outside this skill's tool surface and any call to it is refused.

Shell rules for every bash call: one command per call, plain and direct. Never use $(...) or backticks; they trigger an approval gate that ends a headless run.

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 168 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 06e051b7651f

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clio-kit-scientific-modernization is a skill published in the GitHub repository iowarp/clio-kit (30 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,708 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-10-08.

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