hpc

hpc is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lacerbi/dotclaude. It costs 31 tokens per session (915 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for launching and managing computing jobs on a high-performance computing cluster, a shared system built for demanding workloads.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it only when explicitly running the HPC command or skill to discover the launcher, configure a cluster, or start and manage jobs.
Why use it?
It explains how to find the launcher, read the relevant cluster instructions, and submit work using the correct environment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it only when explicitly running the HPC command or skill to discover the launcher, configure a cluster, or start and manage jobs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lacerbi/dotclaude/hpc
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 lacerbi/dotclaude --skill hpc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lacerbi/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 915 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 $0.00031 $0.00915
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00366
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00092

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e16fe582f3e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hpc 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 1mo 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/hpc/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/hpc — launch work on the HPC cluster

You run the hpc launcher yourself to put the user's work on the cluster. That is the point of the tool — do not hand commands to the user to run, unless asked.

1. Find the launcher

  1. Look for its path in the user's global ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, under an ## hpc-launcher location heading.

  2. If it isn't there, discover it: run command -v hpc with the Bash tool (Git Bash) and take the directory of that path. If that fails, ask the user where the hpc-launcher folder is.

  3. Record it so later calls skip discovery — append to ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md:

    ## hpc-launcher location
    The `hpc` launcher (for the /hpc skill) is at: `<path>`
    

    Keep <path> ~-relative when it's under home — that file is public, so a machine-specific absolute won't travel (and needlessly shows the username).

2. Read the launcher's own docs

  • <path>/README.md — what it does, setup, every command. Always.
  • <path>/clusters/<HPC_CLUSTER>.md — facts for the cluster this repo targets (HPC_CLUSTER in .hpc.env; hpc clusters lists them). Read it when running or configuring a job — partitions, filesystem, gotchas (e.g. Roihu's split login hosts + 24 h SSH cert).
  • A cluster can have notes without a launcher profile: a clusters/<name>.md with no <name>.env beside it, for a cluster hpc does not drive. For work on such a cluster, read its notes and follow them (how to connect, the rules for using it, what to check) instead of running hpc. List <path>/clusters/ to see which clusters have notes. Those notes hold private details: never copy them into a public repository.
  • <path>/AGENTS.md, DESIGN.md, TODO.md — only when you need rationale, limitations, or current status.

Read the live files. Do not rely on remembered defaults (partitions, modules, torch module/wheel, walltimes) — they live in the cluster's clusters/<name>.env profile and hpc-env.example, not in your memory.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 1mo ago Changed · +6 lines e16fe582f3e6
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 61 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 4258b8a03ad9

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hpc is a skill published in the GitHub repository lacerbi/dotclaude (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 915 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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