algorithmic-patterns

algorithmic-patterns is a skill for Claude Code from marcinfinitesimal533/Claude-skills-for-Computational-Designers. It costs 34 tokens per session (6,806 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of algorithmic-patterns, MIT.

A collection of programmable patterns inspired by nature, such as cellular automata, swarm behavior, reaction-diffusion, and growth systems. These patterns generate complex forms from simple rules for architecture, engineering, and construction design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create algorithmic forms, simulate agents and swarms, model cellular or biological patterns, and explore nature-inspired AEC designs.
Why use it?
It provides ways to model natural processes and explore designs involving growth, movement, material distribution, temperature, or structural efficiency.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create algorithmic forms, simulate agents and swarms, model cellular or biological patterns, and explore nature-inspired AEC designs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marcinfinitesimal533/claude-skills-for-computational-designers/algorithmic-patterns
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add marcinfinitesimal533/Claude-skills-for-Computational-Designers --skill algorithmic-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcinfinitesimal533/Claude-skills-for-Computational-Designers

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,806 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00034 $0.06806
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.03403
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.01361
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00681

Measured 11d ago against content hash e84ec26d9dc4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

algorithmic-patterns 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 11d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to algorithmic-patterns — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/algorithmic-patterns/SKILL.md · 520 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 520 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Algorithmic Patterns for AEC Design

1. Nature-Inspired Computation in AEC

Why Biological Algorithms Matter for Design

For three and a half billion years, evolution has solved the optimization problems architects and engineers face daily: distributing material efficiently, creating structures that resist loads with minimal mass, organizing circulation for millions of agents, regulating temperature without mechanical systems, and generating complex forms from simple rules. Nature-inspired computation translates these solutions into programmable algorithms that transform AEC practice.

The fundamental insight is that complexity does not require complex instructions. A fern frond with thousands of precisely placed leaflets emerges from a recursive rule fitting in a single line of code. A termite mound maintaining two-degree temperature stability is built by agents following three local rules. An oak tree optimally distributing material to resist wind has no central controller -- it grows according to Wolff's law, depositing material where stress is highest.

Emergence and Self-Organization

Emergence produces macro-scale patterns from micro-scale interactions without centralized control. In AEC, this challenges conventional top-down design, replacing it with local rules and boundary conditions that self-organize into coherent spatial configurations.

Key properties of emergent systems:

  • Nonlinearity -- small changes in rules produce disproportionate changes in output
  • Feedback loops -- positive feedback amplifies patterns, negative feedback stabilizes them
  • Decentralization -- no single agent has global knowledge of the system
  • Adaptation -- the system responds to environmental changes in real time
  • Robustness -- local failures do not cascade to system-level collapse

The computational thesis underlying all algorithmic patterns is that irreducible complexity can emerge from reducible rules. Stephen Wolfram demonstrated this with elementary cellular automata: Rule 110, defined by 8 binary transitions, is Turing-complete. A one-dimensional grid of cells with two states and nearest-neighbor rules can compute anything computable. For AEC: a branching structure with thousands of unique members can be specified by 3-4 L-system rules; a facade with apparent randomness generated by a 2-state CA; an optimal circulation network by 10,000 agents following 3 flocking rules.

Read the full file on GitHub · 520 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 520 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A e84ec26d9dc4

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algorithmic-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository marcinfinitesimal533/Claude-skills-for-Computational-Designers (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 6,806 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to algorithmic-patterns, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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