openephemeris-setup

openephemeris-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from openephemeris/openephemeris-MCP. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,179 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide for installing OpenEphemeris, a planetary calculation service, and connecting it to compatible AI coding tools. It explains API keys, configuration, and verification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to connect OpenEphemeris to Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code Copilot, or other supported tools and enable astronomical or astrology calculations.
Why use it?
It removes the uncertainty around installing the server, supplying its required key, and confirming that the connection works.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for cline. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; built for cline.

Good fit Use it to connect OpenEphemeris to Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code Copilot, or other supported tools and enable astronomical or astrology calculations.

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npx agentmods add skills/openephemeris/openephemeris-mcp/openephemeris-setup
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add openephemeris/openephemeris-MCP --skill openephemeris-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openephemeris/openephemeris-MCP

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,179 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 $0.00056 $0.01179
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00589
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00118

Measured 7d ago against content hash 805020b174e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openephemeris-setup 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.

skills/openephemeris-setup/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenEphemeris Setup

This skill installs the OpenEphemeris MCP server, giving any compatible LLM access to 110+ astronomical and astrological computation endpoints — natal charts, transits, returns, eclipses, synastry, Human Design, Vedic, Chinese astrology, and astrocartography.

Platform compatibility: The MCP server works with Claude (Desktop, Code, API), ChatGPT (as a custom MCP app, via developer mode), Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code Copilot, Cline, Continue.dev, JetBrains AI, and Amazon Q. Claude and ChatGPT additionally render the interactive charts inline — the same build, no per-host variant. For ChatGPT Custom GPTs and other non-MCP platforms, use the REST API directly at api.openephemeris.com with the OpenAPI spec.

Install

npx -y @openephemeris/mcp-server

Or add it permanently to your MCP configuration (Claude Code shown):

claude mcp add openephemeris -- npx -y @openephemeris/mcp-server

Get an API Key

  1. Sign up at https://openephemeris.com/login?signup=true (free, no credit card)
  2. Go to Dashboard → Account → Create API Key
  3. Copy the key (starts with oe_…)
  4. Set the environment variable:
# macOS / Linux
export OPENEPHEMERIS_API_KEY="oe_..."

# Windows PowerShell
$env:OPENEPHEMERIS_API_KEY = "oe_..."

Verify

Ask Claude to use the ephemeris.moon_phase tool with datetime set to right now. If it returns moon phase data, setup is complete.

What You Get

Typed Tools

Tool Purpose
ephemeris.natal_chart Full natal chart
ephemeris.transits Search transit events over a date range
ephemeris.moon_phase Moon phase, sign, illumination
ephemeris.next_eclipse Next eclipse visible from a location
ephemeris.synastry Two-person compatibility
ephemeris.relocation Relocate a chart to another city
ephemeris.electional Find optimal timing windows
human_design.chart Bodygraph (type, strategy, authority, profile, gates, channels)

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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.

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  3. 12d ago First seen · 113 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A f863df4dd5f4

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openephemeris-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository openephemeris/openephemeris-MCP (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,179 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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