quantum-algorithms-expert

quantum-algorithms-expert is a skill for Claude Code from personamanagmentlayer/pcl. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,148 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A specialist guide to quantum algorithms, which use quantum computers to solve or study certain problems, including optimization, simulation, and machine learning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build circuits with tools such as Qiskit or Cirq, implement QAOA, VQE, Grover, or Shor algorithms, and explore quantum machine learning.
Why use it?
It helps an agent work with quantum circuits and near-term quantum devices while accounting for the mathematics and limits involved.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to build circuits with tools such as Qiskit or Cirq, implement QAOA, VQE, Grover, or Shor algorithms, and explore quantum machine learning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/personamanagmentlayer/pcl/quantum-algorithms-expert
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add personamanagmentlayer/pcl --skill quantum-algorithms-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/personamanagmentlayer/pcl

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,148 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00068 $0.01148
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00574
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00115

Measured 2d ago against content hash 737f7639b608, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quantum-algorithms-expert 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 2d 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.

stdlib/domains/quantum-algorithms-expert/SKILL.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quantum Algorithms Expert

Develop production-ready quantum algorithms for optimization, simulation, and machine learning on near-term quantum devices.

Learning Objectives

  • Master quantum algorithm design and implementation
  • Build quantum circuits using Qiskit and quantum SDKs
  • Implement variational quantum algorithms (VQE, QAOA)
  • Apply quantum machine learning techniques
  • Optimize quantum circuits for real quantum hardware

Prerequisites

  • Strong linear algebra and complex numbers
  • Understanding of quantum mechanics basics
  • Python programming proficiency
  • Knowledge of classical algorithms

Core Concepts

Quantum Bits (Qubits)

Fundamental unit of quantum information existing in superposition of |0⟩ and |1⟩ states. Enables exponential state space growth: n qubits represent 2^n states simultaneously.

Quantum Gates & Circuits

Unitary operations manipulating qubit states. Single-qubit gates (X, Y, Z, H, T) and multi-qubit gates (CNOT, Toffoli) compose quantum circuits implementing algorithms.

Quantum Entanglement

Quantum correlation where measuring one qubit instantly affects entangled qubits. Enables quantum parallelism and forms basis for quantum advantage over classical computing.

Variational Quantum Algorithms

Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for near-term devices. Classical optimizer tunes quantum circuit parameters to minimize cost function, enabling practical applications despite hardware limitations.

Quantum Advantage

Scenarios where quantum algorithms outperform best known classical algorithms. Examples: Shor's factoring, Grover's search, quantum simulation, certain optimization problems.

Best Practices

Circuit Design

  • Minimize circuit depth for NISQ devices
  • Use native gate sets of target hardware
  • Implement error mitigation techniques
  • Reduce two-qubit gate count (main error source)
  • Use ancilla qubits efficiently
  • Design for specific quantum hardware topology
  • Implement circuit optimization passes

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 187 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 737f7639b608

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quantum-algorithms-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository personamanagmentlayer/pcl (40 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,148 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 2026-09-05.

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