umbra-sar

umbra-sar is a skill for Claude Code from reesehammer/umbra-py. It costs 66 tokens per session (582 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions for searching, previewing, mapping, and opening Umbra open SAR imagery. SAR is radar imagery that can work at night and through cloud cover.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for finding imagery of a place, displaying its footprint on a map, previewing it, and opening the selected radar image.
Why use it?
It defines how to use the imagery carefully, including reporting its date, showing its geographic bounds, and avoiding claims beyond the preview quality.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the umbra-sar plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for finding imagery of a place, displaying its footprint on a map, previewing it, and opening the selected radar image.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/reesehammer/umbra-py/umbra-sar
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 reesehammer/umbra-py --skill umbra-sar
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/reesehammer/umbra-py

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install umbra-sar, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 582 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 $0.00066 $0.00582
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00233
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00058

Measured 8d ago against content hash 55cba2411a0e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

umbra-sar 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 8d 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.

integrations/agent-plugin/umbra-sar/skills/umbra-sar/SKILL.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

Umbra open SAR

Use this when the user asks for SAR, radar, Umbra, or imagery of a place that should not depend on daylight or clear skies.

Call search_catalog with a place or a bbox, optional start and end, limit of 20 or less, and canonical true. Report how many cards came back and the newest datetime on them. The open archive can lag weeks behind Umbra's newest collects, so always state the newest date you found and never say "latest" without it.

Map

Turn each card's bbox into a GeoJSON polygon. bbox is [west, south, east, north]. Assemble one FeatureCollection and set properties id, datetime, platform, resolution, and polarizations. Add that collection with the host map's GeoJSON tool, then fit the extent.

Preview

Call quicklook with url set to the card's stac_href. The picture is a 512 px baked preview. Do not describe detail finer than that image shows.

Open pixels

Call get_item on the chosen stac_href, then take the GEC product url. That file is a cloud-optimized GeoTIFF on Umbra's public bucket. The bucket allows cross-origin GET with Range requests, so a map's COG layer may be able to stream it directly. This is not verified for every reader, and if it fails, fall back to the quicklook plus a local download.

For a copy on disk, use the client's own downloader. On the hosted server, download_asset is a size check only: pass confirm false and read bytes. Do not pass confirm true there.

Honesty

A GEC is detected amplitude, already map-projected. SICD and CPHD are complex products for the user's own tools. umbra-py does not form images, do InSAR, or preserve phase. Never difference HH against VV. Always carry this line: Contains Umbra open data, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Limits

The hosted host allows 120 requests per minute. A refused tool (a composite, a stack, or narration) means run a local server: uvx --from 'umbra-py[mcp]' umbra-mcp.

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. 8d ago First seen · 57 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 55cba2411a0e

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umbra-sar is a skill published in the GitHub repository reesehammer/umbra-py (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 582 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-17.

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