nicer-nisar: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/incidence_angle/SKILL.md

incidence_angle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from responsible-genai-hackweek/nicer-nisar. It costs 18 tokens per session (135 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A workflow for calculating local incidence angle from a NISAR GCOV HDF5 file, a KML boundary, and optionally a digital elevation model. Local incidence angle describes how radar signals meet the ground surface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a local NISAR GCOV HDF5 file and KML subarea to calculate incidence angles. Add a DEM, or digital elevation model, when elevation data is available.
Why use it?
It provides a defined calculation workflow and output location instead of requiring you to assemble the inputs and script calls yourself.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is responsible-genai-hackweek/nicer-nisar's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on nicer-nisar itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything nicer-nisar configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to responsible-genai-hackweek/nicer-nisar. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/responsible-genai-hackweek/nicer-nisar/main/.agents/skills/incidence_angle/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/responsible-genai-hackweek/nicer-nisar

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 135 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 $0.00018 $0.00135
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00068
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00027
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00014

Measured 10d ago against content hash bf0ca936cf1e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

incidence_angle 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (incidence_angle.py, run_incidence_angle_MCS_lidar.py, run_incidence_angle_MCS.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.agents/skills/incidence_angle/SKILL.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

This skill is used to calculate local incidence angle, stores by default in ./incidence_angle_output. Inputs required: local path to NISAR GCOV HDF5 file, kml file for subdomain of interest, and optional DEM.

If you don't have a DEM, see this example: run_incidence_angle_MCS.py If you have a specific DEM, see this example: run_incidence_angle_MCS_lidar.py

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 10d ago First seen · 13 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A bf0ca936cf1e

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incidence_angle is a skill published in the GitHub repository responsible-genai-hackweek/nicer-nisar (2 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 135 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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