nicer-nisar: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/opera-rtc-s1-download/SKILL.md

opera-rtc-s1-download is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from responsible-genai-hackweek/nicer-nisar. It costs 54 tokens per session (717 once invoked), scanned C, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A procedure for downloading OPERA L2 RTC-S1 VV Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs, which are radar satellite images processed for easier analysis. It uses earthaccess to find and download the files from ASF.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps search a defined area and date range, estimate download volume, authenticate with ASF, and fetch only the required VV image files.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of selecting the wrong satellite product or starting a large download without estimating its size.

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/opera-rtc-s1-download/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 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 717 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00054 $0.00717
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00358
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00072

Measured 12d ago against content hash c33f03cfda41, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

opera-rtc-s1-download scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 12d 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.

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

- ASF **datapool download** needs `~/.netrc`:
.agents/skills/opera-rtc-s1-download/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OPERA RTC-S1 VV download

Working example in this repo (pixi):

  • Size check: contributors/ajoros/opera_vv_size_check.py
  • Bulk pull: contributors/ajoros/download_opera_rtc_vv.py

AOI numbers and polygons: references/aois.md.

When not to use this

  • NISAR GCOV / GSLC / GUNW / SME2 — different product, GB-class files.
  • Glacier velocity — GOFF / offsets, not RTC.
  • Melt-onset math — snow_depth_retrieval / amplitude (once those exist).
  • Davis Fire 2024 pre/during/post — there is no NISAR; this skill is the right S1 path.

Procedure

  1. Confirm product: short_name="OPERA_L2_RTC-S1_V1".
  2. Search with a tight bbox or closed CCW polygon. Loop calendar years with temporal=(f"{year}-02-01", f"{year}-08-31") so Sep–Jan is not included. count=-1.
  3. Collect HTTPS _VV.tif only (data_links(access="external")). Prefer asf.alaska.edu. Do not pass granule objects to earthaccess.download — that pulls VV + VH + mask + h5.
  4. Size check: download one VV COG, print bytes, multiply by catalog count. CMR often has no file size. Do not start a multi-GB pull until that number exists.
  5. Authenticate, then earthaccess.download(urls, provider="ASF"). See Auth. Do not use earthaccess.open() for ASF datapool.
  6. Write files as {root}/{site}/{T###}/{yyyy}/OPERA_..._VV.tif. T### is Sentinel-1 relative orbit. Do not mix tracks in one melt series.
  7. Re-run is safe: skip files ≳ 1 MiB; delete smaller partials and retry. Do not commit the stack (contributors/ajoros/data/ is gitignored).

Auth

  • CMR search can use EARTHDATA_TOKEN.
  • ASF datapool download needs ~/.netrc: unset EARTHDATA_TOKEN earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc") earthaccess.download(urls, provider="ASF")
  • Do not use earthaccess.open() (Bearer / fsspec HEAD → URS OAuth 401).
  • If both token and netrc exist, drop the token before download.
  • Still 401 after netrc: Earthdata profile → Applications → authorize ASF.
  • Never paste tokens or passwords into chat, git, or the skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 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. 12d ago First seen · 57 lines · 54 tokens per session scan C c33f03cfda41

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opera-rtc-s1-download is a skill published in the GitHub repository responsible-genai-hackweek/nicer-nisar (2 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 717 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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