rviz2

rviz2 is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from robium-ai/robium. It costs 18 tokens per session (481 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to using RViz2, a desktop visualisation tool for ROS 2, the robot software framework. It covers displays for robot data, coordinate frames, markers, maps, and robot models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect ROS 2 topics, coordinate-frame trees, maps, paths, sensor data, and robot models on a local Linux desktop.
Why use it?
It helps you see why a robot view is blank or misleading, including problems with coordinate frames, message settings, or simulation time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Part of the robium plugin — 70 skills, 1 agent, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect ROS 2 topics, coordinate-frame trees, maps, paths, sensor data, and robot models on a local Linux desktop.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/robium-ai/robium/rviz2
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 robium-ai/robium --skill rviz2
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robium-ai/robium

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install robium, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 70 skills, 1 agent, 6 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for rviz2

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/robium-ai/robium/rviz2"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/robium-ai/robium/rviz2.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 481 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 60
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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 $0.00018 $0.00481
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00241
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00048

Measured today against content hash 791f6168d742, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rviz2 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 today.

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/rviz2/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

RViz2

Treat RViz2 as a consumer of ROS evidence. A blank display usually means its frame, message, QoS, or time contract is wrong.

Build a focused view

  • Start with a fixed frame that exists now, then add only the displays needed for the question being asked.
  • Prefer adding by topic when discovering a graph; it helps match message type to display type.
  • Keep a saved .rviz configuration per robot and task. Do not rebuild the display list on every run or make one unreadable everything-dashboard.
  • For navigation, view raw sensors and TF alongside map, costmaps, footprint, plan, and robot model so upstream data can be distinguished from Nav2 output.

Read what the display is telling you

  • A red or empty display is evidence about the input boundary, not proof that RViz itself is broken.
  • Check fixed frame and TF first, then publisher/display QoS, then simulation time and /clock.
  • Compare the configured topic and namespace with the live graph; stale configs often point at an old robot name.
  • A missing display plugin can fail one saved display while the rest of the config continues to load.

Read failures when something does not render. Cross into ros2 only when the evidence points to TF, QoS, graph, or time at the publisher. Cross into navigation when those inputs are healthy but a costmap, plan, or controller result is wrong.

Use foxglove instead for a headless, remote, browser, or shareable workflow; use rerun for data-centric ML and non-ROS logging. If the viewer has not been chosen, use visualization first.

Done

  • The fixed frame is present and every displayed message transforms into it.
  • Display QoS and topic namespaces match their publishers.
  • Simulation time is consistent when applicable.
  • The saved config opens into a focused, useful debugging view.
  • Any CLI or UI details were checked against the installed RViz2 build and current RViz documentation.
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. today Changed · -164 lines · -88 tokens per session 791f6168d742
  2. 4d ago First seen · 214 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A d1a4f486b7ae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rviz2 is a skill published in the GitHub repository robium-ai/robium (9 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 481 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 2026-09-03.

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