multi-spacecraft-gradients

multi-spacecraft-gradients is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from spedas/spedas_agent_kit. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,900 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A four-spacecraft method for estimating electric current, magnetic-field changes, field-line curvature, and magnetic nulls from simultaneous field and position measurements. A magnetic null is a location where the magnetic field is zero; a tetrahedron is the three-dimensional shape formed by four spacecraft.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with MMS, Cluster, or similar four-spacecraft data to calculate curlometer current density, field gradients, divergence, curvature, and possible magnetic nulls.
Why use it?
It uses measurements from four points to estimate spatial structure, which a single spacecraft cannot determine directly. Results are unreliable when the spacecraft are poorly arranged or use mismatched coordinate systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it with MMS, Cluster, or similar four-spacecraft data to calculate curlometer current density, field gradients, divergence, curvature, and possible magnetic nulls.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/spedas/spedas_agent_kit/multi-spacecraft-gradients
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add spedas/spedas_agent_kit --skill multi-spacecraft-gradients
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/spedas/spedas_agent_kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,900 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 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 $0.00086 $0.01900
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00950
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00380
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00190

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1c93ca06c456, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

multi-spacecraft-gradients scanned grade A 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

description: Four-spacecraft magnetic-gradient workflow for curlometer current density, linear gradient/curl/divergence and field-line curvature, and FOTE magnetic-null finding. Reuses existing data/coordinate/artifact t
.agents/plugins/spedas-codex/skills/multi-spacecraft-gradients/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Multi-spacecraft gradients: curlometer, lingradest, magnetic nulls

Use this for IDL-SPEDAS-style four-spacecraft science: current density from the curlometer, linear magnetic gradients/divergence/curl/curvature, and magnetic null searches. It is written for MMS but the math is the generic Chanteur / FOTE four-spacecraft tetrahedron method when the inputs are four simultaneous spacecraft positions and magnetic-field vectors.

When to use

  • "Compute current density / curlometer J from MMS1-4 FGM."
  • "Estimate div B, curl B, gradient tensor, or field-line curvature from a tetrahedron."
  • "Find / classify magnetic nulls from four spacecraft around this reconnection interval."
  • Any Cluster/MMS-like four-point magnetic-field analysis with positions in the same frame.

Do not use this for a single spacecraft, for mixed coordinate frames, or when the spacecraft form a nearly flat/linear tetrahedron unless the result is explicitly reported as low confidence.

Batch 008 magnetotail guardrail

Cluster, Geotail, and THEMIS magnetotail/boundary overview plots are not enough for this skill. Batch 008 found useful Cluster C1 CIS proxies but an empty Cluster FGM route; label those cases single_spacecraft_cis and fgm_route_empty, not four-spacecraft gradients. Do not run or cite curlometer, linear-gradient, timing-normal, KH-vortex, shock-normal, or reconnection-rate results until all four magnetic-field vectors and all four positions are loaded in one frame/cadence with provenance. Geotail route scouts labelled not_paper_exact / metadata_unresolved are discovery evidence, not validation for gradient tooling.

Tool chain (all existing; no new MCP tools)

search_spedas_data_sourcesplan_spedas_observationcreate_spedas_analysis_bundleload_data_source / browse_data_parametersfetch_data_product for all four B vectors and all four positions → optional transform_timeseries_coordinates so B and R are GSE → write a reproducible Python note/script in the bundle that calls the PySPEDAS backends → export compact CSV/NPZ/PNG artifacts → render_tplot for plots.

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 lines

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 · 110 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 1c93ca06c456

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multi-spacecraft-gradients is a skill published in the GitHub repository spedas/spedas_agent_kit (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,900 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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