landlab

landlab is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SteadfastAsArt/geoscience-skills. It costs 114 tokens per session (1,816 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python toolkit for simulating how landscapes change over time. It represents terrain on different grid types and models processes such as erosion, water flow, soil movement, and hillslope change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build terrain grids, route water, simulate stream erosion and hillslope diffusion, and visualize changing elevation.
Why use it?
It lets you test how rivers, rainfall, uplift, and other surface processes can reshape terrain in a numerical model.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to build terrain grids, route water, simulate stream erosion and hillslope diffusion, and visualize changing elevation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/steadfastasart/geoscience-skills/landlab
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 SteadfastAsArt/geoscience-skills --skill landlab
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SteadfastAsArt/geoscience-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin landlab/plugin install landlab after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,816 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 $0.00114 $0.01816
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00908
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00182

Measured 10d ago against content hash ab25f353b566, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

landlab 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 1 executable file (scripts/erosion_model.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.

landlab/SKILL.md · 194 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 194 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Landlab - Surface Process Modelling

Quick Reference

from landlab import RasterModelGrid
from landlab.components import FlowAccumulator, StreamPowerEroder
import numpy as np

# Create grid
grid = RasterModelGrid((100, 100), xy_spacing=10.0)
z = grid.add_zeros('topographic__elevation', at='node')
z += np.random.rand(grid.number_of_nodes) * 0.1

# Set boundaries (open bottom edge)
grid.set_closed_boundaries_at_grid_edges(True, True, True, False)

# Create and run components
fa = FlowAccumulator(grid, flow_director='D8')
sp = StreamPowerEroder(grid, K_sp=1e-5)

for _ in range(100):
    fa.run_one_step()
    sp.run_one_step(dt=1000)
    z[grid.core_nodes] += 0.001 * 1000  # Uplift

grid.imshow('topographic__elevation', cmap='terrain')

Grid Types

Grid Use Case
RasterModelGrid Regular rectangular grids (most common)
HexModelGrid Hexagonal grids (isotropic flow)
VoronoiDelaunayGrid Irregular point distributions
NetworkModelGrid Channel networks only

Key Concepts

Fields and Boundaries

# Fields: data stored at grid elements (nodes, links, cells)
z = grid.add_zeros('topographic__elevation', at='node')
grid.at_node['drainage_area']  # Access existing field

# Boundaries: close all edges except outlet
grid.set_closed_boundaries_at_grid_edges(True, True, True, False)
z[grid.core_nodes] += uplift * dt  # Core nodes exclude boundaries

Essential Operations

Flow Routing

from landlab.components import FlowAccumulator

fa = FlowAccumulator(grid, flow_director='D8')  # or 'Steepest', 'MFD'
fa.run_one_step()
drainage_area = grid.at_node['drainage_area']

Stream Power Erosion

from landlab.components import StreamPowerEroder

sp = StreamPowerEroder(grid, K_sp=1e-5, m_sp=0.5, n_sp=1.0)
sp.run_one_step(dt=1000)  # dt in years

Hillslope Diffusion

from landlab.components import LinearDiffuser

ld = LinearDiffuser(grid, linear_diffusivity=0.01)  # m^2/yr
ld.run_one_step(dt=100)

Read the full file on GitHub · 194 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 194 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A ab25f353b566

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landlab is a skill published in the GitHub repository SteadfastAsArt/geoscience-skills (58 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 1,816 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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