segyio

segyio is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SteadfastAsArt/geoscience-skills. It costs 116 tokens per session (1,674 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python tool for reading, writing, and working with SEG-Y files, a common format for seismic survey recordings. It supports individual traces, headers, and slices of three-dimensional surveys.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect SEG-Y files, read traces and headers, extract inline, crossline, or depth slices from 3D surveys, collect data into arrays, and create new SEG-Y files.
Why use it?
It gives seismic data programs direct access to the measurements and survey metadata stored in SEG-Y files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to inspect SEG-Y files, read traces and headers, extract inline, crossline, or depth slices from 3D surveys, collect data into arrays, and create new SEG-Y files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/steadfastasart/geoscience-skills/segyio
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 segyio
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 segyio/plugin install segyio after adding the marketplace above.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,674 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 $0.00116 $0.01674
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.00837
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00335
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00167

Measured 11d ago against content hash 61e3619a15a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

segyio 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/extract_subset.py, scripts/inspect_segy.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.

segyio/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

segyio - SEG-Y Seismic Data

Quick Reference

import segyio

# Read
with segyio.open('seismic.sgy', 'r') as f:
    print(f.tracecount, len(f.samples))
    trace0 = f.trace[0]              # Single trace as numpy array
    data = segyio.tools.collect(f.trace[:])  # All traces

# 3D access (specify inline/xline byte locations)
with segyio.open('seismic.sgy', 'r', iline=189, xline=193) as f:
    inline_100 = f.iline[100]        # 2D array (xlines x samples)
    cube = segyio.tools.cube(f)      # Full 3D cube

# Write
spec = segyio.spec()
spec.samples = samples
spec.tracecount = n_traces
with segyio.create('output.sgy', spec) as f:
    f.trace[0] = data

Key Access Modes

Mode Description
f.trace[i] Sequential trace access by index
f.header[i] Trace header access (dict-like)
f.iline[n] Inline slice (3D surveys)
f.xline[n] Crossline slice (3D surveys)
f.depth_slice[n] Horizontal time/depth slice
f.text[0] Text header (3200 bytes)
f.bin Binary header

Essential Operations

Open and Inspect

with segyio.open('seismic.sgy', 'r') as f:
    print(f"Traces: {f.tracecount}")
    print(f"Samples: {len(f.samples)}")
    print(f"Sample interval: {f.samples[1] - f.samples[0]} ms")
    if f.ilines is not None:
        print(f"Inlines: {f.ilines}")
        print(f"Crosslines: {f.xlines}")

Read Trace Headers

with segyio.open('seismic.sgy', 'r') as f:
    header = f.header[0]
    print(header[segyio.TraceField.INLINE_3D])
    print(header[segyio.TraceField.CDP_X])

    # Get all values for one field
    inlines = f.attributes(segyio.TraceField.INLINE_3D)[:]

Read 3D Data

with segyio.open('seismic.sgy', 'r', iline=189, xline=193) as f:
    inline_data = f.iline[100]       # Shape: (n_xlines, n_samples)
    xline_data = f.xline[200]        # Shape: (n_ilines, n_samples)
    time_slice = f.depth_slice[250]  # Shape: (n_ilines, n_xlines)
    cube = segyio.tools.cube(f)      # Shape: (ilines, xlines, samples)

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 177 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A 61e3619a15a9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

segyio is a skill published in the GitHub repository SteadfastAsArt/geoscience-skills (58 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 1,674 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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