astropy

astropy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tmolavi/mcp-agent-skills-hub. It costs 23 tokens per session (2,746 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of astropy, MIT.

A guide to Astropy, the main Python package for astronomy and space-science data analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps convert celestial coordinates, calculate with physical units, read FITS files, perform cosmology and time calculations, manipulate tables, and process astronomical images.
Why use it?
It avoids the need to assemble separate tools for astronomy calculations, coordinate systems, scientific units, time, tables, and telescope data files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps convert celestial coordinates, calculate with physical units, read FITS files, perform cosmology and time calculations, manipulate tables, and process astronomical images.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tmolavi/mcp-agent-skills-hub/astropy
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tmolavi/mcp-agent-skills-hub --skill astropy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tmolavi/mcp-agent-skills-hub

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,746 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00023 $0.02746
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01373
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00549
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00275

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3c9dfd6e0364, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

astropy 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to astropy — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/astropy/SKILL.md · 336 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 336 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Astropy

Overview

Astropy is the core Python package for astronomy, providing essential functionality for astronomical research and data analysis. Use astropy for coordinate transformations, unit and quantity calculations, FITS file operations, cosmological calculations, precise time handling, tabular data manipulation, and astronomical image processing.

When to Use This Skill

Use astropy when tasks involve:

  • Converting between celestial coordinate systems (ICRS, Galactic, FK5, AltAz, etc.)
  • Working with physical units and quantities (converting Jy to mJy, parsecs to km, etc.)
  • Reading, writing, or manipulating FITS files (images or tables)
  • Cosmological calculations (luminosity distance, lookback time, Hubble parameter)
  • Precise time handling with different time scales (UTC, TAI, TT, TDB) and formats (JD, MJD, ISO)
  • Table operations (reading catalogs, cross-matching, filtering, joining)
  • WCS transformations between pixel and world coordinates
  • Astronomical constants and calculations

Quick Start

import astropy.units as u
from astropy.coordinates import SkyCoord
from astropy.time import Time
from astropy.io import fits
from astropy.table import Table
from astropy.cosmology import Planck18

# Units and quantities
distance = 100 * u.pc
distance_km = distance.to(u.km)

# Coordinates
coord = SkyCoord(ra=10.5*u.degree, dec=41.2*u.degree, frame='icrs')
coord_galactic = coord.galactic

# Time
t = Time('2023-01-15 12:30:00')
jd = t.jd  # Julian Date

# FITS files
data = fits.getdata('image.fits')
header = fits.getheader('image.fits')

# Tables
table = Table.read('catalog.fits')

# Cosmology
d_L = Planck18.luminosity_distance(z=1.0)

Core Capabilities

1. Units and Quantities (astropy.units)

Handle physical quantities with units, perform unit conversions, and ensure dimensional consistency in calculations.

Key operations:

  • Create quantities by multiplying values with units
  • Convert between units using .to() method
  • Perform arithmetic with automatic unit handling
  • Use equivalencies for domain-specific conversions (spectral, doppler, parallax)
  • Work with logarithmic units (magnitudes, decibels)

Read the full file on GitHub · 336 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. 11d ago First seen · 336 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 3c9dfd6e0364

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astropy is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmolavi/mcp-agent-skills-hub (8 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 2,746 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to astropy, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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