metforge-data

A workflow for finding, downloading, and preparing atmospheric, climate, and Earth-system data. It covers sources such as ERA5, CMIP, GPM, MERRA-2, and NOAA, and formats such as NetCDF, GRIB, and Zarr.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define data requirements, choose an authoritative source, write download requests, subset data by time or location, inspect coordinates and units, and validate the files.
Why use it?
It helps avoid downloading the wrong or unnecessarily large dataset and keeps the source files, settings, and checks traceable. It also supports restartable downloads and reusing valid local data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yuanruichen/metforge/metforge-data
Any agent
npx skills add yuanruichen/MetForge --skill metforge-data
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yuanruichen/MetForge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,020 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00119 $0.01020
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00510
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00102

Measured 2d ago against content hash a3fe3f9231b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

metforge-data 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 2d 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.

skills/metforge-data/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MetForge Data

Obtain the smallest scientifically sufficient dataset, preserve the source product, and leave an auditable path from request to local files.

Workflow

  1. Define the data contract before downloading:
    • scientific variable and accepted source variable names
    • product, processing level, experiment/member, or reanalysis stream
    • spatial domain, grid, vertical coordinate, time range, and frequency
    • units, calendar, accumulation convention, and expected volume
    • required credentials, license, and citation
  2. Inspect existing files and project conventions. Reuse valid local data instead of downloading duplicates.
  3. Select an authoritative source. Read references/source-selection.md when the source or access route is uncertain. Verify current API syntax against official documentation; do not invent product identifiers.
  4. Plan a restartable request:
    • subset at the server when scientifically safe
    • batch large requests by year, month, variable, or level
    • keep credentials outside scripts and version control
    • keep raw files immutable
  5. Download one representative batch first. Do not launch the full request until the sample passes the checks below.
  6. Validate the sample, then scale out. Use lazy xarray/dask operations for large collections and reduce before materializing arrays.
  7. Record provenance. Follow references/dataset-contract.md for the manifest and handoff fields.

Execution mode and processing record

Before downloading or preprocessing, inspect the current machine, available memory/storage, data volume, network/access constraints, whether sbatch/Slurm is available, whether the session is already inside a Slurm job, and existing project conventions.

  • Run metadata inspection, one-file validation, and small downloads directly when they fit safely in the current session.
  • Use the site's scheduler for expensive multi-file preprocessing or long transformations. Use a transfer/data node rather than a compute node when site policy or network access requires it.
  • Do not guess Slurm account, partition, walltime, modules, or storage paths. Infer them from existing project scripts/configuration or request the missing value.
  • For submitted work, capture the job script, job ID, resources, environment activation, stdout/stderr paths, and terminal status.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. 2d ago First seen · 80 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A a3fe3f9231b2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

metforge-data is a skill published in the GitHub repository yuanruichen/MetForge (4 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 1,020 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 2026-08-31.

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