timesfm-forecasting

timesfm-forecasting is a skill for Claude Code from zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (8,281 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A forecasting tool based on TimesFM, Google Research’s pretrained model for predicting future values in a single time series, such as sales, energy use, sensor readings, or weather. It can produce a forecast and prediction ranges without training a custom model.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for point forecasts, uncertainty ranges, and batch forecasts from CSV files, data frames, arrays, or similar inputs. The available description does not cover multiple-variable time series.
Why use it?
It lets you forecast a single measured value over time without building and training a separate forecasting model, while checking system resources before loading the model.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for point forecasts, uncertainty ranges, and batch forecasts from CSV files, data frames, arrays, or similar inputs. The available description does not cover multiple-variable time series.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zlanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills/timesfm-forecasting
About the project

zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills is a collection of three skills for academic writing, editable Word and PowerPoint documents, and scientific computing with MATLAB and Python. Chinese-speaking researchers use it for literature reports, papers, presentations, data analysis, simulations, and publication figures in Claude Code or Codex. The catalogue contains the project's academic workflow skills.

zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills · 3,735 stars · on GitHub

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 zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills --skill timesfm-forecasting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,281 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 4
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00073 $0.08281
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.04140
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.01656
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00828

Measured 11d ago against content hash 179145a6824b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

timesfm-forecasting 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 10 executable files (examples/anomaly-detection/detect_anomalies.py, examples/covariates-forecasting/demo_covariates.py, examples/global-temperature/generate_animation_data.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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

scientific-toolkit-skill/references/scientific-skills/timesfm-forecasting/SKILL.md · 786 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 786 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TimesFM Forecasting

Overview

TimesFM (Time Series Foundation Model) is a pretrained decoder-only foundation model developed by Google Research for time-series forecasting. It works zero-shot — feed it any univariate time series and it returns point forecasts with calibrated quantile prediction intervals, no training required.

This skill wraps TimesFM for safe, agent-friendly local inference. It includes a mandatory preflight system checker that verifies RAM, GPU memory, and disk space before the model is ever loaded so the agent never crashes a user's machine.

Key numbers: TimesFM 2.5 uses 200M parameters (~800 MB on disk, ~1.5 GB in RAM on CPU, ~1 GB VRAM on GPU). The archived v1/v2 500M-parameter model needs ~32 GB RAM. Always run the system checker first.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Forecasting any univariate time series (sales, demand, sensor, vitals, price, weather)
  • You need zero-shot forecasting without training a custom model
  • You want probabilistic forecasts with calibrated prediction intervals (quantiles)
  • You have time series of any length (the model handles 1–16,384 context points)
  • You need to batch-forecast hundreds or thousands of series efficiently
  • You want a foundation model approach instead of hand-tuning ARIMA/ETS parameters

Do not use this skill when:

  • You need classical statistical models with coefficient interpretation → use statsmodels
  • You need time series classification or clustering → use aeon
  • You need multivariate vector autoregression or Granger causality → use statsmodels
  • Your data is tabular (not temporal) → use scikit-learn

Note on Anomaly Detection: TimesFM does not have built-in anomaly detection, but you can use the quantile forecasts as prediction intervals — values outside the 90% CI (q10–q90) are statistically unusual. See the examples/anomaly-detection/ directory for a full example.

⚠️ Mandatory Preflight: System Requirements Check

Read the full file on GitHub · 786 lines

Files

What ships with it

26 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 · 786 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 179145a6824b

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timesfm-forecasting is a skill published in the GitHub repository zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills (3,735 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 8,281 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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