Earth-Space-Modeling-skills is a collection of skill packages for Earth, planetary, and space science models.Each repo is a self-contained, progressive-disclosure knowledge package: a SKILL.md routing hub plus reference/ deep-dive docs covering install, compile, run, modify, debug, and contribute.Designed to be loaded as skills by AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) and to serve as durable, human-readable references for researchers and developers.
Mechanistic Earth-system models (CESM, E3SM, WRF, MOM6, Noah-MP, CTSM, JULES, ...) carry decades of accumulated scientific judgment in their source trees, build systems, and debug folklore. Most of that knowledge lives in PDFs, mailing lists, and the heads of senior researchers.
A skill repo is a structured, progressive-disclosure package of that knowledge: a routing hub (SKILL.md) for top-level intent, and a reference/ tree of deep-dive docs by topic (architecture, physics, workflow, debugging, ...). It is designed to be loaded into an agent's context on demand and to stay readable as a human reference.
Each repo carries its own license. Each is maintained alongside the model it covers. We currently host 28 skill repos across Earth-system, atmosphere, land, ocean, sea-ice, and heliophysics domains.
Status legend: deep-dive complete. scaffold (v0.1.0-scaffold), routing and source-grounded surface verified, operational depth being filled in.
These repos live in their authors' own namespaces. They follow the same progressive-disclosure skill pattern and ship alongside the core org.
<model>-skill/ ├── SKILL.md # Routing hub: when to use, where to look ├── reference/ # Deep-dive docs by topic │ ├── architecture.md │ ├── physics.md │ ├── workflow.md │ ├── debugging.md │ └── ... └── README.md
Open an issue or PR on the relevant repo. For new model coverage that fits the scope (Earth, ocean, atmosphere, land, ice, space weather, planetary), open an issue on the org before starting a new repo.