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Guides installation of Earth2Studio via uv or pip, selecting model extras and configuring the environment.
npx claudepluginhub nvidia/earth2studio --plugin earth2studioHow this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/earth2studio:earth2studio-installThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
You **MUST NOT** install, upgrade, or modify packages on the user's
Helps users identify Earth2Studio models, data sources, and examples for weather/climate tasks by fetching live documentation and filtering by GPU/VRAM, region, and forecast class.
Verifies geoai Python package installation and functionality, checks optional geospatial and deep learning dependencies, provides pip instructions if missing. Useful before geo AI tasks.
Detects which Python environment manager a project uses (pixi, uv, poetry, conda, pip+venv) and installs packages with the correct command. Bootstraps new projects with pixi by default.
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You MUST NOT install, upgrade, or modify packages on the user's behalf. Provide the exact command; the user runs it. No exceptions.
Forbidden: running pip install, uv pip install, uv add,
uv sync, conda install, apt install, or any package manager.
Instead: give the exact command and ask the user to run it. Explain why the package is needed.
When a package is needed:
Even if the user says "just install it", give the command and require them to execute it themselves.
Help users install Earth2Studio and its optional model dependencies correctly for their use case. This skill handles package installation, optional-extra selection, environment variable configuration, and install verification.
You are helping a user install Earth2Studio and its optional model dependencies. Your only job is to get the package installed correctly for their use case — do not write inference code, do not compose workflows.
Earth2Studio installation commands, version tags, and extra names change between releases. Before executing or recommending any install command, fetch the live installation docs:
https://nvidia.github.io/earth2studio/userguide/about/install.html
Parse the page for the current version tag, available extras, and any special build notes. The workflow below is structural guidance — the specific commands come from the live page.
Use WebFetch on the install URL above. Extract:
@0.14.0)--no-build-isolation for pip,
manual pre-installs)Keep this data in working memory for all subsequent steps.
Ask (cap at 3 questions, skip what the user already answered):
Provide commands from the live docs based on their answers:
After the user runs the install, verify:
import earth2studio
earth2studio.__version__
Present the available extras organized by use case. Ask what the user plans to do — don't dump all options unprompted. Categories from the docs:
| Category | Example extras |
|---|---|
| Prognostic (forecasting) | aifs, aurora, graphcast, pangu, sfno, stormcast, ... |
| Diagnostic (post-processing) | corrdiff, climatenet, precip-afno, ... |
| Data assimilation (beta) | da-healda, da-interp, da-stormcast |
| Submodules | data, perturbation, statistics |
The exact list comes from the live docs — cite those, not this table.
Ask:
--extra all)Provide the exact commands from the live docs for their selections. Key warnings to surface:
--no-build-isolation or pre-installing packages like earth2grid,
torch-harmonics, or makaniMention environment variables the user might want to set — only if relevant (e.g. limited disk, shared filesystem, CI environment):
| Variable | Purpose |
|---|---|
EARTH2STUDIO_CACHE | General cache directory |
EARTH2STUDIO_DATA_CACHE | Data source cache (overrides general) |
EARTH2STUDIO_MODEL_CACHE | Model checkpoint cache (overrides general) |
EARTH2STUDIO_PACKAGE_TIMEOUT | Max seconds for model downloads |
If installation fails, point the user to:
Common issues:
torch.cuda.is_available() firstsudo apt-get install libeccodes-dev (Debian/Ubuntu) or
conda install -c conda-forge eccodessudo apt-get install python3-devdata extra is out of scopeOwns: package installation, optional-extra selection, environment variable configuration, install verification.
Does not own: writing inference or training code, composing
Earth2Studio workflows, data source setup beyond the data extra,
model checkpoint downloads (those happen at runtime), troubleshooting
runtime errors unrelated to missing dependencies.