compute-env-setup
Set up a compute environment on a remote provider so Claude Science jobs can run there. Covers direct SSH/conda hosts, Slurm clusters, container-via-bridge runners, and managed-API providers (Modal, GCP, RunPod). Use when standing up a new provider, porting an env to a different backend, adding a tool that needs its own software stack, or wiring weight caches. Triggers on "new compute provider", "set up env on", "port env to", "build GPU image", "weight cache", "compute_details", "conda env on the box", "apptainer on slurm".
npx skills add BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills --skill compute-env-setup --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Setting up compute environments on a remote provider ## Overview What's invariant across every backend is what a job *needs*: a software stack (specific package versions, often with load-bearing install ordering), possibly some large model weights placed where the tool will find them, and a resource shape. What varies — a lot — is how a given provider materialises those three things and how an env name gets resolved to them at submit time. This skill is about keeping one declarative spec that says *what* the environment is, and treating *how it gets built and addressed on this provider* as something you figure out once per provider. The work ranges from minutes (another conda env on a host that has ten) to days (GPU image + weight cache + egress on a fresh backend), and most of the long tail is diagnosing why the documented invocation doesn't work even though every import succeeds. **Before building anything:** `compute_details({provider, mode:"read"})`. The env, or a near-match you can extend, may already exist. The doc you get back is also where you'll record what you set up. ## Provider shapes These are not exhaustive and they blend at the edges (a Slurm node can run Apptainer
- Overview
- Provider shapes
- The declarative spec
- BYOC providers — building via the computeprovider kernel
- Weights
- Validation
- Diagnosing failures
- computedetails — recording what's set up
- Reference guides
What does the compute-env-setup skill do?
Set up a compute environment on a remote provider so Claude Science jobs can run there. Covers direct SSH/conda hosts, Slurm clusters, container-via-bridge runners, and managed-API providers (Modal, GCP, RunPod). Use when standing up a new provider, porting an env to a different backend, adding a tool that needs its own software stack, or wiring weight caches. Triggers on "new compute provider", "set up env on", "port env to", "build GPU image", "weight cache", "compute_details", "conda env on the box", "apptainer on slurm".
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills --skill compute-env-setup --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills, a repository with 135 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.