mcpbeat

Alterlab Zarr

alterlab-ieu/alterlab-zarr

Chunked, compressed N-dimensional arrays for cloud storage with Zarr — parallel I/O, S3/GCS integration, and NumPy/Dask/Xarray compatibility. Use when storing or reading large N-D scientific arrays, streaming chunked data to/from cloud object stores, or building large-scale scientific computing pipelines. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.

11k tokens
context cost
the whole folder, loaded on every use
8
files
instructions only
0
copies elsewhere
how many repositories repackaged it
56
stars on the repo
on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository 
npx skills add https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-zarr

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take alterlab-ieu/alterlab-zarr from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.

Install what it needs

The instructions reference pip, uv. Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.