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Weather

gooseworks-ai/weather

Get current weather and forecasts using free APIs (no API key required). Use when asked about weather, temperature, forecasts, or climate conditions for any location.

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills --skill weather

What comes with it

269 bytes besides the instruction
skill.meta.json

The instruction itself

8 sections, as written by the author

Weather

Setup

Read your credentials from ~/.gooseworks/credentials.json:

export GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY=$(python3 -c "import json;print(json.load(open('$HOME/.gooseworks/credentials.json'))['api_key'])")
export GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE=$(python3 -c "import json;print(json.load(open('$HOME/.gooseworks/credentials.json')).get('api_base','https://api.gooseworks.ai'))")

If ~/.gooseworks/credentials.json does not exist, tell the user to run: npx gooseworks login

All endpoints use Bearer auth: -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY"

Get weather data using free services - no API keys needed.

wttr.in (Primary)

Fast, simple, works everywhere.

Quick check:

curl -s "wttr.in/London?format=3"
# Output: London: ⛅️ +8°C

Compact format:

curl -s "wttr.in/London?format=%l:+%c+%t+%h+%w"
# Output: London: ⛅️ +8°C 71% ↙5km/h

Full forecast:

curl -s "wttr.in/London?T"

Format Codes

| Code | Meaning |

|------|---------|

| %c | Weather condition emoji |

| %t | Temperature |

| %h | Humidity |

| %w | Wind |

| %l | Location |

| %m | Moon phase |

Tips

  • URL-encode spaces: wttr.in/New+York or wttr.in/San%20Francisco
  • Airport codes work: wttr.in/JFK, wttr.in/SFO
  • Units: ?m metric, ?u USCS (Fahrenheit)
  • Limit days: ?1 today only, ?0 current only
  • Save as image: curl -s "wttr.in/Berlin.png" -o weather.png

Open-Meteo (JSON API)

Better for programmatic use. Free, no key.

curl -s "https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast?latitude=37.77&longitude=-122.42&current_weather=true"

Response includes: temperature, windspeed, weathercode, time.

Get coordinates first

curl -s "https://geocoding-api.open-meteo.com/v1/search?name=San+Francisco&count=1"

Examples

San Francisco right now:

curl -s "wttr.in/San+Francisco?format=3"

Tokyo 3-day forecast:

curl -s "wttr.in/Tokyo?3T"

JSON weather for coordinates:

curl -s "https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast?latitude=35.68&longitude=139.69&current_weather=true&hourly=temperature_2m"

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take gooseworks-ai/weather 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 npx. Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.