Scitex Core

Foundation layer for the SciTeX ecosystem — imported by every other SciTeX package. Bundles 10 standalone utility modules under one roof: `scitex_core.logging` (stdlib-logging + SUCCESS/FAIL levels + SciTeXError hierarchy), `scitex_core.errors` (shortcut to `logging`'s exception tree), `scitex_core.sh` (safe shell-exec with timeout/capture), `scitex_core.path` (find_file/find_git_root/symlink helpers/session paths), `scitex_core.str` (colored prints, LaTeX fallback, grep/parse/replace), `scitex_core.dict` (`DotDict`, `safe_merge`, `flatten`), `scitex_core.types` (`ArrayLike`, `ColorLike`, runtime predicates), `scitex_core.dt` (datetime/timestamp utilities), `scitex_core.parallel` (one-shot `run(func, args)` thread-pool with tqdm), `scitex_core.repro` (`RandomStateManager`, `gen_ID`, `hash_array`). No umbrella `scitex.core` alias — always import directly as `scitex_core.<submodule>`. No CLI, no MCP tools. Drop-in replacement for an in-house monorepo "utils" package that cobbles together `logging` + `pathlib` + `subprocess` + `hashlib` + `concurrent.futures` wrappers, and for depending on each scitex-* leaf package individually when you just want one install. Use whenever the user asks to "use scitex_core utilities", "avoid depending on 10 separate scitex-* packages", "get logging + path + dict helpers from one import", understand which submodule lives where, or mentions scitex_core, SciTeX foundation layer, shared utility package.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/scitex-core
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/scitex-core/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/scitex-core/SKILL.md

@misc{scitex-core-2026,
  author    = {ClaudSkills},
  title     = {Scitex Core [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/scitex-core/}
}