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Scitex Path

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Engineering · Sub-category: engineering-misc

lang:python

Project-aware path utilities for scientific Python — finding files/dirs/git roots, SciTeX `script_out/` session-path conventions, versioned directories, and symlink hygiene. Public API — search/location (`find_file`, `find_dir`, `find_git_root`, `find_latest`), path manipulation (`clean`, `split`, `getsize`, `increment_version`), SciTeX session paths (`get_spath`, `mk_spath`, `get_this_path`, `this_path`, `get_data_path_from_a_package`), symlink toolkit (`symlink`, `create_relative_symlink`, `readlink`, `is_symlink`, `list_symlinks`, `resolve_symlinks`, `unlink_symlink`, `fix_broken_symlinks`). No CLI, no MCP tools. Drop-in replacement for hand-rolling `pathlib.Path.rglob` loops to locate files, walking up directories to find `.git/`, ad-hoc `os.path.splitext`+`basename` chains, manual `v001`/`v002` versioning logic, and bespoke `os.symlink`+`os.readlink`+`os.path.islink` scripts that miss relative-symlink edge cases. Use whenever the user asks to "find a file up/down the tree", "locate the git root", "find the latest versioned output directory", "split a path into dir/stem/ext", "build a script_out path for this session", "create a relative symlink", "list all symlinks under a directory", "fix broken symlinks", "bump the v00X version of an output folder", or mentions `scitex.path`, `get_spath`, `find_git_root`, SciTeX session paths.

What this skill does

Scitex Path is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the engineering-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/scitex-path/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use whenever the user asks to "find a file up/down the tree", "locate the git root", "find the latest versioned output directory", "split a path into dir/stem/ext", "build a script_out path for this session", "create a relative symlink", "list all symlinks under a directory", "fix broken symlinks", "bump the v00X version of an output folder", or mentions `scitex.path`, `get_spath`, `find_git_root`, SciTeX session paths.

Who uses this skill

The Scitex Path skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

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

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/scitex-path/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/scitex-path/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\scitex-path\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

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