Carrel Status — Development skill for Claude Code
Check what tools are installed and working in your research environment.
How to install Carrel Status
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/linxule-carrel-carrel-status/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/linxule-carrel-carrel-status && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linxule/carrel/HEAD/commands/carrel-status.md -o ~/.claude/skills/linxule-carrel-carrel-status/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Carrel Status does
description: Check what tools are installed and working in your research environment
/carrel-status — Environment Health Check
Shows what's configured, what's working, and what capabilities are available or missing.
When to Use
- Researcher asks "what's installed?", "check my setup", "what tools do I have?"
- Troubleshooting: something that used to work isn't working
- After adding a new tool
What Happens
- Read
.carrel/environment.jsonfor saved configuration - Run `ca
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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