VLSIDA

Vlsida Skills — DevOps skill for Claude Code

DevOps community

Claude Code skills for EDA tooling, cloud infrastructure, and research computing.

How to install Vlsida Skills

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open VLSIDA/vlsida-skills and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Vlsida Skills does

Claude Code skills for EDA tooling, cloud infrastructure, and research computing.

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README

VLSIDA Claude Code Skills

Claude Code skills developed by the [VLSIDA lab](https://vlsida.github.io/) at UC Santa Cruz. These skills extend [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code) with domain-specific knowledge for EDA tooling, cloud infrastructure, and research computing.

What are Claude Code skills?

Skills are context documents that Claude Code loads on demand to gain specialized knowledge or capabilities. Install them by cloning this repo into `~/.claude/skills/`.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/VLSIDA/vlsida-skills ~/.claude/skills/vlsida-skills

Then register each skill you want in your `~/.claude/settings.json`:

{
  "skills": [
    "~/.claude/skills/vlsida-skills/openroad-tcl",
    "~/.claude/skills/vlsida-skills/sdc-sta",
    "~/.claude/skills/vlsida-skills/nautilus-nrp",
    "~/.claude/skills/vlsida-skills/gcloud",
    "~/.claude/skills/vlsida-skills/paper-writing"
  ]
}

Skills

EDA / Physical Design

Skill	Description
`openroad-tcl`	Offline reference for OpenROAD Tcl commands and arguments. Covers all modules: global/detailed placement, routing, CTS, PDN, floorplan, pin placement, IR drop analysis, and more. Use when writing OpenROAD flow scripts or looking up exact command syntax.
`sdc-sta`	Reference for OpenSTA and SDC timing commands. Covers `create_clock`, `set_input_delay`, `set_false_path`, `set_multicycle_path`, `report_checks`, multi-corner analysis, and debugging unconstrained paths. Includes a local mirror of the OpenSTA user guide PDF.

Research Writing

Skill	Description
`brutal-review`	Brutal final-pass reviewer for near-final research paper submissions. Returns a structured triage report: must-fix issues, suggested polish, a terminology consistency table, citation audit, and a "logic cop" summary of overclaims and handwavy arguments. Attributed to Todd Austin.
[`paper-writing`](paper-writi