Capture Environment

Capture Environment is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by pedrohcgs in claude-code-my-workflow.

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Install Capture Environment

Copy Capture Environment into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/tree/main/.claude/skills/capture-environment ~/.claude/skills/capture-environment

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/capture-environment/SKILL.md in pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/capture-environment
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Capture Environment does

Capture Environment snapshots a project’s software stack for a replication package, including language versions, package locks, seeds, and RNG settings. Use it before releasing or handing off analysis code so others can rebuild the same environment.

Capture Environment is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Capture Environment comes from a repository tagged academic-writing, causal-inference, claude-code, claude-code-skills and econometrics.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

`/capture-environment` — snapshot the computational environment

A replication package that runs on the author's laptop in 2026 and nowhere else in 2029 is not reproducible. This skill captures the exact computational environment — language versions, package versions, seeds, RNG kind, and (optionally) the OS layer — so a referee, the AEA Data Editor, or future-you can reconstruct it. It detects which stack the project uses and emits the artifacts that stack's ecosystem expects, then verifies the lockfile installs clean.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Capture Environment provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/capture-environment
/audit-reproducibility
/commit
/data-analysis
/stata-replication
/simulation-study

Frequently asked about Capture Environment

What else does pedrohcgs publish alongside Capture Environment?
Capture Environment is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Audit Reproducibility, Checkpoint and Coauthor Brief. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Capture Environment does, and is maintained by pedrohcgs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow page.
How does Capture Environment compare to other DevOps skills?
Capture Environment ranks #331 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Capture Environment against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.