Local Environment Setup

Local Environment Setup is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by xuzhougeng in wisp-science.

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Install Local Environment Setup

Copy Local Environment Setup 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/xuzhougeng/wisp-science/tree/main/skills/local-env-setup ~/.claude/skills/local-env-setup

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/xuzhougeng/wisp-science.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/local-env-setup/SKILL.md in xuzhougeng/wisp-science
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/local-env-setup
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Local Environment Setup does

Local Environment Setup configures wisp-science’s local runtime with uv/Python, Node and scimaster-cli, and pixi for multi-environment analysis. Use it when required tools are missing, bootstrap fails, or you need to set up the local environment.

Local Environment Setup is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Local Environment Setup comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agent, ai-assistant, ai-for-science and ai4science.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Local runtime setup

wisp-science needs three independent local toolchains:

Layer	Tools	Purpose
Core	`uv` + managed Python venv	App bootstrap, `python` tool, bundled MCP servers
Literature	Node >= 20, `npm`, `sci` (scimaster-cli)	Bundled `bear-*` skills (real paper search)
Bioinformatics	`pixi`	Per-project conda/pip multi-env analysis (scanpy, workflow engines like snakemake/nextflow/oxo-flow)

Core is required for the app. Literature and bioinformatics layers are optional until the user runs those skills — but Capabilities shows all of them; install what's missing for the user's goal.

Restart wisp-science after changing PATH or global config so bootstrap re-runs.

Step 0 — Detect platform, region, and current state

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

Frequently asked about Local Environment Setup

What else does xuzhougeng publish alongside Local Environment Setup?
Local Environment Setup is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from xuzhougeng/wisp-science, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Infini, Bear Counter and Bear Map. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Local Environment Setup does, and is maintained by xuzhougeng in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the xuzhougeng/wisp-science page.
How does Local Environment Setup compare to other DevOps skills?
Local Environment Setup ranks #440 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 Local Environment Setup against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.