lightcone-research

Companion for working on a Lightcone project — an ASTRA analysis (astra.yaml) executed with the `lc` CLI. Covers the project model (a uv project, direct or containerized, stored as a DataLad dataset), the development workflow (allocate a cluster with `lc compute`, probe with `lc run`, integrate recipes, commit, `lc materialize`), recipe resources and GPUs, status interpretation (current/behind/stale/no recipe) and failure diagnosis, publishing the RO-Crate view, and how to engage the user at each phase: interview to scope a brand-new project, orient and summarize when resuming an existing one. Invoke whenever the user wants to start, resume, plan, run, debug, or discuss a Lightcone/ASTRA analysis project. Bundles the `astra` plugin (spec reference, validate-on-save & session-start hooks) — install `lightcone` alone to get the full stack.

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Reference for the ASTRA specification (astra.yaml): top-level structure, sub-analyses, inputs/outputs, decisions and options, prior insights and findings, evidence and quote verification, and composition mechanics. Invoke when reading, writing, validating, or debugging an astra.yaml spec, or when the user asks about ASTRA schema or sub-analysis composition. Ships hooks that validate astra.yaml on save and remind agents to load the skill when they read an ASTRA file.

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