geopandas is a skill in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, last changed 2 Apr 2026. It can touch credentials, run shell commands, reach the network and name web addresses — read the findings before installing.

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Spatial data: GeoDataFrames, spatial joins, CRS/projections, choropleth/interactive maps, spatial autocorrelation, PySAL. Use for geographic data, spatial files (Shapefile, GeoPackage, GeoParquet), or spatial stats. For charts without GIS use plotly.

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What it can touch

How much a skill can do, not whether it is risky.

Pattern check

Nothing flagged

That isn't proof the skill is harmless.

Commit bfa0a6e · 3 Nov 2026

How the check works

Pattern check: nothing flagged

That isn't proof the skill is harmless.

Install

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What it can touch

From the files and frontmatter at commit bfa0a6e. This is how much a skill can do, not whether it is risky.

  • Touches credentials

    It reads, asks for or contains keys, tokens, passwords or similar secrets.

    references/data-io.md:171 (opens in a new tab)

  • Runs shell commands

    Its instructions or files give the agent commands to run on your computer.

  • Reaches the network

    It sends or fetches data over the internet, for example with curl, an HTTP library or a package install.

  • Names web addresses

    It mentions outside web addresses the agent may visit. We list them but don't follow them.

    Outside links we did not follow

Pattern check

Pattern check: nothing flagged · commit bfa0a6e · 3 Nov 2026

We checked every text file in this skill, at commit bfa0a6e on 3 Nov 2026, against 45 published patterns such as download-and-run commands, hidden text and credential access. We don't run the skill, we don't read the web pages it points to, and we can't judge everything its instructions might lead an agent to do. In published tests, pattern checks like this one missed most malicious skills. Read the skill before you install it — especially anything it asks you to download or run.

How the check worksReport an incorrect finding

  • https://geopandas.org/
  • https://py.geocompx.org/
  • https://pythongis.org/
  • https://pyproj4.github.io/pyproj/
  • https://gistbok.ucgis.org/
  • https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2022/COUNTY/tl_2022_us_county.zip
  • https://naciscdn.org/naturalearth/110m/cultural/ne_110m_admin_0_countries.zip
  • https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/user_guide/io.html
  • https://pyogrio.readthedocs.io/
  • https://geoparquet.org/
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  • https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/user_guide.html
  • https://shapely.readthedocs.io/en/stable/migration.html
  • https://geographicdata.science/book/
  • https://pysal.org/
  • https://pysal.org/libpysal/
  • https://pysal.org/esda/
  • https://pysal.org/spreg/
  • https://pysal.org/pointpats/
  • https://rasterio.readthedocs.io/
  • https://corteva.github.io/rioxarray/
  • https://pythonhosted.org/rasterstats/
  • https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/user_guide/mergingdata.html
  • https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/user_guide/set_operations.html
  • https://pysal.org/tobler/
  • https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/user_guide/mapping.html
  • https://contextily.readthedocs.io/
  • https://python-visualization.github.io/folium/
  • https://developmentseed.org/lonboard/
  • https://pysal.org/mapclassify/

Format check

Each agent reads SKILL.md a little differently. We check the file against each one's published rules; we don't run the skill in any agent.

  • Agent Skills specPasses

    The open format from agentskills.io, held to the strictest version of each rule among the agents we check.

    • Note

      There is no license field, so readers can't tell whether they may reuse the skill. O2

      Fix: Add license: with an SPDX name such as MIT or Apache-2.0, or the name of a bundled licence file.

    • Note

      Reference files over 100 lines with no table of contents at the top: references/crs-projections.md (262 lines), references/data-io.md (307 lines), references/gotchas.md (408 lines), references/pysal-spatial-stats.md (569 lines), references/quickstart.md (306 lines) and 3 more. B5

      Fix: Add a short list of the sections at the top of each.

  • Claude CodePasses

    Claude Code reads its own extra fields, ignores unknown ones, and still loads a skill whose frontmatter is broken, without its fields.

    • Note

      Reference files over 100 lines with no table of contents at the top: references/crs-projections.md (262 lines), references/data-io.md (307 lines), references/gotchas.md (408 lines), references/pysal-spatial-stats.md (569 lines), references/quickstart.md (306 lines) and 3 more. B5

      Fix: Add a short list of the sections at the top of each.

  • Claude apps & API uploadPasses

    Uploading to claude.ai or the Claude API, or packaging with Anthropic's script, accepts only the six spec fields and stops on anything else.

    • Note

      The description is 250 characters. The claude.ai Help Center says 200 at most, though Anthropic's API docs and validator allow 1,024. D4

      Fix: If the claude.ai upload refuses it, trim the description to 200 characters.

    • Note

      Reference files over 100 lines with no table of contents at the top: references/crs-projections.md (262 lines), references/data-io.md (307 lines), references/gotchas.md (408 lines), references/pysal-spatial-stats.md (569 lines), references/quickstart.md (306 lines) and 3 more. B5

      Fix: Add a short list of the sections at the top of each.

  • OpenAI (Codex & API)Passes
  • VS Code & CopilotPasses

SKILL.md

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