Is the Route Researcher skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from dreamiurg/claude-mountaineering-skills. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the Route Researcher SkillProof Score?

9.2/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 9/10, docs & honesty 4/5.

How do I install Route Researcher?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use Route Researcher with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

Route Researcher

Turns a peak name into a cited, dated route-beta report from 10+ mountaineering sources

by dreamiurg · dreamiurg/claude-mountaineering-skills

Tested · Works

Install — copy the command Download source ↗

Test report

Verdict: Tested · Works
Score: 9.2/10
Tested: Jul 15, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Aug 10, 2026 · 3171266

Ran the bundled fetch_conditions.py live against real coordinates: it returned a correctly-dated 7-day forecast (matching today's actual date), full twilight table, avalanche region, and a start-time itinerary with an explicit after_dark safety flag, and gracefully logged two live Overpass-API rate-limit failures into its own 'gaps' field instead of crashing — exactly as documented. A plain WebFetch baseline on the same peak's WTA page got only a generic difficulty/distance summary with none of that.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 5/5
Output vs. baseline 9/10
Docs & honesty 4/5

What Route Researcher does

A 7-phase orchestration skill for North American mountain/peak research: identifies the peak via peakbagger-cli, pulls live weather/avalanche/daylight/time-estimate data via a bundled Python tool, fans out to PeakBagger/SummitPost/WTA/AllTrails/Mountaineers/etc. for trip reports and route beta, then writes and reviews a full Markdown report. Triggers on 'research this peak,' route beta, trip planning, or trail-conditions requests for climbs, hikes, and scrambles.

How to install Route Researcher

git clone https://github.com/dreamiurg/claude-mountaineering-skills
cd claude-mountaineering-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r skills/route-researcher ~/.claude/skills/route-researcher

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ (per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.

Commands — how to trigger Route Researcher

/route-researcher Turns a peak name into a cited, dated route-beta report from 10+ mountaineering sources

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

Plan a Mount Baker climb with current avalanche conditions
What's the weather and daylight window for this scramble?
Research route conditions before my alpine trip this weekend

Frequently asked questions

Is the Route Researcher skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from dreamiurg/claude-mountaineering-skills. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does Route Researcher work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 15, 2026. Verdict: Tested · Works. Ran the bundled fetch_conditions.py live against real coordinates: it returned a correctly-dated 7-day forecast (matching today's actual date), full twilight table, avalanche region, and a start-time itinerary with an explicit after_dark safety flag, and gracefully logged two live Overpass-API rate-limit failures into its own 'gaps' field instead of crashing — exactly as documented. A plain WebFetch baseline on the same peak's WTA page got only a generic difficulty/distance summary with none of that.
What is the Route Researcher SkillProof Score?: 9.2/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 9/10, docs & honesty 4/5.
How do I install Route Researcher?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use Route Researcher with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.