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Urdf

  • 1 installs
  • 13 repo stars
  • Updated May 19, 2026
  • earthtojake/urdf-skill

Generate, edit, regenerate, and validate URDF robot description files, including links, joints, limits, axes, and visual mesh references.

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Creates and validates URDF robot models from a Python gen_urdf() source of truth, focusing on kinematic structure, XML correctness, and mesh references. A developer uses it to author or regenerate .urdf files and check robot links and joints.

  • Treats gen_urdf() Python as source of truth and the .urdf file as generated output
  • Uses scripts/gen_urdf with --summary for compact robot/link/joint validation

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  • 1 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • Ranked #1,983 of 2,715 Automation & Workflows skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Data as of Jul 30, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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Last updatedMay 19, 2026
Repositoryearthtojake/urdf-skill

What it does

Generate, edit, regenerate, and validate URDF robot description files, including links, joints, limits, axes, and visual mesh references.

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

URDF

Use this skill for robot description outputs. URDF work is intentionally separate from ordinary CAD generation because the correctness questions are kinematic, XML, and mesh-reference oriented rather than primarily geometric.

Workflow

1. Treat the Python source that defines gen_urdf() as source of truth. Treat the configured .urdf file as generated. 2. For the gen_urdf() envelope contract, read references/generator-contract.md. 3. For robot description edits, read references/urdf-workflow.md. 4. Edit links, joints, limits, axes, origins, inertials, materials, and mesh filenames deliberately. 5. Regenerate only the explicit URDF target with scripts/gen_urdf. 6. Use --summary for a compact robot/link/joint check after regeneration. 7. For validation expectations, read references/validation.md. 8. If the URDF references changed CAD mesh outputs, use the cad skill to regenerate the affected STEP/STL/render assets separately.

Commands

Run with the Python environment for the project or workspace. If the environment lacks the URDF validation runtime packages, install this skill's script dependencies from requirements.txt. Invoke the tool as a filesystem script, for example python <urdf-skill>/scripts/gen_urdf .... Relative target paths are resolved from the current working directory; the tool does not prepend a harness root such as models/.

  • URDF sidecars: scripts/gen_urdf

The command interface is target-explicit. Pass the Python generator that defines gen_urdf(); use --summary for a compact robot/link/joint check.

References

  • URDF generation: references/gen-urdf.md
  • Generator contract: references/generator-contract.md
  • URDF edit workflow: references/urdf-workflow.md
  • URDF validation: references/validation.md

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