# carbon-card

Turns your Claude usage into a PNG report card with the carbon footprint, ready to post or send.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 227
- Author: gwittebolle
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/gwittebolle/claude-carbon/tree/HEAD/skills/carbon-card/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/carbon-card

## What it does

The skill runs a bash script that hunts down your claude-carbon install. It reads the path from `statusLine.command` in `settings.json`, then falls back to `CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT`, `CLAUDE_CARBON_DIR`, the newest cached marketplace copy, and finally `$HOME/code/claude-carbon`. Totals print first, the export directory on the last line.

Rendering is handled by Playwright's Chromium if you have it, otherwise by a headless Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Chromium or Brave already on the machine. With none of those, no PNG is produced. The script still exits 0, saves the summary card as an HTML page and opens it in your browser, so a screenshot is what you share. Installing a browser is left to you.

PNGs land in `~/Downloads/claude-carbon/`, or in `CLAUDE_CARBON_EXPORT_DIR` when that variable is set, and the folder is opened in your file manager for you. On Windows, paths in environment variables and `settings.json` can show up as `C:\Users\...`, which bash cannot open, so the script pipes them through `cygpath` from Git for Windows. Set `CLAUDE_CARBON_NO_OPEN` to skip the automatic folder opening.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add gwittebolle/claude-carbon --skill carbon-card -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/carbon-card/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/carbon-card/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add gwittebolle/claude-carbon --skill carbon-card -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/carbon-card/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add gwittebolle/claude-carbon --skill carbon-card -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/carbon-card/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install gwittebolle/claude-carbon carbon-card
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/carbon-card/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add gwittebolle/claude-carbon --skill carbon-card -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/gwittebolle/claude-carbon --path skills/carbon-card
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/carbon-card/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add gwittebolle/claude-carbon --skill carbon-card -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/gwittebolle/claude-carbon/tree/HEAD/skills/carbon-card/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- get a PNG card of a session's carbon footprint
- share Claude usage totals on a social feed
- work out CO2 emissions and API cost from the logs
- drop the report into Downloads and open the folder
- produce a card when Playwright is not installed

## Example prompts
- Generate my carbon footprint card
- Run carbon-card and show me the exported file paths
- Make the card and help me write a post with the totals

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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````text
---
name: carbon-card
description: Generate shareable PNG report cards of your Claude Code carbon footprint
---

Run the following bash script and present the output to the user. Show the exported file paths so they can share the PNGs, and tell them the folder has been opened in their file manager. When no browser could draw them there are no PNGs: see the last paragraph.

```bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Locate the install wired into the status line (honours CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR),
# then fall back to CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT / CLAUDE_CARBON_DIR / the default path.
# Windows (Git Bash): CLAUDE_* variables and the paths stored in settings.json can
# arrive in the native "C:\Users\..." spelling, which bash cannot open. cygpath
# ships with Git for Windows; everywhere else this is the identity function.
ccp() {
  case "${OSTYPE:-}" in msys*|cygwin*) ;; *) printf '%s' "$1"; return 0 ;; esac
  case "$1" in
    [A-Za-z]:[\\/]*|*\\*) cygpath -u "$1" 2>/dev/null || printf '%s' "$1" ;;
    *) printf '%s' "$1" ;;
  esac
}
CFG="$(ccp "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}")"
# A jq the installer fetched into the data folder (a Mac older than macOS 15 has none)
if ! command -v jq >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -x "$CFG/claude-carbon/bin/jq" ]; then PATH="$CFG/claude-carbon/bin:$PATH"; fi
REPO_DIR=""
if command -v jq >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -f "$CFG/settings.json" ]; then
  SL_CMD="$(jq -r '.statusLine.command // empty' "$CFG/settings.json" 2>/dev/null)"
  # statusLine.command stores a path, shell-escaped, or in double quotes on Windows:
  # unquote, expand ~ and unescape spaces
  SL_CMD="${SL_CMD#\"}"; SL_CMD="${SL_CMD%\"}"
  SL_CMD="${SL_CMD//\\ / }"; SL_CMD="${SL_CMD/#\~/$HOME}"; SL_CMD="$(ccp "$SL_CMD")"
  [ -n "$SL_CMD" ] && [ -f "$SL_CMD" ] && REPO_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$SL_CMD")/.." 2>/dev/null && pwd)"
fi
[ -z "$REPO_DIR" ] && [ -n "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-}" ] && REPO_DIR="$(ccp "$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT")"
[ -z "$REPO_DIR" ] && [ -n "${CLAUDE_CARBON_DIR:-}" ] && REPO_DIR="$(ccp "$CLAUDE_CARBON_DIR")"
if [ -z "$REPO_DIR" ]; then
  # Pure marketplace installs reach here: no statusLine.command in settings.json and
  # no CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT in a skill's bash env. Pick the newest cached plugin copy,
  # the same scan as statusline.sh CACHE_LATEST.
  CACHE_LATEST=""
  for D in "$CFG/plugins/cache"/*/claude-carbon/*/; do
    [ -f "${D}scripts/generate-report.sh" ] || continue
    if [ -z "$CACHE_LATEST" ] || [ "$(printf '%s\n%s\n' "$CACHE_LATEST" "$D" | sort -V | tail -1)" = "$D" ]; then
      CACHE_LATEST="$D"
    fi
  done
  [ -n "$CACHE_LATEST" ] && REPO_DIR="${CACHE_LATEST%/}"
fi
[ -z "$REPO_DIR" ] && REPO_DIR="$HOME/code/claude-carbon"

bash "$REPO_DIR/scripts/generate-report.sh"
```
````
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