# carbon-report

Prints the CO2 footprint of your Claude sessions — today, this year, all time — with a car equivalent and a 2-tonne annual budget.

- 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-report/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/carbon-report

## What it does

The skill runs a bash script that reads the local `carbon.db` and totals emissions across three windows: today, the current calendar year, and all time. Session counts and USD cost come along with it. Whatever the script prints, the skill hands back unchanged.

Equivalence factors live in `data/factors.json`, and the set is chosen from your locale before the script forces `LC_ALL=C`. A French car and a US car differ by roughly 1.7x, so the pick matters. Sessions on non-Anthropic models are flagged as excluded and stay out of every total. The year figure is measured against a 2-tonne-per-person budget — a scale for comparison, not an allowance for AI use.

\`jq` and `data/factors.json` are required; without either the script exits with an error. The database comes from `scripts/setup.sh`, and there is nothing to report until it exists. On Windows, Git Bash paths in the `C:\Users\...` form get converted with `cygpath`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add gwittebolle/claude-carbon --skill carbon-report -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-report/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- see the lifetime CO2 total for your sessions
- check this year's total against a 2-tonne budget
- read API cost next to emissions
- keep local-model sessions out of the aggregates
- count how many sessions ran today

## Example prompts
- Show my CO2 emissions report
- Run carbon-report and print the output as is
- How much CO2 did my sessions use this year?

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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````text
---
name: carbon-report
description: Display CO2 emissions report for Claude Code sessions
---

Run the following bash script exactly as written and present the output to the user. Do not paraphrase or reformat the results.

```bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Locate the install (equivalence factors + shared locale lib live in the repo),
# mirroring /carbon-card: status line wiring first, then plugin root, then default.
# 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 "$REPO_DIR" ]; then
  # Pure marketplace installs reach here: settings.json carries no statusLine.command
  # (the status line is wired through plugin.json) and CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT is not in the
  # env of a skill's bash. Pick the newest cached plugin copy, the same scan as
  # statusline.sh CACHE_LATEST, keeping only candidates that ship the equivalence lib.
  CACHE_LATEST=""
  for D in "$CFG/plugins/cache"/*/claude-carbon/*/; do
    [ -f "${D}scripts/equiv-lib.sh" ] || continue
    if [ -z "$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="$HOME/code/claude-carbon"
FACTORS_FILE="$REPO_DIR/data/factors.json"

if ! command -v jq >/dev/null 2>&1 || [ ! -f "$FACTORS_FILE" ] || [ ! -f "$REPO_DIR/scripts/equiv-lib.sh" ]; then
  echo "Error: jq and $REPO_DIR/data/factors.json are required (equivalence factors)." >&2
  exit 1
fi

# Pick the equivalence set from the user locale BEFORE LC_ALL=C below masks it:
````
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