lightcone-cli 0.3.5

Lightcone command-line toolchain

lightcone-cli

lightcone-cli (lc) is the agentic execution layer for ASTRA (Agentic Schema for Transparent Research Analysis). Describe your analysis to an AI agent and lc takes care of the rest — specification, execution, and provenance.

Quick Start

uv tool install lightcone-cli
lc init my-analysis
cd my-analysis
claude

Then tell the agent what you have to start from — a research question (/lc-new), existing code (/lc-from-code), or a paper to reproduce (/lc-from-paper).

→ Full getting-started guide

Skills

Skill	What it does
/lc-new	Scope a new analysis from a research question into a full astra.yaml spec
/lc-from-code	Bring an existing codebase into ASTRA
/lc-from-paper	Reproduce a published paper end-to-end
/lc-feedback	File a bug report with version and error context auto-collected

Capabilities

• Multiverse analysis — define methodological decisions with multiple options; lc runs your analysis across all defensible paths automatically
• Provenance integrity — every output gets a content-addressed manifest; lc verify detects tampering or broken chains
• HPC-ready execution — Snakemake-backed DAG dispatch with SLURM and container support (Docker, Podman, Apptainer) out of the box
• Reproducible publishing — lc export wrroc emits a Workflow Run RO-Crate bundle ready for Zenodo or WorkflowHub

→ Full documentation

License

BSD 3-Clause — see LICENSE for details.