Stop hardcoding pip commands in USAGE.md - #37
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The claude.ai setup step justified network egress solely as "so that Claude can install idc-index", and two other places handed out bare `pip install idc-index` / `pip install --user idc-index`. Those target whichever interpreter pip resolves to and ignore the pinned version — the failure scripts/ check_version.py exists to prevent, and which SKILL.md no longer does either. Point the troubleshooting entry at check_version.py and drop the install commands from the Command Execution list, which does not need to name one. Deliberately not documenting which access path the skill picks per task: that is the assistant's decision from SKILL.md, and a human configuring the skill cannot act on it. The one exception is the allowed-domains list, where it does change what they configure. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Follow-up to #36, which removed hardcoded
pip installcommands fromSKILL.mdbut left three inUSAGE.md.Why
scripts/check_version.pyexists to emit an install command that targets the interpreter actually running and pins the vetted version. A barepip install idc-indexdefeats both: it may resolve to a different environment than the one importing the package, and it ignores the pin.USAGE.mdstill handed outpip install idc-indexandpip install --user idc-indexdirectly, and justified network egress solely as "so that Claude can installidc-index".Changes
check_version.pyand explains why, keeping the PEP 668 note that the old--userbullet carriedidc-index", since the API path needs no packageScope
Deliberately not documenting which access path the skill picks per task. That is the assistant's decision from
SKILL.md, and a human configuring the skill cannot act on it — so it would be noise in a setup doc. The one exception is the allowed-domains list, where it genuinely changes what they configure; that was already covered in #36.README.mdis unchanged for the same reason.Verified: 52 passed across
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