Skill Claude · ChatGPT / MCP
Site environment
Research a site’s climate and environmental conditions.
What it does
Give Norma the site and the environmental questions in your brief. Norma prepares a sourced desk study of climate, terrain and relevant hazards, with the limits of the available evidence clearly stated.
Install
Connect Arch Studio in Claude or ChatGPT, then return to your conversation and ask Norma for the task. Your assistant uses its available file access and tools to carry out the skill.
Add to Claude
Add to ChatGPTVersions and source
Arch Studio 1.5.1.2 · MCP
Available as MCP workflow instructions in compatible Claude and ChatGPT connections. The assistant performs the work with its own tools and permissions and verifies the actual result before reporting completion.
Arch Studio 1.5.1.2 · Open source
Included in the public plugin for Claude Code and Codex. In this version: Site environment — Research a site's climate, sun, flood exposure, soils and other environmental conditions.
Usage
Ask Norma in plain language. With Arch Studio connected through MCP, no $ or / command is required. Norma is your assistant working with Arch Studio.
Use Arch Studio to review climate and environmental conditions for the site in this brief. Cover seasonal weather, flood information and terrain. Keep sources and dates attached, and distinguish desk research from conditions requiring site investigation.The full catalog lives in your assistant once Arch Studio is connected. Ask: Norma, what can you do? List the skills, tools, agents and workflows available in this host, grouped by practice area.
What it researches
Climate
Norma researches seasonal temperatures, precipitation, wind, humidity and sun conditions from applicable sources.
Terrain and natural features
Norma gathers available information about topography, soils, vegetation and nearby water.
Hazards and evidence gaps
Norma checks relevant flood, seismic and contamination sources. Conditions requiring survey, fieldwork or specialist investigation remain separate.
Workflow
- Locate — Norma confirms the site and the requested study scope.
- Research — Norma reads the applicable public or institutional sources.
- Report — Norma returns dated findings and identifies limits of the desk study.
Pairs with
Site mobility. Norma can add access and transportation context to the same site study.