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Claude Skill

We publish a Claude skill that teaches Claude — Anthropic's AI assistant — how to work with your Sensible Laps files. Once it's installed you can just ask for what you want in plain English and Claude does the fiddly file-wrangling for you.

This is an optional power-user add-on

You don't need it to run Sensible Laps. It's for clubs that want to slice up their own data — season championships, schedules, bulk result crunching — without a spreadsheet marathon.

What it can do

  • Read results and events — open .slres results and .sevx event backups, and download a track's results straight from results.sensiblelaps.com.
  • Build a championship, your way — combine a whole season of result files into standings using whatever scoring you use: points for place, most laps across the series, most wins, best N rounds.
  • Plan a race day — a running order with duration estimates, track-watering markers, and a check for anyone drawn to race in back-to-back heats across divisions.
  • Draft an event — turn a short description of a meeting into a loadable .sevx. (This part is experimental — always open the generated event in Sensible Laps and check it before racing on it.)

What you need

  • Claude Code (or another agent that supports Claude skills).
  • Python 3 installed. The skill uses only the Python standard library — no extra packages to install.

Install it

  1. Download the skill from the downloads page — it's a .zip.
  2. Unzip it into your Claude skills folder so you end up with a folder named sensible-laps-files inside .claude/skills/:
    • ~/.claude/skills/sensible-laps-files/ makes it available in every project, or
    • <your project>/.claude/skills/sensible-laps-files/ keeps it to one project.
  3. Restart Claude Code if it was running, so it picks up the new skill.

That's it — there's nothing to configure.

Using it

Just describe what you want; Claude loads the skill automatically when your request is about Sensible Laps results, events, scheduling or championships. For example:

  • "Download BRCCC's results from last Saturday and show me the A-main podium for each class."
  • "Here are six result files from the winter series — work out the championship, 20 points for a win down to 1, dropping each racer's worst round."
  • "Plan Sunday's schedule for these three classes and flag anyone who'd be racing back-to-back."

Keep it up to date

When we update the skill, download the new .zip and unzip it over the old folder to replace it.