phase-000-env-check

To verify your modeling environment, this Skill checks Python, pip, and venv availability, suggesting installation steps when missing to ensure your runtime is error-free. It validates prerequisites before generating an environment readiness report.

Automating environment setup for a modeling pipeline is achieved by validating dependencies, discovering optional MATLAB paths, and checking document tooling readiness. This Skill enforces prerequisites and generates a report marking completion to skip redundant checks on subsequent runs.

MATLAB is not strictly required to run the math modeling pipeline. The Skill performs optional MATLAB path discovery and provides guidance to connect when available, or fallback instructions if it is not installed on your machine.

Environment verification validates the presence of essential scripts and reference docs to guarantee downstream phase reliability. If required files are missing, it enforces environmental prerequisites to prevent errors before generating the final readiness report.

You can skip redundant dependency checks because the Skill generates an ENV_CHECK_REPORT.md and emits a completion marker. This marker enforces skipping re-checks on subsequent runs, ensuring consistent environments across machines without repeating validations.

Your pipeline fails before modeling phases if environmental prerequisites are missing or unverified. This Skill prevents downstream failures by validating Python, pip, venv, and required scripts upfront, generating a readiness report to confirm an error-free runtime.