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Qiskit Quantum Circuit Assistant

Guides Claude to build, simulate, transpile, and run quantum circuits with modern Qiskit 2.x and IBM Quantum Runtime.

Dev & CodingAdvanced★ 33,030⑂ 3,248AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 9, 2026

What it does

Pins Claude to the current Qiskit 2.5 / qiskit-ibm-runtime 0.48 / qiskit-aer 0.17 APIs instead of outdated tutorial code.

  • V2 primitives (StatevectorSampler, StatevectorEstimator, SamplerV2, EstimatorV2) driven by PUB inputs
  • Target-aware ISA circuits via generate_preset_pass_manager plus observable.apply_layout() for Estimator workloads
  • Clear routing between exact local simulation, noisy Aer simulation, and real IBM QPU execution
  • Job / Batch / Session mode selection, resilience levels, and result-metadata recording
  • Hard bans on removed APIs: V1 primitives, QuantumInstance, backend.configuration(), qiskit.pulse
  • Bundled scripts for environment checks, a runnable local primitives demo, and read-only backend inspection

Who it's for

  • Students and researchers whose Qiskit 0.x/1.x snippets keep breaking
  • Developers running variational algorithms (VQE, QAOA) on IBM hardware
  • Teams that must document reproducibility: seeds, versions, job IDs, primitive options

Examples

  1. "Sample a Bell state locally with 1024 shots" → StatevectorSampler code reading counts from the meas register.
  2. "Pick the least busy QPU and measure the ZZ expectation with mitigation" → pass manager builds the ISA circuit, observable layout is applied, EstimatorV2(resilience_level=1) runs it.
  3. "Submit a 100-point parameter sweep" → Batch-mode example that transpiles the parameterized circuit once and passes parameter arrays in PUBs.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
↓ Download ZIP
Install in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/qiskit folder from the GitHub repo K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/qiskit/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r scientific-agent-skills/skills/qiskit ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git
  3. Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy just this skill: cp -r scientific-agent-skills/skills/qiskit ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Set up Python 3.10+: uv venv --python 3.13 && source .venv/bin/activate
  6. Install packages: uv pip install "qiskit[visualization]==2.5.0"; add qiskit-aer==0.17.2 for noisy simulation and qiskit-ibm-runtime==0.48.0 for hardware access.
  7. For real QPUs, create an IBM Quantum Platform account and save the API key as described in references/setup.md — never hard-code keys in notebooks or source.
  8. Restart Claude Code and try a prompt like "Build and sample a Bell-state circuit with Qiskit".
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT