rviz2listed
Install: claude install-skill robium-ai/robium-plugin
# rviz2
The local-desktop ROS 2 visualization tool: displays for topics, TF frames,
markers, and robot models, driven by a saved `.rviz` config file per
robot/task. RViz2 ships across every ROS 2 distro back to the earliest
releases through **Lyrical Luth** (current LTS) and Rolling — verified via
direct fetch of `index.ros.org`'s rviz2 package page this session (the
`docs.ros.org` page returned an access-control error rather than content;
see References) — so nothing in
this skill is distro-gated the way Nav2's binary packages are; the only
distro requirement is that `ROS_DISTRO` matches the sourced workspace. It is
a standard Qt/OpenGL desktop app with no headless or web mode; for a
remote/headless server or sharing a view, use `foxglove` instead (see
Platform gotchas).
## When to use this skill
- Adding or configuring a display (LaserScan, PointCloud2, RobotModel, TF,
MarkerArray, Path, Costmap, Odometry, ...), debugging why a topic isn't
rendering, or setting up a saved config for a robot/task.
- The trigger phrases in the description: 'rviz', 'rviz2', visualizing ROS
topics, TF trees, costmaps, or robot models during development.
- A display is blank/nothing shows up — start here with the checklist in
Usage patterns before assuming the publishing node itself is broken.
- Cross-references — go to the sibling skill instead when the question is:
- TF2 concepts themselves (frames, broadcasters, static vs dynamic
transforms) or QoS concepts (reliability/durab