Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to 45ck/open-genome-agent. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/45ck/open-genome-agent/main/.agents/skills/query-variants/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/45ck/open-genome-agentWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/45ck/open-genome-agent/query-variants)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/45ck/open-genome-agent/query-variants"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/45ck/open-genome-agent/query-variants/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/45ck/open-genome-agent/query-variants"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/45ck/open-genome-agent/query-variants.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00031 | $0.00295 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00118 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00059 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00030 |
Grade A, and why
query-variants scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
Query variants
Answer targeted questions about genes, rsIDs, coordinates, or variant panels from local genome files. Use for focused exploration before full reporting.
When to use
- the user asks about a gene, variant, or coordinate range
- you need quick local evidence without running a full pipeline
Do not use when
- a full end-to-end report is required
Expected outputs
query_results.tsvquery_notes.md
Goal
Answer targeted local questions quickly and with file-level provenance.
Procedure
- Convert the user request into a precise local query:
- gene
- rsID
- coordinate interval
- panel list
- Prefer exact local evidence over speculative interpretation.
- Return raw hits, file locations, and concise caveats.
- If nothing matches, say so directly.
Guardrails
- Keep scope narrow.
- Do not turn a simple query into a full report unless asked.
- If a query depends on annotation that is not yet available, state that dependency.
Output contract
Emit query results plus a short note describing how the query was executed.
References
See references/README.md for durable notes and scripts/ for deterministic helpers.
What ships with it
2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 2mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A f41f8bfebffb
query-variants is a skill published in the GitHub repository 45ck/open-genome-agent (4 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 295 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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