ontology-term-resolution

ontology-term-resolution is a skill for Claude Code from agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop. It costs 253 tokens per session (3,015 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ontology-term-resolution, Apache-2.0.

A tool for turning scientific descriptions into ontology term IDs and checking existing IDs. Ontologies are shared, structured vocabularies used to label data consistently.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to resolve labels such as tissue or cell names, verify CURIEs, identify prefixes, expand lab shorthand, and create links to term pages.
Why use it?
Ontology IDs can look valid while referring to the wrong concept. Checking them against services such as the EBI Ontology Lookup Service helps prevent silent metadata errors.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to resolve labels such as tissue or cell names, verify CURIEs, identify prefixes, expand lab shorthand, and create links to term pages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop/ontology-term-resolution
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop --skill ontology-term-resolution
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 253 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,015 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00253 $0.03015
Opus 5.5 $0.00101 $0.01206
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00051 $0.00603
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00301

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8fbd0c71c442, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ontology-term-resolution 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (scripts/id_client.py, scripts/lookup_prefix.py, scripts/map_terms.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to ontology-term-resolution — 7 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/agentlas-science-skills/skills/ontology-term-resolution/SKILL.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ontology Term Resolution

When to use

Any time an ontology identifier is about to be written down or trusted: annotating a metadata column, filling a submission template, auditing a table someone else produced, or checking whether an ID in an old file is still current.

The rule

Never write an ontology ID from memory, and never accept one without checking it.

Ontology IDs are memorable in form and arbitrary in detail. A plausible-looking UBERON:0002108 is a real term (small intestine) that is not the liver, and nothing downstream will catch the substitution — the ID is well-formed, the ontology is right, and the metadata is silently wrong. Reviewers cannot spot it either, which is why these errors persist into published datasets.

Every ID this skill emits comes from a live OLS lookup. Every ID it is handed gets verified. Bioregistry, Identifiers.org, ZOOMA, and Ontobee answer prefix, landing-page, and shorthand questions — they do not replace that OLS check.

Which service

Question Script Authority
What is the term for "left ventricle"? scripts/resolve_terms.py OLS
OLS missed lab shorthand (PBMC, WT) scripts/map_terms.py, then validate_terms.py ZOOMA proposes; OLS decides
Is EFO:0001067 real, current, correctly labelled? scripts/validate_terms.py OLS
Is HPO a real prefix? Does HP:notanid match the pattern? scripts/lookup_prefix.py Bioregistry
Which landing page should this CURIE open? scripts/lookup_prefix.py Identifiers.org + Ontobee URLs

All four scripts take single values or files, emit TSV or JSON, and need no packages beyond the standard library. Full traps for the non-OLS services are in references/companion-apis.md.

Resolve text to terms

cd skills/ontology-term-resolution/scripts

# one string, constrained to the ontology that should define it
python3 resolve_terms.py "liver" --ontology uberon
query   rank  curie           label  ontology  match_type   strategy  defining_ontology
liver   1     UBERON:0002107  liver  uberon    exact_label  exact     true

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 209 lines · 253 tokens per session scan A 8fbd0c71c442

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ontology-term-resolution is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 253 tokens to every session and 3,015 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to ontology-term-resolution, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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