pathogen-variant-surveillance

pathogen-variant-surveillance is a skill for Claude Code from agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop. It costs 249 tokens per session (3,388 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of pathogen-variant-surveillance, Apache-2.0.

A live-data tool for tracking which virus lineages are circulating, how quickly they are growing, and which mutations they contain. It uses GenSpectrum LAPIS, an API for querying pathogen genome surveillance data, rather than relying on remembered lineage names.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking current SARS-CoV-2 or other supported viral lineages, comparing their growth, inspecting mutations, and seeing whether an assay target still matches circulating genomes.
Why use it?
Pathogen lineages and their names can change, be withdrawn, or be reclassified, so current surveillance questions need current data and a recorded data version.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Checking current SARS-CoV-2 or other supported viral lineages, comparing their growth, inspecting mutations, and seeing whether an assay target still matches circulating genomes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop/pathogen-variant-surveillance
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 pathogen-variant-surveillance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 249 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,388 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 100% 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 $0.00249 $0.03388
Opus 5.5 $0.00100 $0.01355
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00050 $0.00678
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00339

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9db864de6bf1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pathogen-variant-surveillance 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 5 executable files (scripts/lapis_client.py, scripts/lineage_prevalence.py, scripts/mutation_profile.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

100% identical to pathogen-variant-surveillance — 252 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/pathogen-variant-surveillance/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pathogen Variant Surveillance

When to use

Any time an answer depends on what a pathogen population looks like now: which lineages are circulating, whether one is growing, what a lineage name currently means, or whether an assay target still matches.

The rule

Never state what is circulating, and never write a lineage name, from memory.

Three things go wrong at once, and only the first is an ordinary knowledge-cutoff problem:

  1. Names post-date training. The Pango designation list carries over 6,200 names and grows continuously.
  2. The nomenclature is a live data structure, not a convention. XFG is a recombinant that only resolves through alias_key.json; PQ.17 unaliases to XDV.1.5.1.1.8.1.17. Neither expansion is derivable by reasoning — the mapping is a file that changes.
  3. Prior knowledge gets retracted, not just outdated. 294 names in the current lineage_notes.txt are withdrawn or redesignated. PC.2 is now LF.7.9; XFG.20 was withdrawn outright. A remembered lineage fact is not merely stale, it can be actively wrong.

Every number this skill reports is a count returned by a live instance, stamped with the data version it came from.

Scope

Surveillance data analysis for research. This skill describes sequences that were collected and submitted; it does not produce clinical interpretations, outbreak-response recommendations, or public-health guidance, and sequence counts are not case counts.

Instances

One API shape covers every pathogen. --instance names a verified deployment; --base-url reaches any other LAPIS instance.

Instance Host Lineage column Indexed
sars-cov-2 lapis.cov-spectrum.org (open GenBank data) pangoLineage yes
h5n1, h3n2, h1n1pdm, influenza-a lapis.genspectrum.org clade no
rsv-a, rsv-b, mpox, measles, dengue, west-nile, hmpv, ebola-zaire, ebola-sudan, cchf lapis.pathoplexus.org varies varies

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 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 · 226 lines · 249 tokens per session scan A 9db864de6bf1

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pathogen-variant-surveillance is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 249 tokens to every session and 3,388 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to pathogen-variant-surveillance, differing in 252 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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