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.
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-jaspargit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-SkillsWrote 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.
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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 | $0.00082 | $0.03834 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00041 | $0.01917 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00767 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00383 |
Grade A, and why
alterlab-jaspar scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 7d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
allowed-tools: Read WebFetch Bash(curl:*) Bash(python:*) How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 370 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
JASPAR Database
Overview
JASPAR (https://jaspar.elixir.no/) is the gold-standard open-access database of curated, non-redundant transcription factor (TF) binding profiles stored as position frequency matrices (PFMs). The JASPAR 2024 release added 329 new profiles to the CORE collection (~20% growth over the prior release); the live API currently serves ~2,600 latest-version CORE profiles across taxa. Each profile is experimentally derived (ChIP-seq, SELEX, HT-SELEX, protein binding microarray, etc.) and curated.
Key resources:
- JASPAR portal: https://jaspar.elixir.no/
- REST API: https://jaspar.elixir.no/api/v1/
- API docs: https://jaspar.elixir.no/api/v1/docs/
- Python access: direct REST (see
scripts/query_jaspar.py) or Biopython'sBio.motifs.jasparmodule (there is no standalonejasparPyPI package)
Scripts
scripts/query_jaspar.py — query the JASPAR REST API (stdlib only, JSON to stdout):
python scripts/query_jaspar.py search --name CTCF --species 9606 # latest-version profiles only
python scripts/query_jaspar.py search --name CTCF --all-versions # include historical versions
python scripts/query_jaspar.py matrix MA0139.1 # fetch a matrix (PFM)
search defaults to version=latest (one row per profile); pass --all-versions to see every historical version. --species maps to the API's tax_id param (NCBI taxonomy ID).
When to Use This Skill
Use JASPAR when:
- TF binding site prediction: Scan a DNA sequence for potential binding sites of a TF
- Regulatory variant interpretation: Does a GWAS/eQTL variant disrupt a TF binding motif?
- Promoter/enhancer analysis: What TFs are predicted to bind to a regulatory element?
- Gene regulatory network construction: Link TFs to their target genes via motif scanning
- TF family analysis: Compare binding profiles across a TF family (e.g., all homeobox factors)
- ChIP-seq analysis: Find known TF motifs enriched in ChIP-seq peaks
- ENCODE/ATAC-seq interpretation: Match open chromatin regions to TF binding profiles
What ships with it
3 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.
- 7d ago First seen · 370 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 5e13fbf641a0
alterlab-jaspar is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (66 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 3,834 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.
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