sdrf-review

sdrf-review is a skill for Claude Code from bigbio/sdrf-skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,653 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review workflow for SDRF files, which describe proteomics experiment samples and their metadata for repositories such as PRIDE. It checks the file against templates, specifications, and—when available—the related publication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing SDRF submissions, validating metadata, comparing sample counts with a paper, and producing quality findings or a score.
Why use it?
It finds missing, inconsistent, or overly specific sample information before an SDRF submission or pull request is approved.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the sdrf-skills plugin — 16 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Reviewing SDRF submissions, validating metadata, comparing sample counts with a paper, and producing quality findings or a score.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bigbio/sdrf-skills/sdrf-review
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 bigbio/sdrf-skills --skill sdrf-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bigbio/sdrf-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdrf-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,653 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 15
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00061 $0.02653
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01326
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00531
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00265

Measured 5d ago against content hash cfa72d4011d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sdrf-review 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 5d 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.

skills/sdrf-review/SKILL.md · 270 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 270 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SDRF Review Workflow

You are performing a comprehensive quality review of an SDRF file — like a peer reviewer would for a PRIDE submission or a community annotation PR.

If this context created or edited the SDRF, this workflow is an advisory self-review only. For an approval verdict, dispatch a fresh context that follows skills/sdrf-adversarial-review/SKILL.md; never approve work produced in the same context.

Step 1: Load Context

  1. Read the SDRF content
  2. Detect templates from metadata or content
  3. If PXD available → fetch project context + publication:
    mcp PRIDE → get_project_details(project_accession="PXD######")
    Extract PMID → mcp PubMed → get_article_metadata([pmid])
    
  4. If GitHub PR → read the diff to understand what changed

Step 2: Run Full Validation (sdrf-validate workflow)

Apply the complete validation checklist from the sdrf-validate skill. Read spec/sdrf-proteomics/TERMS.tsv for column definitions and spec/sdrf-proteomics/sdrf-templates/templates.yaml for template metadata. Collect all errors and warnings.

Step 3: Cross-Reference with Publication

If a publication is available:

  • Does the sample count in SDRF match the paper?
  • Are all conditions from the paper represented?
  • Do the instruments match?
  • Are demographics (age, sex) consistent with the paper?
  • Is characteristics[developmental stage] supported by the cohort description even if age is reported only at group level?
  • Are tissue types correctly annotated?

When Europe PMC full text is available, do not inspect raw XML directly. First run: python scripts/europepmc_fulltext.py PMC_ID --section methods --section results --section discussion --format text or use --format json when structured links, captions, or accession detection will help the review.

Flag any discrepancies:

DISCREPANCY: Paper says "24 patients" but SDRF has 20 unique source names.
DISCREPANCY: Paper mentions "hippocampus and temporal cortex" but SDRF only has "brain".

Read the full file on GitHub · 270 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. 5d ago Changed · -1 tokens per session cfa72d4011d4
  2. 11d ago First seen · 270 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 3d2ae242b60c

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sdrf-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository bigbio/sdrf-skills (18 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,653 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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