Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to broadinstitute/viral-ngs. 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/broadinstitute/viral-ngs/main/.agents/skills/dsub-batch-jobs/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/broadinstitute/viral-ngsWrote 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 | $0.00000 | $0.01260 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00630 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00252 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00126 |
Grade A, and why
dsub-batch-jobs 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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Running Batch Jobs on GCP via dsub
Use dsub to run one-off compute jobs on Google Cloud when your analysis requires more compute/memory than the local environment, or needs specific Docker images that are impractical to run locally.
When to Use
- Analysis tools need >8GB RAM (e.g., VADR, BLAST, assembly)
- Need to run many independent jobs in parallel (batch processing)
- Need a specific Docker image with pre-installed tools
- Data lives in GCS and is most efficiently processed in-cloud
Prerequisites
- dsub installed (ask the user where their dsub installation or venv is located)
- gcloud CLI authenticated with a GCP project that has Batch API enabled
- GCS bucket accessible by the project's default service account
Generic Invocation
dsub --provider google-cls-v2 \
--project <gcp-project> \
--regions <region> \
--image <docker-image> \
--machine-type <machine-type> \
--script <script.sh> \
--tasks <tasks.tsv> \
--logging gs://<bucket>/logs/<job-name>/
Key Parameters
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
--provider google-cls-v2 |
Use Google Cloud Batch (recommended over Life Sciences) |
--project |
GCP project with Batch API enabled |
--regions |
Compute region (e.g., us-central1) |
--image |
Docker image to run (e.g., staphb/vadr:1.6.4) |
--machine-type |
VM type (e.g., n1-highmem-4 for 26GB RAM) |
--script |
Local shell script to execute inside the container |
--tasks |
TSV file defining one row per job (batch mode) |
--logging |
GCS path for stdout/stderr logs |
Task TSV Format
The tasks TSV defines inputs, outputs, and environment variables for each job. Header row uses column prefixes to declare types:
--env VAR1 --env VAR2 --input FASTA --output RESULT --output LOG
value1 value2 gs://bucket/input.fasta gs://bucket/output.txt gs://bucket/log.txt
--env NAME-- environment variable passed to the script--input NAME-- GCS file downloaded to a local path; the env var is set to the local path--output NAME-- local path; after the script finishes, the file is uploaded to GCS
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 127 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 25a04113ba5c
dsub-batch-jobs is a skill published in the GitHub repository broadinstitute/viral-ngs (197 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,260 tokens. 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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