ChatSpatial: Skill for Claude Code

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troubleshoot is a skill for Claude Code from cafferychen777/ChatSpatial. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,738 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for finding and fixing common problems in spatial transcriptomics analysis, which measures gene activity together with tissue location. It covers failed analyses, unexpected results, slow runs, and installation or dependency issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate missing files, absent spatial coordinates, incompatible matrices, memory errors, preprocessing problems, and other analysis failures.
Why use it?
It provides likely causes and diagnostic checks when data cannot load, formats do not match, results look wrong, or files use too much memory. This reduces trial and error during debugging.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is cafferychen777/ChatSpatial's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ChatSpatial itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ChatSpatial configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to cafferychen777/ChatSpatial. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cafferychen777/ChatSpatial/main/.agents/skills/troubleshoot/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cafferychen777/ChatSpatial

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,738 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00065 $0.01738
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00869
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00348
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00174

Measured 11d ago against content hash 338c764ffb10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

troubleshoot 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 11d 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.

.agents/skills/troubleshoot/SKILL.md · 284 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 284 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Troubleshooting Guide

Overview

This skill helps diagnose and resolve common issues in ChatSpatial analysis.

Quick Diagnosis Tree

Q: What type of problem?
│
├─ Analysis fails with error
│   └─ See: Error Messages section
│
├─ Analysis runs but results look wrong
│   └─ See: Result Validation section
│
├─ Performance issues (slow/memory)
│   └─ See: Performance section
│
└─ Dependency/installation problems
    └─ See: Environment section

Error Messages

Data Loading Errors

Error Cause Solution
FileNotFoundError Path incorrect Verify file path exists
KeyError: 'spatial' No spatial coordinates Check data format, use correct loader
ValueError: sparse matrix Format mismatch Convert to compatible format
MemoryError File too large Use chunked loading or subsample

Diagnostic steps:

1. Verify file exists: ls -la <path>
2. Check file size: du -h <path>
3. Try reading header only to test format

Preprocessing Errors

Error Cause Solution
No highly variable genes Filtering too strict Lower min_mean/max_mean thresholds
Negative values after log Data not normalized Use raw counts first
Empty AnnData after QC QC too strict Relax min_genes/min_cells

Method-Specific Errors

Deconvolution
Error Cause Solution
No shared genes Reference mismatch Check gene naming (symbols vs IDs)
RCTD failed R/rpy2 issue Verify R installation, check rpy2
Cell2location GPU error CUDA issue Use CPU mode, check GPU availability
Reference cell types missing Bad annotation column Verify cell_type_key exists
Cell Communication
Error Cause Solution
CellChat R error R dependency Install CellChat in R first
No interactions found Stringent filtering Lower p-value threshold
Species database not found Wrong species config Use "human" or "mouse"

Read the full file on GitHub · 284 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. 11d ago First seen · 284 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 338c764ffb10

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troubleshoot is a skill published in the GitHub repository cafferychen777/ChatSpatial (44 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,738 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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