svante-paabo

svante-paabo is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ChrisLou-bioinfo/nobel-medicine-minds. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,978 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of thinking models based on Svante Pääbo, the scientist known for studying ancient human DNA. It covers breaking down seemingly impossible tasks and taking useful risks across different fields.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine complex problems, plan research, or consider approaches that cross disciplinary boundaries. It can help frame work involving difficult goals and unfamiliar methods.
Why use it?
It offers a way to make difficult projects more manageable and to combine methods from separate areas of knowledge. The description does not specify particular software features.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to examine complex problems, plan research, or consider approaches that cross disciplinary boundaries. It can help frame work involving difficult goals and unfamiliar methods.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chrislou-bioinfo/nobel-medicine-minds/svante-paabo
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 ChrisLou-bioinfo/nobel-medicine-minds --skill svante-paabo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ChrisLou-bioinfo/nobel-medicine-minds

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,978 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 unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.01978
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00989
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00396
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00198

Measured 12d ago against content hash 118ec77cb19c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

svante-paabo 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.

svante-paabo/SKILL.md · 148 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

7 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.

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. 12d ago First seen · 148 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 118ec77cb19c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

svante-paabo is a skill published in the GitHub repository ChrisLou-bioinfo/nobel-medicine-minds (22 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,978 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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