dipy-tool

dipy-tool is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CUHK-AIM-Group/NeuroClaw. It costs 86 tokens per session (2,413 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research tool for processing diffusion MRI brain scans, which show how water moves through brain tissue. It loads scan files, can create a brain mask, fits a diffusion model, and calculates tissue measurements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to process NIfTI scans with their b-values and gradient directions, calculate FA, MD, AD, and RD maps, and summarise measurements from selected brain regions.
Why use it?
It gathers common diffusion-MRI processing steps in one place and checks the input files before processing. It is intended for research, not medical diagnosis.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is conda run -n neuroclaw-dipy python skills/dipy-tool/dipy_pipeline.py \.

Good fit Use it to process NIfTI scans with their b-values and gradient directions, calculate FA, MD, AD, and RD maps, and summarise measurements from selected brain regions.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CUHK-AIM-Group/NeuroClaw
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cuhk-aim-group/neuroclaw/dipy-tool

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,413 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

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    Suspicious Unicode normalization or mixed-script content
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
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 $0.00086 $0.02413
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01207
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00483
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00241

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5f31f6e2f44f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dipy-tool 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/dti_metrics_reference.py, scripts/load_and_mask_reference.py, scripts/roi_stats_reference.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/dipy-tool/SKILL.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DIPY Tool (Base/Tool Layer)

Overview

dipy-tool is the NeuroClaw base/tool skill that provides the concrete DIPY implementation for diffusion MRI (DWI/DTI) processing and feature extraction.

It is never called directly by the user. It is delegated to by a diffusion modality-layer skill (e.g., future dwi-skill / dmri-skill) and executed via claw-shell for safety, logging, and long-running stability.

This skill provides:

  • Robust loading of DWI NIfTI + bvals + bvecs with sanity checks.
  • Brain mask generation (median_otsu) or use of a provided mask.
  • DTI fitting (optionally selecting a b-value range) and metric export:
    • FA / MD / AD / RD as NIfTI maps
  • ROI / atlas statistics extraction (CSV summaries).

Research use only — not for clinical diagnosis.

Agent Reference Rule

When the agent needs DIPY-based implementation code, it should first consult the curated snippets in skills/dipy-tool/scripts/ instead of copying the large embedded wrapper or unrelated tutorial files with hard-coded paths.

Reference snippets available:

  • scripts/load_and_mask_reference.py -> DWI + gradients loading, b0 discovery, median_otsu brain masking
  • scripts/dti_metrics_reference.py -> tensor fitting and FA/MD/AD/RD export
  • scripts/roi_stats_reference.py -> atlas-based summary statistics on tensor metrics

Quick Reference (Core Tasks)

Task What it does Output
Load DWI + gradients Validates shapes, loads NIfTI+bvals+bvecs in-memory arrays
Brain mask Auto mask (median_otsu) or use external brain_mask.nii.gz
DTI fit TensorModel fit on selected volumes tensor fit object
Export tensor metrics Compute & save FA/MD/AD/RD FA.nii.gz, MD.nii.gz, AD.nii.gz, RD.nii.gz
ROI stats Per-label summary (mean/median/std/p05/p95) roi_stats_FA.csv, etc.

Curated Reference Scripts

These scripts are aligned with NeuroClaw's DWI handling pattern and with the modality / dependency expectations documented in rs-fMRI-Pipeline-Tutorial/:

  • the tutorial explicitly includes DTI/DWI as a supported modality
  • the tutorial installs dipy as a core dependency
  • the tutorial's multimodal structure motivates deterministic outputs and atlas-based summaries

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 lines

Files

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.

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 · 239 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 5f31f6e2f44f

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dipy-tool is a skill published in the GitHub repository CUHK-AIM-Group/NeuroClaw (84 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 2,413 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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