hcpa-skill

hcpa-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CUHK-AIM-Group/NeuroClaw. It costs 95 tokens per session (2,412 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow guide for processing the HCP Aging dataset, a research collection of brain scans and related participant information from older adults. It covers organizing the data and processing structural, functional, and diffusion MRI.

In plain words
What is it for?
Downloading and organizing HCP Aging data, working with sMRI, fMRI, and dMRI scans, extracting participant information, and saving results in a consistent folder structure. The workflow is for research use only.
Why use it?
It makes the required research workflow explicit and ensures each processing step is planned, confirmed, and delegated to the appropriate tool.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Downloading and organizing HCP Aging data, working with sMRI, fMRI, and dMRI scans, extracting participant information, and saving results in a consistent folder structure. The workflow is for research use only.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,412 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 $0.00095 $0.02412
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01206
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00482
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00241

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4ca9e063c751, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hcpa-skill 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/extract_hcpa_phenotype.py, scripts/hcpa_qc_summary.py, scripts/reorganize_hcpa.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/hcpa-skill/SKILL.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HCP-A Skill (Dataset-Orchestration Layer)

Overview

hcpa-skill is the NeuroClaw orchestration skill for the HCP Aging (HCP-A) dataset.

It strictly follows the NeuroClaw hierarchical design principles:

  • This skill only describes WHAT needs to be done and which tool skill to delegate to.
  • It contains no implementation code or concrete commands.
  • All concrete execution is delegated to existing base/tool skills via claw-shell.
  • Companion scripts in scripts/ provide reference implementations for data reorganization, phenotype extraction, and QC.

Core workflow (never bypassed):

  1. Identify input HCP-A data and target modalities.
  2. Generate a numbered execution plan clearly stating WHAT needs to be done and which tool skill will handle each step.
  3. Present the full plan, estimated runtime, resource requirements, and risks to the user and wait for explicit confirmation ("YES" / "execute" / "proceed").
  4. On confirmation, delegate every step to the appropriate skill via claw-shell.
  5. After execution, save all outputs in a clean directory structure (hcpa_output/).

Research use only.


Quick Reference

Task What needs to be done Delegate to Expected output
Data download Select HCP-A/AABC packages in ConnectomeDB powered by BALSA claw-shell Raw or preprocessed imaging packages
BIDS staging Reorganize HCP-A native layout to BIDS scripts/reorganize_hcpa.py BIDS-compliant dataset
sMRI processing Brain extraction, tissue segmentation, cortical reconstruction smri-skill smri_output/ derivatives
fMRI processing Preprocessing, denoising, connectivity, task GLM fmri-skill fmri_output/ derivatives
dMRI processing Eddy correction, tensor metrics, tractography dwi-skill dwi_output/ metrics
ASL processing Perfusion preprocessing and CBF quantification asl-skill asl_output/ derivatives
Phenotype extraction Cognitive, health, demographic data scripts/extract_hcpa_phenotype.py Merged phenotype CSV
QC summary Per-subject quality control scripts/hcpa_qc_summary.py QC summary + exclusion list

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 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 · 216 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 4ca9e063c751

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hcpa-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository CUHK-AIM-Group/NeuroClaw (84 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 2,412 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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