hcppipeline-tool

hcppipeline-tool is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CUHK-AIM-Group/NeuroClaw. It costs 106 tokens per session (2,279 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A controlled interface for the Human Connectome Project Pipelines, which preprocess structural, functional, and diffusion MRI scans for research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or run HCP structural, fMRI, or diffusion preprocessing, including steps such as ICA-FIX, bedpostx, probtrackx, and surface alignment.
Why use it?
It checks whether the pipelines and dependencies are installed, identifies the input layout, and requires confirmation before running potentially lengthy processing. It also routes execution through the project’s shell tool.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan or run HCP structural, fMRI, or diffusion preprocessing, including steps such as ICA-FIX, bedpostx, probtrackx, and surface alignment.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,279 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00106 $0.02279
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01140
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00456
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00228

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5e46935b6045, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hcppipeline-tool scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 8d 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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

subprocess.run(cmd, env=env, check=True)
skills/hcppipeline-tool/SKILL.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HCP Pipeline Tool

Overview

The HCP Pipelines are the official, highly optimized preprocessing pipelines developed by the Human Connectome Project. They provide state-of-the-art processing for structural (T1w/T2w), functional (task/resting-state fMRI with ICA-FIX), and diffusion MRI (topup + eddy + bedpostx + probtrackx + MSMAll surface alignment).

This skill serves as the NeuroClaw interface-layer wrapper for the HCP Pipelines and strictly follows the hierarchical design:

  1. Check whether HCP Pipelines and dependencies are installed.
  2. If missing → invoke dependency-planner to generate a safe installation plan.
  3. Detect input data (preferably BIDS or HCP-style organized) and confirm processing stages.
  4. Generate a clear, numbered execution plan with exact commands, flags, estimated runtime, and risks.
  5. Present the plan and wait for explicit user confirmation (“YES” / “execute” / “proceed”).
  6. On confirmation → delegate all pipeline stages to claw-shell.
  7. After completion, summarize outputs and suggest next steps (e.g., connectivity analysis via fmri-skill or fsl-tool).

Research use only.

Quick Reference

Task Recommended Pipeline Stage Typical Runtime (per subject)
Structural preprocessing PreFreeSurfer + FreeSurfer + PostFreeSurfer 4–12 hours
Functional preprocessing fMRIVolume + fMRISurface + ICA-FIX 2–6 hours
Diffusion preprocessing DiffusionPreprocessing + bedpostx + probtrackx 6–24 hours
Surface-based registration MSMAll 2–4 hours
Full HCP-style multimodal pipeline All stages combined 12–36+ hours

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 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. 8d ago First seen · 217 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 5e46935b6045

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hcppipeline-tool is a skill published in the GitHub repository CUHK-AIM-Group/NeuroClaw (83 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 2,279 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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