nibabel-skill

nibabel-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CUHK-AIM-Group/NeuroClaw. It costs 124 tokens per session (1,779 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A low-level tool for reading, checking, converting, and writing neuroimaging files. It works with NIfTI images, voxel and real-world coordinates, and FreeSurfer surface and annotation files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check image dimensions and coordinate transforms, save derived NIfTI images, convert voxel positions to MNI coordinates, or read FreeSurfer geometry and labels.
Why use it?
It handles the file formats and coordinate details that other neuroimaging analyses depend on, reducing errors when inspecting or converting brain-imaging data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to check image dimensions and coordinate transforms, save derived NIfTI images, convert voxel positions to MNI coordinates, or read FreeSurfer geometry and labels.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cuhk-aim-group/neuroclaw/nibabel-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 nibabel-skill
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 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,779 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 $0.00124 $0.01779
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00890
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00356
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00178

Measured 9d ago against content hash 38fd841ee6f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nibabel-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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/atlas_coordinate_reference.py, scripts/freesurfer_io_reference.py, scripts/nifti_inspection_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/nibabel-skill/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nibabel Skill

Overview

nibabel-skill is the NeuroClaw tool skill for low-level neuroimaging file I/O and geometry handling.

It is the right skill when the task is about reading or writing NIfTI data, checking image dimensions and affine matrices, extracting atlas-space coordinates, or interacting with FreeSurfer surface and annotation files.

This skill is intentionally narrower than nilearn-tool and brain-visualization:

  • nibabel-skill focuses on file structures, affines, voxel/world coordinates, and surface geometry I/O
  • nilearn-tool focuses on signal processing, masking, ROI time series, and statistical image workflows
  • brain-visualization focuses on final figure generation and mesh export workflows

The content is distilled from nibabel-centric patterns that appear repeatedly in rs-fMRI-Pipeline-Tutorial/, especially:

  • NIfTI discovery and validation in the multimodal pipeline
  • affine-based ROI center conversion in zALFF regional summaries
  • FreeSurfer geometry and annotation loading for colored surface export

Agent Reference Rule

When the agent needs nibabel-based code, it should start from the curated snippets in skills/nibabel-skill/scripts/ instead of copying tutorial files with hard-coded paths.

Reference snippets available:

  • scripts/nifti_inspection_reference.py -> load NIfTI, inspect shape/dtype/affine, save a copied image
  • scripts/atlas_coordinate_reference.py -> compute atlas ROI centers and convert voxel coordinates to world coordinates
  • scripts/freesurfer_io_reference.py -> read FreeSurfer geometry/annotation and summarize mesh/color-table metadata

Quick Reference

Task What it does Typical input Expected output
NIfTI inspection Loads an image and reports shape, dtype, affine, zooms .nii / .nii.gz metadata summary
NIfTI save/export Saves processed arrays back to NIfTI with an affine array + affine output image
Atlas coordinate extraction Converts ROI voxel centers to atlas/world coordinates labeled atlas NIfTI CSV / printed coordinates
FreeSurfer surface I/O Reads .pial, .white, .annot and summarizes geometry surface + annot files geometry summary

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 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. 9d ago First seen · 184 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A 38fd841ee6f9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nibabel-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository CUHK-AIM-Group/NeuroClaw (85 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 1,779 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.

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