lifesciences-research: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/lifesciences-clinical/SKILL.md

lifesciences-clinical is a skill for Claude Code from donbr/lifesciences-research. It costs 94 tokens per session (2,704 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line toolkit for querying clinical and drug-development databases, including Open Targets and ClinicalTrials.gov, the public registry of clinical studies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate disease links for drug targets, assess whether targets have drug-development evidence, find known drugs, discover clinical trials, and retrieve trial details.
Why use it?
It brings target-disease evidence, drug information, target tractability, and trial records into direct queries instead of requiring separate manual searches.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is donbr/lifesciences-research's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on lifesciences-research itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything lifesciences-research configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to donbr/lifesciences-research. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/donbr/lifesciences-research/main/.claude/skills/lifesciences-clinical/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/donbr/lifesciences-research

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,704 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 22 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 28
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 38
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 48
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 58
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 81
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 87
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 97
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 167
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 181
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 187
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 28
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 38
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 48
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 58
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 81
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 87
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 97
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 161
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 167
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 181
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00094 $0.02704
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.01352
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00541
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00270

Measured 12d ago against content hash f78346f1638b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lifesciences-clinical 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

description: "Queries clinical databases (Open Targets, ClinicalTrials.gov) via curl for target-disease associations, target tractability assessment, and clinical trial discovery. This skill should be used when the user
.claude/skills/lifesciences-clinical/SKILL.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clinical & Translational API Skills

Query clinical databases directly via curl. These endpoints complement the Life Sciences MCPs.

Quick Reference

Task API Endpoint
Target-disease associations Open Targets GraphQL /graphql
Target tractability Open Targets GraphQL tractability
Known drugs for target Open Targets GraphQL knownDrugs
Search clinical trials ClinicalTrials.gov /studies
Get trial details ClinicalTrials.gov /studies/{NCT}

Open Targets GraphQL

Open Targets uses GraphQL - construct queries to get exactly what you need in one call.

Basic Target-Disease Associations

# Get diseases associated with target (TP53)
curl -s -X POST "https://api.platform.opentargets.org/api/v4/graphql" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "{ target(ensemblId: \"ENSG00000141510\") { approvedSymbol associatedDiseases(page: {index: 0, size: 5}) { rows { disease { id name } score } } } }"}' \
  | jq '.data.target.associatedDiseases.rows[] | {disease: .disease.name, score}'

Target Details with Tractability

# Get target with druggability assessment
curl -s -X POST "https://api.platform.opentargets.org/api/v4/graphql" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "{ target(ensemblId: \"ENSG00000141510\") { approvedSymbol biotype tractability { label modality value } } }"}' \
  | jq '.data.target | {symbol: .approvedSymbol, tractability}'

Known Drugs for Target

# Get approved drugs targeting a protein
curl -s -X POST "https://api.platform.opentargets.org/api/v4/graphql" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "{ target(ensemblId: \"ENSG00000171791\") { approvedSymbol knownDrugs(page: {size: 5}) { rows { drug { name } phase mechanismOfAction } } } }"}' \
  | jq '.data.target.knownDrugs.rows[] | {drug: .drug.name, phase, mechanism: .mechanismOfAction}'

Nested Query: All-in-One

# Get target + diseases + drugs + tractability in single call
curl -s -X POST "https://api.platform.opentargets.org/api/v4/graphql" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "{
      target(ensemblId: \"ENSG00000141510\") {
        approvedSymbol
        biotype
        tractability { label value }
        knownDrugs(page: {size: 3}) {
          rows { drug { name } phase }
        }
        associatedDiseases(page: {size: 3}) {
          rows { disease { name } score }
        }
      }
    }"
  }' | jq '.data.target'

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 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. 12d ago First seen · 233 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A f78346f1638b

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lifesciences-clinical is a skill published in the GitHub repository donbr/lifesciences-research (7 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 2,704 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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