etetoolkit

etetoolkit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dralkh/iktinah. It costs 46 tokens per session (4,542 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of etetoolkit, MIT.

A toolkit for working with phylogenetic trees, which show possible evolutionary relationships between organisms or genes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read and write tree files, prune or re-root trees, calculate distances, detect orthology or paralogy, query taxonomy, and export visualizations.
Why use it?
It simplifies tree editing, comparison, evolutionary-event analysis, and visual output for biological research.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to read and write tree files, prune or re-root trees, calculate distances, detect orthology or paralogy, query taxonomy, and export visualizations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dralkh/iktinah/etetoolkit
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 dralkh/iktinah --skill etetoolkit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dralkh/iktinah

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,542 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00046 $0.04542
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.02271
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00908
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00454

Measured 7d ago against content hash d4184a1fa3cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

etetoolkit scanned grade B 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/quick_visualize.py, scripts/tree_operations.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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qtsvg
Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to etetoolkit — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/etetoolkit/SKILL.md · 621 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 621 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ETE Toolkit Skill

Overview

ETE (Environment for Tree Exploration) is a toolkit for phylogenetic and hierarchical tree analysis. Manipulate trees, analyze evolutionary events, visualize results, and integrate with biological databases for phylogenomic research and clustering analysis.

Core Capabilities

1. Tree Manipulation and Analysis

Load, manipulate, and analyze hierarchical tree structures with support for:

  • Tree I/O: Read and write Newick, NHX, PhyloXML, and NeXML formats
  • Tree traversal: Navigate trees using preorder, postorder, or levelorder strategies
  • Topology modification: Prune, root, collapse nodes, resolve polytomies
  • Distance calculations: Compute branch lengths and topological distances between nodes
  • Tree comparison: Calculate Robinson-Foulds distances and identify topological differences

Common patterns:

from ete3 import Tree

# Load tree from file
tree = Tree("tree.nw", format=1)

# Basic statistics
print(f"Leaves: {len(tree)}")
print(f"Total nodes: {len(list(tree.traverse()))}")

# Prune to taxa of interest
taxa_to_keep = ["species1", "species2", "species3"]
tree.prune(taxa_to_keep, preserve_branch_length=True)

# Midpoint root
midpoint = tree.get_midpoint_outgroup()
tree.set_outgroup(midpoint)

# Save modified tree
tree.write(outfile="rooted_tree.nw")

Use scripts/tree_operations.py for command-line tree manipulation:

# Display tree statistics
python scripts/tree_operations.py stats tree.nw

# Convert format
python scripts/tree_operations.py convert tree.nw output.nw --in-format 0 --out-format 1

# Reroot tree
python scripts/tree_operations.py reroot tree.nw rooted.nw --midpoint

# Prune to specific taxa
python scripts/tree_operations.py prune tree.nw pruned.nw --keep-taxa "sp1,sp2,sp3"

# Show ASCII visualization
python scripts/tree_operations.py ascii tree.nw

2. Phylogenetic Analysis

Analyze gene trees with evolutionary event detection:

  • Sequence alignment integration: Link trees to multiple sequence alignments (FASTA, Phylip)
  • Species naming: Automatic or custom species extraction from gene names
  • Evolutionary events: Detect duplication and speciation events using Species Overlap or tree reconciliation
  • Orthology detection: Identify orthologs and paralogs based on evolutionary events
  • Gene family analysis: Split trees by duplications, collapse lineage-specific expansions

Read the full file on GitHub · 621 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 7d ago First seen · 621 lines · 46 tokens per session scan B d4184a1fa3cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

etetoolkit is a skill published in the GitHub repository dralkh/iktinah (77 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 4,542 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). It is 97% identical to etetoolkit, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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