lamindb

lamindb is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dralkh/iktinah. It costs 56 tokens per session (3,703 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of lamindb, MIT.

A toolkit for managing biological datasets and machine-learning models in a traceable data store. It helps keep files searchable, validated, linked to their sources, and reproducible across research workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to register and search datasets, track notebook and pipeline inputs and outputs, validate formats such as AnnData and Parquet, and standardize biological labels with shared vocabularies.
Why use it?
Biology projects often lose track of which data, code, settings, and annotations produced a result. This keeps those relationships and data checks together so results are easier to find and repeat.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to register and search datasets, track notebook and pipeline inputs and outputs, validate formats such as AnnData and Parquet, and standardize biological labels with shared vocabularies.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,703 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.
Origin 94% 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 $0.00056 $0.03703
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01852
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00741
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00370

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1955098baf1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lamindb 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 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to lamindb — 20 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/lamindb/SKILL.md · 407 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 407 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LaminDB

Overview

LaminDB is an open-source, lineage-native lakehouse for biology. It makes datasets and models queryable, traceable, validated, reproducible, and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) while storing data in open formats across local filesystems, S3, GCS, Hugging Face, SQLite, and Postgres.

Core Value Proposition:

  • Queryability: Search and filter artifacts, records, runs, features, schemas, and collections
  • Traceability: Track inputs, outputs, parameters, source code, and environments for notebooks, scripts, functions, and pipelines
  • Validation: Curate DataFrame, AnnData, SpatialData, TileDB-SOMA, Parquet, Zarr, and other biological formats with schemas
  • FAIR Compliance: Standardize annotations with Bionty-backed ontologies and custom registries
  • Change management: Organize work with projects, branches, spaces, collections, and saved notes or plans

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Managing biological datasets: scRNA-seq, bulk RNA-seq, spatial transcriptomics, flow cytometry, multi-modal data, EHR data
  • Tracking computational workflows: Notebooks, scripts, functions, shell scripts, and pipeline execution (Nextflow, Snakemake, Redun)
  • Curating and validating data: Schema validation, standardization, ontology-based annotation
  • Working with biological ontologies: Genes, proteins, cell types, tissues, diseases, pathways (via Bionty)
  • Building data lakehouses: Unified query interface across multiple datasets
  • Ensuring reproducibility: Automatic versioning, lineage tracking, environment capture
  • Integrating ML pipelines: Connecting with Weights & Biases, MLflow, Hugging Face, Lightning, scVI-tools
  • Deploying data infrastructure: Setting up local or cloud-based data management systems
  • Collaborating on datasets: Sharing curated, annotated data with standardized metadata

Core Capabilities

LaminDB provides six interconnected capability areas, each documented in detail in the references folder.

Read the full file on GitHub · 407 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 8d ago First seen · 407 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 1955098baf1f

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lamindb is a skill published in the GitHub repository dralkh/iktinah (77 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 3,703 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to lamindb, differing in 20 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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