pathway-enrichment

pathway-enrichment is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dralkh/iktinah. It costs 239 tokens per session (3,345 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of pathway-enrichment, MIT.

A method for finding biological pathways and gene sets that are unusually represented in a list or ranking of genes. It can use results from experiments such as differential expression, CRISPR screens, or clustering.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run over-representation analysis or GSEA against resources such as Gene Ontology, KEGG, Reactome, and MSigDB.
Why use it?
It helps translate a long list of genes into biological processes that may explain the observed results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to run over-representation analysis or GSEA against resources such as Gene Ontology, KEGG, Reactome, and MSigDB.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dralkh/iktinah/pathway-enrichment
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add dralkh/iktinah --skill pathway-enrichment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dralkh/iktinah

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 239 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,345 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 86% 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 $0.00239 $0.03345
Opus 5 $0.00120 $0.01673
Sonnet 5 $0.00048 $0.00669
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00334

Measured 8d ago against content hash d830887a58d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pathway-enrichment 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/run_enrichment.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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to pathway-enrichment — 21 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/pathway-enrichment/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pathway Enrichment

Overview

Enrichment analysis answers "what biology is over-represented in my genes?" It is the standard last step after differential expression, a screen, or clustering. There are two core methods, and choosing correctly is the single most important decision:

  • ORA (over-representation analysis) — take a thresholded gene list (e.g., padj < 0.05) and test which gene sets it overlaps more than chance, using Fisher's exact / hypergeometric tests. Tools: Enrichr, g:Profiler.
  • GSEA (gene set enrichment analysis) — take the whole ranked list of genes (no threshold) and test whether each gene set is concentrated toward the top or bottom. Preranked GSEA uses a per-gene score (e.g., the DESeq2 stat). Better when effects are broad and subtle.

This skill orchestrates these analyses, the gene-set databases behind them, and the interpretation pitfalls that make results wrong or unpublishable.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user wants to:

  • Find enriched GO terms / KEGG / Reactome / WikiPathways / MSigDB Hallmark sets in a gene list.
  • Run GSEA / preranked GSEA on DESeq2, edgeR, limma, or Scanpy rank_genes_groups output.
  • Score pathway activity per sample/cell (ssGSEA, GSVA).
  • Interpret, deduplicate, and visualize enrichment results, or build a publication table/figure.
  • Decide between ORA and GSEA, pick gene-set libraries, choose a background, or fix gene-ID problems.

For quick one-off Enrichr lookups the gget skill (gget enrichr) is lighter weight; for raw pathway/interaction APIs (Reactome, KEGG, STRING) see the database-lookup skill. Use this skill for full, defensible enrichment workflows.

Choosing the Right Method

Situation Method Tool / entry point
You have a discrete hit list (DE genes, screen hits, cluster markers) ORA gp.enrichr(...) or g:Profiler
You have a full ranked list (every tested gene + a score) Preranked GSEA gp.prerank(...)
You have an expression matrix + class labels GSEA gp.gsea(...)
You want a pathway score per sample/cell ssGSEA / GSVA gp.ssgsea(...), gp.gsva(...)
You need a custom background or 500+ organisms ORA with custom domain g:Profiler (domain_scope='custom')
You want TF / signaling activity (PROGENy, DoRothEA) activity inference see references/databases-and-gene-sets.md (decoupler)

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 · 193 lines · 239 tokens per session scan A d830887a58d4

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pathway-enrichment is a skill published in the GitHub repository dralkh/iktinah (77 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 239 tokens to every session and 3,345 once invoked, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to pathway-enrichment, differing in 21 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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