nextflow

nextflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dralkh/seerai. It costs 181 tokens per session (3,070 once invoked), scanned D, a copy of nextflow, MIT.

A guide to Nextflow, a language and runtime for building data-processing workflows. It covers nf-core, a community collection of reusable pipelines and modules, and explains how workflows can run locally, on computing clusters, or in the cloud.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run or build Nextflow and nf-core pipelines, write DSL2 workflows, connect processes, handle samplesheets and configuration, test modules, and debug executions.
Why use it?
It helps make multi-step data jobs repeatable and portable across different machines and execution systems. It also reduces the need to manage task order, parallel work, environments, and reruns by hand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to run or build Nextflow and nf-core pipelines, write DSL2 workflows, connect processes, handle samplesheets and configuration, test modules, and debug executions.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 181 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,070 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 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 $0.00181 $0.03070
Opus 5.5 $0.00072 $0.01228
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00614
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00307

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2e93b605a18f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

nextflow scanned grade D with 3 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 1mo 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

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

sudo mv nextflow /usr/local/bin/ # put on PATH

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -s https://get.nextflow.io | bash # creates ./nextflow

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -s https://get.nextflow.io | bash # creates ./nextflow
Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to nextflow — 83 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/nextflow/SKILL.md · 194 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 194 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nextflow

Overview

Nextflow is a workflow language and runtime for building reproducible, portable, scalable data pipelines. It is dominant in bioinformatics but works for any data-heavy computation. nf-core is a community curating production-grade Nextflow pipelines, reusable modules, and the nf-core tooling on top of Nextflow.

Key ideas:

  • Dataflow programming: pipelines are process tasks connected by channels. Nextflow infers execution order and parallelism from data dependencies — there is no explicit scheduler to write.
  • Write once, run anywhere: the same pipeline runs locally, on HPC (SLURM, SGE, LSF, PBS), and on cloud (AWS Batch, Google Batch, Azure Batch, Kubernetes) by changing config/profiles, not code.
  • Reproducibility: per-task containers (Docker/Singularity/Apptainer/Conda/Wave) + -resume caching + pinned pipeline revisions.
  • DSL2 is the modern, required syntax: modular process/workflow/include definitions.

This skill covers both running existing pipelines and developing your own (Nextflow language + nf-core conventions, testing with nf-test, configuration, and deployment).

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user wants to:

  • Run an nf-core or custom Nextflow pipeline, or debug a failing/resuming run.
  • Write or modify .nf scripts, nextflow.config, profiles, or nextflow_schema.json.
  • Author or test nf-core-style modules/subworkflows (main.nf, meta.yml, tests/, nf-test).
  • Configure executors, containers, or resources; scale to HPC or cloud.
  • Build a reproducible scientific/bioinformatics workflow (even if "Nextflow" is not named).
  • Understand processes, channels, operators, take/emit, publishDir, ext.args, meta maps.

Setup

Nextflow needs Bash and Java 17 or newer (17–25 supported). Verify with java -version.

# Install Nextflow (self-contained launcher)
curl -s https://get.nextflow.io | bash      # creates ./nextflow
sudo mv nextflow /usr/local/bin/             # put on PATH
nextflow info                                # verify

# Or via conda/bioconda (also gets a managed Java)
conda create -n nf -c bioconda -c conda-forge nextflow nf-core

Read the full file on GitHub · 194 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 1mo ago First seen · 194 lines · 181 tokens per session scan D 2e93b605a18f

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nextflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository dralkh/seerai (94 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 181 tokens to every session and 3,070 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). It is 86% identical to nextflow, differing in 83 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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