bio-prefect-dask-nextflow

bio-prefect-dask-nextflow is a skill for Claude Code from fmschulz/omics-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (974 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing reproducible bioinformatics pipelines with Prefect and Dask, Nextflow, or both. These tools coordinate multi-step analyses locally, across computers, or on an HPC cluster.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scaffolding local, distributed, cloud, or Slurm-based workflows and preparing runnable layouts with data paths, resources, and execution settings.
Why use it?
It helps match the workflow engine to the scheduler, containers, data size, and computing environment, then checks that the pipeline can test, retry, and resume.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the omics-skills plugin — 34 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Scaffolding local, distributed, cloud, or Slurm-based workflows and preparing runnable layouts with data paths, resources, and execution settings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fmschulz/omics-skills/bio-prefect-dask-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 fmschulz/omics-skills --skill bio-prefect-dask-nextflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fmschulz/omics-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install omics-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 4 agents.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 974 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00036 $0.00974
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00390
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00097

Measured 23d ago against content hash 04b1a471e15b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-prefect-dask-nextflow 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 23d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/submit_nextflow.sh), 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.

skills/bio-prefect-dask-nextflow/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bio Prefect + Dask + Nextflow

Choose a workflow engine for a local, distributed, or HPC bioinformatics pipeline and scaffold it.

Supplementary docs last verified: 2026-10-01 against Prefect 3.8.7, prefect-dask 0.3.7 (maintained in the Prefect repository; install with prefect[dask]), Dask/distributed 2026.8.0, and Nextflow v26.04.6.

Instructions

  1. Collect requirements: scheduler, container policy, data location, scale, and whether steps are CLI tools or Python functions.
  2. Choose the engine with decision-matrix.md: Nextflow for file-based CLI tools on a scheduler, Prefect+Dask for Python-heavy or dynamic work, or a hybrid with Prefect as the control plane and Nextflow as the compute plane.
  3. Generate a runnable scaffold with a clear data layout, per-step resources, and explicit thread counts (task.cpus in Nextflow, threads_per_worker in Dask).
  4. Pin the software: pixi for tool stacks or Apptainer images on HPC, uv for Python (uv add "prefect[dask]"). Nextflow v26.04+ parses scripts and configs with the strict syntax by default; write code that passes nextflow lint.
  5. Run heavy work through the scheduler, never on a login node. Submit the Nextflow launcher with scripts/submit_nextflow.sh; it runs from the current directory, so call it from the project root.
  6. Validate with a small test dataset, then check resume (-resume, or Prefect retries plus idempotent outputs) before scaling.

Quick Reference

Task Action
Engine choice decision-matrix.md
Prefect+Dask scaffold prefect-dask.md
Prefect on Slurm prefect-hpc-slurm.md
Nextflow on HPC nextflow-hpc.md
Submit Nextflow through Slurm SLURM_ACCOUNT=... scripts/submit_nextflow.sh main.nf 'data/*.fastq.gz' results
Multi-cluster sites Export SBATCH_CLUSTERS, SBATCH_PARTITION, and SBATCH_QOS before the wrapper; --parsable then prints jobid;cluster, so strip the suffix and pass the cluster to squeue -M and sacct -M
Examples examples.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 23d ago Changed · +6 lines · -1 tokens per session 04b1a471e15b
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 66 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 9692b1a7168f

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bio-prefect-dask-nextflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository fmschulz/omics-skills (11 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 974 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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