gigwa-explore-instance

gigwa-explore-instance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gkanogiannis/Gigwa-MCP. It costs 181 tokens per session (1,015 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only skill for surveying a Gigwa server, a system for storing and analyzing genetic variation data. It checks the connection, lists available databases, projects, and analysis runs, and flags possible import problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover available data, obtain the exact identifiers needed by other Gigwa analyses, switch servers for the session, and spot runs that may have been imported incorrectly.
Why use it?
It gives you a clear inventory and basic health check before you begin genetic-data analysis on an unfamiliar or inherited server.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to discover available data, obtain the exact identifiers needed by other Gigwa analyses, switch servers for the session, and spot runs that may have been imported incorrectly.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gkanogiannis/gigwa-mcp/gigwa-explore-instance
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 gkanogiannis/Gigwa-MCP --skill gigwa-explore-instance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gkanogiannis/Gigwa-MCP

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 1,015 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 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 $0.00181 $0.01015
Opus 5 $0.00090 $0.00508
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00102

Measured 11d ago against content hash 88df22ee38f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gigwa-explore-instance 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 11d 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.

skills/gigwa-explore-instance/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gigwa explore instance

Overview

A one-shot survey of a whole Gigwa instance plus a health check: confirm you can reach it, enumerate everything on it with the exact ids later analyses need, and flag any run that was imported badly. Drives the gigwa-mcp MCP server's discovery and audit tools. No arguments required.

When to use

  • First contact with an unknown or inherited Gigwa server; "what's here and is any of it broken?"
  • To obtain the variantSetDbIds that every other skill (gigwa-qc-triage, gigwa-diversity-report, gigwa-region-scan) needs.

Prerequisites

  • The gigwa-mcp server is connected. Read-only; works anonymously against the configured GIGWA_URL (defaults to the public ICARDA instance when unset).

Step-by-step workflow

  1. (Optional) Point at a different servergigwa_connect(url, profile?, anonymous?) switches the active Gigwa instance at runtime (no restart). Credentials come from the environment (default GIGWA_USER/GIGWA_PASS, or GIGWA_USER_<PROFILE>/ GIGWA_PASS_<PROFILE> when a profile is named) — never from the chat. The switch is verified before it takes effect and lasts for the session.
  2. Connectivitygigwa_server_info(): confirms the URL is reachable and reports the server version and the authenticated user (or anonymous).
  3. Enumerate
    • list_content(): human-readable databases → projects → runs.
    • list_variant_sets(): every run with its exact variantSetDbId and variant/ call-set counts. This is where you copy ids for downstream skills.
  4. Health checkaudit_import_quality() with no variant_set_db_id scans the whole instance and ranks every run OK / SUSPECT / BROKEN (writes import_quality_scan.csv).
  5. Summarise what data is available (databases, projects, runs, sizes) and call out anything that needs attention (broken/suspect runs, empty projects).

Interpreting results

  • list_content is the human view; list_variant_sets is the id-bearing view — use both.
  • In the audit, BROKEN runs should not be analysed until re-imported; SUSPECT runs warrant a closer QC pass (gigwa-qc-triage).
  • The catalog://tools and gigwa://server/info MCP resources are complementary, network-free ways to inspect capabilities and configured connection info.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 71 lines · 181 tokens per session scan A 88df22ee38f2

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gigwa-explore-instance is a skill published in the GitHub repository gkanogiannis/Gigwa-MCP (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 181 tokens to every session and 1,015 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 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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