bio-causal-genomics-mediation-analysis

bio-causal-genomics-mediation-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 116 tokens per session (8,947 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for testing whether an intermediate factor—such as gene expression, DNA methylation, or a protein—helps explain the relationship between a treatment and an outcome. It separates the overall relationship into direct and indirect parts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for mediation analysis, high-dimensional molecular mediators, multivariable Mendelian-randomization mediation, and double-machine-learning mediation models.
Why use it?
It helps answer not only whether two things are related, but also whether a specific biological pathway may sit between them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gptomics/bioskills/mediation-analysis
Any agent
npx skills add GPTomics/bioSkills --skill mediation-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GPTomics/bioSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,947 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00116 $0.08947
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.04473
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.01789
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00895

Measured 6d ago against content hash 7ed1477cd331, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-causal-genomics-mediation-analysis 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 6d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

causal-genomics/mediation-analysis/SKILL.md · 469 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 469 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: R 4.3+, mediation 4.5.0+, CMAverse 0.1.0+ (GitHub BS1125/CMAverse), HIMA >= 2.3.0 (GitHub YinanZheng/HIMA; archived from CRAN 2026-07), bama 1.3+, causalweight 1.0.5+ (medDML), MVMR 0.4+, TwoSampleMR 0.6+, EValue 4.1+, gesttools 1.3+, ipw 1.0.11+.

Before using code patterns, verify installed versions match. If versions differ:

  • R: packageVersion('<pkg>') then ?function_name to verify parameters
  • HIMA must be pinned at >= 2.3.0 for the code patterns below; the formula interface hima(formula, data.pheno, data.M, mediator.type, penalty, ...) was introduced in 2.3.0. On HIMA 2.2.x the classic engine is the top-level hima(X, Y, M, COV.XM=, COV.MY=, Y.family=, penalty=) (positional order X, Y, M) with no formula interface; HIMA 2.2.x is NOT API-compatible with the examples here.
  • In 2.3+ the classic engine is hima_classic(X, M, Y, COV.XM=, COV.MY=, Y.type=) (positional order X, M, Y; outcome type via Y.type, not Y.family); use it only to reproduce the original 2016-2021 SIS+penalty pipelines.

If code throws an error, introspect the installed package (?hima, args(cmest)) and adapt the example to match the actual API rather than retrying.

Mediation Analysis

"Does expression of GENE_X mediate the SNP-to-disease effect?" -> Decompose the total effect of a treatment (genotype, exposure) on an outcome into direct and indirect paths through one or more mediators, with explicit handling of exposure-mediator interaction, sensitivity to unmeasured confounding, and high-dimensional mediator screening.

  • R (single-mediator, observational, sequential-ignorability assumed): mediation::mediate(med_model, out_model, treat='X', mediator='M', boot=TRUE, sims=5000)
  • R (4-way decomposition with exposure-mediator interaction): CMAverse::cmest(...EMint=TRUE, estimation='paramfunc', inference='bootstrap', nboot=1000)
  • R (high-dimensional / EWAS mediators): HIMA::hima(Y ~ X + covariates, data.pheno, data.M, mediator.type='gaussian', penalty='DBlasso') (modern v2.3+ formula interface)
  • R (MR-based mediation): two-step TwoSampleMR with independent instruments OR MVMR::ivw_mvmr for joint direct effect
  • R (doubly-robust double-ML): causalweight::medDML(y, d, m, x)

Read the full file on GitHub · 469 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 6d ago First seen · 469 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A 7ed1477cd331

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bio-causal-genomics-mediation-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,199 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 8,947 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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