bio-clinical-databases-msi-detection

bio-clinical-databases-msi-detection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 134 tokens per session (5,557 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for detecting microsatellite instability, a pattern of errors in repeated DNA sequences caused by faulty mismatch repair, from tumour sequencing data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess mismatch-repair status and support analyses of pembrolizumab eligibility, Lynch syndrome, or other immune-checkpoint treatment biomarkers.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to classify tumours as MSI-high, microsatellite stable, or MSI-low, including targeted-panel and circulating-DNA data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to assess mismatch-repair status and support analyses of pembrolizumab eligibility, Lynch syndrome, or other immune-checkpoint treatment biomarkers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gptomics/bioskills/msi-detection
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 GPTomics/bioSkills --skill msi-detection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GPTomics/bioSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 134 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,557 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 $0.00134 $0.05557
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.02779
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.01111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00556

Measured 7d ago against content hash 02d48a508812, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-clinical-databases-msi-detection 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (examples/msi_detection.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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

clinical-databases/msi-detection/SKILL.md · 348 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 348 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: MSIsensor-pro 1.2+, MSIsensor 0.6+, MANTIS 1.0.5+, samtools 1.19+, mSINGS 5.6+, pandas 2.2+, cyvcf2 0.30+. FDA pembrolizumab MSI-H / dMMR pan-tumor approval is from 2017 (Le 2015 NEJM; KEYNOTE-016/164/158); approval extended to colorectal first-line in 2020.

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

  • Python: pip show <package> then help(module.function) to check signatures
  • CLI: <tool> --version

If code throws ImportError, AttributeError, or TypeError, introspect the installed package and adapt the example to match the actual API rather than retrying. MSIsensor-pro replaces MSIsensor for tumor-only assays; MSIsensor-ct is the bTMB-equivalent for ctDNA panels.

MSI Detection; The Companion ICI Biomarker to TMB

'Detect MSI status from this somatic sequencing data' -> Profile microsatellite instability across canonical loci (Bethesda 5 panel + extended NGS-derived sites); classify MSI-H / MSS / MSI-L per Bethesda / FDA / KEYNOTE convention.

  • CLI (recommended tumor-only): msisensor-pro msi -d microsatellites.list -t tumor.bam -o msi_out -b 16
  • CLI (paired tumor-normal): msisensor msi -d microsatellites.list -n normal.bam -t tumor.bam -o msi_out
  • CLI (ctDNA / blood MSI): msisensor-ct ...
  • CLI (older WES standard): mantis -t tumor.bam -n normal.bam -b targets.bed --threads 8

The Regulatory and Trial Landscape

Event Year Threshold Notes
Le 2015 NEJM 2015 MSI-H + ICI in CRC The seminal paper: pembrolizumab in MSI-H CRC ORR 40% vs 0% MSS
FDA pembrolizumab MSI-H / dMMR pan-tumor 2017 MSI-H First tissue-agnostic FDA approval (KEYNOTE-016/164/158)
FDA pembrolizumab first-line MSI-H CRC 2020 MSI-H + first-line CRC KEYNOTE-177
CheckMate 142 2017-2018 MSI-H + nivolumab/ipilimumab Pan-tumor MSI-H second-line
ESMO 2024 2024 MSI-H Maintained pan-tumor MSI-H biomarker
Universal Lynch screening -- IHC + MSI on all CRC <= 70 yr NCCN / ACG / EGAPP guidelines

Read the full file on GitHub · 348 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 7d ago First seen · 348 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A 02d48a508812

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bio-clinical-databases-msi-detection is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,199 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 134 tokens to every session and 5,557 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-03.

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