binary-path-detection-and-validation

binary-path-detection-and-validation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HolobiomicsLab/asb-skill-collections. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,817 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup tool that finds required command-line programs, checks their versions, and records their exact locations in a locked configuration. It is intended for pipelines such as Hi-C processing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate tools such as Bowtie2, Samtools, R, and Python, detect them through the system PATH, and create a fixed environment configuration.
Why use it?
It catches missing or outdated dependencies and makes pipeline runs more portable and reproducible across computers.

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/holobiomicslab/asb-skill-collections/binary-path-detection-and-validation
Any agent
npx skills add HolobiomicsLab/asb-skill-collections --skill binary-path-detection-and-validation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HolobiomicsLab/asb-skill-collections

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,817 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 $0.00055 $0.01817
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00908
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00182

Measured 6d ago against content hash 43b34fa2eb5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

binary-path-detection-and-validation 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.

collections/epigenomics/v1/skills/binary-path-detection-and-validation/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

binary-path-detection-and-validation

Summary

A configuration-driven mechanism for detecting and validating required binary tool installations (bowtie2, samtools, R, Python) by querying the system PATH and version constraints, then generating an environment-specific locked configuration file. This skill ensures reproducibility by recording exact tool locations and validating minimum version requirements before pipeline execution.

When to use

When setting up a bioinformatics pipeline (particularly Hi-C data processing) that depends on multiple external binaries with version constraints, and you need to configure the environment in a way that is both portable across systems and reproducible across runs. Specifically: (1) users provide a configuration template with optional explicit paths, (2) missing paths must be auto-detected from $PATH, (3) detected tools must meet minimum version thresholds (e.g., samtools ≥1.9, Python >3.7), and (4) the final configuration must be locked to prevent accidental runtime modification.

When NOT to use

  • When all tool paths are already hardcoded in pipeline scripts or environment modules—this skill is unnecessary if binaries are already resolved.
  • If the pipeline does not have version constraints or does not require specific binaries—the overhead of path detection and validation adds complexity without benefit.
  • When deploying via containerized images (Docker, Singularity) where dependencies are pre-installed and environment is fixed—detection is redundant in a sealed container.

Inputs

  • config-install.txt template file (plaintext with placeholder entries for tool paths and cluster scheduler)
  • System environment variables ($PATH)
  • User-specified tool paths (optional, in config-install.txt)

Outputs

  • config-system.txt (read-only locked configuration file with resolved paths for all dependencies)
  • Installed or verified binary tools (bowtie2, samtools, R, Python) at specified locations
  • Installation logs and version validation records

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 lines

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 · 108 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 43b34fa2eb5b

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binary-path-detection-and-validation is a skill published in the GitHub repository HolobiomicsLab/asb-skill-collections (15 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,817 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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