system-dependency-version-checking

system-dependency-version-checking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HolobiomicsLab/asb-skill-collections. It costs 68 tokens per session (2,025 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A readiness check for the programs required by a multi-tool bioinformatics pipeline. It finds tools such as samtools, bowtie2, R, and Python, checks their versions, and can install missing or outdated tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps prepare a new computer or cluster for HiC-Pro and similar pipelines by checking runtime dependencies against minimum versions.
Why use it?
It catches incompatible or absent programs before a long pipeline run fails.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps prepare a new computer or cluster for HiC-Pro and similar pipelines by checking runtime dependencies against minimum versions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/holobiomicslab/asb-skill-collections/system-dependency-version-checking
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 HolobiomicsLab/asb-skill-collections --skill system-dependency-version-checking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HolobiomicsLab/asb-skill-collections

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 2,025 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00068 $0.02025
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01012
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00405
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00202

Measured 6d ago against content hash bfc0cd7dfaf8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

system-dependency-version-checking 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/system-dependency-version-checking/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

system-dependency-version-checking

Summary

Detect and validate installed dependency binaries (bowtie2, samtools, R, Python) against minimum version requirements, and automatically install missing or outdated tools to ensure pipeline environment compatibility. This skill bridges the gap between user configuration and runtime readiness in bioinformatics pipelines.

When to use

You are preparing to run a complex multi-tool bioinformatics pipeline (such as HiC-Pro) on a new system or cluster, and need to confirm that all required binaries exist in the execution environment and meet minimum version thresholds (e.g., samtools >=1.9, Python >3.7) before launching data processing workflows.

When NOT to use

  • You are running a containerized pipeline (Docker, Singularity) where all dependencies are already pinned and installed inside the image — the container build process, not the end-user, is responsible for version checking.
  • You have a pre-built, system-wide installation of all tools that is guaranteed to be compatible (e.g., managed by a cluster admin via module systems like Lmod); direct path lookup is sufficient.
  • Your pipeline is designed to use only system-provided binaries and does not support automatic installation fallback.

Inputs

  • config-install.txt (template configuration file with placeholder tool paths)
  • System PATH environment variable
  • User-edited configuration entries for PREFIX, BOWTIE2_PATH, SAMTOOLS_PATH, R_PATH, PYTHON_PATH, CLUSTER_SYS

Outputs

  • config-system.txt (locked, system-specific configuration with validated tool paths and versions)
  • Installation artifacts for automatically installed tools (bowtie2, samtools binaries if required)
  • Version validation report (implicit in successful config-system.txt generation)

How to apply

First, define explicit version and path requirements for each dependency (bowtie2, samtools, R, Python) in a configuration template (config-install.txt). For each dependency not explicitly set by the user, query the system PATH using the 'which' command to locate the binary. Once located, validate the installed version against the minimum threshold (samtools >=1.9, Python >3.7). If a required binary is missing or the version is below the threshold, trigger automatic installation of pre-packaged binaries (bowtie2 and samtools >=1.9 support auto-install). Compile all detected paths and system parameters into a read-only system configuration file (config-system.txt) that the pipeline will reference at runtime. This ensures that version conflicts are resolved before execution begins, and users have a locked record of which tool versions were actually used.

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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 · 118 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A bfc0cd7dfaf8

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system-dependency-version-checking is a skill published in the GitHub repository HolobiomicsLab/asb-skill-collections (15 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,025 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 2026-09-06.

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