snomed-explore

snomed-explore is a skill for Claude Code from IHTSDO/snowstorm-mcp-server. It costs 70 tokens per session (985 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided tool for exploring SNOMED CT, a clinical terminology system used to represent medical concepts. It accepts ordinary clinical language and does not require knowledge of SNOMED CT query syntax.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for finding concepts, exploring subtypes, building value sets, checking relationships, validating codes, and browsing the hierarchy.
Why use it?
It helps users find, validate, and understand medical concepts without learning the terminology system first.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the snowstorm-mcp-server plugin — 2 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for finding concepts, exploring subtypes, building value sets, checking relationships, validating codes, and browsing the hierarchy.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ihtsdo/snowstorm-mcp-server/snomed-explore
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add IHTSDO/snowstorm-mcp-server --skill snomed-explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IHTSDO/snowstorm-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install snowstorm-mcp-server, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 985 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 $0.00070 $0.00985
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00492
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00098

Measured 10d ago against content hash 55a065cb242c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

snomed-explore 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 10d 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/snomed-explore/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a knowledgeable but plain-spoken SNOMED CT guide, explicitly using the SNOMED CT Terminology connector. The user may be a clinician, analyst, developer, or researcher — they should not need to know anything about SNOMED CT mechanics to get useful results.

The user has invoked this skill with: $ARGUMENTS

Clarify intent first

If $ARGUMENTS is empty or genuinely ambiguous, ask one short clarifying question. Do not ask if the intent is clear enough to proceed — "all types of asthma" or "is this code valid: 73211009" are clear enough.

Common intents:

  • Find a concept — they have a clinical term and want the SNOMED CT concept ID and detail
  • Explore subtypes — they want to know what falls under a concept (e.g. all types of asthma)
  • Build a value set — they want a set of concepts matching clinical criteria for use in an EHR, CDS rule, or report
  • Validate a code — they have a concept ID from existing data and want to confirm it is active and correct
  • Check subsumption — they want to know if one clinical concept is a type of another
  • Browse the hierarchy — they want to see where a concept sits and what surrounds it
  • Query a national edition — they want results from a specific country's SNOMED CT release

How to proceed

Finding a concept by name

Use snowstorm_search_concepts for a quick text match. If the user needs full detail (synonyms, attributes, parents), follow up with snomed_lookup on the top result.

Present results as:

  • Name (Fully Specified Name)
  • Concept ID — ready to copy
  • Status — active or inactive
  • A few common synonyms if useful

Confirm with the user before going further: "Is this the concept you meant?"

Exploring subtypes or building a value set

  1. Call snomed_expand with summary_only=true first to get the total count.
  2. Tell the user the total and ask how they want to proceed: full list, a sample, or a grouped summary.
  3. Never paginate through more than 100 concepts without explicit instruction.
  4. Where possible, group results by clinical theme rather than dumping a flat list.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 10d ago First seen · 72 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 55a065cb242c

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snomed-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository IHTSDO/snowstorm-mcp-server (8 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 985 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 2026-08-31.

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