ucsc-genome-browser

ucsc-genome-browser is a skill for Claude Code from jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills. It costs 87 tokens per session (6,764 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A tool for querying the UCSC Genome Browser, a public database of DNA sequences, genes, and other genome information. It can retrieve sequence regions, gene models, biological tracks, and conservation scores.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fetch DNA sequences, inspect genes, retrieve BED and bigWig tracks, compare assemblies, and examine conservation across species.
Why use it?
It avoids manually searching genome-browser pages or downloading data for each region. It brings several kinds of genome annotation into one workflow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the sciagent-skills plugin — 146 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to fetch DNA sequences, inspect genes, retrieve BED and bigWig tracks, compare assemblies, and examine conservation across species.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills/ucsc-genome-browser
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 jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills --skill ucsc-genome-browser
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sciagent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 146 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,764 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00087 $0.06764
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.03382
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.01353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00676

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2cbabc8f528c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ucsc-genome-browser scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 8d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

r = requests.get(f"{BASE}/getData/sequence",
skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/ucsc-genome-browser/SKILL.md · 608 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 8d ago First seen · 608 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 2cbabc8f528c

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ucsc-genome-browser is a skill published in the GitHub repository jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills (362 stars, last pushed 14d ago), with no licence file. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 6,764 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.