pipelines

pipelines is a skill for Claude Code from jonasscheid/claude-nfcore-plugin. It costs 67 tokens per session (2,759 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lifecycle guide for nf-core pipelines, which are reusable workflows built with Nextflow for data analysis. It covers creating, checking, configuring, synchronizing, and releasing these pipelines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or lint a pipeline, build or validate its parameter schema, sync a template, or prepare a release.
Why use it?
It brings the required nf-core conventions and Nextflow syntax checks into pipeline work, helping catch problems before release.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the nf-core plugin — 4 skills, 6 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or lint a pipeline, build or validate its…

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add jonasscheid/claude-nfcore-plugin
Claude Code
/plugin install nf-core

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nf-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 6 agents, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,759 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 $0.00067 $0.02759
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01380
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00552
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00276

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8a45e40fcbde, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pipelines 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.

skills/pipelines/SKILL.md · 338 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 338 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

nf-core Pipelines

Full pipeline lifecycle: create, lint, schema, sync, and release.

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/conventions.md for nf-core conventions and package manager setup.


nf-core Migration Roadmap

Update this table as Nextflow and nf-core evolve. Last updated: Feb 2026.

Feature Enforce? Allow in Linting In Template Required Notes
Strict syntax ENFORCE Q2 2026 Q2 2026 CRITICAL deadline. Run nextflow lint .
Version topics in modules ENFORCE Q4 2025 Mid-2026 Mid-2026 Already allowed by linting
Workflow output Don't enforce Mid-2026 Q4 2026 Coming soon
Static types & records Don't enforce Mid-2026 Q4 2026 Q2 2027 Gradual rollout
New process syntax Don't enforce Mid-2026 Q4 2026 Q2 2027 Gradual rollout

Quick Commands

Replace <cmd> with the configured package manager prefix (see Setup in conventions.md).

Action Command
Create pipeline <cmd> nf-core pipelines create
Strict syntax lint <cmd> nextflow lint .
Community lint <cmd> nf-core pipelines lint
Lint with auto-fix <cmd> nf-core pipelines lint --fix
Build schema <cmd> nf-core pipelines schema build
Lint schema <cmd> nf-core pipelines schema lint
Validate params <cmd> nf-core pipelines schema validate <pipeline> params.json
Check sync status <cmd> nf-core pipelines sync --show
Run sync <cmd> nf-core pipelines sync
Run tests <cmd> nf-test test

Create Pipeline

Naming Rules

  • Lowercase only: rnaseq not RNAseq
  • No punctuation: methylseq not methyl-seq
  • Descriptive: Name should indicate data type or analysis
  • Unique: Check existing pipelines at https://nf-co.re/pipelines

Commands

# Interactive (recommended)
<cmd> nf-core pipelines create

# Non-interactive
<cmd> nf-core pipelines create --name mypipeline --description "Description" --author "Name"

# From template YAML
<cmd> nf-core pipelines create --template-yaml template.yml

# Custom organization
<cmd> nf-core pipelines create --org myorg

Read the full file on GitHub · 338 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 · 338 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 8a45e40fcbde

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pipelines is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonasscheid/claude-nfcore-plugin (10 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 2,759 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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