autoprotocol-experiment-plan-starter

autoprotocol-experiment-plan-starter is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ma-compbio-lab/SkillFoundry. It costs 0 tokens per session (282 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A lab-planning tool that turns a simple table of liquid transfers into an Autoprotocol JSON specification. Autoprotocol is a machine-readable format for describing laboratory robot actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to describe small liquid-handling experiments, create protocol files for tests, and inspect the planned transfers and lab operations.
Why use it?
It gives you a repeatable, structured experiment plan before connecting to a specific robot platform. It also produces a short summary for checking the planned containers and operations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./slurm/envs/instrumentation/bin/python skills/robotics-lab-automation-and-scientific-instrumentation/autoprotocol-experiment-plan-starter/scripts/build_autopro.

Good fit Use it to describe small liquid-handling experiments, create protocol files for tests, and inspect the planned transfers and lab operations.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ma-compbio-lab/SkillFoundry
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ma-compbio-lab/skillfoundry/autoprotocol-experiment-plan-starter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 282 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 $0.00000 $0.00282
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00141
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00028

Measured 6d ago against content hash 71e5122279cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autoprotocol-experiment-plan-starter 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/build_autoprotocol_experiment_plan.py, tests/test_build_autoprotocol_experiment_plan.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/robotics-lab-automation-and-scientific-instrumentation/autoprotocol-experiment-plan-starter/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Autoprotocol Experiment Plan Starter

Use this skill to generate a deterministic Autoprotocol JSON plan for a small liquid-handling experiment and inspect a concise execution summary.

What This Skill Does

  • reads a simple transfer plan from TSV
  • constructs an Autoprotocol Protocol with source and assay plates
  • emits machine-readable protocol JSON plus a compact summary of refs and operations

When To Use It

  • when you need a runnable robotic-experiment-planning starter
  • when you want a local machine-readable lab plan before targeting a specific robot platform
  • when you need deterministic protocol artifacts for repository tests

Run

./slurm/envs/instrumentation/bin/python skills/robotics-lab-automation-and-scientific-instrumentation/autoprotocol-experiment-plan-starter/scripts/build_autoprotocol_experiment_plan.py \
  --transfers skills/robotics-lab-automation-and-scientific-instrumentation/autoprotocol-experiment-plan-starter/examples/toy_transfers.tsv \
  --protocol-json scratch/instrumentation/autoprotocol_plan.json \
  --summary-out scratch/instrumentation/autoprotocol_plan_summary.json

Notes

  • This skill only creates a protocol specification; it does not execute wet-lab work.
  • The transfer plan is intentionally small and deterministic so the generated JSON stays stable across runs.
Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 30 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 71e5122279cd

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autoprotocol-experiment-plan-starter is a skill published in the GitHub repository ma-compbio-lab/SkillFoundry (38 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 282 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.

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