tooluniverse-immunology

tooluniverse-immunology is a skill for Claude Code from mims-harvard/ToolUniverse. It costs 87 tokens per session (3,621 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research workflow for studying the immune system, including antibodies, T cells, B cells, MHC/HLA proteins, autoimmune diseases, and vaccine targets. It checks findings against specialist biology databases and research papers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate immune responses, antibody or receptor interactions, vaccine epitopes, HLA binding, and autoimmune disease genetics.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of guessing about immune mechanisms, cell markers, cytokines, or which HLA variants present specific peptides. It helps keep claims tied to evidence.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the tooluniverse plugin — 162 skills, 8 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate immune responses, antibody or receptor interactions, vaccine epitopes, HLA binding, and autoimmune disease genetics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mims-harvard/tooluniverse/tooluniverse-immunology
About the project

ToolUniverse is a collection of tools, interfaces, and supporting components for building AI systems that perform scientific work. It is for developers creating AI scientist agents that use APIs, databases, machine-learning tools, and domain-specific utilities. The catalogue includes skills, commands, an MCP server, an agent, and a hook for working with the ecosystem.

mims-harvard/ToolUniverse · 1,744 stars · on GitHub · aiscientist.tools

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-immunology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tooluniverse, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 162 skills, 8 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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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 3,621 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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How audits are shown
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 $0.00087 $0.03621
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.01448
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00724
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00362

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 42de77a80804, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tooluniverse-immunology 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 1mo 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.

plugin/skills/tooluniverse-immunology/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Immunology Research Skill

KEY PRINCIPLES: Multi-layer evidence; source every claim; use immunology-specific databases first (IEDB, IMGT, SAbDab); always use English gene/protein names in tool calls.


LOOK UP, DON'T GUESS

When uncertain about any scientific fact, SEARCH databases first (PubMed, UniProt, ChEMBL, ClinVar, etc.) rather than reasoning from memory. A database-verified answer is always more reliable than a guess.

For MC about immune mechanisms: Look up the specific pathway/receptor/cytokine before answering. Use PubMed_search_articles with the exact terms from the question. The answer is almost always in the first few search results.

Specific LOOK UP targets (never guess these):

  • Immune cell markers: CD markers for cell subsets (e.g., Treg = CD4+CD25+FOXP3+, not just "CD4+"). Query UniProt or IEDB.
  • Cytokine functions: IL-17 is pro-inflammatory (Th17), IL-10 is anti-inflammatory (Treg) — but context matters. Verify via KEGG pathway or PubMed.
  • MHC/HLA restrictions: Which HLA allele presents which peptide — always check IEDB MHC binding data; allele-level differences are critical (HLA-A02:01 vs HLA-A02:07 have different peptide repertoires).
  • Antibody Kd values: Never estimate binding affinity; check SAbDab, IEDB, or published literature.

COMPUTE, DON'T DESCRIBE

When analysis requires computation (statistics, data processing, scoring, enrichment), write and run Python code via Bash. Don't describe what you would do — execute it and report actual results. Use ToolUniverse tools to retrieve data, then Python (pandas, scipy, statsmodels, matplotlib) to analyze it.

Reasoning Frameworks

Immune response reasoning — Every immune response has innate → adaptive phases. Ask: which arm is relevant to the question? Innate (neutrophils, macrophages, complement, pattern recognition) or adaptive (T cells, B cells, antibodies, memory)? Innate is fast (hours) and antigen-nonspecific; adaptive is slow (days) but specific and generates memory. The transition occurs when APCs present antigen to naive T/B cells. Targeting innate suppresses broad inflammation; targeting adaptive disrupts antigen-specific responses. This determines which databases and tools are most relevant.

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 1mo ago First seen · 160 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 42de77a80804

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tooluniverse-immunology is a skill published in the GitHub repository mims-harvard/ToolUniverse (1,744 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 3,621 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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