dismech: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/initiate-new-disorder-creation/SKILL.md

initiate-new-disorder-creation is a skill for Claude Code from monarch-initiative/dismech. It costs 44 tokens per session (10,629 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A research-first guide for creating a new disease record in the DisMech knowledge base. It covers choosing a name, checking for duplicates, researching the disease, and preparing a validated YAML file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding a disorder that is not already in the knowledge base or when substantially improving an existing disorder entry.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of creating duplicate or scientifically unsupported entries. Duplicate checks include the current knowledge base, pull requests, and issues.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions subagents; positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

This is monarch-initiative/dismech's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on dismech itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything dismech configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to monarch-initiative/dismech. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/monarch-initiative/dismech/main/.claude/skills/initiate-new-disorder-creation/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/monarch-initiative/dismech

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,629 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 922
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 1023
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 724
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 735
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00044 $0.10629
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.05314
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.02126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.01063

Measured 8d ago against content hash 073557847879, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

initiate-new-disorder-creation 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.

curl -sG "https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi" \
.claude/skills/initiate-new-disorder-creation/SKILL.md · 1,051 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,051 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Initiate New Disorder Creation Skill

Overview

Guide the creation of new disorder YAML files in the dismech knowledge base. This skill emphasizes a research-first approach to ensure scientific accuracy and prevent AI hallucinations by requiring deep research queries before file creation.

When to Use

  • User asks to create a new disorder/disease entry
  • User names a disorder that doesn't exist in kb/disorders/

This skill can also be consulted for ongoing curation of existing disorders.

Workflow

Step 1: Select Disorder Name and Run Duplicate Preflight

Choose the clinically preferred name for the disorder, use title case (e.g. Foo Bar Syndrome). For file names, spaces will. be replaced by underscores, and characters such as apostrophes removed.

Before creating a new disorder file, check all three duplicate surfaces:

  1. Most recent knowledgebase: fetch origin/main and search the current upstream disorder YAMLs by MONDO ID, preferred label, and important synonyms.
  2. All pull requests: search open, closed, and merged PRs for the same ID and names.
  3. All issues: search open and closed issues for the same ID and names.

Use specific identifiers first, then human-readable labels and synonyms:

git fetch origin main

# Knowledgebase on the latest origin/main, not just the local working tree.
git grep -n -i -e "<MONDO_ID>" -e "<preferred disorder name>" origin/main -- kb/disorders || true
git grep -n -i -e "<important synonym>" origin/main -- kb/disorders || true

# PRs and issues across all states.
gh pr list --repo monarch-initiative/dismech --state all \
  --search "\"<MONDO_ID>\" OR \"<preferred disorder name>\"" \
  --json number,title,state,url,headRefName --limit 100
gh issue list --repo monarch-initiative/dismech --state all \
  --search "\"<MONDO_ID>\" OR \"<preferred disorder name>\"" \
  --json number,title,state,url,labels --limit 100

Repeat the PR and issue searches for important synonyms if the first search is empty. If the disorder already exists in the knowledgebase, edit the existing file instead of creating a new one. If an open PR or issue already covers the same disorder, continue there rather than starting duplicate work. If a closed PR or issue appears relevant, inspect it before deciding whether new curation is still needed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,051 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. 8d ago Changed · +139 lines 073557847879
  2. 13d ago First seen · 912 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A e010e0be5bc6

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initiate-new-disorder-creation is a skill published in the GitHub repository monarch-initiative/dismech (61 stars, last pushed today), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 10,629 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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