biomed-research

biomed-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nickzren/biomed-agent. It costs 39 tokens per session (464 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for answering biomedical research questions with evidence from local databases covering genes, diseases, drugs, variants, phenotypes, studies, and clinical trials.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate biomedical entities and relationships, such as disease evidence, gene annotations, drug mechanisms, rare-disease phenotypes, and clinical trials.
Why use it?
It directs each question to the most relevant database, resolves names to stable identifiers, and records sources and limitations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to investigate biomedical entities and relationships, such as disease evidence, gene annotations, drug mechanisms, rare-disease phenotypes, and clinical trials.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nickzren/biomed-agent/biomed-research
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 nickzren/biomed-agent --skill biomed-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nickzren/biomed-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 464 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 $0.00039 $0.00464
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00232
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00046

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5fad90c0a759, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

biomed-research 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 12d 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/biomed-research/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Biomed Research

Use this workflow for biomedical research answers over the five local MCP servers.

Server Routing

Need Start With
target-disease evidence, drugs, variants, studies, trials opentargets
phenotypes, HPO, rare disease, model organisms monarch
gene annotation, IDs, expression, GO, orthologs mygene
chemical/drug identifiers, mechanisms, structures mychem
disease annotation, OMIM, Orphanet, MONDO, HPO mydisease

Resolve names to stable IDs first. Use the narrowest server that can answer the question. Fan out only when the question spans multiple entity types.

Evidence Rules

  • Prefer curated MCP tools over raw schema queries.
  • Use source-backed observations before synthesis.
  • Keep result payloads small by requesting specific fields when tools support it.
  • Reconcile conflicts explicitly instead of averaging them away.
  • Stop after 1-2 follow-up rounds if gaps remain; report the limitation.

Output Contract

Return:

  • answer: concise biomedical synthesis.
  • confidence: high, medium, or low.
  • citations: up to 8 {observation_id, tool, note} entries.
  • limitations: missing evidence, conflicts, source caveats, and safety notes.
  • safety_note: included for personalized medical advice requests.

Use low confidence when no MCP evidence was used or sources conflict.

Safety Boundary

This is research and educational support, not clinical decision support. Do not diagnose, prescribe, dose, or recommend patient-specific treatment.

High-risk phrasing includes diagnose, treatment, prescribe, dose, dosage, should I take, should I stop, medical advice, my symptoms, and for me personally.

For those requests, provide only general biomedical context, decline personalized medical advice, and include the safety note in limitations.

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. 12d ago First seen · 49 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 5fad90c0a759

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biomed-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository nickzren/biomed-agent (15 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 464 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.