start

start is a skill for Claude Code from nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles. It costs 49 tokens per session (767 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of start, Apache-2.0.

An orientation guide for a life-science research assistant. It helps researchers see which literature, drug-discovery, clinical, data, and visualization tools are connected before starting work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect connected research services and survey available analysis skills for a new biology project.
Why use it?
It removes the uncertainty of not knowing what tools are available or where to begin.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see [CONNECTORS.md](../../CONNECTORS.md)..

Good fit Use it to inspect connected research services and survey available analysis skills for a new biology project.

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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/nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles/start

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 767 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00049 $0.00767
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00383
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00077

Measured 8d ago against content hash b4216d1ab304, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

start 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 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to start — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

profiles/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/anthropics_knowledge-work-plugins_bio-research/for-claude/.claude/skills/start/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bio-Research Start

If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md.

You are helping a biological researcher get oriented with the bio-research plugin. Walk through the following steps in order.

Step 1: Welcome

Display this welcome message:

Bio-Research Plugin

Your AI-powered research assistant for the life sciences. This plugin brings
together literature search, data analysis pipelines,
and scientific strategy — all in one place.

Step 2: Check Available MCP Servers

Test which MCP servers are connected by listing available tools. Group the results:

Literature & Data Sources:

  • ~~literature database — biomedical literature search
  • ~~literature database — preprint access (biology and medicine)
  • ~~journal access — academic publications
  • ~~data repository — collaborative research data (Sage Bionetworks)

Drug Discovery & Clinical:

  • ~~chemical database — bioactive compound database
  • ~~drug target database — drug target discovery platform
  • ClinicalTrials.gov — clinical trial registry
  • ~~clinical data platform — clinical trial site ranking and platform help

Visualization & AI:

  • ~~scientific illustration — create scientific figures and diagrams
  • ~~AI research platform — AI for biology (histopathology, drug discovery)

Report which servers are connected and which are not yet set up.

Step 3: Survey Available Skills

List the analysis skills available in this plugin:

Skill What It Does
Single-Cell RNA QC Quality control for scRNA-seq data with MAD-based filtering
scvi-tools Deep learning for single-cell omics (scVI, scANVI, totalVI, PeakVI, etc.)
Nextflow Pipelines Run nf-core pipelines (RNA-seq, WGS/WES, ATAC-seq)
Instrument Data Converter Convert lab instrument output to Allotrope ASM format
Scientific Problem Selection Systematic framework for choosing research problems

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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 First seen · 83 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A b4216d1ab304

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start is a skill published in the GitHub repository nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles (66 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 767 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to start, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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