bio-comparative-genomics-ancestral-reconstruction

bio-comparative-genomics-ancestral-reconstruction is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S. It costs 149 tokens per session (9,772 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of bio-comparative-genomics-ancestral-reconstruction, MIT.

A set of methods for estimating what an earlier ancestor was likely like from a family tree. It can reconstruct ancestral DNA or protein sequences, categorical traits, continuous measurements, and gene content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to infer ancestral sequences, map trait changes onto a phylogenetic tree, estimate ancestral measurements, and study changes in gene content.
Why use it?
It helps explain when traits or sequence changes may have appeared during evolution, even though ancestral organisms cannot be observed directly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to infer ancestral sequences, map trait changes onto a phylogenetic tree, estimate ancestral measurements, and study changes in gene content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pku-yuangroup/openai4s/bio-comparative-genomics-ancestral-reconstruction
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S --skill bio-comparative-genomics-ancestral-reconstruction
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 149 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,772 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 97% 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 $0.00149 $0.09772
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.04886
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.01954
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00977

Measured 9d ago against content hash 80b571f837a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-comparative-genomics-ancestral-reconstruction 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/ancestral_reconstruction.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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to bio-comparative-genomics-ancestral-reconstruction — 12 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.

skills/bioskills/bio-comparative-genomics-ancestral-reconstruction/SKILL.md · 484 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 484 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: PAML 4.10.7+, IQ-TREE 2.3.6+, GRASP 2024+ (web/CLI), FastML 3.11+, RevBayes 1.2.4+, BayesTraits V4.1+, R 4.4+, ape 5.8+, phytools 2.3+, corHMM 2.9+, geiger 2.0.11+, phangorn 2.12+, RERconverge 0.3.0+, BioPython 1.84+.

Before using code patterns, verify installed versions match. If versions differ:

  • R: packageVersion('corHMM') then ?ancRECON, ?make.simmap, ?ace
  • CLI: codeml (no --version; check paml -h or examine Phylip.tre example), iqtree2 --version, revbayes --version
  • Python: pip show biopython; check Bio.Phylo.PAML.codeml API

If code throws AttributeError, ImportError, missing slot errors on R S4 objects, or PAML mlc parsing failures, introspect the installed package (? in R, help() in Python) and adapt the example rather than retrying. PAML output formats are stable across 4.9 -> 4.10; IQ-TREE's --ancestral flag replaced -asr in v2.0+.

Ancestral State Reconstruction

"What did this gene / trait / genome look like at an internal node?" -> Choose the reconstruction framework that matches the data class (sequence / discrete trait / continuous trait / gene content) and the inference question (point estimate vs full posterior; marginal vs joint vs scaled-conditional). The single most common mistake is reconstructing under a site-independent or trait-stationary model when the underlying biology demands a hidden-rate or epistatic model -- the resulting "ancestor" is mathematically optimal under the wrong model and is silently wrong (Beaulieu & O'Meara 2016 Syst Biol 65:583; Boyko & Beaulieu 2021 MEE 12:468).

  • Sequence ASR (protein resurrection): PAML codeml RateAncestor=1; IQ-TREE2 --ancestral; GRASP (graph-based, handles indels); FastML (Bayesian)
  • Discrete traits: R ape::ace(type='discrete'); corHMM::corHMM() (rate categories); phytools::make.simmap() stochastic mapping; BayesTraits MultiState/Discrete
  • Continuous traits: phytools::fastAnc(); phytools::contMap(); geiger::fitContinuous(model='BM'|'OU'|'EB'); RPANDA fit_t_env()
  • Ancestral gene content (presence/absence): ape::ace(type='discrete', model='ARD'); Dollo parsimony in phangorn; ALE/GeneRax for full DTL (see [[gene-tree-species-tree-reconciliation]])

Read the full file on GitHub · 484 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 484 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A 80b571f837a1

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bio-comparative-genomics-ancestral-reconstruction is a skill published in the GitHub repository PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S (407 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 9,772 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to bio-comparative-genomics-ancestral-reconstruction, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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