bio-crispr-screens-library-design

bio-crispr-screens-library-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S. It costs 192 tokens per session (6,895 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of bio-crispr-screens-library-design, MIT.

A guide-design tool for CRISPR screens, which use short RNA guides to direct gene editing or gene activity changes. It helps choose guides for knockout, repression, activation, and several editing methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
Design pooled guide libraries for CRISPR knockout, CRISPRi, CRISPRa, Cas12a multiplexing, base editing, or prime editing screens; score guides and prepare them for synthesis.
Why use it?
Choosing guides by hand can produce weak guides or guides that affect unintended DNA sites. It brings activity, unintended-edit risk, gene position, controls, and synthesis layout into one design process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Design pooled guide libraries for CRISPR knockout, CRISPRi, CRISPRa, Cas12a multiplexing, base editing, or prime editing screens; score guides and prepare them for synthesis.

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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S --skill bio-crispr-screens-library-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 192 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,895 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 98% 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 $0.00192 $0.06895
Opus 5 $0.00096 $0.03447
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.01379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00690

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4c5be21149ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-crispr-screens-library-design 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/design_library.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

98% identical to bio-crispr-screens-library-design — 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-crispr-screens-library-design/SKILL.md · 322 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 322 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: CRISPOR 5.01+, BioPython 1.83+, pandas 2.2+, numpy 1.26+, Azimuth 2.0+ (Doench 2016), CRISPRon 1.0+ (Xiang 2021), DeepSpCas9 1.0+ (Kim 2019).

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

  • CLI: crispor.py --help from the crisporWebsite clone
  • Python: Azimuth has no console script; call azimuth.model_comparison.predict(...)

If code throws ImportError, AttributeError, or TypeError, introspect the installed package and adapt the example to match the actual API rather than retrying.

sgRNA Library Design

"Design a CRISPR library for my screen" -> Pick a chemistry (Cas9 KO, CRISPRi, CRISPRa, Cas12a, base or prime editor), score candidate guides for on-target activity and off-target liability, position them relative to gene/TSS, add appropriate controls, lay out the oligo for synthesis, and validate the cloned pool.

  • Python: crispor.py (web + CLI) for batch genome-wide guide scoring with CFD+MIT off-target
  • Python: azimuth (Microsoft Research) for Rule Set 2 on-target predictions (Brunello-style)
  • Python: CRISPRon, DeepSpCas9 for modern deep-learning predictors
  • R: crisprDesign (Bioconductor) for integrated annotation-aware design

Library Chemistry Decision Tree

Goal Chemistry Canonical library Guides/gene TSS / target window
Loss-of-function essentiality, fitness SpCas9 KO Brunello, TKOv3, Avana 4 (Brunello), 4 (TKOv3), 6 (Avana) Constitutive exons, prefer aa 5-65% from N-terminus
Knockdown of non-cuttable genes, dosage-sensitive dCas9-KRAB (CRISPRi) Dolcetto, Horlbeck v2 6 (Dolcetto), 5 (Horlbeck) Optimum +25 to +75 downstream of FANTOM5 TSS, searched out to -50/+300 (Dolcetto, Sanson 2018); -25 to +500 (Horlbeck v2)
Gain-of-function, gene activation dCas9-VP64 / SAM / SunTag (CRISPRa) Calabrese, Horlbeck-CRISPRa 6 (Calabrese), 5 (Horlbeck) -150 to -75 from TSS (Calabrese); -550 to -25 (Horlbeck v2)
Paralog buffering, GI screens enAsCas12a multiplex Inzolia, in4mer 4-guide arrays Constitutive exons
Variant function, SNV scanning CBE / ABE Custom tiling library Tile editing windows Editing window pos 4-8 from PAM-distal end
Precise edit, indel-free Prime editor Custom PRIDICT-designed Tile pegRNAs Anywhere with NGG PAM within 30 nt of edit

Read the full file on GitHub · 322 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 · 322 lines · 192 tokens per session scan A 4c5be21149ae

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bio-crispr-screens-library-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S (407 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 192 tokens to every session and 6,895 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to bio-crispr-screens-library-design, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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