bio-mcp: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/bio-mcp-usage/SKILL.md

bio-mcp-usage is a skill for Claude Code from qgeng1465/bio-mcp. It costs 62 tokens per session (913 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for querying BioMCP, a collection of 36 databases about biology and medicine. It explains which database tool fits each type of question and how to check results honestly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for searches involving research papers, DNA or protein sequences, molecular structures, biological interactions, compounds, enrichment analysis, or omics data.
Why use it?
Biological data is spread across specialised databases, each with different limits and purposes. The guide helps avoid choosing the wrong source or exceeding NCBI’s request limits.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is qgeng1465/bio-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on bio-mcp 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 bio-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to qgeng1465/bio-mcp. 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/qgeng1465/bio-mcp/main/.claude/skills/bio-mcp-usage/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qgeng1465/bio-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 913 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 unknown 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 $0.00062 $0.00913
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00456
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00091

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5131c53666ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-mcp-usage 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.

.claude/skills/bio-mcp-usage/SKILL.md · 45 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 5131c53666ca
  2. 12d ago First seen · 45 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 0572073fd4be

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bio-mcp-usage is a skill published in the GitHub repository qgeng1465/bio-mcp (11 stars, last pushed 11d ago), with no licence file. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 913 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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