spatial-niches

spatial-niches is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ShangBioLab/SpatialClaw. It costs 24 tokens per session (314 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Python tool for finding local tissue environments in spatial biology data. A spatial niche is a nearby group of cells and molecular signals that forms a recognizable tissue microenvironment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover niches from spatial coordinates, gene expression, and cell-type labels, describe them by cell composition and marker programs, and compare niches between conditions.
Why use it?
It helps reveal recurring neighborhoods in tissue instead of requiring researchers to inspect coordinates and cell types manually. The results can also be compared across conditions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shangbiolab/spatialclaw/spatial-niches
Any agent
npx skills add ShangBioLab/SpatialClaw --skill spatial-niches
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShangBioLab/SpatialClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 314 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00024 $0.00314
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00157
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00031

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1d33e21152c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spatial-niches 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (spatial_niches.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.

skills/spatial/spatial-niches/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

Spatial Niches

Spatial Niches identifies local tissue microenvironments from spatial coordinates, expression, and cell-type annotations.

Interface

Python API only. This skill is intentionally not registered for spatialclaw run or other CLI execution routing.

Python API

from skills.spatial._lib.niches import run_niche_identification

result = run_niche_identification(adata, method="leiden_niche", cell_type_key="cell_type")

Capabilities

  • Leiden-based spatial niche discovery.
  • Optional CellCharter, scNiche, NicheCompass, and NiCo integrations.
  • Niche characterization by cell-type composition and marker programs.
  • Cross-condition niche comparison.

Validation

Covered by tests/spatial/test_library_only_skills.py::test_spatial_niches_smoke.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago First seen · 50 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 1d33e21152c1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spatial-niches is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShangBioLab/SpatialClaw (11 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 314 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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