lamindb

A Python data framework for organising biological datasets and recording how they were produced and changed. It makes data searchable, traceable, reproducible, and easier to share using standard biological terms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage sequencing, spatial, flow-cytometry, clinical, and other biological data; track workflows; validate and standardise metadata; and record dataset and code versions.
Why use it?
Biology projects often spread data, notebooks, scripts, and results across disconnected locations. This framework links those parts so researchers can find the right dataset, follow its history, and repeat an analysis.

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/synthetic-sciences/openscience/lamindb
Any agent
npx skills add synthetic-sciences/openscience --skill lamindb
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synthetic-sciences/openscience

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 135 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,274 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 $0.00135 $0.03274
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01637
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00655
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00327

Measured 2d ago against content hash 56544c9ad567, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lamindb 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 2d 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

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • lamindb — 100% identical, 3 lines differ
  • lamindb — 98% identical, 3 lines differ
  • lamindb — 97% identical, 5 lines differ
  • lamindb — 97% identical, 3 lines differ
  • alterlab-lamindb — 97% identical, 16 lines differ
  • lamindb — 95% identical, 6 lines differ
  • lamindb — 88% identical, 81 lines differ
  • lamindb — 88% identical, 81 lines differ
backend/cli/skills/biology/lamindb/SKILL.md · 390 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 390 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LaminDB

Overview

LaminDB is an open-source data framework for biology designed to make data queryable, traceable, reproducible, and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). It provides a unified platform that combines lakehouse architecture, lineage tracking, feature stores, biological ontologies, LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System), and ELN (Electronic Lab Notebook) capabilities through a single Python API.

Core Value Proposition:

  • Queryability: Search and filter datasets by metadata, features, and ontology terms
  • Traceability: Automatic lineage tracking from raw data through analysis to results
  • Reproducibility: Version control for data, code, and environment
  • FAIR Compliance: Standardized annotations using biological ontologies

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Managing biological datasets: scRNA-seq, bulk RNA-seq, spatial transcriptomics, flow cytometry, multi-modal data, EHR data
  • Tracking computational workflows: Notebooks, scripts, pipeline execution (Nextflow, Snakemake, Redun)
  • Curating and validating data: Schema validation, standardization, ontology-based annotation
  • Working with biological ontologies: Genes, proteins, cell types, tissues, diseases, pathways (via Bionty)
  • Building data lakehouses: Unified query interface across multiple datasets
  • Ensuring reproducibility: Automatic versioning, lineage tracking, environment capture
  • Integrating ML pipelines: Connecting with Weights & Biases, MLflow, HuggingFace, scVI-tools
  • Deploying data infrastructure: Setting up local or cloud-based data management systems
  • Collaborating on datasets: Sharing curated, annotated data with standardized metadata

Core Capabilities

LaminDB provides six interconnected capability areas, each documented in detail in the references folder.

1. Core Concepts and Data Lineage

Core entities:

  • Artifacts: Versioned datasets (DataFrame, AnnData, Parquet, Zarr, etc.)
  • Records: Experimental entities (samples, perturbations, instruments)
  • Runs & Transforms: Computational lineage tracking (what code produced what data)
  • Features: Typed metadata fields for annotation and querying

Read the full file on GitHub · 390 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 2d ago First seen · 390 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A 56544c9ad567

Subscribe to this mod's changes

lamindb is a skill published in the GitHub repository synthetic-sciences/openscience (3,385 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 135 tokens to every session and 3,274 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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