genomics-vcf-operations

genomics-vcf-operations is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TianGzlab/OmicsClaw. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,137 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for examining VCF files, a standard text format that stores genetic variants such as SNPs, insertions, and deletions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to parse plain or compressed VCFs, filter records by QUAL or DP, count variants by chromosome, and produce CSV, VCF, Markdown, and JSON results.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually classify variants, calculate the Ti/Tv ratio, or apply basic quality and read-depth filters.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to parse plain or compressed VCFs, filter records by QUAL or DP, count variants by chromosome, and produce CSV, VCF, Markdown, and JSON results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tiangzlab/omicsclaw/genomics-vcf-operations
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add TianGzlab/OmicsClaw --skill genomics-vcf-operations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TianGzlab/OmicsClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,137 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

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  • high Rogue Agent · line 3
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00076 $0.01137
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00568
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00114

Measured 9d ago against content hash 632dfdc66a35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

genomics-vcf-operations 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 (genomics_vcf_operations.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/genomics/genomics-vcf-operations/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

genomics-vcf-operations

When to use

The user has a VCF (cohort, single-sample, or merged) and wants: classify variants by type (SNP / MNP / INS / DEL / COMPLEX), compute Ti/Tv on biallelic SNPs, optionally apply hard QUAL / DP filters, and emit per-chromosome counts. This skill mirrors a subset of bcftools stats + a simple QUAL/DP filter pass — pure Python, no bcftools required.

For variant calling itself (BAM → VCF) see genomics-variant-calling; for functional impact (gene / consequence / impact) use genomics-variant-annotation.

Inputs & Outputs

Inputs

  • File types: .vcf
  • VCF structure: ##fileformat; columns: #CHROM, POS, ID, REF, ALT, QUAL, FILTER, INFO

Outputs

  • tables/variants.csv
  • filtered.vcf
  • report.md
  • result.json
  • Produces artifact genomics.filtered_variants as filtered.vcf (vcf)

Flow

  1. Load plain/gzip VCF (--input <file.vcf[.gz]>) or generate a demo VCF at output_dir/demo.vcf.
  2. Parse records; classify each ALT into SNP / MNP / INS / DEL / COMPLEX.
  3. Apply --min-qual and --min-dp filters; always materialise the declared normalized filtered.vcf artifact (zero thresholds are pass-through).
  4. Compute Ti/Tv on biallelic SNPs; aggregate per-chromosome counts.
  5. Write tables/variants.csv (genomics_vcf_operations.py:325) + report.md + result.json (:341).

Gotchas

  • --input REQUIRED unless --demo. genomics_vcf_operations.py:310 raises ValueError("--input required when not using --demo"); non-existent paths raise FileNotFoundError at :313.
  • Plain .vcf plus gzip/bzip2/xz-compressed VCF are supported. Unknown compression codecs are rejected by the content probe rather than passed to the parser.
  • filtered.vcf is always emitted. With the default zero thresholds it is a normalized pass-through; positive --min-qual / --min-dp values reduce the retained records.
  • Multi-allelic rows are scored per-ALT but counted as one VCF line. Per-allele Ti/Tv is computed correctly, but downstream tools that count "rows" will under-count vs bcftools view. Pre-normalise (bcftools norm -m -) for row-by-allele math.
  • DP is read from INFO/DP only. Per-sample FORMAT/DP (genotype-level) is ignored — single-sample VCFs that only put DP in FORMAT will see DP=NA, and --min-dp will drop them all.
  • Demo VCF is a minimal SNV+indel set with random QUAL/DP. Useful for orchestrator smoke tests; not biologically meaningful.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 92 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 632dfdc66a35

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genomics-vcf-operations is a skill published in the GitHub repository TianGzlab/OmicsClaw (160 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,137 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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