omics-skill-builder

omics-skill-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TianGzlab/OmicsClaw. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,293 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for scaffolding a new OmicsClaw skill from a plain-language request. It creates the standard folders and files needed for a skill, including instructions, references, tests, and a reproducibility record.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding a new skill to an OmicsClaw domain such as proteomics, genomics, or single-cell analysis.
Why use it?
It removes the repetitive setup work involved in starting a new analysis skill with the expected project structure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when adding a new skill to an OmicsClaw domain such as proteomics, genomics, or single-cell analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tiangzlab/omicsclaw/omics-skill-builder
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,293 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

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • 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 $0.00065 $0.01293
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00647
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00129

Measured 4d ago against content hash 597260e09419, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

omics-skill-builder 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (omics_skill_builder.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/orchestrator/omics-skill-builder/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

omics-skill-builder

When to use

The user wants to add a NEW skill to the OmicsClaw catalog from a natural-language request. This skill produces a directory scaffold under the chosen --domain (spatial / singlecell / genomics / proteomics / metabolomics / bulkrna / orchestrator) with the v2 layout: skill.yaml, SKILL.md, references/, tests/, plus a reproducibility manifest.

For modifying an existing skill, edit its files directly — this skill is for net-new additions only. For dispatching queries to existing skills, use orchestrator.

Inputs & Outputs

Outputs

  • SCAFFOLD_SUMMARY.md
  • report.md
  • result.json
  • skills/<domain>/<skill-name>/
  • Produces artifact orchestrator.skill_scaffold as result.json (json)

Flow

  1. Parse --request (or --demo); raise SystemExit("--request is required unless --demo is used.") at omics_skill_builder.py:75 when missing.
  2. Optionally promote one explicitly identified autonomous-analysis output via --source-analysis-dir <path>.
  3. Call create_skill_scaffold (omicsclaw.core.skill_scaffolder); earned promotions enter skills/<domain>/<skill-name>/, while environment-limited promoted code enters the undiscoverable skills/.quarantine/ tree.
  4. Write SCAFFOLD_SUMMARY.md + report.md + reproducibility/commands.sh + result.json into --output.

Gotchas

  • --request REQUIRED unless --demo — raises SystemExit (exit 1). omics_skill_builder.py:75 raises SystemExit("--request is required unless --demo is used."). Different from most OmicsClaw skills which use ValueError / parser.error; the exit code is 1, not 2.
  • --domain defaults to orchestrator — usually NOT what you want. omics_skill_builder.py:30 defaults to orchestrator; pass --domain spatial (or whichever) explicitly. Choices are 7 fixed values; an unknown domain is rejected by argparse.
  • The new skill is written to skills/<domain>/<skill-name>/, not --output. --output only receives the scaffold summary + report + commands.sh; the actual skill code goes under skills/. Don't confuse the two.
  • --trigger-keyword, --method, --input-format, --output-item are REPEATABLE flags. Pass --trigger-keyword kw1 --trigger-keyword kw2 to add multiple. Single quoting won't help — argparse honours action="append".
  • Global --promote-from-latest selection is disabled. Supply the exact --source-analysis-dir; this keeps concurrent sessions and runs isolated.
  • A skipped promoted-code gate is not admission. The bundle is quarantined with references/quarantine.md evidence and is not registered until a later explicit validation/admission flow exists.
  • --demo lands in the orchestrator domain, NOT the implied target domain. omics_skill_builder.py:65 resolves domain = args.domain or "spatial", but args.domain defaults to "orchestrator" (truthy), so the demo scaffold is written to skills/orchestrator/spatial-cellcharter-domains/ rather than skills/spatial/.... For real scaffolds always pass --domain <target> explicitly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 4d ago First seen · 94 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 597260e09419

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omics-skill-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository TianGzlab/OmicsClaw (160 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,293 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 2026-09-03.

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