sc-standardize-input

sc-standardize-input is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TianGzlab/OmicsClaw. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,413 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for converting an external single-cell expression file into the standard AnnData format expected by downstream analyses. AnnData is a structured file format for storing expression matrices together with cell and gene information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it once before single-cell quality control or preprocessing when the data came from outside the system.
Why use it?
It handles differences between h5ad, loom, mtx, CSV, and TSV inputs and records the resulting data contract. This prevents later workflows from failing because counts or feature names are stored differently.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it once before single-cell quality control or preprocessing when the data came from outside the system.

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npx agentmods add skills/tiangzlab/omicsclaw/sc-standardize-input
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,413 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 $0.00073 $0.01413
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00565
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00141

Measured 17d ago against content hash ddeb2e1140b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sc-standardize-input 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 17d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (_api.py, examples/example_step.py, sc_standardize_input.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/singlecell/scrna/sc-standardize-input/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

sc-standardize-input

When to use

The user has a single-cell expression file from outside OmicsClaw (a public .h5ad, a 10X mtx directory, a .loom, etc.) and needs the canonical AnnData contract every downstream scRNA skill assumes: raw counts in layers["counts"] and adata.raw, harmonised feature names, and a uns["omicsclaw_matrix_contract"] provenance record. Run this once before sc-qc / sc-preprocessing / etc.

Use from a step

standardizer = load_skill("sc-standardize-input")
adata = standardizer.standardize(read_input("external.h5ad"), species="human")
write_output(adata, "intermediate/adata_standardized.h5ad")

standardize returns a new AnnData. It does not filter, normalize or cluster. A runnable PBMC example is in examples/example_step.py.

API

standardize(adata, *, species: str='auto')

Return a canonical copy with count-like X, layers['counts'] and raw.

Select counts from layers['counts'], aligned raw or X, in that order; harmonize feature names and record the matrix and input contracts.

:param adata: AnnData with at least one count-like expression matrix. :param species: 'auto' uses infer_species; 'human' or 'mouse' overrides it. :returns: A new AnnData. run_info reports the selected matrix and warnings. :raises ValueError: The species is invalid or no count-like matrix is present.

infer_species(adata) -> str

Infer human or mouse from feature names, defaulting to human.

:param adata: AnnData whose feature names or gene-symbol metadata are examined. :returns: The species hint used by standardize(species="auto").

run_info(adata, *, keep: bool=True) -> dict

Read standardization diagnostics stored as JSON in adata.uns.

:param adata: The AnnData returned by standardize. :param keep: False removes these diagnostics after reading; default True. :returns: A dictionary, or an empty dictionary before standardize runs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 17d ago Changed · +44 lines ddeb2e1140b1
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 90 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A e018f34b0d01

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sc-standardize-input is a skill published in the GitHub repository TianGzlab/OmicsClaw (161 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,413 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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