Agent skill

Review Groovydoc

by bactopia in bactopia/bactopia

Review GroovyDoc accuracy across modules and subworkflows using bactopia-lint.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Review Groovydoc

skills CLI
$ npx skills add bactopia/bactopia --skill review-groovydoc -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install bactopia/bactopia review-groovydoc --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bactopia/bactopia.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/review-groovydoc .claude/skills/review-groovydoc && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
review-groovydoc
GitHub stars
522
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
767 words
Files
2 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
15
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Review GroovyDoc accuracy across modules and subworkflows using bactopia-lint.

  • Works in 5 steps: Run bactopia-lint via the wrapper… → Parse the JSON output. Filter results to… → Present results as a clean summary → …
  • Asked to review GroovyDoc
  • SKILL.md covers Steps, Notes and GroovyDoc Quick Reference
  • Runs Shell scripts from its folder; calls bash

What it does

Review Groovydoc is an agent skill from bactopia/bactopia. Review GroovyDoc accuracy across modules and subworkflows using bactopia-lint. Checks @output/@input field matching, @modules/@subworkflows lists, citation keys, tag ordering, and formatting. Use when asked to review GroovyDoc, check documentation accuracy, validate module/subworkflow docs, or audit GroovyDoc.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/run-bactopia-lint.sh`).

It sits in Research & Science, covering Citation management and Linting and formatting. The repository describes itself as: A flexible pipeline for complete analysis of bacterial genomes. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to review GroovyDoc
  • Check documentation accuracy
  • Validate module/subworkflow docs
  • Audit GroovyDoc

Example prompts

  • “/review-groovydoc”

Requirements

  • A Bash shell

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Run bactopia-lint via the wrapper script. By default, lint both modules and subworkflows
  2. Parse the JSON output. Filter results to GroovyDoc-related rules only
  3. Present results as a clean summary
  4. If the user asks to fix issues, apply fixes
  5. After fixes, re-run the lint to confirm all issues are resolved.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 29fb741. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Shell), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • bash

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Review Groovydoc loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 82 tokens; SKILL.md has 767 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~82
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from bactopia/bactopia at commit 29fb741, republished under its MIT licence (© bactopia). 767 words, ~1,848 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/review-groovydoc/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
review-groovydoc
description
Review GroovyDoc accuracy across modules and subworkflows using bactopia-lint. Checks @output/@input field matching, @modules/@subworkflows lists, citation keys, tag ordering, and formatting. Use when asked to review GroovyDoc, check documentation accuracy, validate module/subworkflow docs, or audit GroovyDoc.

Review GroovyDoc

Run bactopia-lint focused on GroovyDoc accuracy rules and present the results.

Steps

  1. Run bactopia-lint via the wrapper script. By default, lint both modules and subworkflows:

    bash .agents/skills/review-groovydoc/scripts/run-bactopia-lint.sh --bactopia-path /home/rpetit3/repos/bactopia/bactopia --quiet --json --silent
    • For modules only: add --no-subworkflows --no-workflows
    • For subworkflows only: add --no-modules --no-workflows
    • For a specific module: add --module <name>
  2. Parse the JSON output. Filter results to GroovyDoc-related rules only:

    Module rules (M-series):

    • M006: GroovyDoc block present
    • M007: Required GroovyDoc tags
    • M008: @status value valid
    • M009: @tags sub-keys present
    • M010: Features list formatting
    • M014: Links use HTTPS
    • M031: @output fields match actual record() output
    • M032: @input record fields match actual input
    • M033: Optionality markers (?) match between GroovyDoc and code
    • M034: Standard fields not described in @output
    • M035: @citation keys exist in citations.yml
    • M036: GroovyDoc tag ordering
    • M037: Blank lines between GroovyDoc sections
    • M038: No */ inside GroovyDoc block

    Subworkflow rules (S-series):

    • S003: GroovyDoc with required tags
    • S004: Features comma-separated without spaces
    • S006: Links use HTTPS
    • S017: @modules match actual module includes
    • S018: @subworkflows match actual subworkflow includes
    • S019: @citation keys exist in citations.yml
    • S020: @tags complexity value is valid
    • S021: @tags input-type value is valid
    • S022: @tags output-type value is valid
    • S023: @tags features values are valid
    • S024: GroovyDoc tag ordering
    • S026: All emit channels have a corresponding @output tag
    • S027: @output field descriptions must not exist for channel.empty() emits

    Entry workflows (W-series):

    • No dedicated GroovyDoc-accuracy W-rules exist. Workflow GroovyDoc review is a manual pass — check the workflow main.nf against .agents/docs/standards/06-workflow-documentation.md, verify @subworkflows directory keys match actual include { ... } imports (e.g., utils_bactopia-tools, bactopia_qc), validate @citation keys against data/citations.yml, confirm @input names match declared params { }, and ensure each @section has ≥1 @publish. The one-off drift-check approach used on 2026-04-10 lived at /tmp/workflow_drift_check.py and reused parse_groovydoc_full() + parse_includes() from bactopia-py/bactopia/nf.py.
  3. Present results as a clean summary:

    • If all pass: Report "All X modules/subworkflows have clean GroovyDoc" and stop
    • If issues found: Group by rule ID for easy batch fixing
      • Show count of affected components per rule
      • For each rule, list the affected components and specific messages
      • Prioritize FAIL over WARN
  4. If the user asks to fix issues, apply fixes:

    Module fixes:

    • M031 (FAIL): Read the actual record() output block, update @output record(...) to match
    • M032 (FAIL): Read the actual input declaration, update @input record(...) to match
    • M033 (FAIL): Reconcile optionality markers (?) between GroovyDoc and code. If the doc field has ? but the code doesn't, either add optional: true / Path? to the code or drop the ? from the doc. If the code is optional but the doc isn't, add the ?.
    • M034 (WARN): Remove description lines for standard fields (meta, results, logs, nf_logs, versions)
    • M035 (FAIL): Check data/citations.yml for the correct key and update @citation
    • M036 (WARN): Reorder tags to match: @status -> @keywords -> @tags -> @citation -> @note -> @input -> @output
    • M037 (WARN): Add blank * lines between sections
    • M038 (FAIL): Escape or reword any */ sequence inside the GroovyDoc block (e.g. replace glob patterns like dir/*/file with an alternative wording) so the comment doesn't close prematurely

    Subworkflow fixes:

    • S017 (FAIL): Update @modules to match actual include statements (use underscore-delimited keys: blast_blastn not blastn)
    • S018 (FAIL): Update @subworkflows to match actual include statements
    • S019 (FAIL): Check data/citations.yml for the correct key and update @citation
    • S023 (FAIL): Fix invalid feature values or add missing commas
    • S024 (WARN): Reorder tags: @status -> @keywords -> @tags -> @citation -> @modules -> @subworkflows -> @note -> @input -> @output
    • S026 (FAIL): Add @output channel_name for each undocumented emit channel, with field descriptions matching the emitted record shape (see pangenome subworkflow for pattern)
    • S027 (FAIL): Move field descriptions from the channel.empty() @output to the correct @output that actually emits data
  5. After fixes, re-run the lint to confirm all issues are resolved.

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Notes

  • The wrapper script auto-discovers bactopia-lint (checks PATH, then conda envs)
  • Citation keys are validated against data/citations.yml (all sections)
  • Field ordering in @output is a WARN (style), not FAIL (correctness)
  • Standard fields (meta, results, logs, nf_logs, versions) should never have description lines in @output
  • The @input should use record(meta, ...) syntax, not raw (_meta: Map, ...) syntax

GroovyDoc Quick Reference

Required Tags

Module order: @status -> @keywords -> @tags -> @citation -> @note -> @input -> @output Subworkflow order: @status -> @keywords -> @tags -> @citation -> @modules -> @subworkflows -> @note -> @input -> @output

@status stable|beta|deprecated
@keywords comma, separated, keywords
@tags complexity:<level> input-type:<type> output-type:<type> features:<list>
@citation comma, separated, bibtex_keys
Subworkflow-Specific Tags
@modules bactopia_gather, csvtk_concat
@subworkflows scrubber, nohuman

Module names use underscore-delimited keys matching directory structure: blast_blastn (not blastn), bactopia_qc (not qc).

Optional Tags
@note Title
Description text

@input record(meta, field1, field2)
- `meta`: Groovy Record containing sample information
- `field1`: Description

@input param_name
Description of non-record parameter

@output record(meta, field1, results, logs, nf_logs, versions)
- `field1`: Description (tool-specific fields only)
Rules
  • No spaces after commas in features list: features:a,b,c (not features:a, b, c)
  • Standard fields (meta, results, logs, nf_logs, versions) must NOT have description lines
  • @output field list must exactly match the actual record() output block
  • @input record fields must match the actual input declaration
  • @modules/@subworkflows must match actual include statements
  • Citation keys must exist in data/citations.yml
  • Valid complexity: simple, moderate, complex
  • Valid input-type: none, single, multiple, parameter
  • Valid output-type: single, multiple

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (scripts) in .agents/skills/review-groovydoc of bactopia/bactopia.

  • SKILL.md
  • scripts/run-bactopia-lint.sh

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 29fb741

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Questions about Review Groovydoc

What does Review Groovydoc do?

Review GroovyDoc accuracy across modules and subworkflows using bactopia-lint. Review Groovydoc is an agent skill from bactopia/bactopia. Review GroovyDoc accuracy across modules and subworkflows using bactopia-lint.

When should I use Review Groovydoc?

Review Groovydoc fits situations like: asked to review GroovyDoc; check documentation accuracy; validate module/subworkflow docs; audit GroovyDoc.

How do I install Review Groovydoc in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add bactopia/bactopia --skill review-groovydoc -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/review-groovydoc in bactopia/bactopia) into .claude/skills/review-groovydoc in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Review Groovydoc in Codex?

Run `npx skills add bactopia/bactopia --skill review-groovydoc -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/review-groovydoc in bactopia/bactopia) into .agents/skills/review-groovydoc in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Review Groovydoc in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add bactopia/bactopia --skill review-groovydoc -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/review-groovydoc, .gemini/skills/review-groovydoc, .github/skills/review-groovydoc and .opencode/skills/review-groovydoc in your project.

What does Review Groovydoc need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Review Groovydoc needs a shell for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (bash). Our summary lists: A Bash shell.

Does Review Groovydoc access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Review Groovydoc safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Review Groovydoc use?

Review Groovydoc is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Review Groovydoc use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Review Groovydoc?

bactopia (a GitHub organization) maintains it in bactopia/bactopia, which has 522 GitHub stars. The repository holds 15 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 5, 2026.

Source: bactopia/bactopia on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.