Agent skill

Bioconductor Escher

by bioMate-AI in bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb

The creation of effective visualizations is a fundamental component of data analysis.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedData & Analytics

Install Bioconductor Escher

skills CLI
$ npx skills add bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb --skill bioconductor-escher -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb bioconductor-escher --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/bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/transcriptomics/escher .claude/skills/bioconductor-escher && 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
bioconductor-escher
GitHub stars
804
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
533 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
112
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

The creation of effective visualizations is a fundamental component of data analysis.

  • Tasks that involve Data visualization
  • SKILL.md covers Workflows, When to Use, When NOT to Use and Data Requirements, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Bioinformatics

What it does

Bioconductor Escher is an agent skill from bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb. The creation of effective visualizations is a fundamental component of data analysis. In biomedical research, new challenges are emerging to visualize multi-dimensional data in a 2D space, but current data visualization tools have limited capabilities. To address this problem, we leverage Gestalt principles to improve the design and interpretability of multi-dimensional data in 2D data visualizations, layering aesthetics to display multiple variables. The proposed visualization can be applied to

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Data visualization, Bioinformatics and AI interpretability. The repository describes itself as: BioMate-KB Bioconductor Skills — 200 packages (top 100 by downloads + 100 rising stars) as vignette-grounded Claude/agent skills, with per-package workflow recipes.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Data visualization
  • Tasks that involve Bioinformatics
  • Tasks that involve AI interpretability

Example prompts

  • “/bioconductor-escher”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c9bd4d8. 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

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are r).

    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

Bioconductor Escher loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 130 tokens; SKILL.md has 533 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~130
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 533 words (~1,682 tokens).

“Visualize multi-dimensional spatial transcriptomics data from a SpatialExperiment or SingleCellExperiment object by adding layered fill, ground, and symbol aesthetics.”

— opening of SKILL.md by bioMate-AI, Custom licence
name
bioconductor-escher
when_to_use
Use when: The creation of effective visualizations is a fundamental component of data analysis; install bioc using install; install github using…
user-invocable
false

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/transcriptomics/escher of bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c9bd4d8

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Questions about Bioconductor Escher

What does Bioconductor Escher do?

The creation of effective visualizations is a fundamental component of data analysis. Bioconductor Escher is an agent skill from bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb. The creation of effective visualizations is a fundamental component of data analysis.

When should I use Bioconductor Escher?

Bioconductor Escher fits situations like: tasks that involve Data visualization; tasks that involve Bioinformatics; tasks that involve AI interpretability.

How do I install Bioconductor Escher in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb --skill bioconductor-escher -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/transcriptomics/escher in bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb) into .claude/skills/bioconductor-escher in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Bioconductor Escher in Codex?

Run `npx skills add bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb --skill bioconductor-escher -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/transcriptomics/escher in bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb) into .agents/skills/bioconductor-escher in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Bioconductor Escher 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 bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb --skill bioconductor-escher -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/bioconductor-escher, .gemini/skills/bioconductor-escher, .github/skills/bioconductor-escher and .opencode/skills/bioconductor-escher in your project.

What does Bioconductor Escher need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Bioconductor Escher is instructions for the agent only.

Does Bioconductor Escher 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 Bioconductor Escher 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. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Bioconductor Escher use?

Bioconductor Escher has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Bioconductor Escher use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Bioconductor Escher?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Bioconductor Escher: Bio Data Visualization Manhattan Qq Locuszoom (GPTomics/bioSkills, 1.2k stars), Metagenomic Krona Chart (aipoch/medical-research-skills, 1.9k stars), Scanpy Single-Cell Analysis (davila7/claude-code-templates, 33k stars) and Ukb Ppp Region Fetch (ClawBio/ClawBio, 1.2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Bioconductor Escher?

bioMate-AI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb, which has 804 GitHub stars. The repository holds 112 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 20, 2026.

Source: bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.