Agent skill

Indication Dossier

by xuzhougeng in xuzhougeng/wisp-science

Build a sourced research dossier for one therapeutic indication — patient population, epidemiology, disease biology, standard of care, regulatory path, and landmark trials.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Indication Dossier

skills CLI
$ npx skills add xuzhougeng/wisp-science --skill indication-dossier -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install xuzhougeng/wisp-science indication-dossier --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/xuzhougeng/wisp-science.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/indication-dossier .claude/skills/indication-dossier && 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
indication-dossier
GitHub stars
1k
Token cost
~1k tokens
SKILL.md length
411 words
Files
4 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
25
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Build a sourced research dossier for one therapeutic indication — patient population, epidemiology, disease biology, standard of care, regulatory path, and landmark trials.

  • Works in 5 steps: Identity. Resolve definition, ICD codes,… → Epidemiology. Case definition,… → Biology & standard of care. Mechanism,… → …
  • The user asks for an indication overview
  • SKILL.md covers The framing rule, Inputs, Tooling and Run protocol, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Indication Dossier is an agent skill from xuzhougeng/wisp-science. Build a sourced research dossier for one therapeutic indication — patient population, epidemiology, disease biology, standard of care, regulatory path, and landmark trials. Use when the user asks for an indication overview, disease landscape, or trial-design background.

Its SKILL.md is about 1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `references/phases.md`, `references/standards.md` and `references/waypoints.md`).

It sits in Research & Science. It works with Model Context Protocol. The repository describes itself as: Open-source, local-first desktop AI research workbench for scientific computing with Python/R, MCP bioinformatics tools, SSH/WSL/GPU runtimes, and OpenAI/Anthropic models. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • The user asks for an indication overview
  • Disease landscape
  • Trial-design background

Example prompts

  • “/indication-dossier”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Identity. Resolve definition, ICD codes, aliases, parent, diagnostic
  2. Epidemiology. Case definition, prevalence/incidence, demographics,
  3. Biology & standard of care. Mechanism, biomarkers, approved
  4. Regulatory & trials. Accepted endpoints, precedents, design
  5. Synthesis. No new research threads (single targeted gap-fills only).

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2ba143b. 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.

    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

Indication Dossier loads about 1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~4.5k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 72 tokens; SKILL.md has 411 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~72
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~4.5k

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

The full file from xuzhougeng/wisp-science at commit 2ba143b, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© xuzhougeng). 411 words, ~1,011 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/indication-dossier/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
indication-dossier
description
Build a sourced research dossier for one therapeutic indication — patient population, epidemiology, disease biology, standard of care, regulatory path, and landmark trials. Use when the user asks for an indication overview, disease landscape, or trial-design background.
license
Apache-2.0

Indication dossier

Five research phases, each writing one waypoint JSON under <workdir>/waypoints/, ending in a cited Markdown report. Waypoints make the run resumable: a later invocation reads which files exist and continues from the first missing one. The only pause for user input is after Phase 1.

The framing rule

Treat the indication as a patient population, not a disease entry. Every section answers a population question — who are these patients, how are they identified and managed, which trials would help them — rather than a textbook question about the condition. Nesting is population nesting: everyone in the child indication is in the parent.

Some inputs are not billable diagnoses at all: a biological state ("immunosenescence"), a non-accepted indication ("ageing"), an iatrogenic population ("GLP-1 induced sarcopenia"). Detect and label this early — it changes the epidemiology evidence base, the regulatory path, and what a "complete" dossier even looks like.

Inputs

InputRequiredMeaning
indicationyese.g. "sarcopenia", "idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis"
additional_contextnofocus areas, parent indication, framing
workdirnowaypoint/report location; default ./do_not_commit/indication-dossier-<slug>/

Tooling

Preferred: clinical-trials MCP for CT.gov, pubmed MCP for literature, WebSearch/WebFetch for FDA guidance, specialty-society guidelines (NCCN, AASLD, …), and CDC/WHO data; WebFetch for remote PDFs, Read for local ones; Agent subagents for parallel evidence gathering. When a listed MCP is not connected, say so and fall back to WebSearch against the public site itself.

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Run protocol

Read references/standards.md first — it defines what counts as a citable finding, the anti-fabrication rules, and the report style. Phase-by-phase instructions live in references/phases.md; waypoint formats in references/waypoints.md.

  1. Identity. Resolve definition, ICD codes, aliases, parent, diagnostic status; quick CT.gov landscape count. Write meta.json. Then show the resolved identity and end the turn asking Proceed / Revise identity / Stop — the expensive phases wait for the answer (Wisp has no separate interactive-question tool, so this is a normal turn end).
  2. Epidemiology. Case definition, prevalence/incidence, demographics, natural history → epidemiology.json.
  3. Biology & standard of care. Mechanism, biomarkers, approved therapies, guidelines, unmet need → biology_soc.json.
  4. Regulatory & trials. Accepted endpoints, precedents, design parameters, landmark trials, failures → regulatory_trials.json.
  5. Synthesis. No new research threads (single targeted gap-fills only). Write indication_dossier_report.md and research_output.json, then mark progress.json complete.

After each of phases 2–5, write the waypoint, emit a ≤200-word summary of findings and open uncertainties, and continue directly.

Resuming

When workdir already contains waypoints: list which phases are complete (file exists and is non-empty), show the meta summary, and ask which phase to run. Never overwrite an existing waypoint without confirmation.

Output layout

<workdir>/waypoints/
├── progress.json                 # loop control, flipped last
├── meta.json                     # phase 1
├── epidemiology.json             # phase 2
├── biology_soc.json              # phase 3
├── regulatory_trials.json        # phase 4
├── sources_evaluated.json        # appended by every phase
├── research_output.json          # phase 5, structured
└── indication_dossier_report.md  # phase 5, the deliverable

© xuzhougeng, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in skills/indication-dossier of xuzhougeng/wisp-science.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/phases.md
  • references/standards.md
  • references/waypoints.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2ba143b

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Questions about Indication Dossier

What does Indication Dossier do?

Build a sourced research dossier for one therapeutic indication — patient population, epidemiology, disease biology, standard of care, regulatory path, and landmark trials. Indication Dossier is an agent skill from xuzhougeng/wisp-science. Build a sourced research dossier for one therapeutic indication — patient population, epidemiology, disease biology, standard of care, regulatory path, and landmark trials.

When should I use Indication Dossier?

Indication Dossier fits situations like: the user asks for an indication overview; disease landscape; trial-design background.

How do I install Indication Dossier in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add xuzhougeng/wisp-science --skill indication-dossier -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/indication-dossier in xuzhougeng/wisp-science) into .claude/skills/indication-dossier in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Indication Dossier in Codex?

Run `npx skills add xuzhougeng/wisp-science --skill indication-dossier -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/indication-dossier in xuzhougeng/wisp-science) into .agents/skills/indication-dossier in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Indication Dossier 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 xuzhougeng/wisp-science --skill indication-dossier -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/indication-dossier, .gemini/skills/indication-dossier, .github/skills/indication-dossier and .opencode/skills/indication-dossier in your project.

What does Indication Dossier need to run?

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

Does Indication Dossier 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 Indication Dossier 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 Indication Dossier use?

Indication Dossier is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Indication Dossier use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 3.5k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Indication Dossier?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Indication Dossier: Deep Research (jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch, 3.8k stars), Annotate Paper (54yyyu/zotero-mcp, 5.3k stars), Paper Search (openags/paper-search-mcp, 2.8k stars) and NSFC Literature Review Writer (HuiyuLi-2000/Chinese-Grant-Writer-Skills, 439 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Indication Dossier?

xuzhougeng (a GitHub user) maintains it in xuzhougeng/wisp-science, which has 1,026 GitHub stars. The repository holds 25 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

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