Galaxy Bridge Agent Skill

Galaxy tool discovery, intelligent recommendation, and execution — 8,000+ bioinformatics tools from usegalaxy.org.

Context cost
36.3k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
199 of 213 fileshanded out here; the rest is at its source
Licence
MITthe author’s own terms
Last change
—v0.2.0
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Galaxy tool discovery, intelligent recommendation, and execution — 8,000+ bioinformatics tools from usegalaxy.org

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

data science

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md9.9 kB · preview
--- name: galaxy-bridge license: MIT metadata: version: 0.2.0 author: Manuel Corpas tags: - galaxy - bioinformatics - tool-discovery - workflows - NGS - genomics - proteomics - metagenomics openclaw: requires: bins: - python3 env: - GALAXY_URL - GALAXY_API_KEY always: false emoji: 🌌 homepage: https://github.com/ClawBio/ClawBio os: - darwin - linux install: - kind: pip package: bioblend trigger_keywords: - galaxy - usegalaxy - tool shed - bioblend - run on galaxy - galaxy tool - galaxy workflow - NGS pipeline ---
45# Galaxy Bridge
46
47**ClawBio's gateway to the Galaxy ecosystem — 1,770+ production bioinformatics tools, discoverable and executable through natural language.**
48
49## Why This Exists
50
51Galaxy (usegalaxy.org) hosts the world's largest collection of curated bioinformatics tools — 1,770+ on the main server alone, covering everything from FASTQ QC to metagenomics to protein structure prediction. But discovering the right tool requires knowing exact tool IDs, navigating nested ToolShed categories, and understanding parameter schemas.
52
53Galaxy Bridge makes these tools **agent-accessible**: search by natural language, execute via CLI, and chain Galaxy tools with ClawBio's local skills for cross-platform workflows that neither system can do alone.
54
55## Core Capabilities
56
571. **Intelligent tool recommendation** — describe a task in plain English; multi-signal scoring across 7 dimensions returns the best Galaxy tool with explanations
582. **Workflow suggestions** — 8 pre-defined pipeline templates (RNA-seq DE, metagenomics, variant calling, WES germline, ChIP-seq, nanopore, genome assembly, variant annotation)
593. **Input format awareness** — provide your file extension (.fastq, .bam, .vcf) for format-aware recommendations
604. **Version deduplication** — 8,182 catalog entries collapse to ~2,300 unique tools; latest version preferred, version count as maturity signal
615. **EDAM ontology resolution** — 108 EDAM topic/operation IDs resolved to human-readable labels for richer matching
626. **Natural language search** — keyword-based search across 8,000+ Galaxy tools by name, description, section, and EDAM terms
637. **Remote execution** — run Galaxy tools on usegalaxy.org via BioBlend API
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md1,288 words
Files199
LicenceMIT
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈210
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
36,115
on trigger
The instruction body and 198 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
18.2%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would not fit in the window together.
050k100k150k200k context window

36.3k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

The download carries 199 of the 213 files in its source folder; the list here names 199 files, 217.0 kB on disk. Mostly text — the instructions the model reads — with 4 scripts in it that your client would run only if the instructions tell it to. The other 14 are not in the download — listed after these, with why.

  • SKILL.md9.9 kB
  • galaxy_bridge.py22.9 kB
  • generate_curated_skills.py8.4 kB
  • generate_galaxy_catalog.py4.4 kB
  • tool_recommender.py36.0 kB
  • demo/fastqc_demo_output.html1.1 kB
  • galaxy_skills/INDEX.md19.1 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/axtchain.md0.6 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/cat-prepare.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/cat-summarise.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/chainprenet.md0.6 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/circos-alignments-to-links.md0.7 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/circos-interval-to-circos-text-labels.md0.8 kB
  • galaxy_skills/circos-stack-bigwigs-as-histogram.md0.8 kB
  • galaxy_skills/clair3.md0.5 kB
  • galaxy_skills/clustalw.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/compute-quality-statistics.md0.7 kB
  • galaxy_skills/convert-merge-randomize.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/convert.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/count.md0.4 kB
  • galaxy_skills/create-assemblies-with-unicycler.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/cutadapt.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/david.md0.4 kB
  • galaxy_skills/deepvariant.md0.7 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/deseq2.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/dexseq-count.md0.6 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/diamond-makedb.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/diamond-view.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/diamond.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/diffbind.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/dnadiff.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/draw-nucleotides-distribution-chart.md0.7 kB
  • galaxy_skills/draw-quality-score-boxplot.md0.7 kB
  • galaxy_skills/edger.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/extract-maf-blocks.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/falco.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/fasplit.md0.5 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/fastq-summary-statistics.md0.7 kB
  • galaxy_skills/fastqc.md0.5 kB
  • galaxy_skills/fastqe.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/featurecounts.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/filtlong.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/flye-assembly.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/freebayes.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/g-profiler.md0.4 kB
  • galaxy_skills/gatk4-mutect2.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/gene-length-and-gc-content.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/generate-gene-to-transcript-map.md0.7 kB
  • galaxy_skills/gpass.md0.4 kB
  • galaxy_skills/hifiasm.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/hisat2.md0.5 kB
  • galaxy_skills/htseq-count.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/humann.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/insert-indel-qualities.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/iq-tree.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/jasminesv.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/kc-align.md0.5 kB
  • galaxy_skills/kraken-taxonomic-report.md0.7 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/lastz-d.md0.6 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/limma.md0.7 kB
  • galaxy_skills/macs2-bdgpeakcall.md0.6 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/macs2-predictd.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/maf-coverage-stats.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/mafft-add.md0.6 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/maker.md0.5 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/map-with-minimap2.md0.7 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/medaka-consensus-pipeline.md0.7 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/medaka-variant-pipeline.md0.7 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/megahit.md0.5 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/methyldackel.md0.6 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/mirdeep2-mapper.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/mirdeep2-quantifier.md0.7 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/multiqc.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/mummer.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/mummerplot.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/nanoplot.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/nonpareil.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/nucmer.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/pass.md0.4 kB
  • galaxy_skills/perform-affine-image-registration-landmark-based.md0.7 kB
  • galaxy_skills/phyogenetic-reconstruction-with-raxml.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/plasflow.md0.6 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/samtools-ampliconclip.md0.6 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/show-coords.md0.7 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/snpeff-build.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/snpeff-chromosome-info.md0.6 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/snpeff-download.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/snpeff-eff.md0.5 kB
  • galaxy_skills/spades.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/strelka-germline.md0.7 kB
  • galaxy_skills/strelka-somatic.md0.7 kB
  • galaxy_skills/stringtie-merge.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/stringtie.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/summary-statistics.md0.5 kB
  • galaxy_skills/transdecoder.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/trim-galore.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/trimmomatic.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/trinity.md0.5 kB
  • galaxy_skills/trinotate.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/tximport.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/umi-tools-count.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/umi-tools-deduplicate.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/umi-tools-extract.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/umi-tools-whitelist.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/vcf-to-maf-custom-track.md0.4 kB
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  • galaxy_skills/velvetoptimiser.md0.6 kB
  • galaxy_skills/vsearch-alignment.md0.5 kB

Not in the download

Too big is over our 2 MB file limit, not carried is a type a skill download does not hold and over the limit is past 200 files or 4 MB a skill. Marked read: its SKILL.md or scripts name the file, so without it the skill works only in part. Take them from its source.

  • demo/demo_reads.fqread · not carried
  • demo/reproducibility/commands.shread · over the limit
  • galaxy_catalog.jsonread · 3.1 MB, too big
  • galaxy_skills/vsearch-chimera-detection.mdover the limit
  • galaxy_skills/vsearch-clustering.mdover the limit
  • galaxy_skills/vsearch-dereplication.mdover the limit
  • galaxy_skills/vsearch-masking.mdover the limit
  • galaxy_skills/vsearch-search.mdover the limit
  • galaxy_skills/vsearch-shuffling.mdover the limit
  • galaxy_skills/vsearch-sorting.mdover the limit
  • galaxy_skills/winnowmap.mdover the limit
  • tests/__init__.pyover the limit
  • tests/test_galaxy_bridge.pyover the limit
  • tests/test_tool_recommender.pyover the limit
What is not in it

A skill installs nothing and depends on nothing: it is a folder your client reads. This one carries 4 scripts beside the text, so the download is 199 files — not the whole of its source: 14 files are left out, and the skill reads 3 of them. They are listed under the files, with why. The MIT licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Galaxy Bridge · 36.3k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/galaxy-bridge/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/galaxy-bridge" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/galaxy-bridge ] || { mv .claude/skills/galaxy-bridge "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/galaxy-bridge" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/galaxy-bridge"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add clawbio/galaxy-bridge

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/galaxy-bridge/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/galaxy-bridge/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/galaxy-bridge" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/galaxy-bridge ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/galaxy-bridge "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/galaxy-bridge" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/galaxy-bridge" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/galaxy-bridge/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. Not in this download: 14 files of its source, 3 of them read by its SKILL.md or scripts (the full list, and why). Take them from its source.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Version0.2.0
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referenceclawbio/galaxy-bridge

Versions

v0.2.0 is what is on the shelf; no release here carries a date. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

v0.2.0
  • No earlier releases have been published to the marketplace.
Pinning

The install command always fetches the release that is current the day you run it — v0.2.0 today — and cannot ask for an earlier one. The copy on your disk does not change until you run it again.

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