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Skills

BioMCP ships one embedded guide plus supporting reference files and worked examples for agent workflows. The current workflow is:

biomcp skill
biomcp skill list
biomcp skill article-follow-up
biomcp skill install ~/.claude

Read the overview

biomcp skill prints the embedded skills/SKILL.md overview. Start there if you want the current BioMCP workflow guidance without installing anything into an agent directory.

Learn the workflows

Use biomcp skill list to browse the embedded worked examples and biomcp skill <slug|number> to open one in the CLI:

biomcp skill list
biomcp skill article-follow-up

Current builds ship examples for treatment lookup, symptom lookup, gene-disease orientation, and article follow-up. The installed skills/ tree also includes worked examples you can read directly in the repo or in an agent directory:

  • Guide Workflows - variant pathogenicity, drug safety, and broad gene-disease investigation

Install into an agent directory

Install the embedded skills/ tree into your agent directory:

biomcp skill install ~/.claude

Force replacement of an existing install:

biomcp skill install ~/.claude --force

The dir argument can point at an agent root such as ~/.claude, an existing skills/ directory, or a skills/biomcp/ directory. When you omit dir, BioMCP attempts supported agent-directory detection in your home directory and the current working tree, then prompts before installing when stdin is a TTY.

Install payload

Current builds install the full embedded reference tree into <agent>/skills/biomcp/, including:

  • SKILL.md
  • use-cases/
  • jq-examples.md
  • examples/
  • schemas/