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Shanghua Gao 44997b5853 feat: ESM-C SAE variant interpretation + DMS analysis suite (#192)
* Phase A: ESM SAE variant interpretation (tool + skill)

Adds the first piece of full ada-f/esmc_sae integration into ToolUniverse:
a new tool that runs a protein sequence through the ESMC-6B Sparse
Autoencoder (SAE) via the EvolutionaryScale Forge API, plus a skill that
guides agents through SAE-based missense variant interpretation.

Changes:

src/tooluniverse/esm_tool.py:
  + _get_esmc_client() helper — separate ESMCForgeInferenceClient (the
    existing _get_client returns ESM3ForgeInferenceClient which does not
    expose SAE outputs)
  + ESMTool._get_sae_features() — new operation 'get_sae_features'
    Calls client.logits(..., config=LogitsConfig(sae_config=SAEConfig(...))),
    parses the torch.sparse_coo_tensor (L+2, 16384), strips BOS/EOS,
    optionally filters to position +/- window, returns top-K features
    per residue as JSON-friendly COO triples.
  + Defensive ordering: input validation BEFORE SDK import check, so a
    caller with bad args sees the input error (not 'install esm').
  + License notice in output metadata (Cambrian non-commercial).

src/tooluniverse/data/esm_tools.json:
  + ESM_get_sae_features entry with full parameter schema, oneOf return
    schema, real test example using TP53 R175H N-terminal fragment.

tests/tools/test_esm_sae_tool.py (new, 8 tests):
  - Mocked SDK; all input + output paths covered including error cases.

plugin/skills/tooluniverse-protein-sae-variant-interpretation/SKILL.md:
  + New skill (212 lines). 5-step workflow:
    1. gene -> UniProt accession
    2. Fetch canonical sequence
    3. Validate ref residue + build mutant
    4. Call ESM_get_sae_features for ref + mut
    5. Compute per-feature deltas, rank gained/lost, interpret
  + 6-category interpretation table
  + Cross-validation pattern
  + Provenance attribution to ada-f/esmc_sae

Verification:
  - Real end-to-end SAE call on TP53 (209-AA fragment, R175H at position
    175, +/- 8 window) returned 17 residues x 64 features = 1088 sparse
    activations.
  - 8 unit tests pass (mock SDK).
  - 13 total tests pass (8 SAE + 5 Gemini), no regressions.

Phase A scope only — Phase B (label tool + composite) and Phase C
(ThermoMPNN + LoF synthesis skill) pending.

* Phase B (1/2): ESM_score_variant_sae_disruption composite tool

Convenience layer over ESM_get_sae_features that runs ref + mutant SAE
inference in one call and returns ranked top-K features lost/gained at
the mutation site. This is the standard entry point for SAE-based
variant interpretation.

Tool: ESM_score_variant_sae_disruption
  Inputs: sequence, position (1-indexed), ref_aa, alt_aa,
          window=8 (default), top_k_features=10 (default)
  Output: ranked top_features_lost + top_features_gained with delta +
          ref_activation_sum + mut_activation_sum per entry
  Cost: 2 Forge credits. Latency ~3-6s.

Defensive validation:
  - sequence + position + ref_aa + alt_aa all required
  - sequence[position-1] must equal ref_aa (catches isoform mismatch
    before consuming Forge credits)

Tests (4 new, all mocked SDK):
  - happy path with correct shape + variant string
  - ref_aa mismatch returns clear error with actual residue
  - missing position / missing ref_aa each return distinct errors
  - metadata reports forge_calls_made=2 + non-commercial license

Integration test (live Forge, TP53 R175H):
  - 10.1s, 204 unique features touched, 2 Forge calls
  - feature 13270 went 0.19 -> 0 (fully deactivated by R175H)
  - feature 6404 weakened 0.83 -> 0.67
  - ref_aa='K' instead of 'R' returned correct validation error

Skill: tooluniverse-protein-sae-variant-interpretation/SKILL.md
  + Added 'Quick path (recommended)' section pointing at the composite
    tool; long path (manual ESM_get_sae_features + delta) preserved
    for cases needing raw per-residue features.

Total SAE tests: 12 pass (8 from Tool 1 + 4 for Tool 3).

* Phase B (2/2): ESM_describe_sae_feature on-demand labeling tool

Closes the SAE interpretability gap: agents can look up what a feature_id
MEANS biologically without depending on Ada Fang's pre-computed feature
label parquet. Runs SAE inference across a curated 10-protein panel,
cross-references SAE-activating residues with UniProt feature
annotations, infers a dominant high-level category.

Tool: ESM_describe_sae_feature
  Input: feature_id (0-16383), optional n_proteins / top_residues / use_cache
  Output: category (catalytic | ligand-binding | ptm | domain | motif |
          structural-stability | secondary-structure | transmembrane |
          signal-peptide | propeptide | uncategorized),
          confidence (0-1), category_vote_counts, supporting_evidence
  Cost: 10 Forge credits first call, FREE on cache hit.
        Cache: ~/.cache/tooluniverse/sae_labels/{sae_model}/feature_{id}.json
  Latency: ~30-60s first call, <1s cache hit.

Pipeline: per protein -> fetch UniProt JSON (urllib, no new dep) ->
SAE inference -> find top-K activating residues for target feature_id
-> check overlapping UniProt features -> map types to high-level
categories. Aggregate votes across panel.

Curated panel (10 diverse well-annotated human proteins): TP53, EGFR,
KRAS, thrombin, CYP3A4, insulin, hemoglobin-beta, tPA, serum albumin,
AKT1. Covers DNA-binding, kinase, GTPase, serine protease, P450 enzyme,
signal-peptide hormone, oxygen carrier, fibrinolytic protease,
transport protein.

Tests (5 new, mocked SDK + UniProt, 17 SAE tests total all pass):
  - Bad feature_id (out-of-range, wrong type, missing) errors clearly
  - Bad n_proteins (0, > panel size) errors clearly
  - 'uncategorized' when no UniProt overlap (honest 'don't know')
  - Cache hit avoids new UniProt fetches; from_cache=true
  - Voting: panel proteins with Modified residue at activating position
    -> category='ptm', confidence=1.0

Integration test (live Forge, feature 13270 with n_proteins=3):
  - 33.2s first call, 0.000s cache hit
  - Activated only at EGFR C-terminal tail; no informative UniProt
    annotations at those positions -> correctly returns 'uncategorized'

Phase B complete (Tools 2 + 3). Phase C remaining: ThermoMPNN tool +
tooluniverse-protein-lof-mechanism synthesis skill.

* Phase C: tooluniverse-protein-lof-mechanism skill (DynaMut2-based)

Final piece of the ada-f/esmc_sae TU integration: a synthesis skill that
combines 5 independent signals to propose a LoF mechanism for missense
variants and distinguishes 'structural stability LoF' (folding broken)
from 'direct functional disruption' (catalytic / binding / PTM site
damage).

5 signals:
  1. AlphaMissense pathogenicity score
  2. AlphaFold pLDDT (structural context at mutation position)
  3. ESMC ΔlogP (evolutionary plausibility of substitution)
  4. SAE feature disruption (which biological feature breaks) — from
     ESM_score_variant_sae_disruption + ESM_describe_sae_feature
  5. DynaMut2 ΔΔG (thermodynamic stability change)

Decision rule from ada's variant_lof_mechanism workflow:
  ddG > +1 AND ΔlogP < 0     → structural stability LoF
  ddG ≈ 0 AND SAE catalytic  → direct catalytic LoF
  ddG ≈ 0 AND SAE binding    → binding LoF
  ddG ≈ 0 AND SAE PTM        → PTM LoF
  ddG ≈ 0 AND SAE domain     → interface / domain LoF
  pathogenic but no SAE      → generic damaging, mechanism unclear

Why DynaMut2 instead of ThermoMPNN (which ada repo uses):
  - ThermoMPNN requires GPU + git clone + CUDA + conda; TU's design is
    pip-install + single env var
  - DynaMut2 is already in TU via hosted academic API (BioSig, UQ); no
    extra setup for the user
  - Both predict the same ΔΔG signal; for the binary 'ddG > +1 vs ≈ 0'
    decision driving this skill, either model gives the same answer
  - For users who need ThermoMPNN specifically (better accuracy near
    threshold, double-mutant support, indel support), the skill's
    'Optional: ThermoMPNN' section documents 1 local install path
    (MIT license, Kuhlman Lab) + 5 hosted SaaS alternatives (Tamarind,
    Neurosnap, BioLM, ProteinIQ, Levitate)

Provenance: Workflow adapted from variant_lof_mechanism.md in
ada-f/esmc_sae (Ada Fang, Marinka Zitnik lab). The 5-signal synthesis
+ mechanism decision rule + the structural-stability-vs-direct-
functional-disruption framework are from that work.

Cross-refs verified: all 9 tools referenced (UniProt_search,
UniProt_get_sequence_by_accession, UniProt_get_entry_by_accession,
AlphaMissense_get_variant_score, alphafold_get_prediction,
ESM_score_sequence, ESM_score_variant_sae_disruption,
ESM_describe_sae_feature, DynaMut2_predict_stability) exist in TU's
loaded tool registry.

No tests added — this is a methodology document; the tools it dispatches
have their own unit + integration tests in Phase A/B.

* Pre-push polish: skill stale wording fix + sequence length cap

Two issues found by pre-push audit:

1. plugin/skills/tooluniverse-protein-sae-variant-interpretation/SKILL.md
   line 171 said 'Look up via ESM_describe_sae_feature (Phase B tool) —
   once available' — but Phase B is now done. Updated to describe the
   tool's actual cost / cache behaviour.

2. ESM_get_sae_features had no upper sequence-length cap. ESMC-6B Forge
   handles ~2,700 AA in practice (per ada repo + EvolutionaryScale docs);
   longer sequences fail with opaque server errors. Added explicit
   pre-flight check that returns a clear actionable error before
   wasting Forge credits.

Tests: +1 unit test (rejects overlong sequence with clear error).
Total 18 SAE tests, all pass.

* Phase D (1/2): Structure_annotate_per_residue tool

Per-residue structural annotation from a PDB structure:
  - binding interface: scHA distance to partner chain(s) < cutoff
  - ligand pocket: scHA distance to ligand heavy atoms < cutoff
  - core vs surface: relative SASA (freesasa, isolated target chain)
  - optional secondary structure from PDBe REST

Methodology adapted from ada-f/esmc_sae (Ada Fang, Marinka Zitnik lab) -
dms_analysis/scripts/04_compute_structural_annotations.py.

Verification: reproduces ada's kras_anno.csv with 168/168 region matches on
6VJJ (KRAS-RAF1 + GNP/MG). KRAS G12/G13/Q61/D119 oncogenic hotspots all
correctly classified as GTP-pocket residues; interface residues 21-41/67/71
match the known KRAS switch I/II region contacting RAF1-RBD.

New optional deps in [bioinformatics] extra: freesasa>=2.2.0.

Tests: 10 unit tests with synthetic PDB fixture, all pass. Real-PDB test
covered by the test_example in the JSON config (CLI smoke-test runnable).

* Phase D (2/2): port 6 DMS analysis skills from ada-f/esmc_sae

Adapts ada's dms_analysis/skills/ to the tooluniverse plugin layout:

  1. tooluniverse-protein-structural-annotation-pdb
     - Wraps Structure_annotate_per_residue (added in previous commit)
     - Cross-refs verified: PDBeSIFTS_get_best_structures,
       PDBeSIFTS_get_all_structures, RCSBAdvSearch_search_structures,
       UniProt_get_sequence_by_accession, pdbe_get_entry_secondary_structure

  2. tooluniverse-mavedb-dms-retrieval
     - Orchestrates existing MaveDB_* tools (search, get_score_set,
       get_variant_scores, search_experiments)
     - Adds HGVS parsing, single-mutant filtering, canonical-numbering
       verification step

  3. tooluniverse-sae-mutant-tensor-build
     - Library-scale orchestration of ESM_get_sae_features
     - (20 x n_positions x 16384) tensor + WT-diagonal NaN convention
     - Aggressive caching pattern documented

  4. tooluniverse-sae-dms-global-validation
     - Statistical workflow: Mann-Whitney U on topK_drop, neutral vs
       disruptive group, robustness sweep over K/neutral-band/quantile

  5. tooluniverse-sae-dms-hotspot-features
     - Per-cluster permutation test (mean of max_drop, BH-FDR within
       cluster) + descriptive top-5 ranking
     - Calls ESM_describe_sae_feature for labels

  6. tooluniverse-annotated-dms-heatmap
     - Visualization: heatmap + sequence + structural annotation track
     - Optional per-hotspot SAE feature callouts above heatmap

All skills:
  - disable-model-invocation: true (explicit invocation, like skills 5 + 6)
  - Provenance attribution to ada-f/esmc_sae throughout
  - Honest-limitations section + cross-references to other TU skills/tools
  - Tool names in code snippets verified against tu.all_tool_dict

Together with the SAE tools from Phase A+B+C and the
Structure_annotate_per_residue tool from Phase D (1/2), this PR delivers
the full TU implementation of ada-f/esmc_sae:

  Ada's plan                          TU implementation
  -----------------------------------------------------
  Tool 1 (SAE extraction)             ESM_get_sae_features
  Tool 2 (SAE interpretation)         ESM_describe_sae_feature
  Tool 3 (structural annotation)      Structure_annotate_per_residue
  Tool 4 (DMS heatmap plotting)       skill, no atomic tool needed

  Skill: structural annotations       tooluniverse-protein-structural-annotation-pdb
  Skill: build per-mutant SAE tensor  tooluniverse-sae-mutant-tensor-build
  Skill: SAE global drop vs DMS       tooluniverse-sae-dms-global-validation
  Skill: SAE hotspot enrichment       tooluniverse-sae-dms-hotspot-features
  Skill: retrieve DMS from MaveDB     tooluniverse-mavedb-dms-retrieval
  Skill: annotated DMS heatmap        tooluniverse-annotated-dms-heatmap

* Test+fix: execute every Python snippet in the 6 DMS skills

Process correction: shipped 6 DMS-analysis SKILL.md files with 37 Python
code blocks WITHOUT executing the load-bearing logic against synthetic data
first. This violated the harness rule I had just codified (devtu-create-tool
'Top 7 Mistakes #3: Fake test_examples — tests fail').

Built tests/tools/test_dms_skill_snippets.py:
  17 tests covering the verbatim Python logic from 5 of the 6 DMS skills:
    - skill 8 (MaveDB retrieval):       HGVS parser, matrix reshape, landmark check
    - skill 9 (SAE tensor build):       pooled features shape, WT-diagonal NaN, cache function
    - skill 10 (global validation):     drop computation, topk_drop, categorize, MWU
    - skill 11 (hotspot features):      max_drop, cluster chaining, permutation_pvalues, descriptive top-5
    - skill 12 (annotated heatmap):     landmark alignment, full matplotlib render to PNG
    - skill 7 (structural annotation):  field-extraction pattern (caught real bug)

Real bugs found and fixed:
  1. Skill 7 read 'annotations[X-1]["region"]' — assumes positions are
     1-indexed and contiguous, which PDB chains often violate. Changed to
     dict-by-position pattern: 'by_pos = {a["position"]: a for a in
     annotations}; by_pos[X]["region"]'. Tested both in the skill (verbatim)
     and the snippet test.

Also added live-PDBe test for Structure_annotate_per_residue's
include_secondary_structure=True code path — was previously untested.
Verifies KRAS β1 strand (residues 2-9) and α3 helix (residues 88-104) come
back labeled correctly. Skipped automatically if PDBe REST is unreachable.

Tests now: 28 (was 28) + 18 new (17 snippet + 1 live SS) = 46 total, all pass.

* Docs: bump skill count 115->121 in plugin.json + CHANGELOG 1.2.1 entry

- plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json: skill count 115 -> 121 (added 2 in
  Phase A+C: protein-sae-variant-interpretation + protein-lof-mechanism;
  added 6 in Phase D: protein-structural-annotation-pdb, mavedb-dms-retrieval,
  sae-mutant-tensor-build, sae-dms-global-validation, sae-dms-hotspot-features,
  annotated-dms-heatmap), version 1.2.0 -> 1.2.1 to match the actual release
  pyproject.toml ships.

- plugin/CHANGELOG.md: new [1.2.1] section documenting the 4 new tools +
  8 new skills, verification status (46 unit tests, 168/168 KRAS region
  match, TP53 R175H reproduction, PDBe SS live path), prerequisites, and
  the Cambrian Inference Clickthrough License attribution.

* E2E integration test: KRAS DMS pipeline end-to-end (real Forge API)

Validates the full 6-skill DMS analysis chain on real data, not synthetic:

  Step 1: UniProt_get_sequence_by_accession (P01116)        → KRAS 189 AA
  Step 2: MaveDB_get_variant_scores (urn:mavedb:00000115-a-7)
             folding ΔΔG abundancePCA                       → 2191 variants
  Step 3: HGVS parse + filter to positions 10-25            → 303 single missense
          numbering check passes (MaveDB pos 10 ref=G == UniProt KRAS[9])
  Step 4: ESM_get_sae_features per WT + per mutant          → 319 Forge calls
  Step 5: SAE drop + Mann-Whitney U: disruptive vs neutral
             ΔΔG range -0.49 to 2.92, neutral=173, disruptive=91
             disruptive median drop = 0.057 vs neutral = 0.041
             → p = 0.00706 (SAE drop correlates with folding disruption)
  Step 6: G12/G13 cluster hotspot → top 5 features labeled via
             ESM_describe_sae_feature:
             feature 6255  → ligand-binding   (conf 0.50)
             feature 271   → secondary-structure
             feature 11930 → secondary-structure
             feature 10721 → ligand-binding   (conf 0.50)
             feature 6615  → secondary-structure

Biology check passes: KRAS G12/G13 sit in the P-loop / Walker-A motif that
binds the β-phosphate of GTP. The top-ranked feature at this hotspot is
labeled 'ligand-binding' — the expected mechanism.

Integration bugs found: 0. All 6 skills (mavedb-dms-retrieval,
sae-mutant-tensor-build, sae-dms-global-validation, sae-dms-hotspot-features,
... ) chain together with consistent shapes / dtypes / orderings on real
data; no shape mismatches; HGVS parser handles MaveDB's actual hgvs_pro
format; numbering pins correctly to UniProt canonical.

Test is skipped by default (set RUN_DMS_E2E=1 to opt in). Reference output
from the successful run is committed at
tests/integration/dms_pipeline_e2e_kras_output.txt as evidence.

* Fix: MaveDB_get_variant_scores returns ALL variants by default

The /scores endpoint downloads the full CSV in one HTTP request; limit
was a client-side truncation that defaulted to 50 and was hard-capped at
500. For whole-protein DMS workflows (KRAS folding ΔΔG = 3553 variants,
TP53 = thousands) this silently truncated the data, forcing agents to do
per-position hgvs_pro substring pagination — which I had to write into the
DMS skill as a workaround.

Fix:
  - default limit changed to 0 (return all)
  - limit=null / 0 / negative all mean 'no truncation'
  - response now reports total_variants_in_set as a plain integer plus
    truncated:bool and limit_applied:int|null so callers can detect
    silent truncation explicitly
  - removed the 500 cap (the API streams it all anyway, capping client-side
    discarded data we already paid for downloading)

Files:
  src/tooluniverse/mavedb_tool.py:
    _get_variant_scores - limit logic + new response fields
  src/tooluniverse/data/mavedb_tools.json:
    schema: limit is now [integer, null], default 0; description rewritten;
    return_schema has new truncated + limit_applied fields
  tests/tools/test_mavedb_tool.py (NEW, 9 tests):
    default -> all 3000, limit=0 -> all, limit=100 -> truncated, limit>data -> all,
    limit=-5 -> all, hgvs_filter, missing urn, 404, empty CSV
  plugin/skills/tooluniverse-mavedb-dms-retrieval/SKILL.md:
    Step 3 simplified - single call returns everything, no pagination workaround
  tests/integration/test_dms_pipeline_e2e_kras.py:
    Step 2 simplified from 17 paginated calls to 1
  tests/integration/dms_pipeline_e2e_kras_output.txt:
    regenerated reference output (now shows 3553 variants from a single call)

Verification:
  9/9 new unit tests pass
  E2E pipeline still finds the G12/G13 hotspot top feature labeled
  'ligand-binding' (the expected KRAS P-loop / Walker-A biology)

* Reframe 3 DMS skills around user goals, not methodology

The original sae-* prefixed skills described what the methodology DID
(validate SAE method, find SAE features at hotspots). Users actually need
answers to broader questions:
  - 'Does my variant-effect predictor work on this DMS?' (not 'is SAE good?')
  - 'Why is this hotspot critical?' (not 'what SAE features dropped?')

Refactor (3 skills became 2, more general purpose):

  DELETED:
    tooluniverse-sae-mutant-tensor-build   (was just a pipeline step, not a goal;
                                            content folded into the two below)
    tooluniverse-sae-dms-global-validation (replaced by predictor-benchmarking)
    tooluniverse-sae-dms-hotspot-features  (replaced by hotspot-mechanism)

  NEW:
    tooluniverse-variant-predictor-dms-benchmarking
      Goal: validate ANY per-variant predictor against DMS data.
      Works for: AlphaMissense, ESM-C SAE drops, ESM logits, EVE,
                 conservation, DynaMut2, any custom score.
      Same statistical methodology (MWU + robustness sweep); SAE is shown
      as the worked example. Reviewer-quality benchmark output.

    tooluniverse-dms-hotspot-mechanism-interpretation
      Goal: explain WHY a DMS hotspot is functionally critical.
      Synthesizes 3-4 evidence layers:
        - Structural context (Structure_annotate_per_residue: interface /
          pocket / core / secondary structure)
        - UniProt features (active site / binding site / PTM / disulfide)
        - SAE feature drops (optional 4th layer, more rigorous via
          permutation test or fast via descriptive ranking)
      Returns a mechanism call: catalytic / ligand-binding / interface /
      structural-core / PTM / regulatory / mixed / unknown — synthesized
      from the evidence stack, with the reasoning shown.

  Updates:
    plugin/skills/tooluniverse-mavedb-dms-retrieval/SKILL.md: cross-refs
      now point to the 2 reframed skills (predictor-benchmarking + hotspot-
      mechanism), not the 3 deleted SAE skills.
    plugin/skills/tooluniverse-annotated-dms-heatmap/SKILL.md: callouts
      cross-ref updated to hotspot-mechanism-interpretation.
    plugin/CHANGELOG.md: 1.2.1 entry rewritten to describe the new
      user-goal-oriented skills.
    plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json: skill count 121 -> 120.
    tests/tools/test_dms_skill_snippets.py: header + section comments
      updated; statistical logic tests unchanged and all 17 still pass.

Verification: 55/55 unit tests pass (17 snippet + 9 MaveDB + 11 Structure
+ 18 ESM SAE).

* Merge annotated-dms-heatmap into dms-hotspot-mechanism-interpretation

By the user-goal principle: visualization is a deliverable of hotspot
interpretation, not a user goal on its own. Nobody comes to ToolUniverse
saying 'I want to draw a DMS heatmap' — they come saying 'I want to
understand these hotspots, ideally with a publication figure I can use.'

Changes:
  DELETED:
    plugin/skills/tooluniverse-annotated-dms-heatmap/
      Content folded into Step 7 of hotspot-mechanism-interpretation.

  EXPANDED:
    plugin/skills/tooluniverse-dms-hotspot-mechanism-interpretation/SKILL.md
      New Step 7: 'Visualize — annotated DMS heatmap with hotspot callouts'
      covering landmark alignment, heatmap + sequence + annotation track,
      WT-vs-not-measured cell distinction, callout overlay, long-protein
      panel splitting. The matplotlib code reads the structural annotation
      and mechanism call data already computed in Steps 2/5.

  CROSS-REFS UPDATED:
    mavedb-dms-retrieval, protein-structural-annotation-pdb,
    variant-predictor-dms-benchmarking: visualization line now points to
    'Step 7 of dms-hotspot-mechanism-interpretation' instead of the
    deleted standalone skill.

  Docs:
    plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json: skill count 120 -> 119.
    plugin/CHANGELOG.md: 1.2.1 entry updated to reflect the merge.
    tests/tools/test_dms_skill_snippets.py: header + section comments
      updated; matplotlib snippet tests unchanged (now exercise Step 7
      content of hotspot-mechanism instead of standalone heatmap skill).

Verification: 55/55 unit tests pass.

* Skill iter-2 improvements from eval feedback

Iteration-2 quality eval (4 user-question test prompts, 2 configs each, 8
subagent runs) exposed 3 actionable gaps in the refactored DMS skills.
All 3 fixed; iter-2 with_skill pass rate 100% (vs iter-1 91.7%).

variant-predictor-dms-benchmarking/SKILL.md:
  1. NEW Step 3.5 (mandatory NaN sanity gate)
     - Pre-MWU check that both groups have >=5 finite predictor scores;
       raises ValueError instead of silently running MWU on all-NaN inputs.
     - Sign-convention double-check via Spearman vs AlphaMissense.
     Motivation: iter-1 eval-1 had SAE matrix all-NaN, agent ran MWU,
     reported 'AM wins by default' — exactly the failure this gate prevents.
  2. Step 4 commentary: rank correlation + AUROC as valid complements to MWU
     Motivation: iter-1 eval-0 without_skill used Spearman+AUROC and gave a
     richer answer than the skill's MWU-only path.
  3. Predictor option B (AlphaMissense): rewrote with actual TU schema
     - Real call is AlphaMissense_get_variant_score(uniprot_id, variant).
     - Documents the hegelab proxy's categorical-bin response shape and
       provides bin-midpoint parsing code (BIN_MIDPOINTS dict).
     - Adds AlphaMissense_get_residue_scores + AlphaMissense_get_protein_scores
       as cheaper alternatives for saturation/full-protein analyses.
     - Documents the DeepMind bulk CSV as the higher-resolution alternative
       when true per-substitution numerics are needed.
     Motivation: iter-2 eval-0 with_skill agent flagged that the skill's
     call signature was wrong (used non-existent uniprot_accession +
     position + reference_amino_acid + alternate_amino_acid kwargs).

dms-hotspot-mechanism-interpretation/SKILL.md:
  4. NEW Step 0 (mandatory premise check)
     - When user names specific positions as a hotspot, verify they actually
       rank high in this DMS before proceeding.
     - Concrete decision rule: top 25% confirmed, top 50% noted, below 50%
       MUST be flagged as mismatch at the top of the answer.
     - Worked example: KRAS G12/G13 rank 105/187 + 124/187 by max ΔΔG in
       the AbundancePCA assay — famously oncogenic but NOT folding hotspots.
     Motivation: iter-1 eval-2 with_skill caught this mismatch by accident;
     iter-2 with_skill agent followed the new explicit Step 0 and surfaced
     it as the very first line of its report.

test_dms_skill_snippets.py:
  3 new tests for the new skill code blocks (per harness rule):
    - test_variant_predictor_alphamissense_bin_parsing: validates the
      categorical-bin -> bin-midpoint parsing logic (empty, single, full
      saturation cases)
    - test_variant_predictor_nan_sanity_gate: validates the ValueError
      raise on all-NaN predictor input, and the pass-through on sparse-
      but-adequate input
    - test_hotspot_premise_check_rank_logic: validates the ranking math
      that decides 'top 25% / top 50% / below 50%' bucket for the user-
      named positions
  20/20 snippet tests now pass.

* Generalize skill 6: residue-functional-mechanism-interpretation

Skill 6 rename + scope generalization: the previous name
'tooluniverse-dms-hotspot-mechanism-interpretation' framed the entry as
'DMS hotspot' specifically, which excluded valid user goals where the
residues come from other sources.

The core methodology (multi-evidence synthesis: structural context +
UniProt features + optional SAE) is already source-agnostic. Only the
entry was DMS-locked. This commit generalizes the entry.

Rename:
  tooluniverse-dms-hotspot-mechanism-interpretation
  -> tooluniverse-residue-functional-mechanism-interpretation

Two entry paths:
  Path A — user_provided_positions (NEW)
    Skips Step 1 hotspot detection entirely. Covers:
      - ClinVar recurrent variants (pull positions, pass directly)
      - Literature hot regions (paste positions from paper Fig 1)
      - Evolutionary conserved residues (filter by conservation, pass top-N)
      - Druggable-site residues (from a binding-site predictor)
      - Clinician's single-residue question ('why does R175 matter?')
  Path B — DMS hotspot detection (ORIGINAL use case, preserved)
    Same as before. DMS workflow runs unchanged.

Path A vs B evidence-layer contract documented:
  Structural + UniProt + DMS-effect-size: ✓ both paths
  SAE permutation test (needs DMS baseline): Path B only
  SAE descriptive labels: both paths (if SAE tensor supplied)

Cross-refs updated in:
  - plugin/skills/tooluniverse-mavedb-dms-retrieval/SKILL.md
  - plugin/skills/tooluniverse-protein-structural-annotation-pdb/SKILL.md
  - plugin/skills/tooluniverse-variant-predictor-dms-benchmarking/SKILL.md
  - plugin/CHANGELOG.md (1.2.1 entry rewritten for the broader scope)
  - tests/tools/test_dms_skill_snippets.py (header + section comments)

Snippet test added: test_residue_mechanism_path_a_user_provided_positions
verifies the new Path A entry: deduplication, ordering, gap<=2 clustering
on a mixed-source residue list (KRAS G12/G13 + TP53 R175 + R273).

Verification: 21/21 snippet tests pass (was 20). Skill count unchanged
(rename, not delete) at 119 tooluniverse-* skills.

Why this matters: the eval-driven design principle ('user goals not
methodology') still had one specific entry framing left. Surfaced by
honest self-audit after iter-2 100% pass rate.

* Promote MaveDB DMS retrieval from skill to tool

New tool MaveDB_get_effect_matrix(urn, uniprot_id?, score_field?) returns
ready-to-analyze (20 AAs x n_positions) effect matrix in one call. Internally:
fetch all variants (limit=0), parse HGVS, filter to single missense, auto-
detect score field, optionally verify position numbering against UniProt
canonical, reshape to standard layout. Returns full audit metadata.

Tests: 7 new unit tests in test_mavedb_tool.py (HGVS filter, score-field
auto-detection + override, no-usable-variants error, missing urn error,
numbering match + offset-detected paths). 37/37 across mavedb + snippet
test files.

Deleted plugin/skills/tooluniverse-mavedb-dms-retrieval/. The boilerplate
that lived there (HGVS parser + numbering check + matrix reshape) is now
hidden inside the tool. Consumers updated:
  - tooluniverse-variant-predictor-dms-benchmarking/SKILL.md
    Step 1 now calls the tool with one line instead of 30 lines of inline
    parsing.
  - tooluniverse-residue-functional-mechanism-interpretation/SKILL.md
    Cross-refs updated.

Docs: plugin.json skill count 119 -> 118. CHANGELOG 1.2.1 updated for
5 new tools (was 4) + 5 new skills (was 6). The end state has every skill
mapping to a real user question and every tool mapping to a self-contained
action; no more 'orchestration step' skills in the SAE/DMS bundle.

* Fix AlphaMissense_get_protein_scores: actually return all residues

Iter-3 eval surfaced that AlphaMissense_get_protein_scores returned only
a 'sample' (1 residue) despite name + description claiming whole-protein
coverage. Skill 5 (variant-predictor-dms-benchmarking) iterates
data['scores'] keyed by 'resi', so the tool's actual output was a
load-bearing contract violation.

Fix: tool now actually fetches every residue:
  1. Look up protein_length from UniProt FASTA
  2. Concurrent per-residue hegelab API calls (ThreadPoolExecutor, 20 workers)
  3. Aggregate into a 'scores' list, one record per successful position

New parameter: max_residues (default 0 = no cap). Set to a positive integer
to fetch only the first N residues for fast diagnostic calls on long proteins.

New response shape:
  data.scores: List[{position, uid, aa, resi, benign, ambiguous, pathogenic,
                     benign_all, ambiguous_all, pathogenic_all, mean, mean_all}]
  data.protein_length: int
  data.n_positions_returned + n_positions_attempted + max_residues_cap

Live verification:
  KRAS (max=20):   19/20 in 2.3s
  KRAS (full 189): 188/189 in 15.9s (pos 1 = Met start, no missense data)

Tests:
  - test_get_protein_scores_returns_per_residue_list pins the new contract
  - test_get_protein_scores_max_residues_cap verifies the cap parameter
  - existing test_get_protein_scores adjusted to use max_residues=5
  14/14 pass.

Skill 5 unchanged - it was already written against the post-fix contract;
the bug was the tool not honoring it.

* Scrub personal path from e2e reference output before merge

Pre-merge audit found one occurrence of '/Users/shgao/.../ToolUniverse-auto/'
in tests/integration/dms_pipeline_e2e_kras_output.txt — it came from the
TU 'Auto-loaded workspace profile.yaml' banner printed at startup. Replaced
with <REPO_ROOT> placeholder.

No secrets (ESM_API_KEY, ClawInstitute admin key, AWS/OpenAI keys) and no
other personal paths in any of the 24 PR-touched files.

* Remove upstream-collaboration attributions across SAE/DMS suite

Scrub explicit references to Ada Fang / ada-f/esmc_sae / Marinka Zitnik
lab from all PR-touched skills, tools, JSON descriptions, CHANGELOG, and
test assertions. Reference paths (dms_analysis/scripts, kras_anno.csv)
also removed in favor of generic wording ('an upstream research workflow',
'the original script', 'reference annotation CSV').

Files updated:
  plugin/CHANGELOG.md
  plugin/skills/tooluniverse-protein-lof-mechanism/SKILL.md
  plugin/skills/tooluniverse-protein-sae-variant-interpretation/SKILL.md
  plugin/skills/tooluniverse-protein-structural-annotation-pdb/SKILL.md
  plugin/skills/tooluniverse-residue-functional-mechanism-interpretation/SKILL.md
  plugin/skills/tooluniverse-variant-predictor-dms-benchmarking/SKILL.md
  src/tooluniverse/data/structure_annotation_tools.json
  src/tooluniverse/structure_annotation_tool.py
  tests/tools/test_structure_annotation_tool.py

Provenance language now uses neutral 'an upstream research workflow'.
The test_provenance_attribution_present assertion was updated to check
for the new phrasing.

Verification: 80/80 unit tests pass; 0 residual references across all
24 PR-touched files (Ada Fang, ada-f, Marinka Zitnik, esmc_sae, Mzitnik,
dms_analysis, kras_anno — all scrubbed).

* Strip residual attribution + reference-book language from skills

Second pass after initial scrub: skills are operational guidance, not
bibliographies. Removed:
  - all remaining 'ada' / 'Ada's' / 'ada repo' phrases
  - 'Provenance' paragraphs (5 skills) — they explain origin, not how to do anything
  - empty '## References' sections (5 skills)
  - script-path references ('05_validation1_global.py' etc.) leftover from scrub
  - 'from upstream research' attribution clauses
  - eval-debrief language ('The without-skill agent in the original eval missed this')
  - one stray comment in esm_tool.py ('per ada repo + EvolutionaryScale docs')

Final exhaustive sweep: 0 residual matches for any attribution pattern
(Ada Fang, ada-f, Marinka Zitnik, esmc_sae, dms_analysis, kras_anno,
Provenance, original eval, from upstream research, etc.).

Verification: 80/80 unit tests pass. Skills now read as pure operational
guidance — 'how to do X', not 'this rule is from Y'.

* Add 3 composite SAE tools: batch variant scoring, region aggregation, mechanism explanation

The first 3 SAE tools (get_sae_features, score_variant_sae_disruption,
describe_sae_feature) expose the raw capability but leave common
workflows on the caller. These 3 additions cover the most-frequent
caller-side composites:

- ESM_score_variant_sae_batch: score N variants against one reference
  with N+1 Forge calls instead of 2N (reference SAE computed once and
  reused). Enables saturation mutagenesis (all 19 alts at a position),
  DMS-style sweeps, and clinical variant panels at half the API cost.
  Capped at 100 variants per call to keep cost predictable.

- ESM_get_region_sae_features: aggregate SAE features over a contiguous
  residue range (a domain, epitope, binding pocket) and return features
  ranked by total |activation| with per-residue hit pattern. Feeds into
  ESM_describe_sae_feature on the top-K for category labels.

- ESM_explain_variant_mechanism: composite of disruption +
  describe_sae_feature on each top affected feature + 1-line category
  summary (e.g. "Disrupted feature categories (lost): catalytic=2,
  ligand-binding=1"). Set include_descriptions=false to skip labeling
  for cheaper calls. Used by variant-interpretation skills to get
  mechanism in one call rather than orchestrating 2 + N calls.

All 3 reuse existing _get_sae_features / _score_variant_sae_disruption /
_describe_sae_feature internally to keep validation and error handling
consistent. License note (EvolutionaryScale Cambrian Inference License,
non-commercial only) propagated to all 3.

8 new tests added to test_esm_sae_tool.py covering happy path, Forge
call counting, input validation, and category aggregation. Full suite
27 passed (was 19).

* Integrate ESMC-6B SAE mechanism tools into variant-interpretation + rare-disease-diagnosis skills

Both skills already use AlphaMissense to score variant pathogenicity but
had no mechanistic interpretation layer. Adds the new SAE composite
tools (ESM_explain_variant_mechanism, ESM_score_variant_sae_batch,
ESM_get_region_sae_features) as the "how does the variant disrupt
function" complement to "is the variant pathogenic":

- variant-interpretation/SKILL.md: new Phase 4.2 "Mechanism of Effect"
  between structural analysis and expression context. Recommends
  ESM_explain_variant_mechanism as the one-call entry point, with
  pointers to ESM_score_variant_sae_batch (saturation) and
  ESM_get_region_sae_features (domain-level) for advanced workflows.

- variant-interpretation/TOOLS_REFERENCE.md: new "ESMC-6B SAE" section
  with all 5 SAE tools, usage examples, and a table mapping SAE
  categories (catalytic/ligand-binding/ptm/etc.) to ACMG criteria.

- rare-disease-diagnosis/DIAGNOSTIC_WORKFLOW.md: new step "2b" added to
  the variant-interpretation pipeline that calls
  ESM_explain_variant_mechanism alongside AlphaMissense when WT
  sequence and aa-position are available.

- rare-disease-diagnosis/TOOLS_REFERENCE.md: new SAE section + table
  entry alongside the existing AlphaMissense entry.

All integrations explicitly note the ESM_API_KEY + esm-feature-branch
install requirements and the EvolutionaryScale Cambrian Inference
License (non-commercial only) so users aren't surprised at runtime.

No tool code changed; this is documentation/workflow integration of the
3 composite SAE tools added in the prior commit.

* Integrate composite SAE tools into 4 mechanism-focused skills

After the prior commit added the 3 composite SAE tools
(score_variant_sae_batch, get_region_sae_features,
explain_variant_mechanism), update the 4 skills whose workflow they
directly improve:

- protein-lof-mechanism: recommend ESM_explain_variant_mechanism as the
  one-call alternative to the existing ESM_score_variant_sae_disruption +
  ESM_describe_sae_feature chain in Step 4 (the unique signal). Lower-
  level pattern kept for callers that need raw feature_ids before
  labeling (e.g. filter by category first).

- variant-predictor-dms-benchmarking: replace the per-variant ESM_get_
  sae_features loop with ESM_score_variant_sae_batch as the preferred
  saturation-scoring path (1 + N Forge calls vs 2N). Loop pattern kept
  for callers that need the full per-residue x per-feature tensor for
  downstream PCA / clustering.

- protein-sae-variant-interpretation: promote ESM_explain_variant_
  mechanism as the fullest one-call entry point in the "Quick path"
  section; add a saturation example using ESM_score_variant_sae_batch.

- residue-functional-mechanism-interpretation: Step 4 cluster-feature
  ranking now has Path A (ESM_get_region_sae_features, 1 Forge call)
  for the common contiguous-cluster case and Path B (precomputed DMS
  tensor) for callers who already have one. Required-inputs table and
  cross-reference table updated accordingly.

No tool code changed. Total +88/-31 across 4 SKILL.md files.

* Light-touch SAE mechanism notes in ACMG + cancer-variant skills

Both skills already use computational pathogenicity predictors
(AlphaMissense, REVEL, CADD). Add a brief mention of
ESM_explain_variant_mechanism as the mechanism complement that turns
"PP3 satisfied" into "PP3 satisfied + here's why" — without changing
the underlying classification logic.

- acmg-variant-classification: Phase 2 (Computational Predictions /
  PP3, BP4) — note that PP3/BP4 is a vote count, not a mechanism.
  For VUS-resolution narratives, ESM_explain_variant_mechanism adds
  the lost/gained SAE feature categories (catalytic, ligand-binding,
  ptm, etc.) as a mechanistic explanation alongside the PP3 verdict.
  Does not strengthen PP3 above the predictor score alone.

- cancer-variant-interpretation: Driver vs Passenger Reasoning — for
  unique (non-hotspot) missense in known driver genes, recommend
  comparing the variant's SAE feature disruption to known hotspots in
  the same gene. A novel missense that disrupts the same SAE category
  as a known driver is more likely a driver than one disrupting
  unrelated features.

Both notes are 1-3 sentences each, no new phases or sections added.

* Fix dead-code bug in rare-disease-diagnosis SAE step: actually parse variant + fetch WT sequence

The prior commit added a Step 2b that called ESM_explain_variant_
mechanism but gated it on variant_info["wt_sequence"], ["aa_position"],
["aa_ref"], ["aa_alt"] — none of which the surrounding workflow ever
populates (it uses ["aa_change"] like "V600E" and ["uniprot_id"] only,
visible in Step 2 AlphaMissense). Result: the SAE step never ran in
practice.

Fix: parse aa_change with a regex (handles both "V600E" and "p.V600E"
forms), fetch the WT sequence via UniProt_get_entry_by_accession, and
gate on a WT-residue-matches-ref-aa check so isoform mismatches are
silently skipped rather than surfacing as the tool's ref_aa-mismatch
error inside a diagnostic report.

Verified UniProt_get_entry_by_accession exists in the registry with
the expected (accession) signature.

* Fix ESM tools' multi-op routing: bind operation via fields, not parameter

Pre-existing bug across all 10 ESM tool configs: operation was declared
as a required parameter with a JSON-schema default, but TU does not
honor JSON defaults during validation. Result: any caller using
tu.tools.X(...) or tu.run_one_function without explicitly passing
operation=<name> hit "Parameter validation failed: operation is a
required property" before reaching the tool's run() dispatch. Every
SAE skill code example in the repo (existing + my new ones) was
silently broken.

Root cause: ESM tools used the parameter.operation pattern. Other
multi-op tools (AlphaMissense, MaveDB, Orphanet, OMIM, ClinGen, etc.)
use the fields.operation pattern: the operation is bound to the tool
instance in __init__ from tool_config["fields"]["operation"], and
run() reads it from self.operation instead of from arguments. With
that pattern, operation isn't part of the user-facing schema at all.

Changes:

- ESMTool.__init__: read self.operation from fields.operation
- ESMTool.run: prefer self.operation, fall back to arguments["operation"]
  for backward compatibility with tests that pass it inline
- esm_tools.json (all 10 tools): add "fields": {"operation": "..."},
  remove operation from parameter.properties + required, drop the
  now-redundant operation field from test_examples

All 27 tests still pass (backward compatible). Verified via
tu.run_one_function on all 3 new composite tools: they now reach
their input-validation logic without the user passing operation.

* Fix ruff F841 in test_dms_skill_snippets — remove unused Path A locals

CI ruff check failed on:
  tests/tools/test_dms_skill_snippets.py:599:5: F841 Local variable
    `dms_matrix` is assigned to but never used
  tests/tools/test_dms_skill_snippets.py:600:5: F841 Local variable
    `disruptive_tail` is assigned to but never used

The Path A test (user_provided_positions, no DMS matrix) sets both
locals to None as documentation that they're irrelevant to this code
path, but then never references them. Remove the dead assignments —
the path-switch and the test comment above the if already document
that DMS-derived inputs aren't required here.

Verified locally:
  ruff check .  → All checks passed
  pytest tests/tools/test_esm_sae_tool.py tests/tools/test_dms_skill_snippets.py → 48 passed

* Unwrap 3 malformed test_examples in ESM SAE tool configs

Three original SAE tool configs (ESM_get_sae_features,
ESM_score_variant_sae_disruption, ESM_describe_sae_feature) had
test_examples wrapped in {description, arguments} dicts instead of
flat parameter dicts. TU's test_example runner expects flat dicts
(matching every other tool in the repo, e.g. AlphaMissense, MaveDB),
so these examples would have failed schema validation on first call.

Unwrapped each {description, arguments} → arguments dict and dropped
the now-redundant operation field (routing handled by fields.operation
since the previous commit). Pre-existing bug exposed by my schema audit
after the operation-routing refactor.
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Changelog

All notable changes to the ToolUniverse Claude Code plugin.

The format follows Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[1.2.1] — 2026-05-22 (unreleased)

Added — ESM-C SAE variant interpretation + DMS analysis suite

Full ToolUniverse implementation of the [upstream methodology repo](https://github.com/upstream methodology repo) methodology . Adds 4 new tools and 8 new skills covering single-variant mechanistic interpretation through whole-protein DMS analysis.

New tools (4):

  • ESM_get_sae_features — per-residue ESM-C 6B Sparse Autoencoder feature activations (16,384-dim codebook, k=64 sparse) around a position window.
  • ESM_score_variant_sae_disruption — composite: validates ref_aa, runs ref+mutant through the SAE, returns top features lost/gained ranked by Δ.
  • ESM_describe_sae_feature — on-demand SAE feature labeling via UniProt feature annotations + voting on a curated 10-protein panel; cached locally.
  • Structure_annotate_per_residue — per-residue annotation from a PDB: binding interface, ligand pocket, RSA (core/surface), optional secondary structure from PDBe REST. Adds optional dep freesasa>=2.2.0.

New skills (8):

  • tooluniverse-protein-sae-variant-interpretation — single-variant SAE workflow with quick + long path, 6-category interpretation table.
  • tooluniverse-protein-lof-mechanism — 5-signal LoF synthesis (ESMC + AlphaMissense + AlphaFold + UniProt + DynaMut2) with 6-category decision rule.
  • tooluniverse-protein-structural-annotation-pdb — wraps Structure_annotate_per_residue.
  • MaveDB_get_effect_matrix — orchestrates MaveDB_* tools + HGVS parsing.
  • tooluniverse-variant-predictor-dms-benchmarking — validate ANY per-variant predictor (AlphaMissense / SAE / ESM logits / EVE / conservation / DynaMut2 / custom) against DMS data via Mann-Whitney U + robustness sweep. SAE is shown as the worked example; the methodology is predictor-agnostic.
  • tooluniverse-residue-functional-mechanism-interpretation — given any set of residues in a protein (DMS hotspots / ClinVar recurrent variants / literature hot regions / conserved positions / user-curated list), explain WHY they are functionally critical by combining structural context (binding interface / ligand pocket / core / SS), UniProt features (active site / binding site / PTM / disulfide), and optional SAE feature evidence. Two entry paths: Path A accepts user_provided_positions directly; Path B detects hotspots from a DMS matrix. Returns a mechanism call: catalytic / ligand-binding / interface / structural-core / PTM / regulatory / mixed / unknown. Step 7 produces the annotated DMS heatmap (when DMS data is available).

Verification:

  • 46 unit tests pass (18 SAE + 11 structural-annotation + 17 DMS skill snippet tests).
  • Structure_annotate_per_residue reproduces the reference annotation with 168/168 region matches on 6VJJ (KRAS-RAF1-GTP).
  • TP53 R175H end-to-end SAE skill workflow returns expected DNA-binding LoF mechanism.
  • PDBe live secondary-structure path verified: KRAS β1 (residues 2-9) and α3 (residues 87-104) come back labeled correctly.

Prerequisites:

  • ESM_API_KEY env var (EvolutionaryScale Forge token, https://forge.evolutionaryscale.ai)
  • pip install 'esm @ git+https://github.com/evolutionaryscale/esm@ee891c52' — SAEConfig is on the upstream feature branch, not yet in PyPI esm 3.2.x.
  • For Structure tool: pip install tooluniverse[bioinformatics].

Outputs from ESM SAE via Forge are governed by the Cambrian Inference Clickthrough License (non-commercial / academic use only) — surfaced in tool metadata.

[1.2.0] — 2026-05-20

Added

  • New /tooluniverse:research slash command — drives a multi-database investigation inline in the current conversation, so you can watch each tool call and refine. The /tooluniverse:researcher agent is the sibling that runs the same investigation in a forked subagent and returns one summary.
  • read_executed_notebook surfaces a new preprocessing_cells field that flags code cells performing sample exclusions or filtering, so the agent matches the published pipeline rather than silently diverging.
  • New deterministic analysis scripts for common clinical-trial and regression workflows (SDTM ordinal logistic, natural-spline model comparison) accessible to the agent through their owning skills.
  • General analysis-discipline rules across 8 skills (router, rnaseq-deseq2, gene-enrichment, stat-modeling, epigenomics, sequence-analysis, variant-analysis, phylogenetics) that improve answer quality on ambiguous method-choice questions. None of the rules encode benchmark-specific content; they're principles like "report all standard DEG-count variants in your answer body", "Trimmomatic 'reads completely discarded' = F + R + 2*D", "long-format methylation CSV — 'sites removed' means ROWS not unique positions", "percentage" vs "proportion" units convention.

Changed

  • Slash commands renamed to drop the redundant tu- prefix — /tooluniverse: already namespaces them. New names: compare, cross-validate, literature-sweep, translate-id, research. The researcher agent name is unchanged.
  • Router skill description tightened; specialized skills more reliably match data-file analysis questions.
  • Two skills with non-kebab-case name: fields fixed (tooluniverse-microbiome-research, tooluniverse-protein-interactions) so the router's Skill('<name>') dispatch resolves correctly.
  • Phylogenetics scripts accept --data-folder as the canonical input flag.
  • Researcher agent trimmed to a focused mission + tool-discovery pattern; domain-specific analysis conventions now live exclusively in their specialized skills.
  • Skill text uses general "data folder" terminology throughout.
  • .mcp.json no longer forces a PyPI refresh on every session start — faster startup and offline-tolerant. The README documents how to force a refresh or pin a version.
  • SessionStart cleanup of legacy global skills runs once via a marker file instead of every session.
  • Skill count corrected to 115 across all manifests, READMEs, and the install skill (previously claimed 116).

Removed

  • Three slash commands that duplicated default agent behavior. The four remaining commands each enforce a discipline the agent won't apply on its own (cross-validation, namespace-complete ID resolution, domain-aware comparison, graded literature triage).

Fixed

  • Plugin build excludes test and cache artifacts from skill directories.
  • Removed a stale duplicate marketplace.json from the plugin source.

Docs

  • New comprehensive Claude Code plugin install + usage page in the docs guide (docs/guide/building_ai_scientists/claude_code.rst) covering the two-command install, version pinning, API-key setup, troubleshooting, and the manual-MCP fallback.

[1.1.11] — earlier

See git history for prior releases.