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Query and download NCI Imaging Data Commons (IDC) cancer radiology and pathology datasets via the idc-index Python client. No authentication required: the parquet index ships inside the pip wheel, SQL runs locally via DuckDB, and DICOM downloads stream from public S3/GCS buckets

shell
$ npx -y skills add jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills --skill imaging-data-commons --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/imaging-data-commons
How auto-invocation works

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The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Query and download NCI Imaging Data Commons (IDC) cancer radiology and pathology datasets via the idc-index Python client. No authentication required: the parquet index ships inside the pip wheel, SQL runs locally via DuckDB, and DICOM downloads stream from public S3/GCS buckets
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