nifd-skill SKILL.md skillA
nifd-skill from cuhk-aim-group/neurodiscovery is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cuhk-aim-group/neurodiscovery/nifd-skill@git:20260825.f7533a2Pins git:20260825.f7533a2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cuhk-aim-group/neurodiscovery
- Path
skills/nifd-skill/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260825.f7533a2, committed Aug 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 6, 2026
- Size
- 9,351 bytes
- Repository stars
- 93
- License
- MIT
Use this skill whenever the user wants an end-to-end workflow for the Neuroimaging in Frontotemporal Dementia (NIFD) dataset, including BIDS validation, multimodal processing of sMRI, rs-fMRI, and dMRI, phenotype extraction, and QC integration. Triggers include: 'NIFD', 'frontotemporal dementia', 'FTD', 'bvFTD', 'PPA', 'process NIFD data', or any request to run the NIFD multimodal pipeline.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# NIFD Skill (Dataset-Orchestration Layer)
## Overview
`nifd-skill` is the NeuroClaw orchestration skill for the **Neuroimaging in Frontotemporal Dementia (NIFD)** dataset, collected at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center.
It strictly follows the NeuroClaw hierarchical design principles:
- This skill **only describes WHAT needs to be done** and **which tool skill to delegate to**.
- It contains **no implementation code or concrete commands**.
- All concrete execution is delegated to existing base/tool skills via `claw-shell`.
- Companion scripts in `scripts/` provide reference implementations for BIDS validation, phenotype extraction, and QC.
**Core workflow (never bypassed):**
1. Identify input NIFD data and target modalities.
2. Generate a **numbered execution plan** clearly stating WHAT needs to be done and which tool skill will handle each step.
3. Present the full plan, estimated runtime, resource requirements, and risks to the user and wait for explicit confirmation ("YES" / "execute" / "proceed").
4. On confirmation, delegate every step to the appropriate skill via `claw-shell`.
5. After execution, save all outputs in a clean directory structure (`nifd_output/`).
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cuhk-aim-group/neurodiscovery/nifd-skill@sha256:1bbab9e39764e36cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260825.f7533a2, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between May 6, 2026 and Aug 25, 2026, about one every 56 days.
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| git:20260825.f7533a2 latest | 2026-08-25 | f7533a2 | 9,351 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260506.86420c0 | 2026-05-06 | 86420c0 | 8,240 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260506.f8d0216 | 2026-05-06 | f8d0216 | 8,239 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9351 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
cuhk-aim-group/neurodiscovery · 93 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qumszoxwb7cchpd2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cuhk-aim-group/neurodiscovery/nifd-skill GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1bbab9e39764e36c153f58a29745199268e4a30f44522570b7a322c0aea10abe
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