Usage

Install and run Foundry skills with Claude Code, Codex, or Antigravity.

The Foundry casts each Mold into a self-contained skill, and assembles each Pipeline into a runnable harness. Both are committed under casts/ and surfaced as one shared Agent Skills bundle with thin Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity plugin metadata. Install once in your runtime; run a pipeline end-to-end or invoke any cast skill directly.

Pipelines
9
Shared skills
50
Casts
50

Install

/ one bundle, three runtimes

Claude Code. Add the marketplace and install the plugin:

/plugin marketplace add galaxyproject/foundry
/plugin install foundry-skills@galaxy-workflow-foundry

Skills are namespaced under the plugin. Invoke a cast skill in a session like:

/foundry-skills:summarize-nextflow

Codex. Add the same repository marketplace and install the same plugin:

codex plugin marketplace add galaxyproject/foundry
codex plugin add foundry-skills@galaxy-workflow-foundry

In Codex CLI or the IDE, run /skills or type $ to select a skill explicitly:

$summarize-nextflow

Codex may also select a skill implicitly when your task matches its description.

Antigravity. Install the plugin using the agy CLI:

git clone https://github.com/galaxyproject/foundry
agy plugin install foundry/casts/claude

In Antigravity CLI (agy) or the IDE, run /skills to list skills, or invoke directly with slash commands:

/summarize-nextflow

Antigravity also discovers workspace customizations automatically via .agents/skills.json or .agents/plugins.json when working inside the repository clone, or selects skills progressively based on task descriptions.

Or skip plugin installation and copy a single skill into the runtime's user skill directory:

git clone https://github.com/galaxyproject/foundry
cp -r foundry/casts/claude/skills/<name> ~/.claude/skills/<name>        # Claude Code
cp -r foundry/casts/claude/skills/<name> ~/.agents/skills/<name>        # Codex
cp -r foundry/casts/claude/skills/<name> ~/.gemini/config/skills/<name> # Antigravity

Update Claude Code with /plugin update foundry-skills@galaxy-workflow-foundry. Refresh the Codex marketplace with codex plugin marketplace upgrade galaxy-workflow-foundry. Update Antigravity by pulling latest and re-running agy plugin install foundry/casts/claude. Restart the runtime if updated skills do not appear.

Run a pipeline

/ how to run one end-to-end today

A Foundry pipeline is an ordered sequence of Molds that walks a source workflow to a target workflow. You run one today via its assembled pipeline-* harness skill — a stop-gap that invokes each phase's cast in order.

  1. Install the harness skills. They install like any Foundry cast skill through the Claude Code, Codex, or Antigravity plugin metadata around the same shared bundle. See Install.
  2. Make the runtime available. Pipelines call out to gxwf (schema/validation), Planemo (test execution), and the Foundry validators. Install these in the environment before a run that reaches the validate/test phases.
  3. Invoke the harness for the pipeline you want. Each run gets its own ./<run-slug>/ working directory, so artifacts stay namespaced and a second run won't clobber the first — the harness creates it before phase 1.
  4. Optional run flags. Pass --use-subagents to run each cast phase in its own subagent (one per loop iteration) so the orchestrator's context stays small, and --checkpoint to git init the run directory and commit after every phase — a per-step history for workflow-implementation visualizations. Both default off and compose.

Runnable harnesses

/ 9 runnable
  • Translate a CWL Workflow into a Galaxy gxformat2 workflow, then assemble and run a Galaxy workflow test.

    Claude:      /foundry-skills:pipeline-cwl-to-galaxy
    Codex:       $pipeline-cwl-to-galaxy
    Antigravity: /pipeline-cwl-to-galaxy

    12 phases · 11 auto · 1 manual · 1 loop

  • Apply the pinned IWC publication checklist to an existing Galaxy workflow, then validate and retest the matured result.

    Claude:      /foundry-skills:pipeline-galaxy-workflow-maturation
    Codex:       $pipeline-galaxy-workflow-maturation
    Antigravity: /pipeline-galaxy-workflow-maturation

    4 phases · 4 auto · 0 manual

  • Post-construction review journey: summarize, validate, and test an existing Galaxy workflow, then apply pinned IWC policy.

    Claude:      /foundry-skills:pipeline-galaxy-workflow-review
    Codex:       $pipeline-galaxy-workflow-review
    Antigravity: /pipeline-galaxy-workflow-review

    4 phases · 4 auto · 0 manual

  • Interview-driven path to a Galaxy gxformat2 workflow through the shared freeform-summary handoff.

    Claude:      /foundry-skills:pipeline-interview-to-galaxy
    Codex:       $pipeline-interview-to-galaxy
    Antigravity: /pipeline-interview-to-galaxy

    12 phases · 11 auto · 1 manual · 1 loop

  • Direct path from a Nextflow pipeline to a CWL Workflow + CommandLineTool set.

    Claude:      /foundry-skills:pipeline-nextflow-to-cwl
    Codex:       $pipeline-nextflow-to-cwl
    Antigravity: /pipeline-nextflow-to-cwl

    12 phases · 12 auto · 0 manual · 3 loops

  • Direct path from a Nextflow pipeline to a Galaxy gxformat2 workflow.

    Claude:      /foundry-skills:pipeline-nextflow-to-galaxy
    Codex:       $pipeline-nextflow-to-galaxy
    Antigravity: /pipeline-nextflow-to-galaxy

    13 phases · 12 auto · 1 manual · 1 loop

  • Direct path from a paper to a CWL Workflow + CommandLineTool set.

    Claude:      /foundry-skills:pipeline-paper-to-cwl
    Codex:       $pipeline-paper-to-cwl
    Antigravity: /pipeline-paper-to-cwl

    11 phases · 10 auto · 1 manual · 3 loops

  • Direct path from a paper to a Galaxy gxformat2 workflow. No CWL intermediate.

    Claude:      /foundry-skills:pipeline-paper-to-galaxy
    Codex:       $pipeline-paper-to-galaxy
    Antigravity: /pipeline-paper-to-galaxy

    12 phases · 11 auto · 1 manual · 1 loop

  • Interview-driven, edit-in-place modification of an existing Galaxy gxformat2 workflow via a reviewable change-set, reusing the per-step draft loop.

    Claude:      /foundry-skills:pipeline-update-interview-to-galaxy
    Codex:       $pipeline-update-interview-to-galaxy
    Antigravity: /pipeline-update-interview-to-galaxy

    9 phases · 9 auto · 0 manual · 1 loop

Shared Agent Skills

/ 50 casts