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bio-phylo-divergence-dating

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By lilinji/GeneTind-Life-Skills (GitHub) · data · 17 stars · scanned at commit 908229c

Estimate divergence times under molecular-clock models with BEAST2, MCMCTree/PAML, TreePL, and LSD2, framing a date as a product of the calibration prior and the clock model far more than of the sequence data. Covers why branch length = rate x time is nonidentifiable so only calibrations convert relative rate-time into absolute age; why the effective (marginal) prior on a calibrated node differs from the density specified, mandating a sample-from-prior run; the fossil-as-minimum rule, soft boun…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'bio-phylo-divergence-dating' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'bio-phylo-divergence-dating' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named bio-phylo-divergence-dating already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/lilinji/GeneTind-Life-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '908229c955510a1841b216e8bf58f6b22818d4dc' -- 'skills/bio-phylo-divergence-dating' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/bio-phylo-divergence-dating' ~/.agents/skills/'bio-phylo-divergence-dating' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'bio-phylo-divergence-dating' ~/.claude/skills/'bio-phylo-divergence-dating' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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