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Easel by vimalinx — Agent Skill

Name: Easel
Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Author: vimalinx

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easel

Top-level front end for the Easel utility collection shipped with HMMER. The binary advertises a dispatcher-style interface where easel -h shows overall help, easel <cmd> -h shows command help, and easel <cmd> ... runs a specific subcommand.

Quick Start

Command: easel <cmd> [args...]
Local executable: /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/easel
Observed upstream identity: easel: little utilities for biological sequence analysis

When To Use This Tool

Inspecting which Easel helper commands are available on the current machine
Launching a specific Easel subcommand through the umbrella easel executable
Working with HMMER-adjacent sequence/alignment helper utilities instead of calling lower-level binaries directly
Verifying whether the local Easel install is runnable before building downstream workflows around it

Common Patterns

# Show top-level help summary
easel -h

# Show version
easel --version

# Ask a specific Easel subcommand for help
easel <cmd> -h

Recommended Workflow

Start with easel -h to confirm the dispatcher runs and to enumerate available subcommands.
Drill into a concrete helper with easel <cmd> -h before wiring it into a pipeline.
Only rely on the umbrella entry point after confirming the current environment can satisfy its shared-library dependencies.
If the dispatcher is broken locally, fall back to inspecting the environment and HMMER/Easel installation before assuming the subcommands themselves are missing.

Guardrails

In this workspace, easel -h and easel --version both fail immediately with error while loading shared libraries: libopenblas.so.0, so runtime verification is currently blocked by a missing OpenBLAS library.
readelf -d shows the binary requires libgsl.so.25, libopenblas.so.0, and libmpi.so.40, with an rpath of $ORIGIN/../lib.
The binary strings still expose the expected interface: easel -h, easel --version, easel <cmd> -h, and easel <cmd> [<args>...].
Treat this skill as a dispatcher-level reference, not as proof that any specific Easel subcommand is usable in the current environment.

---name: easeldescription: Use when invoking the top-level `easel` dispatcher to discover or run Easel sequence-analysis subcommands from the HMMER toolchain.---# easelTop-level front end for the Easel utility collection shipped with HMMER. The binary advertises a dispatcher-style interface where `easel -h` shows overall help, `easel <cmd> -h` shows command help, and `easel <cmd> ...` runs a specific subcommand.## Quick Start- **Command:** `easel <cmd> [args...]`- **Local executable:** `/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/easel`- **Observed upstream identity:** `easel: little utilities for biological sequence analysis`## When To Use This Tool- Inspecting which Easel helper commands are available on the current machine- Launching a specific Easel subcommand through the umbrella `easel` executable- Working with HMMER-adjacent sequence/alignment helper utilities instead of calling lower-level binaries directly- Verifying whether the local Easel install is runnable before building downstream workflows around it## Common Patterns```bash# Show top-level help summaryeasel -h``````bash# Show versioneasel --version``````bash# Ask a specific Easel subcommand for helpeasel <cmd> -h```## Recommended Workflow1. Start with `easel -h` to confirm the dispatcher runs and to enumerate available subcommands.2. Drill into a concrete helper with `easel <cmd> -h` before wiring it into a pipeline.3. Only rely on the umbrella entry point after confirming the current environment can satisfy its shared-library dependencies.4. If the dispatcher is broken locally, fall back to inspecting the environment and HMMER/Easel installation before assuming the subcommands themselves are missing.## Guardrails- In this workspace, `easel -h` and `easel --version` both fail immediately with `error while loading shared libraries: libopenblas.so.0`, so runtime verification is currently blocked by a missing OpenBLAS library.- `readelf -d` shows the binary requires `libgsl.so.25`, `libopenblas.so.0`, and `libmpi.so.40`, with an rpath of `$ORIGIN/../lib`.- The binary strings still expose the expected interface: `easel -h`, `easel --version`, `easel <cmd> -h`, and `easel <cmd> [<args>...]`.- Treat this skill as a dispatcher-level reference, not as proof that any specific Easel subcommand is usable in the current environment.

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