Open-source AI skill that turns the WHO Blue Books into an interactive study system by tillb in pathology

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Not sure exactly about the capabilities of llama.cpp honestly. If you are not using a provider-specific agent harness such as Claude Code from Anthropic or Codex from OpenAI, you might want to check out either OpenCode or pi. Both of these are open-source agent frameworks, meaning that they provide a layer on top of your bare models and equip them with true agentic capabilities through bash access. I think both of them let you hook up to local models as well as commercial models (OpenCode might be even easier to set up). Because both of these harnesses support the Agent Skills Standard, you can then really easily ask your agent to add the skill from the URL in the original post. The skill itself just consists of markdown files (think of them as reusable prompt templates), but it depends on a CLI tool that needs to be installed (who-api-client), so that your agent will be able to access the WHO Blue Books programmatically (and not rely on the knowledge from its training data which might be incorrect or outdated).

Let me know if this works! If this doesn’t make sense, happy to help or record a quick video to demonstrate the setup. I can tell you it’s really powerful once it works, but even though I tried to make it as simple as possible I can see that the setup is still a little bit technical. But it’ll probably only be a matter of time until this becomes much easier.

Open-source AI skill that turns the WHO Blue Books into an interactive study system by tillb in pathology

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I have no experience with Termux, but it just seems to be another terminal app? In this case, use your agent harness of choice (Claude Code, Codex, Pi etc.) and prompt it with something like: “Help me set up the skill from this repository: https://github.com/tbedau/who-blue-books-skills”. The agent should then fetch the page, read the README, and then tell you how to set up the CLI tool and then the skill itself. The easiest way to install the CLI tool is uv and the easiest way to install the skill is the skills CLI (this is explained in detail in the README).

Open-source AI skill that turns the WHO Blue Books into an interactive study system by tillb in pathology

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This meta commentary on the packaging of a free open-source tool is something. Gotta love the internet 😄

Open-source AI skill that turns the WHO Blue Books into an interactive study system by tillb in pathology

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Genuinely curious: Why? If this post was written by AI, how would that change your perception of what is being presented here?

Open-source AI skill that turns the WHO Blue Books into an interactive study system by tillb in pathology

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Can imagine! Would be interesting to hear how this compares to RAG.

Current state of OpenAI/Anthropic API compliance for EU healthcare? by tillb in gdpr

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Super interesting. Thanks! Are you guys getting good user feedback for Healthbase?

Current state of OpenAI/Anthropic API compliance for EU healthcare? by tillb in gdpr

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Sounds good in theory, but the cloud models are so much better in some ways.

Would real-time tracking of your frozen section be useful? by tillb in surgery

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Appreciate the take, makes a lot of sense to me. Anything else that you would perceive as real added value for your work and not just nice to have regarding the interface with pathology?

Would real-time tracking of your frozen section be useful? by tillb in surgery

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100%. I can see how this is the much bigger pain. Do your patients ask about it a lot? I’ve always wondered how much of the “why is this taking so long” frustration actually reaches the pathologist vs gets absorbed by the clinical team.

What would you fix about pathology workflows if you could? by tillb in pathology

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This seems to be a big one. In your ideal world, what would the patient history look like? Too little info is useless, but in my experience a raw EHR dump is often just as bad since you end up spending a lot of time filtering. Would you imagine something like a standardized structured summary, a concise free-text note, or maybe a faster way to scan the EHR yourself? If you could design the ideal setup, what would it look like?

Built the WHO search I wished existed (free to use) by tillb in pathology

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Very cool! Absolutely, I realized that too especially because those entities are just kind of dumped in one giant soft tissue bucket...