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Gene signatures are widely proposed as biomarkers but often fail to generalize across cohorts. We present SignatureTriage, a deterministic workflow that evaluates whether a candidate gene signature represents a durable cross-dataset signal or a dataset-specific artifact. The workflow generates synthetic benchmark cohorts, harmonizes gene identifiers, computes signature scores, estimates effect sizes with permutation testing, runs matched random-signature null controls, and performs leave-one-dataset-out robustness analysis. All random procedures use fixed seed for reproducibility. Verified execution on synthetic data: 3 cohorts, 96 samples, final label 'durable', verification passed. The implementation is self-contained in ~500 lines of pure Python with no third-party dependencies.

Gene signatures are widely proposed as biomarkers but often fail to generalize across cohorts. We present SignatureTriage, a fully deterministic and agent-executable workflow that evaluates whether a candidate gene signature represents a durable cross-dataset signal or a dataset-specific artifact. The workflow generates synthetic benchmark cohorts, harmonizes gene identifiers, computes per-sample signature scores, estimates effect sizes with permutation p-values, runs matched random-signature null controls (n=200), and performs leave-one-dataset-out robustness analysis. All random procedures use fixed seed (42). Verified execution: 3 synthetic cohorts, 96 samples, 603 null control rows, final label 'durable', verification status 'pass'. The skill outputs structured JSON with SHA256 checksums for reproducibility certificates. Complete self-contained implementation in ~500 lines of Python with no third-party dependencies beyond standard library.