scientific-agent-skills: teach your AI agent 177 lab and research workflows
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View profile on GitHub (opens in a new tab)Add ready-made science skills so your AI agent can run genomics, chemistry or data analysis tasks properly.
For researchers who already use an AI agent.
What it does
A skill is a small instruction pack an AI agent reads when a task calls for it. This collection holds 177 of them, made by K-Dense, covering biology, chemistry, medicine, physics, engineering, Earth science, data analysis and science writing. Each one explains how to use a specific package, database or workflow, including the field's conventions and the checks needed to trust the result. The creators say this makes the agent more reliable than when it guesses at a library on its own.
How to use it
Input → action → output: install the collection (or only the skills you want) into your agent, then ask for a research task in plain words. The agent loads the matching skill and writes and runs the analysis code, returning results, figures or a report in your project.
Common use cases
- Hand your agent a single-cell RNA-seq data file and ask for a standard analysis; it follows the matching skill and returns clustering results and plots.
- Ask for primer designs for a gene you name and get candidate primer sequences produced with the documented workflow.
- Give it a list of genetic variants and ask for annotations, then get a table describing each variant.
Can I use this?
Requirements Install with the npx skills installer or GitHub CLI's gh skill command, choosing your agent when prompted. The collection follows the open Agent Skills standard and is also packaged as one plugin. MIT licensed.
Caveat The skills were renamed from Claude Scientific Skills; older guides may use that name. A separate desktop app from the same team, k-dense-byok, uses these skills but needs your own API keys.
Worth knowing Skills are guidance for the agent, not a lab tool on their own; results depend on the agent and model you use. Hardware needs for heavy workloads are not documented.
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Quick questions
- What is scientific-agent-skills?
- A skill is a small instruction pack an AI agent reads when a task calls for it.
- What can I use scientific-agent-skills for?
- Hand your agent a single-cell RNA-seq data file and ask for a standard analysis; it follows the matching skill and returns clustering results and plots; Ask for primer designs for a gene you name and get candidate primer sequences produced with the documented workflow; Give it a list of genetic variants and ask for annotations, then get a table describing each variant
- Can I run scientific-agent-skills on my computer?
- Hardware needs for heavy workloads are not documented.
- What do I need to use scientific-agent-skills?
- An AI agent that supports the Agent Skills standard, such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Google Antigravity. The skills point the agent to specific scientific packages and databases.
- What license does scientific-agent-skills use?
- MIT licensed.
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