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by K-Dense-AI
scientific-agent-skills
Turn any AI agent into an AI Scientist. The #1 Agent Skills library for science, used by 250,000+ scientists worldwide. 177 ready-to-use validated skills plus 100+ scientific databases covering biology, chemistry, medicine, and drug discovery. Compatible with Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Antigravity, and the open Agent Skills standard.
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- 30 skills (30 skills found in its SKILL.md files)
- 4.9k forks (4,949 forks)
- 4d ago last update (Last updated 4d ago)
Install
Skills CLI
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
Asks which skills and agents to install. Just one: npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill 13c-metabolic-flux — add -g for every project.
Claude Code
git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skillscp -r "scientific-agent-skills/skills/13c-metabolic-flux" ~/.claude/skills/
Copies the 13c-metabolic-flux skill into ~/.claude/skills/ for every project (use .claude/skills/ for one project). Repeat for the other skills listed below.
Plugin
/plugin marketplace add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
Run inside Claude Code if the repository ships a plugin marketplace, then pick plugins from /plugin.
Skills can run code on your machine — read the SKILL.md first.
What it does
In the author's own words, from each skill's SKILL.md — showing the first 30 of 177 files.
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13c-metabolic-flux
Estimates intracellular metabolic fluxes from steady-state carbon-13 isotope-tracing measurements using validated atom maps, mfapy isotope simulation, constrained multistart fitting, and flux-profile diagnostics. Use for 13C-MFA, carbon tracing, mass isotopomer distributions (MDVs/MIDs), positional isotopomers, parallel tracer experiments, and determining whether labeling data constrain a pathway…
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adaptyv
Uses the Adaptyv Bio Foundry API and Python SDK to design protein characterization experiments, estimate costs, submit sequences, monitor laboratory progress, and retrieve results. Applies to Adaptyv Foundry, its target catalog, binding screening and affinity assays, thermostability, expression, fluorescence, epitope binning, and enzyme activity workflows, including code using adaptyv or FoundryC…
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aeon
This skill should be used for time series machine learning tasks including classification, regression, clustering, forecasting, anomaly detection, segmentation, and similarity search. Use when working with temporal data, sequential patterns, or time-indexed observations requiring specialized algorithms beyond standard ML approaches. Particularly suited for univariate and multivariate time series…
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alphagenome
Looks up precomputed AlphaGenome Atlas effects for any GRCh38 single-nucleotide variant (AVI score with Phred and 18 SHAP feature attributions, plus raw and quantile scores for RNA-seq, DNase, ATAC, ChIP-TF, ChIP-histone, CAGE, PRO-cap, splicing, polyadenylation and contact-map tracks), scores variants or scans windows on demand with the AlphaGenome model for human and mouse (variant scoring, in…
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analytical-method-validation
Plans, executes, and documents validation, verification, and transfer of analytical procedures under the governing framework - ICH Q2(R2) and Q14, USP <1220>/<1225>/<1226>, ICH M10 bioanalytical, CLSI EP, or ISO/IEC 17025. Use for HPLC, LC-MS/MS, GC, CE, ICP-MS, dissolution, qNMR, qPCR, NIR, and ligand binding or cell-based assays whenever the question is whether a procedure is fit for its intend…
skills/analytical-method-validation/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
anndata
Handles annotated matrices in single-cell analysis, .h5ad and Zarr files, and integration with the scverse ecosystem. This is the data format skill—for analysis workflows use scanpy; for probabilistic models use scvi-tools; for population-scale queries use cellxgene-census.
skills/anndata/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
arbor
Applies Arbor Hypothesis Tree Refinement to research artifacts with repeatable evaluators, including model training, agent harnesses, data synthesis and benchmark optimization. Uses persistent hypotheses, isolated experiments, evidence propagation and held-out candidate comparison for multi-experiment research runs. Includes a standard-library state manager and guidance for the RUC-NLPIR Arbor CL…
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arboreto
Infers candidate gene regulatory networks from bulk or single-cell expression data using AertsLab Arboreto GRNBoost2 and GENIE3. Use for transcription factor-target association ranking, compatible Dask execution, sparse expression inputs, and network stability checks.
skills/arboreto/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
astropy
Core Python library for astronomy and astrophysics workflows that need Astropy APIs, including units/quantities, coordinates, FITS I/O, tables, time systems, WCS, and cosmology. Use when implementing or debugging astronomical data analysis code with Astropy.
skills/astropy/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
autoskill
Analyzes user-requested Screenpipe history windows to detect repeated research workflows, match existing scientific skills, and stage new skill drafts or composition recipes for review. Requires a reachable Screenpipe HTTP API, normally on localhost:3030. Detection and embedding inference run locally; the selected LLM receives redacted app/title cluster summaries and matched skill descriptions. U…
skills/autoskill/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
benchling-integration
Benchling Python SDK and REST API integration for registry entities, inventory, ELN entries, workflows, Benchling Apps, and Data Warehouse queries. Use when automating lab data with benchling-sdk or the v2 API.
skills/benchling-integration/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
bgpt-paper-search
Searches BGPT scientific papers by topic or DOI and retrieves claim-level evidence extracted from full text, including experiments, reported statistics, scope, limitations, and provenance. Use for literature reviews, evidence synthesis, and finding experimental details beyond abstracts.
skills/bgpt-paper-search/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
bids
Organizes, queries, validates, and converts Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) datasets. Supports organizing neuroscience and biomedical data (MRI, EEG, MEG, iEEG, PET, microscopy, NIRS, motion capture, EMG, MR spectroscopy, behavioral), querying BIDS layouts, validating compliance, converting DICOM to BIDS, writing metadata sidecars, or creating BIDS derivatives.
skills/bids/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
biopython
Provides Biopython workflows for sequence manipulation, file parsing (FASTA/GenBank/PDB), phylogenetics, and programmatic NCBI/PubMed access (Bio.Entrez). Supports batch processing, custom molecular-biology pipelines, BLAST automation, structure analysis, and motif analysis.
skills/biopython/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
bioservices
Provides a Python interface to bioinformatics services including UniProt, KEGG, ChEMBL, Reactome, QuickGO, and UniChem. Used for cross-database protein annotation, pathway retrieval, chemical identifier mapping, and integrated biological data workflows with BioServices.
skills/bioservices/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
bulk-rnaseq
Prepares bulk RNA-seq FASTQ, Salmon, STAR or featureCounts output for gene-level differential expression. Covers nf-core/rnaseq and standalone quantification, biological replication, strandedness, reference provenance, validated count assembly and a PyDESeq2 handoff. Use for FASTQ-to-counts analysis, nf-core/rnaseq configuration, STAR/Salmon quantification, or building a counts matrix for DESeq2.…
skills/bulk-rnaseq/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
cantera
Runs Cantera homogeneous chemical reactors and evaluates ignition delay with mechanism provenance, conservation checks, and numerical refinement. Use for combustion kinetics, closed adiabatic ideal-gas constant-volume or constant-pressure ignition, temperature histories, or mechanism-specific ignition-delay comparisons.
skills/cantera/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
cellprofiler
Runs reproducible CellProfiler microscopy pipelines for nuclear segmentation, cell counts, and per-object fluorescence measurements. Supports image/channel manifests, headless batch execution, segmentation overlays, and measurement QC for 2D fluorescence assays.
skills/cellprofiler/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
cellxgene-census
Queries the CZ CELLxGENE Census programmatically for versioned public single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data. Use when you need population-scale cell metadata, gene expression slices, Census summary counts, source H5AD URIs/downloads, embeddings, spatial Census data, or reference atlas comparisons across organisms, tissues, diseases, assays, and cell types. For analyzing your own local sing…
skills/cellxgene-census/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
cirq
Google quantum computing framework. Use when targeting Google Quantum AI hardware, designing noise-aware circuits, or running quantum characterization experiments. Best for Google hardware, noise modeling, and low-level circuit design. For IBM hardware use qiskit; for quantum ML with autodiff use pennylane; for physics simulations use qutip.
skills/cirq/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
citation-management
Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing.
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clinical-decision-support
Prepares and validates research-only clinical decision-support evaluation, evidence-profile, cohort, survival, biomarker/model, privacy, and governance artifacts. Supports aggregate or synthetic research documentation and traceability, excluding patient care and live clinical operation.
skills/clinical-decision-support/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
clinical-reports
Creates safety-bounded draft structures and runs local deterministic checks for clinical case, diagnostic, trial, safety, and aggregate research reports. Use only with synthetic, de-identified, or aggregate inputs and verified source-fact manifests; every output requires qualified review.
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cobrapy
Performs constraint-based metabolic modeling with COBRApy, including FBA, pFBA, FVA, gene knockouts, flux sampling, growth media, production envelopes, gap filling, and SBML model validation for systems biology and metabolic engineering.
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consciousness-council
Structures a multi-perspective council exercise for decisions, research trade-offs, and creative challenges. Simulates thinking archetypes, separates evidence from assumptions and values, and synthesizes a conditional recommendation. Use when the user requests a council, panel, devil's advocate analysis, "mind council", or deliberate comparison of perspectives on a difficult choice.
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dask
Scales pandas, NumPy, and custom Python research workflows beyond memory or across clusters with Dask. Covers DataFrames, Arrays, Bags, Futures, chunking, schedulers, and distributed diagnostics. Use for partitioned file processing, scientific array computation, or parallel tasks whose memory and dependency structure require Dask.
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database-lookup
Queries documented public database APIs with explicit endpoints, filters, pagination, and provenance. Used when a scientific, regulatory, financial, or other database-backed fact must be retrieved reproducibly from a named source rather than inferred from general knowledge.
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datalad
Retrieves, versions, and publishes scientific datasets with DataLad and git-annex, and captures computational provenance with datalad run, rerun, and containers-run. Use when cloning or fetching data from OpenNeuro, DANDI, datasets.datalad.org, or any DataLad dataset; when a file in a dataset reads as a broken symlink or a small pointer instead of real data; when an analysis needs a machine-reada…
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datamol
Pythonic wrapper around RDKit with simplified interface and sensible defaults. Preferred for standard drug discovery including SMILES parsing, standardization, descriptors, fingerprints, clustering, 3D conformers, parallel processing. Returns native rdkit.Chem.Mol objects. For advanced control or custom parameters, use rdkit directly.
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deepchem
Builds molecular property prediction and MoleculeNet workflows with DeepChem, including SMILES featurization, scaffold or grouped holdouts, masked labels, graph models and explicit pretrained encoder transfer. Used for ADMET, toxicity, solubility and chemistry ML when DeepChem data/model contracts and scientific validation are needed.
skills/deepchem/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md
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Review before you install
A skill is a set of instructions and scripts your agent will follow, and it can run code on your machine. Read the SKILL.md and any scripts first — this listing is not a security review.