Scientific Agent Skills

🔔 Claude Scientific Skills is now Scientific Agent Skills. Same skills, broader compatibility — now works with any AI agent that supports the open Agent Skills standard, not just Claude.

New: K-Dense BYOK — A free, open-source AI co-scientist that runs on your desktop, powered by Scientific Agent Skills. Bring your own API keys, pick from 40+ models, and get a full research workspace with web search, file handling, 100+ scientific databases, and access to all 161 skills in this repo. Your data stays on your computer, and you can optionally scale to cloud compute via Modal for heavy workloads. Get started here.

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A comprehensive collection of 161 ready-to-use scientific and research skills (covering cancer genomics, individual-level 1000 Genomes queries, hosted regulatory-sequence prediction, live pathogen-variant surveillance, analytical method validation, PK/PD modelling and dose selection, full-text biomedical and regulatory literature retrieval, drug-target binding, bounded biomedical knowledge graph search, molecular dynamics, RNA velocity, geospatial science, time series forecasting, scientific ML resource discovery via Hugging Science, 78+ scientific databases, and more) for any AI agent that supports the open Agent Skills standard, created by K-Dense. The repository is also a portable Agent Plugins package (plugin.json + skills/), so plugin-capable clients can load the whole collection as one plugin. Works with Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Google Antigravity, and more. Transform your AI agent into a research assistant capable of executing complex multi-step scientific workflows across biology, chemistry, medicine, and beyond.

⭐ Help make AI for science easier to discover: If Scientific Agent Skills saves you time, teaches your agent a workflow, or helps your lab move faster, please star this repository. A star is a public signal that these open, reusable research skills are worth maintaining: it helps scientists, engineers, and open-source contributors find the project, shows which agent-skill standards are gaining real adoption, and gives us a clear reason to keep expanding the collection for the community.

These skills enable your AI agent to seamlessly work with specialized scientific libraries, databases, and tools across multiple scientific domains. While the agent can use any Python package or API on its own, these explicitly defined skills provide curated documentation and examples that make it significantly stronger and more reliable for the workflows below:

• 🧬 Bioinformatics & Genomics - Sequence analysis, single-cell RNA-seq, gene regulatory networks, variant annotation, phylogenetic analysis
• 🧪 Cheminformatics