177 free AI agent skills for scientific research

Copy-paste-ready SKILL.md packs that teach Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and other agents to do real science — genomics, chemistry, quantum, imaging, literature review and more.

177skills

15research domains

MITlicensed

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Genomics & Sequencing

38 skills

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 silico mutagenesis, REF-versus-ALT track prediction), and builds Atlas website deep links. Use when the user mentions AlphaGenome, AlphaGenome Atlas, AVI or AlphaGenome Variant Impact, DeepMind variant effect prediction, or wants to prioritise or mechanistically interpret non-coding, regulatory, splicing, enhancer, promoter, or chromatin-accessibility effects of SNVs from a VCF, credible set, or region. Research use only; not a clinical tool."

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.

BSD-3-Clause license

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.

BSD-3-Clause license

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.

Biopython License Agreement

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.

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. For single-cell data use scanpy; for statistical fitting alone use pydeseq2.

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 single-cell data use scanpy, anndata, or scvi-tools.

deepspot-m

Generates transcriptome-wide virtual spatial transcriptomics from H&E histology with DeepSpot-M. Used for predicted log1p-CPM expression from 224x224 tiles at about 20x, querying the released protein-coding gene panel by symbol, and whole-slide prediction after resolution-aware tiling with histolab.

PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0

deeptools

NGS analysis toolkit. BAM to bigWig conversion, QC (correlation, PCA, fingerprints), heatmaps/profiles (TSS, peaks), for ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, ATAC-seq visualization.

depmap

Retrieves and analyzes Cancer Dependency Map (DepMap) release data, including CRISPR Chronos gene effects, cancer model annotations, omics biomarkers, and PRISM drug sensitivity. Supports cancer-selective dependency, co-essentiality, and candidate synthetic-lethality analyses with release-aware identifiers and statistical checks.

dnanexus-integration

Builds and operates reproducible genomics workloads on DNAnexus with the dx CLI, dxpy, apps/applets, native workflows, dxCompiler, and Nextflow. Supports DNAnexus data transfers, dxapp.json development, execution monitoring, workflow import, and project automation.

etetoolkit

Analyzes, manipulates, compares, annotates, and visualizes phylogenetic or other hierarchical trees with ETE 4. Supports Newick/Nexus tree I/O, topology edits and pattern matching, Robinson-Foulds comparisons, gene-tree evolutionary events and reconciliation, NCBI/GTDB taxonomy, SmartView exploration, and publication rendering. Applies to existing trees after alignment and phylogenetic inference, rather than inferring trees from raw sequences.

GPL-3.0-or-later

exploratory-data-analysis

"Performs bounded, local exploratory analysis of explicitly supported scientific files. Supports redacted CSV/TSV/JSON profiles; optional NumPy, HDF5, FASTA/FASTQ, and basic image metadata inspection; missingness/leakage audits; outlier and transformation sensitivity; and rigorous EDA report scaffolds. Other domain formats are reference-only and unknown formats fail closed."

folklore-variant-evidence

"Retrieves ClinGen gene-disease validity assertions for a public gene or disease, and reviews source-linked public evidence and literature for one supported GRCh38 germline nuclear SNV or simple indel through Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP. Used when a scientific agent must branch deterministically on resolved, ambiguous, not-found, invalid, unsupported, or unavailable variant outcomes; chain a resolved public variant into related literature or publication details; or preserve evidence provenance without accepting patient, phenotype, family, segregation, or private case data."

geniml

"Supports audited local Geniml genomic-interval workflows: validate BED and universe contracts, plan Region2Vec or scEmbed runs, inspect model/tokenizer compatibility, and assess consensus universes."

genomic-coordinates

Converts genomic intervals between coordinate conventions, normalises and compares variant representations, and detects assembly or contig-naming mismatches before they corrupt an analysis. Used whenever coordinates cross a format, tool, or assembly boundary - converting between BED, GFF/GTF, VCF, SAM/BAM, WIG, PSL, genePred, Picard interval_list, or region strings; reconciling 0-based half-open with 1-based inclusive; left-aligning or trimming indels; checking whether two variant records describe the same change; mapping genomic to transcript, CDS, or protein positions; auditing a BED/GTF/VCF for convention violations; or diagnosing GRCh37 vs hg19 vs GRCh38 vs T2T, chr-prefix, and liftover problems. Triggers include "off by one", "0-based", "1-based", "half-open", "coordinate system", "left-align", "normalize variant", "bcftools norm", "chr prefix", "wrong genome build", "liftover", "REF mismatch", and "HGVS".

genomic-intelligence

"Predicts regulatory features, gene structure, and expression directly from DNA sequence using Genomic Intelligence's hosted transformer DNA language models — no local GPU or model weights. Six tasks over a REST API and a hosted MCP server (keyless public demo): promoter regions, splice donor/acceptor sites, enhancer activity, chromatin state, sequence-to-expression (log TPM), and de-novo gene annotation, plus a composite find-genes-then-predict-expression workflow. Use when the user has a gene symbol, a genomic region, or a DNA/FASTA sequence and wants any of these predictions, mentions Genomic Intelligence, genomicintelligence.ai, api.genomicintelligence.ai, or mcp.genomicintelligence.ai."

gget

"Queries 20+ bioinformatics resources through CLI/Python. Supports quick lookups of gene info, BLAST/BLAT, viral sequence downloads, PDB/mmCIF structures, G2P residue annotations, enrichment analysis, OpenTargets, COSMIC, CELLxGENE, and 8cube mouse specificity/expression data. Best for interactive exploration and simple queries. For batch processing or advanced BLAST use biopython; for multi-database Python workflows use bioservices."

BSD-2-Clause license

gtars

Supports Gtars for local genomic interval models and set algebra, overlaps and counts, consensus and coverage, tokenization, fragment processing, and refget/BEDbase planning across Python, Rust, and the CLI.

hugging-science

Discovers and evaluates scientific datasets, models, methodology posts, and Spaces through the Hugging Science catalog. Used when selecting scientific ML resources in biology, chemistry, genomics, materials, climate, physics, astronomy, medicine, mathematics, protein design, single-cell analysis, or PDE modeling, and when checking their actual datasets, Transformers, native-runtime, Inference Providers, or Gradio interfaces.

latchbio-integration

Builds, registers, debugs, and operates bioinformatics workflows on Latch using the Python SDK, CLI, Latch Data and Registry, Nextflow, Snakemake, programmatic execution, and Latch MCP. Use when authoring or deploying Latch workflows, configuring resources or interfaces, moving data, integrating Registry, or launching and monitoring runs.

mageck

Analyzes pooled CRISPR screen FASTQ reads and guide-count matrices with MAGeCK, validates guide libraries and contrasts, measures replicate and library QC, and produces gene hit rankings with effect sizes and FDR. Use for new knockout, CRISPRi, or CRISPRa screen analysis, enrichment or depletion contrasts, and MAGeCK count/test workflows; existing public dependency-score lookup belongs to DepMap.

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pacsomatic

Prepares and launches nf-core/pacsomatic matched tumor-normal PacBio HiFi genomics workflows from unaligned BAM inputs. Supports samplesheet generation, pinned Nextflow launch artifacts, local checks, LSF/Slurm/PBS Pro/SGE launcher submission, and startup troubleshooting. Use for pacsomatic run preparation and execution, not general short-read somatic analysis or medical imaging PACS.

pathogen-variant-surveillance

Queries public GenSpectrum LAPIS data for pathogen genomic surveillance, current lineage nomenclature, weekly sequence proportions, reporting delays, and descriptive mutation frequencies. Use for variant surveillance, Pango lineage validation, dominant submitted lineages, Nextclade assignment provenance, SARS-CoV-2, influenza/H5N1 clades, RSV, mpox, measles, dengue, or LAPIS queries. Distinguishes sequence prevalence from infection prevalence, clades from genotypes, missing calls from reference matches, and sampling changes from biological growth advantage.

pathway-enrichment

Performs pathway and gene-set enrichment analysis on gene lists or ranked gene data and interprets the results. Used when the user has a set of genes (differentially expressed genes from PyDESeq2/Scanpy, CRISPR-screen hits, cluster marker genes, proteomics hits) and wants to know which biological pathways, GO terms, or gene sets are over-represented or enriched. Covers over-representation analysis (ORA / Enrichr / Fisher / hypergeometric), ranked Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA / preranked), single-sample scoring (ssGSEA/GSVA), and functional profiling via gseapy, g:Profiler, Enrichr libraries, MSigDB, GO, KEGG, Reactome, and WikiPathways — plus gene-ID mapping, choosing the right background universe, multiple-testing correction, redundancy reduction, dotplots/enrichment maps, and publication-ready tables. Use this for "pathway analysis", "enrichment analysis", "GO enrichment", "KEGG/Reactome pathways", "GSEA", "over-representation", "functional annotation", or "what pathways are my genes in".

phylogenetics

Builds and analyzes phylogenetic trees using MAFFT multiple sequence alignment, IQ-TREE maximum likelihood with ModelFinder and branch support, and FastTree approximate inference. Uses ETE3 for tree summaries and visualization. Applies to homologous nucleotide or protein sequences, microbial gene trees, protein families, and cautiously interpreted dated phylogenies.

polars-bio

Performs genomic interval overlap, nearest, merge, coverage, complement and subtraction on Polars DataFrames, and reads or writes BED, VCF, BCF, BAM, CRAM, GFF, GTF, FASTA and FASTQ data. Use for coordinate-aware genomic joins, read-depth analysis, lazy bioinformatics I/O, SQL queries or migration from bioframe.

primer-design

Designs and audits PCR and RT-qPCR primers with Primer3, explicit thermodynamic conditions, reference-based off-target amplification searches, and traceable sequence coordinates. Use for designing primer pairs, checking existing primers, exon-junction or isoform-specific assays, variant masking, cloning tails, multiplex compatibility, and interpreting Primer-BLAST results. Includes bounded local in-silico PCR and BLAST screening; distinguishes computational candidates from experimentally validated assays.

pydeseq2

Performs bulk RNA-seq differential expression analysis with PyDESeq2, including count validation, formula designs, explicit contrasts, Wald tests, FDR correction, coefficient-matched LFC shrinkage, and result visualization. Use for PyDESeq2 or Python DESeq2 workflows with biological replicates.

pysam

Provides Python/HTSlib workflows for genomic files. Used when reading, querying, filtering, or writing SAM/BAM/CRAM, VCF/BCF, FASTA/FASTQ, or tabix data with pysam, including pileup, coverage, indexing, and CRAM references.

qiime2-amplicon

Processes paired-end 16S amplicon reads into QIIME 2 ASVs and taxonomy with retained artifact provenance. Checks paired FASTQ manifests, primer orientation diagnostics, predicted post-trimming overlap, sample IDs, runtime versions and read retention, and guides selection of compatible taxonomic classifiers.

scanpy

Performs Scanpy single-cell RNA-seq QC, normalization, HVG selection, PCA/UMAP/t-SNE, clustering, exploratory marker ranking, pseudobulk preparation, visualization, and Seurat or SingleCellExperiment RDS conversion to h5ad. Applies to established exploratory scRNA-seq workflows with explicit count and expression provenance; complementary skills cover scvi-tools models and AnnData format details.

scikit-bio

Biological data toolkit. Sequence analysis, alignments, phylogenetic trees, diversity metrics (alpha/beta, UniFrac), ordination (PCoA), PERMANOVA, FASTA/Newick I/O, for microbiome analysis.

BSD-3-Clause license

scvelo

Performs RNA velocity analysis with scVelo from spliced and unspliced single-cell RNA counts. Fits deterministic or dynamical models, examines gene phase portraits, builds velocity graphs, estimates relative latent time, and ranks velocity-associated genes. Use for directional trajectory hypotheses and kinetic-model diagnostics alongside Scanpy; velocity alone does not establish cell fate or causal drivers.

scvi-tools

Fits probabilistic models for single-cell omics, including scVI batch integration, scANVI annotation, totalVI CITE-seq, MultiVI RNA/ATAC integration, and posterior differential expression. Use for generative modeling, reference mapping, multimodal analysis, or model-based uncertainty; use scanpy for standard preprocessing and exploratory analysis.

BSD-3-Clause license

tiledbvcf

Stores and retrieves genomic variant calls with TileDB-VCF. Use for indexed single-sample VCF/BCF ingestion, incremental cohorts, region and sample queries, streaming results, allele statistics, QC, and VCF/BCF export locally or through TileDB Cloud.

waypoint-bio

Supports work with Outpost Bio's open microbiome foundation models - the Waypoint checkpoints (Waypoint-6m, Waypoint-45m, Waypoint-170m), the Atlas pretraining corpus, the Compass eight-task benchmark, or the `waypoint` CLI from the `waypoint-bio` package. Covers embedding microbiome samples, fine-tuning on taxonomic abundance data, benchmarking a checkpoint on Compass, pretraining a GPT-2 model on taxonomic abundance profiles, and converting MetaPhlAn, Kraken2, QIIME 2, or MGnify abundance tables into waypoint format.

Chemistry & Drug Discovery

26 skills

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 flux. Distinguishes measured-label inference from COBRA flux balance analysis and flags experiments requiring nonstationary MFA.

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 intended purpose. Triggers include "method validation", "analytical method validation", "AMV", "validation protocol", "acceptance criteria", "linearity", "reportable range", "accuracy and precision", "repeatability", "intermediate precision", "recovery", "LOD", "LOQ", "detection limit", "quantitation limit", "specificity", "robustness", "method transfer", "method comparison", "Deming", "Passing-Bablok", "Bland-Altman", "equivalence testing", "OOS investigation", "ICH Q2", "Q2(R2)", "Q14", "USP 1225", "ICH M10", "incurred sample reanalysis", "ISR", "CLSI EP", and any request to show that an assay works.

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.

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.

GPL-2.0 license

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.

Apache-2.0 license

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.

diffdock

Predicts protein-small-molecule binding poses with DiffDock and DiffDock-L from PDB or sequence plus SMILES/SDF/MOL2. Covers batch docking, pose triage, confidence interpretation, and validation. Use for molecular docking and virtual-screening pose generation, not binding-affinity prediction.

glycoengineering

Analyzes and engineers protein glycosylation by scanning canonical N-glycosylation sequons, describing S/T-rich regions, checking curated glycan evidence, and preparing NetNGlyc, NetOGlyc and GlycoSHIELD workflows. Use for glycoprotein engineering, antibody Fc glycosylation, glycan shielding, and site-specific glycoproteomics interpretation.

marine-carbonate-chemistry

Solves seawater carbonate chemistry with PyCO2SYS for chemical oceanography, ocean acidification, and marine carbon-cycle research. Use for paired total alkalinity, dissolved inorganic carbon, pH, or seawater pCO2/fCO2 measurements; carbonate speciation; aragonite and calcite saturation; Revelle factors; lab-to-in-situ temperature and pressure corrections; and measurement uncertainty propagation. Applies to carbonate-system calculations, not general aqueous speciation or air-sea gas-flux estimation.

matchms

Processes, cleans, compares, and searches tandem mass spectra with matchms. Use for MS/MS file I/O, metadata harmonization, peak filtering, spectral similarity, library matching, score matrices, and molecular-similarity networks. Use pyopenms instead for LC-MS feature detection or proteomics pipelines.

medchem

Applies medicinal chemistry filters for compound triage, using drug-likeness rules (Lipinski, Veber, CNS), structural alert catalogs (PAINS, NIBR, ChEMBL), complexity metrics, and the medchem query language for library filtering.

Apache-2.0 license

molecular-dynamics

Runs and analyzes molecular dynamics simulations with OpenMM and MDAnalysis. Sets up protein/small molecule systems, defines force fields, runs energy minimization and production MD, and analyzes trajectories (RMSD, RMSF, contact maps, free energy surfaces). For structural biology, drug binding, and biophysics.

molfeat

Featurizes small molecules with Molfeat for QSAR/QSPR, chemical similarity, virtual screening, and molecular ML. Covers ECFP/MACCS fingerprints, RDKit descriptors, pharmacophores, pretrained embeddings, configuration persistence, and molecule-to-label alignment.

Apache-2.0 license

nmrglue

Processes calibrated one-dimensional complex NMR free-induction decays with nmrglue into phased spectra, peak candidates, and signed integration regions. Use for raw 1D NMR processing, ppm-axis verification, apodization, Fourier transformation, manual phasing, baseline correction, or reproducible spectral integration.

ontology-term-resolution

Resolves free-text scientific labels to ontology term IDs and validates existing CURIEs against the EBI Ontology Lookup Service (OLS4). Also looks up prefixes in Bioregistry, resolves compact identifiers via Identifiers.org, maps lab shorthand with ZOOMA, and builds Ontobee term pages. Use whenever an ontology identifier must be produced or checked - annotating tissue, cell type, disease, phenotype, assay, chemical, organism, sex, or developmental stage fields; preparing metadata for GEO, ENA, BioSamples, CELLxGENE, HCA, or ISA-Tab submission; auditing a metadata table of term IDs; checking whether a term is obsolete and what replaced it; or deciding HPO vs HP. Triggers include "ontology term", "ontology ID", "CURIE", "controlled vocabulary", "UBERON", "CL:", "MONDO", "HPO", "EFO", "ChEBI", "NCBITaxon", "GO term", "PATO", "Zooma", "Bioregistry", "Identifiers.org", "Ontobee", "annotate this tissue/cell type/disease", and any request to emit or verify an identifier shaped like PREFIX:0001234.

pennylane

Builds and differentiates PennyLane quantum circuits, hybrid PyTorch or JAX models, molecular VQE and QAOA workflows. Use for variational quantum algorithms, quantum machine learning, simulator validation, and moving validated circuits to provider plugins. For hardware-specific compilation use qiskit or cirq; for open-system dynamics use qutip.

Apache-2.0 license

pkpd-modeling

Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modelling and simulation - non-compartmental analysis, compartmental and population PK, PK/PD and exposure-response, TMDD, PBPK orientation, bioequivalence, allometric scaling and first-in-human dose, drug interaction prediction, and Bayesian therapeutic drug monitoring. Use when analysing concentration-time data, deriving exposure metrics, fitting PK or PD models, or evaluating dosing regimens. Triggers include "pharmacokinetics", "pharmacodynamics", "PK/PD", "NCA", "non-compartmental", "AUC", "Cmax", "lambda z", "half-life", "clearance", "volume of distribution", "compartmental model", "population PK", "popPK", "NONMEM", "nlmixr2", "Pharmpy", "Monolix", "exposure-response", "Emax", "EC50", "indirect response", "effect compartment", "TMDD", "PBPK", "bioequivalence", "RSABE", "ABEL", "allometric scaling", "first-in-human", "MABEL", "drug-drug interaction", "DDI", "ICH M12", "concentration-QTc", "therapeutic drug monitoring", "MIPD", and "dosing regimen".

primekg

Queries a pinned Precision Medicine Knowledge Graph (PrimeKG) CSV for typed gene, drug, disease, and phenotype nodes, direct associations, disease context, and one- or two-hop paths. Use for PrimeKG reproducibility, biological association lookup, and hypothesis generation with relation and data provenance preserved.

pycalphad

Computes finite-temperature CALPHAD equilibria, phase fractions, and phase compositions from thermodynamic TDB databases using pycalphad. Use for alloy phase stability, equilibrium temperature sweeps, tie lines, lever-rule checks, or reproducible phase-fraction calculations with explicit components and mole-fraction conditions.

pyopenms

Processes mass spectrometry data with pyOpenMS. Supports proteomics and metabolomics workflows—feature detection, peptide/protein identification, label-free quantification, adduct/accurate-mass annotation, and complex LC-MS/MS pipelines. Supports extensive file formats and algorithms. For simple spectral comparison and small-molecule library matching use matchms.

3 clause BSD license

pytdc

Provides Therapeutics Data Commons workflows through PyTDC for registry discovery, dataset access, task-aware splits, evaluator metrics, benchmark groups, and bounded molecular-oracle scoring. Use when working with TDC therapeutic ML datasets or benchmarks.

rdkit

Cheminformatics toolkit for fine-grained molecular control. SMILES/SDF parsing, descriptors (MW, LogP, TPSA), fingerprints, substructure search, 2D/3D generation, similarity, reactions. For standard workflows with simpler interface, use datamol (wrapper around RDKit). Use rdkit for advanced control, custom sanitization, specialized algorithms.

BSD-3-Clause license

rowan

Rowan is a cloud-native molecular modeling and medicinal-chemistry workflow platform with a Python API. Use for pKa and macropKa prediction, conformer and tautomer ensembles, docking and analogue docking, protein-ligand cofolding, MSA generation, molecular dynamics, permeability, descriptor workflows, and related small-molecule or protein modeling tasks. Ideal for programmatic batch screening, multi-step chemistry pipelines, and workflows that would otherwise require maintaining local HPC/GPU infrastructure.

Proprietary (API key required)

tamarind

Provides access to a collection of open-source molecular design and structural biology tools on the Tamarind Bio platform, via its REST API or MCP server — no local GPUs required. Tamarind bundles popular open-source models for structure prediction (AlphaFold, Boltz, Chai, ESMFold), protein, binder, and de novo design (RFdiffusion, ProteinMPNN, BoltzGen), antibody and nanobody design and developability, protein-ligand docking (DiffDock, Autodock Vina), binding-affinity prediction, MSA generation, and molecular dynamics. Use when the user mentions Tamarind or tamarind.bio, wants to run any of these open-source tools in the cloud, references app.tamarind.bio/api or the x-api-key header, or needs to submit batches of sequences for structural or biophysical characterization.

tellurium

Simulates biochemical kinetic models from SBML or Antimony with Tellurium and libRoadRunner, checks model units, compares deterministic parameter perturbations, and exports and replays SBML plus SED-ML COMBINE archives. Use for reaction-network time courses, kinetic parameters, concentration dynamics and reproducible simulation experiments; steady-state constraint-based metabolic flux analysis belongs to cobrapy.

torchdrug

Builds and troubleshoots TorchDrug 0.2.1 workflows for molecular graphs, property prediction, self-supervised pretraining, molecule generation, retrosynthesis, protein representation learning, and knowledge graph reasoning. Use when code imports torchdrug or needs its datasets, models, tasks, or Engine.

Apache-2.0 license

Imaging & Microscopy

20 skills

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 analysis with scikit-learn compatible APIs.

BSD-3-Clause license

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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.

generate-image

Generates or edits images with AI models through the OpenRouter Image API (Gemini, Seedream, Recraft, GPT-Image, Riverflow). Use for photos, illustrations, artwork, concept art, visual assets, logos, and image editing or compositing from reference images. For flowcharts, circuits, pathways, and other technical diagrams, use the scientific-schematics skill instead.

geomaster

Supports geospatial research workflows for remote sensing, vector and raster GIS, spatial statistics, terrain and network analysis, and machine learning for Earth observation. Use when processing satellite imagery, aligning coordinate systems and raster grids, accessing STAC catalogs, analyzing geospatial time series, or implementing scientific GIS workflows in Python, R, Julia, JavaScript, C++, Java, Go, or Rust.

histolab

Extracts and preprocesses whole-slide histology image tiles with Histolab. Use for WSI inspection, tissue masks, random/grid/score-based tile extraction, H&E stain normalization, and tile dataset preparation. For multiplexed imaging or deep learning inference pipelines, use pathml.

Apache-2.0 license

imaging-data-commons

Queries and downloads public cancer imaging data from NCI Imaging Data Commons. Supports IDC collection discovery, DICOM access, radiology (CT, MR, PET) and pathology AI datasets, metadata SQL, visualization, licensing, and citations. Uses public metadata and download routes without authentication; optional BigQuery and Google Healthcare routes require Google credentials.

This skill is provided under the MIT License. IDC data itself has individual licensing (mostly CC-BY, some CC-NC) that must be respected when using the data.

infographics

"Creates and reviews infographics with Nano Banana 2 via OpenRouter. Use for statistical summaries, timelines, comparisons, processes, and visual explanations with supplied data or optional Sonar research. Supports ten layouts, eight style presets, reference images, and accessible palette starting points."

lab-hardware-cad

Designs custom laboratory hardware as parametric build123d models and exports fabrication artifacts as STEP, STL, and DXF files - microfluidic chips and molds, optomechanical mounts and breadboard adapters, cuvette and microplate holders, tube racks, animal-behavior rigs, and 3D-printed instrument fixtures. Use when a research task needs a physical part that must mate with standardized labware, an optical table, a cage system, or a printer, CNC, or laser process.

liteparse

Local document and PDF parsing that returns spatial text with bounding boxes. Use for extracting text from PDFs, DOCX, Office files, and images; running OCR on scans; producing layout-preserved JSON for RAG; batch-ingesting folders of papers; or rendering pages to PNG for multimodal agents. Distinguishing capabilities are spatial text boxes, Markdown, page raster output, and local parsing with optional custom HTTP OCR.

neuropixels-analysis

Analyzes Neuropixels extracellular recordings end-to-end with SpikeInterface. Covers loading SpikeGLX/Open Ephys/NWB data, preprocessing, drift/motion correction, Kilosort4 (and CPU) spike sorting, quality metrics, and unit curation (threshold-based, model-based UnitRefine, and AI-assisted visual review). Use when working with Neuropixels 1.0/2.0 recordings, spike sorting, or extracellular electrophysiology analysis.

nwb-conversion

Converts neuroscience acquisition data to Neurodata Without Borders files with NeuroConv and PyNWB, preserves metadata and timebases, checks evidence-based clock alignment, and produces schema validation, NWB Inspector findings and round-trip checks. Use for NWB conversion and synchronization of planar single-channel two-photon TIFF imaging plus timestamped behavioral position CSV; this skill does not perform spike sorting or claim tested support for arbitrary acquisition formats.

omero-integration

Inspects and automates microscopy data workflows against OMERO.server with omero-py, BlitzGateway, OMERO CLI, tables, annotations, ROIs, rendering, and documented OMERO.web APIs. Use this skill for scoped OMERO inventory, metadata export, import/export planning, or reviewed write workflows.

openpiv

Performs Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) analysis with OpenPIV. Use when extracting velocity fields from PIV image pairs, analyzing fluid dynamics or flow visualization experiments, cross-correlating interrogation windows, validating and replacing spurious PIV vectors, or computing vorticity, strain rate, and turbulence statistics from measured velocity fields.

optimize-for-gpu

GPU-accelerates scientific Python on NVIDIA hardware and verifies that the result is correct and faster. Use for CUDA/GPU optimization; CPU-bound NumPy, SciPy, pandas, scikit-learn, NetworkX, scikit-image, vector-search, image-processing, graph, simulation, or file-I/O workloads; CuPy, cuDF, cuML, cuGraph, cuVS, cuCIM, KvikIO, Warp, Newton, Numba-CUDA, or RAFT questions; and profiling, memory-transfer, kernel, or multi-GPU bottlenecks. Also use when large data-parallel Python code is slow and GPU acceleration is a plausible option, even if the user does not name CUDA.

pathml

"Supports local computational pathology research with PathML: slide loading and tiling, preprocessing and QC, h5path storage, multiplex quantification, spatial graphs, and bounded model inference. Use for whole-slide H&E, CODEX, Vectra, Mesmer, HoVer-Net, and HACTNet workflows."

pydicom

Reads, inspects, writes, transforms, and preflights local DICOM datasets and pixel data. Applies to DICOM metadata, transfer syntaxes, compression plugins, frames, private elements, JSON, and bounded de-identification review.

pyhealth

Builds and validates PyHealth clinical machine-learning pipelines for EHR, signals, imaging, and medical codes. Use for PyHealth dataset loading, MIMIC-III/IV, eICU or OMOP prediction tasks, patient-level evaluation, mortality/readmission/length-of-stay modeling, medication recommendation, sleep staging, Trainer checkpoints, and ICD/ATC/NDC/RxNorm mapping.

relion

Validates and executes RELION single-particle cryo-EM refinement and half-map postprocessing. Supports STAR optics/acquisition checks, particle-stack consistency, gold-standard half sets, soft-mask validation, diagnostic Fourier shell correlation, and restart guidance.

scientific-visualization

Creates and audits truthful, accessible, publication-ready scientific figures with Matplotlib, Seaborn, or Plotly. Use it for figure design, multi-panel layouts, uncertainty and missing-data displays, color/contrast review, image metadata validation, and journal export planning.

Quantum Computing

3 skills

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.

Apache-2.0 license

qiskit

Builds, simulates, transpiles, and executes quantum circuits with Qiskit and IBM Quantum Runtime. Use for Qiskit 2.x circuits and operators, V2 Sampler or Estimator primitives, target-aware transpilation, local or noisy simulation, IBM QPU execution, Runtime sessions or batches, error mitigation, and Qiskit ecosystem packages.

qutip

Simulate and audit closed and open quantum-system models with QuTiP 5, including deterministic, trajectory, steady-state, spectral, and phase-space workflows. Use for local quantum-dynamics work where physical assumptions, dimensions, and numerical convergence must be explicit.

Statistics & Methods

12 skills

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.

experimental-design

Designs experiments and studies BEFORE data is collected — choosing a design, randomizing, blocking, and laying out treatment combinations so results are interpretable. Use whenever someone is planning a study, asks how to assign subjects/samples to groups, mentions randomization, blocking, stratification, controls, factorial or fractional-factorial designs, design of experiments (DOE), screening many factors, response-surface optimization, crossover or repeated-measures or split-plot designs, cluster/group randomization, Latin squares, plate layouts, batch/run-order effects, replication vs. pseudoreplication, or sequential/adaptive/group-sequential designs. Trigger even for informal phrasings like "how should I set up this experiment", "how do I avoid confounding", "what's the best way to test these 6 factors", or "assign these mice to conditions". For computing the sample size or power once the design is chosen, use statistical-power; for analyzing data already collected, use statistical-analysis.

matplotlib

Creates and customizes scientific plots with Matplotlib. Used for fine-grained control over plot elements, novel plot types, and scientific workflows. Export to PNG/PDF/SVG for publication. For quick statistical plots use seaborn; for interactive plots use plotly; for publication-ready multi-panel figures with journal styling, use scientific-visualization.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/tree/main/LICENSE

peer-review

Prepares evidence-bounded, constructive peer-review drafts and structured manuscript assessments. Supports authorized review of scientific manuscripts, protocols, preprints, or research proposals; reporting-guideline selection; claim–evidence checks; methods, statistics, reproducibility, ethics, figure/table, and citation critique; or revision-response planning.

scientific-critical-thinking

Evaluates scientific claims and evidence quality. Applies to experimental design validity, biases and confounders, statistical interpretation, evidence grading frameworks (GRADE, Cochrane Risk of Bias), and teaching critical analysis. Supports evidence appraisal and identifying flaws; formal peer review writing belongs to peer-review.

scikit-learn

Supports machine learning in Python with scikit-learn. Applies when working with supervised learning (classification, regression), unsupervised learning (clustering, dimensionality reduction), model evaluation, hyperparameter tuning, preprocessing, or building ML pipelines. Provides comprehensive reference documentation for algorithms, preprocessing techniques, pipelines, and best practices.

BSD-3-Clause license

seaborn

Creates Seaborn statistical visualizations with pandas integration for distributions, relationships, categorical comparisons, regression displays, pair plots, and heatmaps. Supports function and objects interfaces with explicit aggregation, uncertainty, and missing-data handling. Best suited to static exploratory plots; plotly covers interactive figures and scientific-visualization covers publication styling.

BSD-3-Clause license

statistical-analysis

Guided statistical analysis for research data - test selection, assumption checking, effect sizes, power analysis, Bayesian alternatives, and APA-formatted reporting. Use whenever a user wants to compare groups, test a hypothesis, analyze experimental or survey data, check statistical assumptions, compute required sample sizes, or write up results - even if they never name a specific test. Covers t-tests, ANOVA, chi-square, correlation, regression, non-parametric and Bayesian methods. For low-level model APIs, see the statsmodels and pymc skills.

statistical-power

Calculates sample sizes and statistical power for study planning. Applies when someone asks "how many subjects/samples/replicates do I need", wants an a priori power analysis, a minimum detectable effect (MDE), a power curve, or needs to justify a sample size for a grant, IRB protocol, or pre-registration. Covers closed-form power for t-tests, ANOVA, proportions, correlations, chi-square, and regression, plus simulation-based (Monte Carlo) power for complex designs — logistic/Poisson regression, mixed models, cluster-randomized trials, survival, and interactions. Also handles requests that only mention an effect size, alpha, or "80% power" without saying "power analysis" explicitly. For laying out the study (randomization, blocking, factorial/DOE, crossover, sequential designs) use experimental-design; for analyzing data already collected and reporting it use statistical-analysis.

statsmodels

Fits and diagnoses Python statistical models including OLS, GLM, discrete and mixed models, ARIMA and SARIMAX. Supports coefficient inference, marginal effects, model comparison and time series forecasting with explicit design and uncertainty checks. Used for econometrics and statistical modeling; for guided test selection with APA reporting, see statistical-analysis.

BSD-3-Clause license

usfiscaldata

Queries the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data REST API for federal financial data. No API key required. Use for national debt (Debt to the Penny), Daily Treasury Statements, Monthly Treasury Statements, Treasury securities auctions, interest rates, foreign exchange rates, savings bonds, or U.S. government revenue and spending statistics.

vaex

Processes large tabular scientific datasets with Vaex expressions, filtered views, streamed statistics, binned visualizations, and file conversion. Use for larger-than-RAM HDF5, Arrow, CSV, or Parquet analysis, virtual feature engineering, or Vaex ML preprocessing; distinguishes these operations from estimators and conversions that materialize data.

Machine Learning & Data Science

19 skills

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.

BSD-3-Clause license

market-research-reports

Builds evidence-traceable market research reports and assumption-driven market sizing or forecast scenarios. Use for market definition, industry and customer evidence, competitive landscapes, TAM/SAM/SOM reconciliation, forecast sensitivity, and auditable report scaffolds.

networkx

Creates, analyzes, and visualizes complex networks and graphs in Python with NetworkX. Use when working with network/graph data structures, computing graph algorithms (shortest paths, centrality, clustering), detecting communities, generating synthetic networks (random, scale-free, small-world), reading/writing graph file formats, or drawing network topologies. Common applications include social, biological, transportation, and citation networks.

3-clause BSD license

neurokit2

Builds and audits reproducible NeuroKit2 research workflows for physiological time-series preprocessing, event/interval analysis, multimodal alignment, variability, and complexity. Use when code imports neurokit2 or needs its current APIs, schemas, and method-aware validation—not for diagnosis or device validation.

polars

High-performance DataFrame library for Python ETL, analytics, and pandas migration. It supports expression-based data manipulation with lazy query optimization, parallel execution, streaming out-of-core processing, Arrow interoperability, and optional GPU execution.

https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/blob/main/LICENSE

pymc

Builds and checks Bayesian models with PyMC, including hierarchical models, NUTS MCMC, variational inference, mutable-data predictions, posterior predictive checks, diagnostics, and PSIS-LOO model comparison. Use for probabilistic modeling and uncertainty inference in PyMC.

Apache License, Version 2.0

pymoo

Solves and validates single-, multi-, and many-objective optimization with pymoo, including NSGA-II, NSGA-III, MOEA/D, constraints, Pareto approximations, reference directions, and ZDT/DTLZ benchmarks for engineering and research problems.

Apache-2.0 license

pytorch-lightning

Deep learning framework (PyTorch Lightning / lightning package). Organize PyTorch code into LightningModules, configure Trainers for multi-GPU/TPU, implement data pipelines, callbacks, logging (W&B, TensorBoard, MLflow), distributed training (DDP, FSDP, DeepSpeed), for scalable neural network training.

Apache-2.0 license

relsa-severity-assessment

Supports multivariate severity assessment and exploratory endpoint-time score forecasting for laboratory animal studies using the RELSA (RELative Severity Assessment) score and ARIMA-based foRcast forecasting. Use when combining welfare readouts — body weight or weight loss, body temperature, clinical or nesting scores, biomarkers, activity, heart rate, burrowing, wheel running — into one severity score per animal per day, when asking which animals are at risk of reaching a humane endpoint at a specified future observation time, when defining attention/danger zones or thresholds on a severity scale by kernel density estimation, or when reporting severity for a 3Rs, refinement, animal-welfare, or EU Directive 2010/63/EU severity-assessment context. Covers directionality ("turned" variables), baseline normalization, reference sets, RELSA weights, ARIMA prediction intervals, and RMSE/PICP/MPIW evaluation.

scientific-schematics

Generates scientific diagram drafts using Nano Banana 2 AI with smart iterative refinement. Uses Gemini 3.7 Flash for quality review. Refines when the review requests improvement, with at most two generations. Specialized in neural network architectures, system diagrams, flowcharts, biological pathways, and complex scientific visualizations.

scikit-survival

Builds, evaluates, and audits right-censored or competing-risk survival workflows with scikit-survival, including leakage-safe preprocessing, model selection, probability prediction, and censoring-aware metrics.

shap

Explain and audit machine-learning predictions with SHAP. Use for selecting SHAP explainers and maskers, computing and validating feature attributions, handling multi-output explanations, and producing local or global SHAP visualizations.

stable-baselines3

Trains and evaluates single-agent reinforcement learning with Stable Baselines3 (PPO, SAC, DQN, TD3, DDPG, A2C), Gymnasium custom environments, vectorized rollouts, callbacks, and checkpoint normalization. Applies to reproducible RL experiments, continuous control, discrete actions, and SB3-Contrib recurrent or masked policies.

timesfm-forecasting

Performs zero-shot time-series forecasting with Google's TimesFM, including regular-grid CSV preparation, quantile forecasts, XReg covariates, and held-out evaluation. Uses the Apache-licensed TimesFM 2.5 checkpoint by default and documents the distinct TimesFM 3.0 multivariate API and weight-license requirements.

Apache-2.0 license

torch-geometric

Supports PyTorch Geometric (PyG) graph neural networks — node/link/graph classification, message passing (GCN, GAT, GraphSAGE, GIN), heterogeneous graphs, neighbor sampling, and custom datasets. Use when working with torch_geometric, not for general NetworkX analytics or non-graph PyTorch models.

transformers

Hugging Face Transformers for loading Hub models, running pipeline inference, text generation, and Trainer fine-tuning on NLP, vision, audio, and multimodal tasks. Applies when working with AutoModel, pipelines, tokenizers, generation configs, or TrainingArguments within Transformers.

Apache-2.0 license

umap-learn

Applies UMAP-learn to nonlinear dimensionality reduction, 2D/3D embeddings, clustering preprocessing, supervised or semi-supervised UMAP, DensMAP, AlignedUMAP, and Parametric UMAP workflows.

BSD-3-Clause license

what-if-oracle

Supports structured what-if scenario analysis for research planning, experimental contingencies, and scientific project decisions. Explores favorable, reference, adverse, wild-card, contrarian, and second-order scenarios with explicit assumptions, evidence, and decision triggers. Use to stress-test a research plan under uncertainty; scenario narratives do not estimate causal effects or calibrated forecast probabilities.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

zarr-python

Stores and queries chunked N-D scientific arrays with Zarr-Python 3, including codecs, sharding, S3/GCS storage, and NumPy/Dask/Xarray integration. Use for array layout, bounded I/O, format migration, or scientific metadata preservation.

Physics & Simulation

11 skills

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.

BSD-3-Clause license

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.

fictiv

Operates Fictiv (app.fictiv.com), the on-demand manufacturing platform, end to end in the user's browser. Covers uploading CAD parts, configuring process, material, finish, threads, tolerances and inspections, getting instant or manual quotes, reading and fixing DFM feedback, choosing lead time and region, checking out and paying (card or PO), tracking orders, reordering, and troubleshooting. Applies when the user mentions Fictiv, wants a part CNC machined, 3D printed, sheet-metal fabricated, urethane cast, injection or compression molded, or die cast through an online service, asks to "get a quote" or "order parts" for a STEP/SLDPRT/STL file, wants to check a Fictiv quote or order status, or has a problem with a Fictiv upload, DFM warning, price or checkout. Also applies when the user wants custom parts manufactured and has a Fictiv account, even if Fictiv is not named.

fluidsim

Plans, configures, inspects, restarts, and analyzes bounded FluidSim computational-fluid-dynamics simulations with explicit numerical-validity and HPC safety checks. Use for FluidSim solver selection, parameter review, FFT/MPI setup, output diagnostics, or restart compatibility.

matlab

Builds, reviews, migrates, and plans MATLAB or GNU Octave numerical workflows. Use for arrays, tabular/time data, tests, projects, graphics, MAT files, and explicit Python interoperability.

opentrons-integration

Authors, reviews, migrates, simulates, and troubleshoots official Opentrons Python Protocol API v2 protocols for Flex and OT-2 robots. Use for robot-specific liquid handling, deck and labware setup, pipettes, modules, runtime parameters, liquid classes, and Opentrons App analysis. Use pylabrobot instead when one workflow must support multiple robot vendors.

pybamm

Simulates lithium-ion battery charge, discharge and rest experiments with PyBaMM, records parameter-set provenance, checks mesh and solver sensitivity, and compares predicted voltage curves with measured cycling data. Use for SPM or DFN electrochemical battery modeling, C-rate protocols, voltage cutoffs, parameter studies and numerical validation of battery simulations.

pylabrobot

Develops and reviews PyLabRobot lab-automation resources, liquid-handling plans, offline simulations, and supported-device integrations. Supports PyLabRobot protocols and API questions; keep physical execution behind an explicit operator safety gate.

simpy

Builds, inspects, tests, and analyzes bounded process-based discrete-event simulations with SimPy. Use for event scheduling, resource queues, interrupts, monitoring, independent replications, warm-up, and reproducible output analysis.

sympy

Performs exact symbolic mathematics with SymPy for algebra, calculus, equation solving, symbolic linear algebra, physics, and lambdify or LaTeX code generation. Use when a task needs symbolic results, explicit assumptions, or exact arithmetic; use NumPy or SciPy for purely numerical workloads.

https://github.com/sympy/sympy/blob/master/LICENSE

uncertainty-and-units

Tracks physical units and propagates measurement uncertainty in scientific calculations using pint and uncertainties. Use for unit conversion and dimensional checking, GUM uncertainty budgets, Type A and Type B evaluation, coverage factors and expanded uncertainty, Monte Carlo propagation, significant-figure and plus-minus reporting, error propagation through curve fits, CODATA constants, auditing Python code for stripped units or broken uncertainty propagation, and order-of-magnitude plausibility checks using dimensionless groups (Reynolds, Peclet, Damkohler, Knudsen, Biot, Womersley), characteristic scales such as diffusion time or Debye length, and observed magnitude ranges. Trigger on "is this number physically reasonable", "sanity check these units", "what regime is this flow in", or a result that looks off by orders of magnitude.

Literature & Research Workflow

14 skills

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 CLI.

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.

hypogenic

Plans and audits use of ChicagoHAI HypoGeniC/HypoRefine for LLM-assisted hypothesis generation from labeled text datasets. Use for the `hypogenic` package, its task configs, hypothesis banks, or HypoBench datasets—not for manual hypothesis formulation or scientific validation.

hypothesis-generation

Formulates evidence-bounded scientific questions, candidate hypotheses, rival explanations, causal or associational claims, discriminating predictions, measurements, and preregistration-ready analysis plans. Used when turning observations or preliminary findings into transparent, testable research plans without treating hypotheses as facts.

literature-review

Conducts systematic, scoping, and narrative literature reviews using PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, and other appropriate sources. Use for research synthesis, reproducible literature searches, screening, citation checking, or preparing Markdown and PDF reviews. Tracks search coverage, records versus studies, and evidence limitations; supports meta-analysis planning but does not supply a meta-analysis engine.

paper-lookup

Searches 18 scholarly APIs for papers, preprints, citations, open-access full text, repository records, and journal OA status, and returns results with reproducible provenance. Covers PubMed, PMC, Europe PMC, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, CORE, Unpaywall, OpenCitations, PubTator3, Zenodo, Figshare, ROR, BioStudies, and DOAJ. Use when searching for papers, citations, DOI/PMID/arXiv lookups, abstracts, full text, open-access PDFs, preprints, citation graphs, author publications, biomedical entity annotations, deposited records (Zenodo, Figshare, BioStudies), institution ROR IDs, or any scholarly literature query. Triggers on mentions of any supported database or requests like "find papers on X", "look up this DOI", "who cites this paper", or "get me the PDF".

paperclip

Searches and reads biomedical papers, FDA/PMDA/EMA documents, clinical trials, and protein records with the GXL Paperclip CLI and Python SDK. Supports source-scoped search, full-text grep, metadata SQL, map/reduce extraction, figure analysis, optional repositories and claim verification, and line-pinned citations. Use when a task names GXL paperclip, asks to install or authenticate it, or requests literature retrieval and evidence extraction through Paperclip.

paperzilla

Reads projects, searches project feeds, and retrieves recommendations and canonical papers in Paperzilla through the pz CLI. Supports recent recommendations, paper details, markdown-based summaries, recommendation feedback, JSON export, and Atom feed URLs.

pyzotero

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research-grants

Supports research proposal preparation and review for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC, including opportunity-specific requirements, aims, review criteria, budgets, broader impacts, forms, and resubmissions. Use for investigator-authored grant development, compliance matrices, and proposal critiques.

research-lookup

"Compiles current scholarly evidence for a scientific manuscript or research brief when the user explicitly asks to gather literature, references, background evidence, competing findings, or a manuscript research packet. Uses Parallel Search by default, Parallel Extract for source retrieval, Parallel Research for explicitly deep/exhaustive work, optional explicit Parallel Chat, and optional Perplexity only when requested or allowed as a failure fallback."

scholar-evaluation

Provides qualitative-first, evidence-traceable developmental review of scholarly works and audit low-stakes research-assessment rubrics with optional local quality controls. Never use for ranking people or consequential decisions.

scientific-writing

Drafts, revises, and audits scientific manuscripts or reports with explicit evidence provenance, reporting-guideline coverage, authorship accountability, confidentiality controls, and local consistency checks. Use for manuscript sections, references, declarations, tables, figures, or submission preparation when scientific accuracy and traceability matter.

venue-templates

Prepares journal manuscripts, conference papers, research posters, and grant documents using venue-specific formatting guidance and bundled LaTeX scaffolds. Supports selecting an official template, checking current page or anonymity rules, adapting academic writing to a venue, or inspecting a submission PDF.

Lab Automation & Wet Lab

9 skills

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 FoundryClient.

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.

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-readable record of how each output was produced so it can be re-executed; or when publishing a dataset to siblings such as a GitHub repository plus a storage remote. Also use to decide between DataLad and plain Git for a data-carrying repository.

flowio

Reads, inspects, and writes Flow Cytometry Standard (FCS) 2.0, 3.0, and 3.1 files with FlowIO. Use for low-level FCS metadata and channel inspection, NumPy event extraction, multi-dataset files, table export, and FCS 3.1 creation; use FlowKit for compensation, cytometry transforms, gating, or FlowJo workspaces.

BSD-3-Clause license

flowkit

Analyzes flow cytometry data with FlowKit, including spillover compensation, logicle and biexponential transforms, hierarchical gating, GatingML strategies, and supported FlowJo 10 workspaces. Use for reproducible gate counts, population percentages, gated fluorescence summaries, or reproducing a FlowJo analysis in Python. For FCS metadata inspection or file-format repair alone, use FlowIO.

ginkgo-cloud-lab

Guides protocol selection, input preparation, pricing checks, and browser ordering on Ginkgo Bioworks Cloud Lab (cloud.ginkgo.bio). Applies to cell-free, E. coli, and Pichia protein expression; HiBiT, A280, and LabChip readouts; IVT mRNA/circRNA synthesis; thermal shift assays; Echo-MS methods; SPR target onboarding; plate-reader assay onboarding; and fluorescent pixel art.

labarchive-integration

Integrates with the official LabArchives ELN REST-like API and Inventory API v1. Supports regional endpoint selection, signed-request construction, user authorization and UID flows, local LA container validation, and verified LabArchives integration workflows.

lamindb

Manages biological datasets and models with LaminDB, including artifact registration, lineage tracking, schema validation, Bionty ontology annotation, query/search, collections, branches, storage, and workflow integrations. Use for reproducible biological data curation or a LaminDB lakehouse.

Apache-2.0 license

protocolsio-integration

Reads, validates, and safely exports protocols.io data with current official REST/MCP contracts, or creates non-executing mutation plans. The bundled client makes bounded official-host GET requests only with explicit --execute. Use only for tasks explicitly targeting protocols.io or an exact protocols.io protocol version.

Clinical & Medical

6 skills

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.

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.

iso-standards-readiness

Prepares and structurally reviews readiness evidence for ISO management-system and laboratory-competence standards - ISO 13485 medical device QMS, ISO 14971 device risk management, ISO/IEC 17025 testing and calibration laboratories, and ISO 15189 medical laboratories. Use when organizing declared scope, controlled documents, risk-management files, scope of accreditation, traceability, CAPA, external-provider controls, or bounded local evidence manifests, and when separating ISO certification from laboratory accreditation, FDA QMSR inspection, CLIA certification, MDSAP, and EU MDR/IVDR evidence boundaries. Not for legal applicability, compliance, certification, or accreditation decisions; contains no clause text.

ncats-arax

Queries the NCATS Translator ARAX production API for bounded, typed, provenance-rich one-hop and endpoint-pinned two-hop biomedical knowledge-graph relationships. Use for Biolink-constrained RTX-KG2 lookup, explicit selected-provider ARAX federation, separate entity normalization, qualifier-aware graph traversal, and inspection of TRAPI edge bindings, publications, and knowledge-source provenance. Do not use for inference, ranking, open-ended pathfinding, clinical guidance, or sensitive queries.

scientific-brainstorming

Facilitates evidence-aware scientific ideation with independent generation, structured discussion, explicit assumptions, transparent evaluation, adversarial review, and decision logs. Use for early-stage research brainstorming or prioritizing candidate directions; hand off empirical validation, study design, ethics or regulatory review, and clinical questions to appropriate experts or skills.

treatment-plans

Formats and structurally validates local treatment-plan documentation after clinical decisions have already been supplied and verified by authorized licensed professionals. Use for source traceability, clinician-authored intervention records, goals and checkpoints, shared-decision records, reconciliation handoffs, and release gates—not for clinical decision-making.

Visualization & Presentation

6 skills

dhdna-profiler

Applies the DHDNA framework as an exploratory rubric for reasoning and writing patterns in supplied text. Used for explicit requests for DHDNA, cognitive-style reflection, a thinking-pattern profile, or comparisons of textual reasoning. Scores describe evidence in the sample, not validated psychological traits or personal identity.

latex-posters

"Creates research posters in LaTeX using beamerposter, tikzposter, or baposter. Use for conference posters, academic presentations, multi-column scientific layouts, figure integration, typography, compilation, and PDF preflight."

markdown-mermaid-writing

Writes scientific Markdown documentation and Mermaid diagrams for workflows, relationships, timelines, and schemas. Provides syntax references, document templates, accessibility guidance, and version-aware rendering checks. Use when a user requests Markdown, Mermaid, or a text-based structural diagram; quantitative scientific figures require suitable plotting tools.

markitdown

Converts heterogeneous documents and selected URIs to Markdown with Microsoft MarkItDown for text analysis, search, and LLM/RAG ingestion. Covers safe local conversion, streams, Office/PDF/data formats, batch workflows, plugins, vision OCR, Azure extraction, and the official MCP server.

pptx-posters

Creates and audits editable scientific posters in macro-free PowerPoint (.pptx) from author-approved local content and assets. Used when the requested deliverable is a PowerPoint research/conference poster and exact physical, printer, accessibility, provenance, and package-security checks are required.

scientific-slides

Builds slide decks and presentations for research talks. Used for making PowerPoint slides, conference presentations, seminar talks, research presentations, thesis defense slides, or any scientific talk. Provides slide structure, design templates, timing guidance, and visual validation. Works with PowerPoint and LaTeX Beamer.

Materials Science

1 skills

pymatgen

Analyzes, validates, converts, and transforms materials structures and computed materials data with pymatgen. Use for local phase diagrams, symmetry sensitivity, electronic-structure I/O, and bounded Materials Project queries.

Climate & Geospatial

1 skills

geopandas

Guidance and local audit tools for Python workflows that directly use GeoPandas GeoSeries, GeoDataFrame, spatial operations, or vector-data I/O.

Cloud & Compute

4 skills

modal

Modal is a serverless cloud platform for running Python on demand, including on-demand GPUs. Use when deploying or serving AI/ML models, running GPU-accelerated workloads (training, fine-tuning, inference), serving web endpoints, scheduling batch jobs, or scaling Python code to cloud containers with the Modal SDK.

nextflow

Builds, runs, and debugs Nextflow DSL2 pipelines and nf-core workflows. Use for Nextflow, nf-core, .nf files, nextflow.config, processes/channels/operators, samplesheets, nf-test, modules/subworkflows, container and executor configuration, HPC/SLURM or cloud deployment, and failed or resumed pipeline runs.

open-notebook

Organizes research with the self-hosted Open Notebook alternative to NotebookLM. Supports source ingestion (PDFs, web pages, audio, video, and Office documents), cited document chat, text and vector search, notes, custom transformations, and multi-speaker podcasts. Use when automating Open Notebook through its REST API or configuring its local or cloud AI providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama, Groq, and Mistral.

parallel-web

"Uses Parallel CLI for web search, URL extraction, deep research, structured data enrichment, entity discovery, and recurring web monitoring. Best for requests that explicitly need current web evidence, academic-source discovery, repeated entity lookups, exhaustive reports, or ongoing change tracking."

Dev Tools & Utilities

7 skills

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. Use only when the user explicitly asks to analyze their recent work and propose skills.

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.

esm

Uses the Biohub esm Python SDK for ESM3 protein generation, ESMC embeddings, and ESMFold2 all-atom folding. Applies to local model inference and Biohub hosted clients, including former Forge workflows; distinguishes the separate legacy fair-esm distribution.

exa-search

"Searches scientific and technical web content with Exa and extracts page or PDF text from URLs in batches. Supports scholarly discovery with the publication category and academic domain filters. Applies to requests to search the web, look up current research, fetch a page, or extract an article using Exa."

get-available-resources

Detects host inventory and effective CPU, memory, disk, scheduler, container, and accelerator limits when a user asks for resource-aware planning or before a clearly resource-sensitive local workload. Produces a redacted JSON snapshot and conservative planning helpers without stress tests or assuming visible host hardware is usable.

pi-agent

Builds with and operates Pi, the minimal terminal coding harness. Use for installing Pi, configuring providers/models/settings/environment variables, creating Pi skills/extensions/packages/themes/prompt templates, embedding Pi through the SDK, integrating over RPC or JSON event streams, parsing sessions, running local models through the llama.cpp router, developing custom Pi providers and TUI components, or using ecosystem packages such as pi-subagents (delegation/orchestration), pi-mcp-adapter (MCP servers), pi-interview (interactive forms), and pi-web-access (web search, fetching, video understanding).

pufferlib

Version-aware guidance for PufferLib reinforcement-learning environments, vectorization, policies, PuffeRL training, evaluation, and safe checkpoint review. Covers the native 5.0 build and environment API, published 3.0.0 Gymnasium/PettingZoo adaptation, and a pinned historical 4.0 profile.