Turn any AI agent into an AI Scientist. The #1 Agent Skills library for science, used by 160,000+ scientists worldwide. 148 ready-to-use 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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A comprehensive collection of 148 ready-to-use scientific and research skills (covering cancer genomics, drug-target binding, 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. 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.
โญ 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:
This repository provides 148 scientific and research skills organized into the following categories:
100+ Scientific & Financial Databases - A unified database-lookup skill provides deterministic, provenance-rich access to 78 public databases (PubChem, ChEMBL, UniProt, COSMIC, ClinicalTrials.gov, FRED, USPTO, and more), plus dedicated skills for DepMap, Imaging Data Commons, PrimeKG, U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data, and Hugging Science (curated catalog of scientific datasets, models, and demos across 17 scientific domains on Hugging Face). Multi-database packages like BioServices (~40 bioinformatics services), BioPython (38 NCBI sub-databases via Entrez), and gget (20+ genomics databases) add further coverage
70+ Optimized Python Package Skills - Explicitly defined skills for RDKit, Scanpy, PyTorch Lightning, scikit-learn, BioPython, pyzotero, BioServices, PennyLane, Qiskit, Molecular Dynamics (OpenMM/MDAnalysis), scVelo, TimesFM, and others โ with curated documentation, examples, and best practices. Note: the agent can write code using any Python package, not just these; these skills simply provide stronger, more reliable performance for the packages listed
9 Scientific Integration Skills - Explicitly defined skills for Benchling, DNAnexus, LatchBio, OMERO, Protocols.io, Open Notebook, Ginkgo Cloud Lab, LabArchives, and Opentrons. Again, the agent is not limited to these โ any API or platform reachable from Python is fair game; these skills are the optimized, pre-documented paths
30+ Analysis & Communication Tools - Literature review, scientific writing, peer review, document processing, Paperzilla, Exa Search, posters, slides, schematics, infographics, Mermaid diagrams, and more
10+ Research & Clinical Tools - Hypothesis generation, grant writing, clinical decision support, treatment plans, BIDS, regulatory compliance, scenario analysis, and workflow-derived skill drafting with Autoskill
Each skill includes:
โ Comprehensive documentation (SKILL.md)
โ Practical code examples
โ Use cases and best practices
โ Integration guides
โ Reference materials
๐ Table of Contents
What's Included
Why Use This?
Getting Started
Security Disclaimer
Support Open Source
Prerequisites
Quick Examples
Use Cases
Available Skills
Contributing
Troubleshooting
FAQ
Support
Citation
License
๐ Why Use This?
โก Accelerate Your Research
Save Days of Work - Skip API documentation research and integration setup
Production-Ready Code - Tested, validated examples following scientific best practices
Multi-Step Workflows - Execute complex pipelines with a single prompt
๐ฏ Comprehensive Coverage
148 Skills - Extensive coverage across all major scientific domains
100+ Databases - Unified access to 78+ databases via database-lookup, plus dedicated data access skills and multi-database packages like BioServices, BioPython, and gget
70+ Optimized Python Package Skills - RDKit, Scanpy, PyTorch Lightning, scikit-learn, BioServices, PennyLane, Qiskit, Molecular Dynamics (OpenMM/MDAnalysis), scVelo, TimesFM, and others (the agent can use any Python package; these are the pre-documented, higher-performing paths)
๐ง Easy Integration
Simple Setup - Copy skills to your skills directory and start working
Automatic Discovery - Your agent automatically finds and uses relevant skills
Well Documented - Each skill includes examples, use cases, and best practices
๐ Maintained & Supported
Regular Updates - Continuously maintained and expanded by K-Dense team
Community Driven - Open source with active community contributions
Enterprise Ready - Commercial support available for advanced needs
๐ฏ Getting Started
Option 1: npx (all platforms)
Install Scientific Agent Skills with a single command:
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
This is the official standard approach for installing Agent Skills across all platforms, including Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Codex, Gemini CLI, Google Antigravity, Cursor, OpenClaw, NVIDIA NemoClaw, Hermes, Pi, and any other agent that supports the open Agent Skills standard.
Option 2: GitHub CLI (gh skill)
If you use the GitHub CLI (v2.90.0+), you can install skills with gh skill:
# Browse and install interactively
gh skill install K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
# Install a specific skill directly
gh skill install K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills scanpy
# Target a specific agent host
gh skill install K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --agent cursor
gh skill install K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --agent claude-code
gh skill install K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --agent codex
gh skill install K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --agent gemini
gh skill automatically installs to the correct directory for your agent host and records provenance metadata for supply chain integrity.
Version pinning
Pin to a specific release tag or commit SHA for reproducible installs:
# Pin to a release tag
gh skill install K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --pin v1.0.0
# Pin to a commit SHA
gh skill install K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --pin abc123def
Keeping skills up to date
# Check for updates interactively
gh skill update
# Update all installed skills
gh skill update --all
Other Agent Skills hosts (OpenClaw, NemoClaw, Pi, Hermes, โฆ)
You usually don't need anything host-specific. npx skills add (Option 1) installs into the shared ~/.agents/skills/ convention, and any compliant client that scans that directory โ including OpenClaw, NVIDIA NemoClaw (an OpenClaw-based secure runtime), and Pi โ discovers the skills automatically. Project-scoped installs land in .agents/skills/ and work the same way. To install without the CLI, clone straight into either location:
Hermes is the one host that uses its own registry instead of the shared directory, so add the repo as a tap:
hermes skills tap add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
These skills stay portable across all of them: metadata is single-line JSON (so OpenClaw's line-based reader parses it), credentialed skills declare a top-level required_environment_variables field (so Hermes prompts for keys), and unknown fields are ignored everywhere else. Because 148 skills add up to a lot of standing context, consider installing a topical subset rather than the whole collection.
NemoClaw note: NemoClaw runs agents inside NVIDIA OpenShell with default-deny outbound networking. Skills are discovered and loaded normally, but any skill that needs the network โ package installs via uv, or API calls (Exa, Parallel, Benchling, NCBI, Materials Project, โฆ) โ only works once the operator pre-approves the relevant domains in the OpenShell TUI.
That's it! Your AI agent will automatically discover the skills and use them when relevant to your scientific tasks. You can also invoke any skill manually by mentioning the skill name in your prompt.
โ ๏ธ Security Disclaimer
Skills can execute code and influence your coding agent's behavior. Review what you install.
Agent Skills are powerful โ they can instruct your AI agent to run arbitrary code, install packages, make network requests, and modify files on your system. A malicious or poorly written skill has the potential to steer your coding agent into harmful behavior.
We take security seriously. All contributions go through a review process, and we run LLM-based security scans (via Cisco AI Defense Skill Scanner) on every skill in this repository. However, as a small team with a growing number of community contributions, we cannot guarantee that every skill has been exhaustively reviewed for all possible risks.
It is ultimately your responsibility to review the skills you install and decide which ones to trust.
We recommend the following:
Do not install everything at once. Only install the skills you actually need for your work. While installing the full collection was reasonable when K-Dense created and maintained every skill, the repository now includes many community contributions that we may not have reviewed as thoroughly.
Read the SKILL.md before installing. Each skill's documentation describes what it does, what packages it uses, and what external services it connects to. If something looks suspicious, don't install it.
Check the contribution history. Skills authored by K-Dense (K-Dense-AI) have been through our internal review process. Community-contributed skills have been reviewed to the best of our ability, but with limited resources.
Run the security scanner yourself. Before installing third-party skills, scan them locally:
Report anything suspicious. If you find a skill that looks malicious or behaves unexpectedly, please open an issue immediately so we can investigate.
All skills are scanned on an approximately weekly basis, and SECURITY.md is updated with the latest results. We try to address security gaps as they arise.
โค๏ธ Support the Open Source Community
Scientific Agent Skills is powered by 50+ incredible open source projects maintained by dedicated developers and research communities worldwide. Projects like Biopython, Scanpy, RDKit, scikit-learn, PyTorch Lightning, and many others form the foundation of these skills.
If you find value in this repository, please consider supporting the projects that make it possible:
โญ Star their repositories on GitHub
๐ฐ Sponsor maintainers via GitHub Sponsors or NumFOCUS
Once you've installed the skills, you can ask your AI agent to execute complex multi-step scientific workflows. Here are some example prompts:
๐งช Drug Discovery Pipeline
Goal: Find novel EGFR inhibitors for lung cancer treatment
Prompt:
Use available skills you have access to whenever possible. Query ChEMBL for EGFR inhibitors (IC50 < 50nM), analyze structure-activity relationships
with RDKit, generate improved analogs with datamol, perform virtual screening with DiffDock
against AlphaFold EGFR structure, search PubMed for resistance mechanisms, check COSMIC for
mutations, and create visualizations and a comprehensive report.
Goal: Comprehensive analysis of 10X Genomics data with public data integration
Prompt:
Use available skills you have access to whenever possible. Load 10X dataset with Scanpy, perform QC and doublet removal, integrate with Cellxgene
Census data, identify cell types using NCBI Gene markers, run differential expression with
PyDESeq2, infer gene regulatory networks with Arboreto, enrich pathways via Reactome/KEGG,
and identify therapeutic targets with Open Targets.
Goal: Integrate RNA-seq, proteomics, and metabolomics to predict patient outcomes
Prompt:
Use available skills you have access to whenever possible. Analyze RNA-seq with PyDESeq2, process mass spec with pyOpenMS, integrate metabolites from
HMDB/Metabolomics Workbench, map proteins to pathways (UniProt/KEGG), find interactions via
STRING, correlate omics layers with statsmodels, build predictive model with scikit-learn,
and search ClinicalTrials.gov for relevant trials.
Goal: Discover allosteric modulators for protein-protein interactions
Prompt:
Use available skills you have access to whenever possible. Retrieve AlphaFold structures, identify interaction interface with BioPython, search ZINC
for allosteric candidates (MW 300-500, logP 2-4), filter with RDKit, dock with DiffDock,
rank with DeepChem, check PubChem suppliers, search USPTO patents, and optimize leads with
MedChem/molfeat.
Goal: Analyze VCF file for hereditary cancer risk assessment
Prompt:
Use available skills you have access to whenever possible. Parse VCF with pysam, annotate variants with Ensembl VEP, query ClinVar for pathogenicity,
check COSMIC for cancer mutations, retrieve gene info from NCBI Gene, analyze protein impact
with UniProt, search PubMed for case reports, check ClinPGx for pharmacogenomics, generate
clinical report with document processing tools, and find matching trials on ClinicalTrials.gov.
Skills Used: pysam, database-lookup, paper-lookup, clinical-reports, docx, pdf
๐ Systems Biology Network Analysis
Goal: Analyze gene regulatory networks from RNA-seq data
Prompt:
Use available skills you have access to whenever possible. Query NCBI Gene for annotations, retrieve sequences from UniProt, identify interactions via
STRING, map to Reactome/KEGG pathways, analyze topology with Torch Geometric, reconstruct
GRNs with Arboreto, assess druggability with Open Targets, model with PyMC, visualize
networks, and search GEO for similar patterns.
๐ Want more examples? Check out docs/examples.md for comprehensive workflow examples and detailed use cases across all scientific domains.
๐ฌ Use Cases
๐งช Drug Discovery & Medicinal Chemistry
Virtual Screening: Screen millions of compounds from PubChem/ZINC against protein targets
Lead Optimization: Analyze structure-activity relationships with RDKit, generate analogs with datamol
ADMET Prediction: Predict absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity with DeepChem
Molecular Docking: Predict binding poses with DiffDock and rescore poses with affinity-oriented tools
Bioactivity Mining: Query ChEMBL for known inhibitors and analyze SAR patterns
๐งฌ Bioinformatics & Genomics
Sequence Analysis: Process DNA/RNA/protein sequences with BioPython and pysam
Single-Cell Analysis: Analyze 10X Genomics data with Scanpy, identify cell types, infer GRNs with Arboreto
Variant Annotation: Annotate VCF files with Ensembl VEP, query ClinVar for pathogenicity
Variant Database Management: Build scalable VCF databases with TileDB-VCF for incremental sample addition, efficient population-scale queries, and compressed storage of genomic variant data
Gene Discovery: Query NCBI Gene, UniProt, and Ensembl for comprehensive gene information
Network Analysis: Identify protein-protein interactions via STRING, map to pathways (KEGG, Reactome)
๐ฅ Clinical Research & Precision Medicine
Clinical Trials: Search ClinicalTrials.gov for relevant studies, analyze eligibility criteria
Variant Interpretation: Annotate variants with ClinVar, COSMIC, and ClinPGx for pharmacogenomics
Drug Safety: Query FDA databases for adverse events, drug interactions, and recalls
Precision Therapeutics: Match patient variants to targeted therapies and clinical trials
๐ฌ Multi-Omics & Systems Biology
Multi-Omics Integration: Combine RNA-seq, proteomics, and metabolomics data
Pathway Analysis: Enrich differentially expressed genes in KEGG/Reactome pathways
This repository contains 148 scientific and research skills organized across multiple domains. Each skill provides comprehensive documentation, code examples, and best practices for working with scientific libraries, databases, and tools.
Skill Categories
Note: The Python package and integration skills listed below are explicitly defined skills โ curated with documentation, examples, and best practices for stronger, more reliable performance. They are not a ceiling: the agent can install and use any Python package or call any API, even without a dedicated skill. The skills listed simply make common workflows faster and more dependable.
Statistical power: Statistical Power (sample-size & power for t-tests, ANOVA, proportions, correlation, regression โ closed-form plus simulation-based for GLMs, mixed models, and cluster designs)
๐งช Laboratory Automation (6 skills)
Liquid handling: PyLabRobot and Opentrons
Cloud lab: Ginkgo Cloud Lab (protein expression & purification across cell-free/E. coli/Pichia, IVT RNA synthesis, thermal shift and Echo-MS assays, SPR onboarding, fluorescent pixel art via autonomous RAC infrastructure)
Protocol management: Protocols.io
LIMS integration: Benchling, LabArchives
๐ฌ Multi-omics & Systems Biology (4 skills)
Pathway analysis: via Database Lookup (KEGG, Reactome, STRING) and PrimeKG
Cloud laboratory platform: Adaptyv (automated protein testing and validation)
Cloud structure & design platform: Tamarind (managed-GPU access to AlphaFold, Boltz, Chai, ESMFold, RFdiffusion, ProteinMPNN, BoltzGen, antibody/nanobody design, DiffDock/Vina docking, binding affinity, and MSA generation via REST API or MCP)
๐ Scientific Communication (26 skills)
Literature: Paper Lookup (PubMed, PMC, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, CORE, Unpaywall), Literature Review, Paperzilla
Advanced paper search: BGPT Paper Search (25+ structured fields per paper โ methods, results, sample sizes, quality scores โ from full text, not just abstracts)
Web intelligence: Parallel Web (web search, URL/PDF extraction, deep research, structured enrichment, entity discovery, and recurring monitoring), Exa Search, and Research Lookup
Research notebooks: Open Notebook (self-hosted NotebookLM alternative โ PDFs, videos, audio, web pages; 16+ AI providers; multi-speaker podcast generation)
Writing: Scientific Writing, Peer Review
Document processing: LiteParse, PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, and MarkItDown
A unified database-lookup skill provides deterministic REST API access to 78 public databases across all domains, with retrieval contracts, pagination/count reconciliation, and endpoint provenance. Dedicated skills cover specialized data platforms. Multi-database packages like BioServices (~40 bioinformatics services), BioPython (38 NCBI sub-databases via Entrez), and gget (20+ genomics databases) add further coverage.
Unified access: Database Lookup (78 databases spanning chemistry, genomics, clinical, pathways, patents, economics, and more โ PubChem, ChEMBL, UniProt, PDB, AlphaFold, KEGG, Reactome, STRING, ClinVar, COSMIC, ClinicalTrials.gov, FDA, FRED, USPTO, SEC EDGAR, and dozens more โ with auditable filters and provenance)
Cancer genomics: DepMap (cancer cell line dependencies, drug sensitivity, gene effect profiles)
Cancer imaging: Imaging Data Commons (NCI radiology & pathology datasets via idc-index)
Fiscal data: U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data (national debt, Treasury statements, auctions, exchange rates)
Scientific ML resource catalog: Hugging Science (curated index of datasets, models, blog posts, and interactive Spaces across 17 scientific domains โ astronomy, biology, chemistry, climate, genomics, materials science, medicine, physics, scientific reasoning, and more โ with usage patterns for datasets, transformers, and gradio_client)
Agent platform development: Pi Agent (using Pi as a terminal coding harness and building on it with SDK, RPC/JSONL, extensions, custom providers/models, packages, TUI components, and session tooling)
Autonomous optimization: Arbor (Hypothesis Tree Refinement โ iteratively improve a code/model/agent-harness/data artifact against a dev evaluator while a held-out test gate guards against overfitting)
Multi-perspective deliberation: Consciousness Council (diverse expert viewpoints, devil's advocate analysis)
Cognitive profiling: DHDNA Profiler (extract thinking patterns and cognitive signatures from any text)
Funding: Research Grants
Discovery: Research Lookup, Paper Lookup (10 academic databases)
Market analysis: Market Research Reports
โ๏ธ Regulatory & Standards (1 skill)
Medical device standards: ISO 13485 Certification
๐ For complete details on all skills, see docs/skills.md
๐ก Looking for practical examples? Check out docs/examples.md for comprehensive workflow examples across all scientific domains.
๐ค Contributing
We welcome contributions to expand and improve this scientific skills repository!
For detailed instructions on adding or updating a skill, see CONTRIBUTING.md. The guide covers repository structure, required SKILL.md frontmatter, Agent Skills specification requirements, versioning, validation, security scanning, and pull request expectations.
Ways to Contribute
โจ Add New Skills
Create skills for additional scientific packages or databases
Add integrations for scientific platforms and tools
๐ Improve Existing Skills
Enhance documentation with more examples and use cases
Add new workflows and reference materials
Improve code examples and scripts
Fix bugs or update outdated information
๐ Report Issues
Submit bug reports with detailed reproduction steps
Suggest improvements or new features
How to Contribute
Fork the repository
Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-skill)
Ensure all new skills include valid SKILL.md files with required frontmatter and metadata.version
Test your examples and workflows thoroughly
Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing skill')
Push to your branch (git push origin feature/amazing-skill)
Submit a pull request with a clear description of your changes
Contribution Guidelines
โ Adhere to the Agent Skills Specification โ Every skill must follow the official spec (valid SKILL.md frontmatter, naming conventions, directory structure)
โ Include a quoted metadata.version value in every SKILL.md
โ Increment metadata.version when updating an existing skill
โ Maintain consistency with existing skill documentation format
โ Ensure all code examples are tested and functional
โ Follow scientific best practices in examples and workflows
โ Update relevant documentation when adding new capabilities
โ Provide clear comments and docstrings in code
โ Include references to official documentation
Security Scanning
All skills in this repository are security-scanned using Cisco AI Defense Skill Scanner, an open-source tool that detects prompt injection, data exfiltration, and malicious code patterns in Agent Skills.
If you are contributing a new skill, we recommend running the scanner locally before submitting a pull request:
Note: A clean scan result reduces noise in review, but does not guarantee a skill is free of all risk. Contributed skills are also reviewed manually before merging.
Recognition
Contributors are recognized in our community and may be featured in:
Repository contributors list
Special mentions in release notes
K-Dense community highlights
Your contributions help make scientific computing more accessible and enable researchers to leverage AI tools more effectively!
Support Open Source
This project builds on 50+ amazing open source projects. If you find value in these skills, please consider supporting the projects we depend on.
๐ง Troubleshooting
Common Issues
Problem: Skills not loading
Verify skill folders are in the correct directory (see Getting Started)
Each skill folder must contain a SKILL.md file
Restart your agent/IDE after copying skills
In Cursor, check Settings โ Rules to confirm skills are discovered
Problem: Missing Python dependencies
Solution: Check the specific SKILL.md file for required packages
Install dependencies: uv pip install package-name
Problem: API rate limits
Solution: Many databases have rate limits. Review the specific database documentation
Consider implementing caching or batch requests
Problem: Authentication errors
Solution: Some services require API keys. Check the SKILL.md for authentication setup
Verify your credentials and permissions
Problem: Outdated examples
Solution: Report the issue via GitHub Issues
Check the official package documentation for updated syntax
Problem: gh skill install or docs link to scientific-skills/ fails (v2.43.0+)
As of v2.43.0, skills live under skills/ (not scientific-skills/) to match the Agent Skills layout expected by GitHub CLI
Update manual copy paths, bookmarks, and citations from scientific-skills/<name> to skills/<name>
Re-run gh skill install K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills after pulling the latest release
โ FAQ
General Questions
Q: Is this free to use?
A: Yes! This repository is MIT licensed. However, each individual skill has its own license specified in the license metadata field within its SKILL.md fileโbe sure to review and comply with those terms.
Q: Why are all skills grouped together instead of separate packages?
A: We believe good science in the age of AI is inherently interdisciplinary. Bundling all skills together makes it trivial for you (and your agent) to bridge across fieldsโe.g., combining genomics, cheminformatics, clinical data, and machine learning in one workflowโwithout worrying about which individual skills to install or wire together.
Q: Can I use this for commercial projects?
A: The repository itself is MIT licensed, which allows commercial use. However, individual skills may have different licensesโcheck the license field in each skill's SKILL.md file to ensure compliance with your intended use.
Q: Do all skills have the same license?
A: No. Each skill has its own license specified in the license metadata field within its SKILL.md file. These licenses may differ from the repository's MIT License. Users are responsible for reviewing and adhering to the license terms of each individual skill they use.
Q: How often is this updated?
A: We regularly update skills to reflect the latest versions of packages and APIs. Major updates are announced in release notes.
Q: Can I use this with other AI models?
A: The skills follow the open Agent Skills standard and work with any compatible agent, including Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Google Antigravity, OpenClaw, NVIDIA NemoClaw, Hermes, and Pi.
Installation & Setup
Q: Do I need all the Python packages installed?
A: No! Only install the packages you need. Each skill specifies its requirements in its SKILL.md file.
Q: What if a skill doesn't work?
A: First check the Troubleshooting section. If the issue persists, file an issue on GitHub with detailed reproduction steps.
Q: Do the skills work offline?
A: Database skills require internet access to query APIs. Package skills work offline once Python dependencies are installed.
Contributing
Q: Can I contribute my own skills?
A: Absolutely! We welcome contributions. See the Contributing section for guidelines and best practices.
Q: How do I report bugs or suggest features?
A: Open an issue on GitHub with a clear description. For bugs, include reproduction steps and expected vs actual behavior.
๐ฌ Support
Need help? Here's how to get support:
๐ Documentation: Check the relevant SKILL.md and references/ folders
๐ฃ Updates and demos: Follow X, LinkedIn, and YouTube to keep up with new skills, tutorials, and Scientific Agent Skills releases
๐ผ Enterprise Support: Contact K-Dense for commercial support
๐ Citation
If you use Scientific Agent Skills in your research or project, please cite the overall collection and, when relevant, the individual skill or skills that materially supported your work.
The collection citation helps others find the repository, understand the broader skill ecosystem used in your workflow, and credit the maintenance effort behind Scientific Agent Skills. Individual skill citations give more precise credit for the specific package, database, or workflow guidance your agent used.
Recommended practice:
Always cite Scientific Agent Skills using one of the formats below.
Also cite each individual skill that directly contributed to your analysis, code, figures, reports, or research workflow.
If a skill wraps or documents an external package, database, or platform, cite that upstream project too when your field's norms require it.
Collection Citation
BibTeX
@software{scientific_agent_skills_2026,
author = {{K-Dense Inc.}},
title = {Scientific Agent Skills: A Comprehensive Collection of Scientific Tools for AI Agents},
year = {2026},
url = {https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills},
note = {148 skills covering databases, packages, integrations, and analysis tools}
}
APA
K-Dense Inc. (2026). Scientific Agent Skills: A comprehensive collection of scientific tools for AI agents [Computer software]. https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
MLA
K-Dense Inc. Scientific Agent Skills: A Comprehensive Collection of Scientific Tools for AI Agents. 2026, github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.
Plain Text
Scientific Agent Skills by K-Dense Inc. (2026)
Available at: https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
Individual Skill Citation
When citing a specific skill, include the skill name, version from metadata.version in that skill's SKILL.md, and the direct skill URL. For example:
@software{scientific_agent_skills_astropy_2026,
author = {{K-Dense Inc.}},
title = {Astropy Skill for Scientific Agent Skills},
year = {2026},
url = {https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/astropy},
note = {Version 1.0, part of Scientific Agent Skills}
}
Plain text format:
Astropy skill for Scientific Agent Skills, version 1.0.
K-Dense Inc. (2026).
https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/astropy
We appreciate acknowledgment in publications, presentations, or projects that benefit from these skills.
โ ๏ธ Important: Each skill has its own license specified in the license metadata field within its SKILL.md file. These licenses may differ from the repository's MIT License and may include additional terms or restrictions. Users are responsible for reviewing and adhering to the license terms of each individual skill they use.