scientific-agent-skills: Turn agents into research assistants with 163 scientific skills

The collection of scientific skills, previously exclusive to Claude, now works with any AI agent that follows the open Agent Skills standard. It can be loaded as a plugin in various clients such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and Google Antigravity. A local execution environment called K-Dense BYOK is also provided, allowing you to set up a research workspace on your desktop with just an API key.

The repository includes 163 scientific and research skills. It can perform complex multi-step workflows spanning biology, chemistry, and medicine, including cancer genomics, 1000 Genomes queries, pathogen variant surveillance, PK/PD modeling, molecular dynamics, RNA velocity, and microbiome foundation models. It also provides integrated query skills that access over 78 public scientific databases.

Beyond simple code execution, it explicitly defines workflows for over 70 optimized Python packages, including RDKit, Scanpy, PyTorch Lightning, and BioPython. It also includes 9 laboratory integration skills for Benchling, DNAnexus, and Opentrons, helping agents handle specialized scientific libraries and databases more reliably.

Data stays on the user's computer, and only heavy workloads can be scaled to cloud computing via Modal. With over 40 models to choose from, you can build an AI scientist tailored to your environment without being locked into a specific LLM. It is suitable for researchers and engineers looking to automate repetitive data processing and literature review tasks.