Scientific Agent Skills
177 research skills turning an AI agent into a lab assistant
About
K-Dense AI's large collection of validated scientific skills, covering bioinformatics, chemistry, clinical research, data analysis, materials science, and scientific communication. Each skill encodes the conventions and validation checks for a specific package, database, or workflow. It is the biggest and most starred skill library in the ecosystem, with a peer-reviewed arXiv paper describing the collection.
What it can do
- Guide agents through domain workflows in biology, chemistry, medicine, and physics
- Encode scientific conventions, validation checks, and database conventions per skill
- Support evidence-traceable scientific writing and literature synthesis
Setup
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
Or install a single skill with --skill <name>
Requires uv for Python-based skills
Prerequisites
uv for the Python-based workflows; a supported agent harness (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or Antigravity)
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 9/10
Scored 9/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: K-Dense AI's 177-skill scientific library (48,632 stars, MIT) verified on 2026-10-13; described in an arXiv paper with skill tests and security scans.; README stresses each individual skill carries its own license field in SKILL.md, which may differ from MIT — confirm before commercial use.; User-count claims (250,000+ scientists) are vendor-reported, not independently verified.. License: Repo MIT; individual skills carry their own license field which may differ..
★ 48,632 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 10.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 9.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 8.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 8.0/10
- · K-Dense AI's 177-skill scientific library (48,632 stars, MIT) verified on 2026-10-13; described in an arXiv paper with skill tests and security scans.
- · README stresses each individual skill carries its own license field in SKILL.md, which may differ from MIT — confirm before commercial use.
- · User-count claims (250,000+ scientists) are vendor-reported, not independently verified.
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.