Scientific Agent Skills provides 158 ready-to-use skills and 100+ databases for AI agents, with multiple hosting options and CI-tested tooling. Latest release is v2.62.0 (2026-07-31).
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What it is
Turn any AI agent into an AI Scientist by providing 158 ready-to-use scientific and research skills, plus access to 100+ databases. The project targets compatibility with multiple agent hosts and emphasizes documented code examples, testing, and integration guides.
How it works
The repository offers curated skills with documentation, practical code examples, integration guides, and tests. Each skill ships a tests/ suite to validate tooling. It supports multiple hosts and provides a standard agent-skills workflow for installation and usage, including host-specific discovery and provenance metadata handling.
Getting started
Getting started options include:
- Installing via npx:
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
- Installing via GitHub CLI (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
Pinning a version:
gh skill install K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --pin v2.62.0
Updating skills:
gh skill update --all
Recent releases
- v2.62.0 (2026-07-31): Changes include updating version references to 2.62.0 in pyproject.toml and README.md, and citation-management documentation.
- v2.61.0 (2026-07-29): Changes include updating version to 2.61.0 and skill versions to 1.4 and 1.5 across multiple skills.
- v2.60.0 (2026-07-28): Version update to 2.60.0 and incremented skill count to 158; tests added to ensure script-bearing skills are tested.
- v2.59.0 (2026-07-27): Added zarr image, skill images, and several new skills such as analytical-method-validation and pathogen-variant-surveillance.
- v2.57.0 (2026-07-26): Added pytest as a dependency and bumped version to 2.57.0; updated pi-agent skill.
Traction
32619 stars, 3222 forks, 7 open issues. Language: Python. License: MIT. Created: 2025-10-19. Last push: 2026-08-03.
Behind the repo
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Caveats
License: MIT. Open issues: 7. Created: 2025-10-19. Last push: 2026-08-03.






