K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills: turn any AI agent into an AI scientist
K-Dense AI's open collection of 177 validated, lazily-loaded skills that turn any agent (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity) into an AI scientist across biology, chemistry, medicine and drug discovery.
Why it matters
The largest open library of procedural scientific knowledge for agents: each skill encodes which test the field accepts, which identifier namespace is authoritative, and which caveats accompany a result - defensibility, not just code.
What you could build with it
A biotech startup's research team could load the validated biology and chemistry skill packs into their existing coding agents to screen compound libraries and draft assay protocols. The result: bench scientists get an AI colleague that speaks their domain's language without months of custom prompt engineering.
Does it hold up?
Battle-tested as infrastructure: 48,900 stars, an arXiv paper, per-skill test CI plus a security-scan workflow, and a BYOK desktop co-scientist app; the paper itself reports no task-level benchmarks, so trust the curation, not evaluated agent performance.
Built with K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
- K-Dense BYOK - free open-source AI co-scientistgithub.com · K-Dense's free, open-source desktop AI co-scientist powered by all 177 skills: bring your own API keys, pick from 40+ models, full research workspace with web search and 100+ scientific databases, data stays local.
- Getting Started with K-Dense BYOK (webinar recording)youtube.com · Hands-on webinar recording walking through BYOK setup, API-key bring-your-own, and running real research workflows with the skills - no prior technical experience needed.
- taiwan-scientific-agent-skills - regional community forkgithub.com · Independent Taiwan-localized fork of the skills collection (rangching), showing third-party adaptation of the library to a regional community.
- ovo000000/scientific-agent-skillsgithub · Community fork of the full skills collection with its own README copy - one of many mirrors keeping the library portable.
- sosaddegen/scientific-agent-skillsgithub · Another community fork mirroring the skills collection for independent use.
Learn more
First spotted on github: source.
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