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Claude Scientific Skills Desktop

mcp-silverstein-claude-scientific-skills-desktop · by silverstein

A Claude Desktop extension (.mcpb) that delivers the claude-scientific-skills corpus via a tiny librarian tool surface. Built as a self-contained Bun binary (no Node/Python required for users). Offline fat bundle by default; optional thin/auto-update mode.

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$ agentstack add mcp-silverstein-claude-scientific-skills-desktop

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  • ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
  • ✓ Untrusted network calls
  • ✓ Known-malicious package signatures

What it can access

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  • ✓ Filesystem access No
  • ✓ Shell / process execution No
  • ✓ Environment & secrets No
  • ✓ Dynamic code execution No

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About

Scientific Skills Desktop (Bun MCPB)

A Claude Desktop extension (.mcpb) that delivers the claude-scientific-skills corpus via a tiny librarian tool surface. Built as a self-contained Bun binary (no Node/Python required for users). Offline fat bundle by default; optional thin/auto-update mode.

Features

  • 128+ curated scientific skills, JIT-loaded to avoid prompt bloat
  • Tools: search_skills, read_skill, list_skills
  • Domains: bioinformatics, cheminformatics, proteomics, clinical, materials, physics, ML
  • Data sources: PubMed, ChEMBL, COSMIC, UniProt, ClinicalTrials.gov (26+)
  • Libraries: RDKit, Scanpy, DeepChem, DiffDock, scvi-tools, Qiskit (54+)
  • Integrations: Benchling, OMERO, Protocols.io (15+)
  • Offline fat bundle; optional thin/auto-update via CORPUS_URL

Install (Desktop)

1) Download scientific-skills-fat.mcpb (fat/offline) from Releases. 2) Claude Desktop → Settings → Extensions → Install Extension → select the .mcpb.

Usage

// Search for a skill
{ "tool": "search_skills", "arguments": { "query": "biopython" } }

// Read a skill (full doc)
{ "tool": "read_skill", "arguments": { "id": "bioinformatics/biopython/SKILL.md" } }

// Read a section with truncation
{ "tool": "read_skill", "arguments": { "id": "bioinformatics/biopython/SKILL.md", "section": "Installation", "max_chars": 4000 } }

Thin/auto-update mode (optional)

  • Set CORPUS_URL (env) to a tar.gz corpus; server will download to ${__dirname}/.cache on first run.
  • CORPUS_PATH and CACHE_DIR are set via manifest env to the bundle root by default.

Build

bun build src/index.ts --compile --outfile bin/skills-mcp
./scripts/pack-fat.sh   # fat bundle with corpus
./scripts/pack-thin.sh  # thin bundle (no corpus)

Credits

License

MIT

Source & license

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Versions

  • v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.

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