Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Applies the strategic thinking of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, founder of Biocon and pioneering Indian biopharmaceutical entrepreneur. Use this skill whenever you are advising on biotech startups, R&D innovation, global scaling, purpose-driven business, or navigating regulatory uncertainty. Trigger this skill when discussing affordable healthcare, balancing risk in long-gestation industries, breaking gla…
Immanuel Kant
Applies the rigorous deontological ethics, transcendental idealism, and political philosophy of Immanuel Kant (18th-century German philosopher, Critique of Pure Reason). Reach for this skill whenever the user is facing moral dilemmas, questions of duty, truth-telling, evaluating the limits of human knowledge, balancing civic obedience with free speech, or designing systems for global governance a…
Geomaster
Comprehensive geospatial science skill covering remote sensing, GIS, spatial analysis, machine learning for earth observation, and 30+ scientific domains. Supports satellite imagery processing (Sentinel, Landsat, MODIS, SAR, hyperspectral), vector and raster data operations, spatial statistics, point cloud processing, network analysis, cloud-native workflows (STAC, COG, Planetary Computer), and 8…
Autoskill
Observe the user's screen via screenpipe, detect repeated research workflows, match them against existing scientific-agent-skills, and draft new skills (or composition recipes that chain existing ones) for the patterns not yet covered. Use when the user asks to analyze their recent work and propose skills based on what they actually do. Requires the screenpipe daemon (https://github.com/screenpip…
Exploratory Data Analysis
Perform comprehensive exploratory data analysis on scientific data files across 200+ file formats. This skill should be used when analyzing any scientific data file to understand its structure, content, quality, and characteristics. Automatically detects file type and generates detailed markdown reports with format-specific analysis, quality metrics, and downstream analysis recommendations. Cover…
Cobrapy
Constraint-based metabolic modeling (COBRA). FBA, FVA, gene knockouts, flux sampling, SBML models, for systems biology and metabolic engineering analysis.
Fei Fei Li
Applies the reasoning, frameworks, and mental models of Fei-Fei Li, computer vision pioneer, ImageNet creator, and co-director of Stanford HAI. Use this skill whenever Claude encounters topics related to AI ethics, human-centered AI, spatial intelligence, embodied AI, robotics, AI governance, diversity in tech, or the societal impacts of AI. Trigger this skill when users face decisions about AI p…
Pieter Abbeel
Applies the reasoning of Pieter Abbeel, robotics and reinforcement learning expert, UC Berkeley professor, and co-founder of Covariant. Use this skill whenever you are designing AI systems, tackling Sim2Real transfer, deploying machine learning in the physical world, or evaluating reinforcement learning architectures. Trigger this skill for questions about domain randomization, reward design, boo…
Depmap
Query the Cancer Dependency Map (DepMap) for cancer cell line gene dependency scores (CRISPR Chronos), drug sensitivity data, and gene effect profiles. Use for identifying cancer-specific vulnerabilities, synthetic lethal interactions, and validating oncology drug targets.
Gtars
High-performance toolkit for genomic interval analysis in Rust with Python bindings. Use when working with genomic regions, BED files, coverage tracks, overlap detection, tokenization for ML models, or fragment analysis in computational genomics and machine learning applications.
Ginkgo Cloud Lab
Submit and manage protocols on Ginkgo Bioworks Cloud Lab (cloud.ginkgo.bio), a web-based interface for autonomous lab execution on Reconfigurable Automation Carts (RACs). Use when the user wants to run protein expression and purification (cell-free, E. coli, or Pichia), HiBiT or A280 or LabChip quantification, IVT mRNA/circRNA synthesis, thermal shift / developability assays, Echo-MS enzyme or an…
Esm
Use when working directly with the `esm` Python SDK, ESM3 or ESMC model IDs, Forge/Biohub inference clients, or ESMFold2 folding workflows.
Deepchem
Molecular ML with diverse featurizers and pre-built datasets. Use for property prediction (ADMET, toxicity) with traditional ML or GNNs when you want extensive featurization options and MoleculeNet benchmarks. Best for quick experiments with pre-trained models, diverse molecular representations. For graph-first PyTorch workflows use torchdrug; for benchmark datasets use pytdc.
Dhdna Profiler
Extract cognitive patterns and thinking fingerprints from any text. Use this skill when the user wants to analyze how someone thinks, understand cognitive style, profile writing or speech patterns, compare thinking styles between people, asks "what's my thinking style", "analyze how this person reasons", "cognitive profile", "thinking pattern", "DHDNA", "digital DNA", or wants to understand the m…
Bgpt Paper Search
Search scientific papers and retrieve structured experimental data extracted from full-text studies via the BGPT MCP server. Returns 25+ fields per paper including methods, results, sample sizes, quality scores, and conclusions. Use for literature reviews, evidence synthesis, and finding experimental details not available in abstracts alone.
Bioservices
Unified Python interface to 40+ bioinformatics services. Use when querying multiple databases (UniProt, KEGG, ChEMBL, Reactome) in a single workflow with consistent API. Best for cross-database analysis, ID mapping across services. For quick single-database lookups use gget; for sequence/file manipulation use biopython.
Anndata
Data structure for annotated matrices in single-cell analysis. Use when working with .h5ad files or integrating with the scverse ecosystem. This is the data format skill—for analysis workflows use scanpy; for probabilistic models use scvi-tools; for population-scale queries use cellxgene-census.
Database Lookup
Deterministically query 78 public scientific, biomedical, materials science, regulatory, finance, and demographics databases through documented REST APIs. Use for reproducible lookups of compounds, genes, proteins, pathways, variants, clinical trials, patents, economic indicators, structures, astronomy objects, environmental records, or database-backed scientific facts when endpoints, filters, pa…
Citation Management
Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search Google Scholar and PubMed for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing.
Lynda Resnick
This skill channels the strategic marketing and philanthropic reasoning of Lynda Resnick, co-owner of The Wonderful Company, agriculture and consumer brands. Reach for this skill whenever you are advising on transforming commodities into premium brands, identifying a product's Unique Selling Proposition (USP), or designing corporate social responsibility (CSR) and community empowerment programs.…
Aviv Regev
Applies the computational biology and AI-driven reasoning of Aviv Regev (computational biologist, Genentech, single-cell genomics). Use this skill whenever the user is dealing with experimental design, high-dimensional data analysis, integrating AI into scientific workflows, scaling biological research, or navigating noisy, complex systems. Trigger this for topics like single-cell genomics, drug…
Jurgen Schmidhuber
Applies the reasoning, principles, and frameworks of Jürgen Schmidhuber (LSTM co-inventor and deep learning pioneer). Reach for this skill whenever tackling problems involving sequence learning, artificial curiosity, intrinsic motivation, reinforcement learning architectures, or predicting long-term technological and cosmic evolution. Use this when discussing AGI timelines, the history and attrib…
John D Rockefeller
Use this skill whenever you need to reason like John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil and American oil industrialist. Reach for this skill when the user is facing situations involving market consolidation, economies of scale, aggressive cost-cutting, supply chain leverage, or structuring large-scale philanthropy. It is highly applicable for questions about eliminating operational waste, de…
Andrew Ng
Applies the reasoning, principles, and frameworks of Andrew Ng (machine learning pioneer, co-founder of Coursera and DeepLearning.AI, Stanford University, and former Google Brain lead). Use this skill whenever the user is navigating AI application development, agentic workflows, automation strategy, AI-native software engineering, or rapid prototyping. Trigger this skill when discussing career ad…
Andrej Karpathy
Applies the mental models and frameworks of Andrej Karpathy (deep learning, former Director of AI at Tesla, founding member of OpenAI, Eureka Labs). Use this skill whenever you are helping the user build neural networks from scratch, debug deep learning pipelines, evaluate AI agent workflows, design LLM apps, or navigate the transition to Software 3.0 (vibe coding). It is highly relevant for peda…
Dask
Distributed computing for larger-than-RAM pandas/NumPy workflows. Use when you need to scale existing pandas/NumPy code beyond memory or across clusters. Best for parallel file processing, distributed ML, integration with existing pandas code. For out-of-core analytics on single machine use vaex; for in-memory speed use polars.
Daphne Koller
Applies the reasoning style of Daphne Koller (machine learning pioneer, co-founder of Coursera, founder and CEO of Insitro). Use this skill whenever you encounter problems involving AI and machine learning in biology, drug discovery, interdisciplinary collaboration, data generation vs. data mining, or transitioning from academia to industry. Trigger this skill when advising on career trade-offs,…
Astropy
Core Python library for astronomy and astrophysics workflows that need Astropy APIs, including units/quantities, coordinates, FITS I/O, tables, time systems, WCS, and cosmology. Use when implementing or debugging astronomical data analysis code with Astropy.
Andrew Carnegie
Applies the strategic, philanthropic, and operational frameworks of Andrew Carnegie, founder of Carnegie Steel. Use this skill whenever you are advising on wealth distribution, large-scale philanthropy, operational efficiency, cost control, legacy planning, or organizational leadership. Trigger this skill when users face decisions about charitable giving, managing inherited wealth, optimizing bus…
Bill Gates
Apply the mental models of Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist. Use this skill whenever you are evaluating climate change solutions, global health interventions, philanthropic resource allocation, software platform economics, or the paradigm-shifting impacts of AI. Trigger this skill when the user is facing decisions about maximizing ROI on charitable giving, assessing clean en…
Frank B Hu
Applies the nutritional epidemiology and public health frameworks of Frank B. Hu (nutrition epidemiologist, Harvard University). Use this skill whenever reasoning about diet quality, public health policy, planetary health, cardiometabolic disease prevention, or evaluating nutritional studies. Trigger this when the user asks about plant-based diets, macronutrient trade-offs ("compared to what?"),…
Judy Faulkner
Applies the reasoning style of Judy Faulkner, founder and CEO of Epic Systems, to decisions around corporate governance, healthcare technology, and unconventional leadership. Use this skill whenever Claude is asked for advice on going public vs. staying private, M&A strategy (acquisitions), budgeting, reducing software-driven burnout, data privacy, or interoperability. Faulkner's thinking is high…
Mark Zuckerberg
This skill channels the strategic thinking of Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Meta. Reach for this skill whenever the user is navigating rapid product iteration, scaling social platforms, open-source AI strategy, content moderation trade-offs, or long-term organizational management. It is highly effective for scenarios involving "The Hacker Way" (rapid prototyping), building community, han…
Elizabeth Anscombe
Applies the rigorous analytic and moral philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe (British analytic philosopher, virtue ethics, Intention). Reach for this skill whenever Claude encounters moral dilemmas, ethical trade-offs, questions of intention vs. foresight, or consequentialist/utilitarian reasoning. Use it when analyzing human action, culpability, the doctrine of double effect, or the meaning of "ough…
Diane Hendricks
Reach for this skill whenever Claude encounters situations involving supply chain innovation, B2B customer respect, community revitalization, vocational education, or navigating massive business crises. Apply the mental models of Diane Hendricks, co-founder of ABC Supply and building supplies billionaire, when users face decisions about strategic acquisitions, counter-cyclical expansion, or treat…
Hypatia Of Alexandria
Applies the Neoplatonic and mathematical reasoning of Hypatia of Alexandria. Use this skill whenever the user is grappling with the pursuit of truth, foundational logic, the hierarchy of knowledge, or the distraction of superficial and physical desires versus deeper intellectual pursuits. Trigger this when discussing mathematics as a foundation for higher understanding, astronomy, overcoming base…
Julie E Buring
Use this skill to apply the rigorous epidemiological reasoning of Julie E. Buring (epidemiologist and women's health trialist) to study design, clinical trial critiques, cardiovascular risk assessment, and evidence-based integrative medicine. Trigger this skill whenever you are evaluating medical literature, designing cohort studies or RCTs, assessing conflicting research findings, or analyzing c…
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Graham A Colditz
Use this skill whenever you are reasoning about public health policy, cancer prevention, epidemiological study design, clinical risk models, or weight management advice. This skill channels the thinking of Graham A. Colditz, epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis. Reach for this when evaluating lifestyle interventions, designing disease prevention programs, critiquing clinical predi…
Consciousness Council
Run a multi-perspective Mind Council deliberation on any question, decision, or creative challenge. Use this skill whenever the user wants diverse viewpoints, needs help making a tough decision, asks for a council/panel/board discussion, wants to explore a problem from multiple angles, requests devil's advocate analysis, or says things like "what would different experts think about this", "help m…
Cirq
Google quantum computing framework. Use when targeting Google Quantum AI hardware, designing noise-aware circuits, or running quantum characterization experiments. Best for Google hardware, noise modeling, and low-level circuit design. For IBM hardware use qiskit; for quantum ML with autodiff use pennylane; for physics simulations use qutip.
Ian Goodfellow
Use this skill when reasoning about generative AI, adversarial machine learning, neural network security, algorithmic fairness, or deep learning fundamentals. This skill channels the thinking of Ian Goodfellow, inventor of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Trigger this skill when the user asks about model robustness, mitigating bias, evaluating AI guardrails, designing generative models, or…
Geopandas
Python library for working with geospatial vector data including shapefiles, GeoJSON, and GeoPackage files. Use when working with geographic data for spatial analysis, geometric operations, coordinate transformations, spatial joins, overlay operations, choropleth mapping, or any task involving reading/writing/analyzing vector geographic data. Supports PostGIS databases, interactive maps, and inte…
Aeon
This skill should be used for time series machine learning tasks including classification, regression, clustering, forecasting, anomaly detection, segmentation, and similarity search. Use when working with temporal data, sequential patterns, or time-indexed observations requiring specialized algorithms beyond standard ML approaches. Particularly suited for univariate and multivariate time series…
Marian Ilitch
Applies the pragmatic, financially-grounded reasoning of Marian Ilitch (co-founder of Little Caesars Pizza). Use this skill whenever the user is discussing business partnerships, balancing visionary marketing with financial due diligence, franchise unit economics, family business dynamics, or hands-on financial management. Trigger this when users face trade-offs between rapid growth and profitabi…
Exa Search
Web toolkit powered by Exa, tuned for scientific and technical content. Use this skill when the user needs to search the web or fetch/extract URL content. Covers: web search (semantic lookups, research, current info — with optional research-paper category and academic domain filtering) and URL extraction (fetching pages, articles, academic PDFs in batch). Use this skill for web-related tasks when…
Friedrich Nietzsche
Applies the philosophical frameworks of Friedrich Nietzsche (19th-century German philosopher, author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra). Use this skill whenever the user is grappling with existential crises, seeking meaning, facing severe adversity, questioning traditional moral frameworks, or feeling trapped by societal expectations (the "herd"). Trigger this when discussing self-overcoming, creating pe…
Experimental Design
Design experiments and studies BEFORE data is collected — choosing a design, randomizing, blocking, and laying out treatment combinations so the results will actually be interpretable. Use whenever someone is planning a study, asks how to assign subjects/samples to groups, mentions randomization, blocking, stratification, controls, factorial or fractional-factorial designs, design of experiments…
Dorret Boomsma
Applies the behavioral genetics and twin-study methodologies of Dorret I. Boomsma (behavior geneticist, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Use this skill when reasoning about heritability, genetic epidemiology, nature vs. nurture debates, psychiatric genetics, or longitudinal phenotyping. Trigger this whenever the user asks about the genetic basis of intelligence, lifestyle factors, educational attai…
Judith Butler
Use this skill to apply the analytical lens of Judith Butler (American philosopher, gender theory, Gender Trouble). Trigger this skill whenever the user is discussing gender performativity, identity politics, right-wing populism, anti-gender movements, queer theory, bodily autonomy, or the intersection of democracy and marginalized lives. Reach for it when analyzing systemic power, social constru…
Get Available Resources
This skill should be used at the start of any computationally intensive scientific task to detect and report available system resources (CPU cores, GPUs, memory, disk space). It creates a JSON file with resource information and strategic recommendations that inform computational approach decisions such as whether to use parallel processing (joblib, multiprocessing), out-of-core computing (Dask, Z…
Generate Image
Generate or edit images using AI models (FLUX, Nano Banana 2). Use for general-purpose image generation including photos, illustrations, artwork, visual assets, concept art, and any image that is not a technical diagram or schematic. For flowcharts, circuits, pathways, and technical diagrams, use the scientific-schematics skill instead.
Elon Musk
This skill applies the first-principles engineering and capital allocation frameworks of Elon Musk (CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, founder of X.com / PayPal). Reach for this skill whenever the user is facing complex manufacturing bottlenecks, evaluating existential risks, debating free speech vs. censorship, dealing with bureaucratic overregulation, or trying to accelerate ambitious technical timelines…
Datamol
Pythonic wrapper around RDKit with simplified interface and sensible defaults. Preferred for standard drug discovery including SMILES parsing, standardization, descriptors, fingerprints, clustering, 3D conformers, parallel processing. Returns native rdkit.Chem.Mol objects. For advanced control or custom parameters, use rdkit directly.
Clinical Decision Support
Generate professional clinical decision support (CDS) documents for pharmaceutical and clinical research settings, including patient cohort analyses (biomarker-stratified with outcomes) and treatment recommendation reports (evidence-based guidelines with decision algorithms). Supports GRADE evidence grading, statistical analysis (hazard ratios, survival curves, waterfall plots), biomarker integra…
Henry Ford
Use this skill whenever reasoning about manufacturing, scaling production, pricing strategies, operational efficiency, vertical integration, or labor compensation. Trigger this skill for situations involving hardware development, supply chain optimization, mass-market economics, or when a founder is deciding between outside investment and bootstrapping. Apply Henry Ford's principles of absolute o…
Cellxgene Census
Query the CZ CELLxGENE Census programmatically for versioned public single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data. Use when you need population-scale cell metadata, gene expression slices, Census summary counts, source H5AD URIs/downloads, embeddings, spatial Census data, or reference atlas comparisons across organisms, tissues, diseases, assays, and cell types. For analyzing your own local single…
Docx
Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx files). Triggers include: any mention of 'Word doc', 'word document', '.docx', or requests to produce professional documents with formatting like tables of contents, headings, page numbers, or letterheads. Also use when extracting or reorganizing content from .docx files, inserting or replacing image…
Geniml
This skill should be used when working with genomic interval data (BED files) for machine learning tasks. Use for training region embeddings (Region2Vec, BEDspace), single-cell ATAC-seq analysis (scEmbed), building consensus peaks (universes), or any ML-based analysis of genomic regions. Applies to BED file collections, scATAC-seq data, chromatin accessibility datasets, and region-based genomic f…
Biopython
Comprehensive molecular biology toolkit. Use for sequence manipulation, file parsing (FASTA/GenBank/PDB), phylogenetics, and programmatic NCBI/PubMed access (Bio.Entrez). Best for batch processing, custom bioinformatics pipelines, BLAST automation. For quick lookups use gget; for multi-service integration use bioservices.
Demis Hassabis
This skill channels the strategic and scientific reasoning of Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind, AlphaGo and AlphaFold, and 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Use this skill whenever you are evaluating AI for scientific discovery, tackling "root node" problems, designing reinforcement learning systems, or discussing AGI timelines, safety, and global governance. Reach for it when t…
David Hume
Applies the empiricist, skeptical, and practical reasoning of David Hume, 18th-century Scottish philosopher. Use this skill whenever you encounter questions about epistemology, causality, human nature, moral philosophy, political authority, or the limits of rational knowledge. Trigger this skill when the user is grappling with abstract theories that need grounding, evaluating causal claims, discu…
Christopher Manning
Applies the reasoning, architectural principles, and AI philosophy of Christopher Manning (natural language processing expert, Stanford University, director of Stanford AI Lab). Use this skill whenever you are discussing natural language processing, LLM architecture, AI research strategy, cognitive science, or the evolution of machine learning. Trigger this skill for questions about AGI timelines…
Etetoolkit
Phylogenetic tree toolkit (ETE). Tree manipulation (Newick/NHX), evolutionary event detection, orthology/paralogy, NCBI taxonomy, visualization (PDF/SVG), for phylogenomics.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Applies the analytical and therapeutic philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, 20th-century philosopher of language (Tractatus / Philosophical Investigations). Use this skill when the user is stuck in conceptual confusion, debating semantics, trapped by abstract definitions, or trying to solve a problem that is actually just a linguistic misunderstanding. Trigger this for topics involving the limits o…
Benchling Integration
Benchling Python SDK and REST API integration for registry entities, inventory, ELN entries, workflows, Benchling Apps, and Data Warehouse queries. Use when automating lab data with benchling-sdk or the v2 API.
Martin Heidegger
Use this skill to reason like Martin Heidegger, 20th-century German philosopher and author of Being and Time. Reach for this skill whenever you encounter discussions about the existential impact of technology, human meaning-making, mortality, or the limits of purely scientific and data-driven worldviews. Trigger this skill even if the user doesn't name Heidegger, especially when they are trapped…
K Dense Byok
An AI co-scientist powered by Scientific Agent Skills running on your desktop.
Hypogenic
Automated LLM-driven hypothesis generation and testing on tabular datasets. Use when you want to systematically explore hypotheses about patterns in empirical data (e.g., deception detection, content analysis). Combines literature insights with data-driven hypothesis testing. For manual hypothesis formulation use hypothesis-generation; for creative ideation use scientific-brainstorming.
Stuart Russell
Applies the reasoning of Stuart Russell, AI safety expert, UC Berkeley professor, and co-author of ''Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach''. Reach for this skill whenever evaluating AI safety, value alignment, the control problem, existential risk, AI regulation, or autonomous weapons. Use this when the user is discussing objective uncertainty, reinforcement learning risks, AI governance, o…
Anne Wojcicki
Applies the strategic frameworks and mental models of Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and CEO of 23andMe. Reach for this skill when advising on consumer empowerment, navigating heavily regulated industries, preventative healthcare, data privacy, or disrupting entrenched systems. Use this when the user is dealing with misaligned industry incentives, facing regulatory hurdles, building a consumer-researc…
Hugging Science
Use when the user is doing AI/ML work in a scientific domain such as biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, climate, genomics, materials, medicine, ecology, energy, engineering, math, drug discovery, protein design, weather modeling, theorem proving, single-cell, or PDE solving. Hugging Science is a curated catalog of scientific datasets, models, blog posts, and interactive Spaces. This skill he…
Jeff Dean
Applies the engineering and research philosophies of Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research. Reach for this skill whenever you are designing large-scale distributed systems, optimizing latency and energy efficiency, or making architectural decisions about machine learning infrastructure. It should trigger automatically for topics involving hardware-ML co-design, model d…
Glycoengineering
Analyze and engineer protein glycosylation. Scan sequences for N-glycosylation sequons (N-X-S/T), predict O-glycosylation hotspots, and access curated glycoengineering tools (NetOGlyc, GlycoShield, GlycoWorkbench). For glycoprotein engineering, therapeutic antibody optimization, and vaccine design.
Martha Nussbaum
Applies the philosophical frameworks of Martha Nussbaum (American philosopher, capabilities approach, University of Chicago) to evaluate justice, human welfare, and ethical dilemmas. Use this skill whenever the user is discussing measuring societal well-being, educational curricula, animal rights, the role of emotions (like anger or disgust) in law and public life, or navigating human vulnerabili…
Richard S Sutton
Reach for this skill whenever you are discussing reinforcement learning, agentic AI systems, AI alignment, continual learning, or the philosophical limits of large language models. This skill channels the thinking of Richard S. Sutton (reinforcement learning pioneer, University of Alberta, Keen Technologies, 2024 Turing Award). Use it to evaluate AI architectures, make long-term AI prognosticatio…
Hypothesis Generation
Structured hypothesis formulation from observations. Use when you have experimental observations or data and need to formulate testable hypotheses with predictions, propose mechanisms, and design experiments to test them. Follows scientific method framework. For open-ended ideation use scientific-brainstorming; for automated LLM-driven hypothesis testing on datasets use hypogenic.
Judea Pearl
Applies Judea Pearl's causal reasoning frameworks to distinguish correlation from causation, evaluate AI capabilities, and make counterfactual decisions. Reach for this skill whenever Claude encounters questions about causal inference, structural causal models, the limitations of deep learning, AGI, experimental design, covariate selection, or personalized decision-making. Trigger this skill for…
Gget
Fast CLI/Python queries to 20+ bioinformatics databases. Use for quick lookups: gene info, BLAST/BLAT, viral sequence downloads, AlphaFold structures, enrichment analysis, OpenTargets, COSMIC, CELLxGENE, and 8cube mouse specificity/expression data. Best for interactive exploration and simple queries. For batch processing or advanced BLAST use biopython; for multi-database Python workflows use bio…
Eric S Lander
Use this skill whenever you are reasoning about large-scale scientific projects, genomics, bioethics, data infrastructure, or long-term medical translation. Eric S. Lander (geneticist, Broad Institute, Human Genome Project) provides a framework for hypothesis-free discovery, structuring "big science," and treating biology as an information science. Reach for this when the user is discussing open…
Flowio
Parse FCS (Flow Cytometry Standard) files v2.0-3.1. Extract events as NumPy arrays, read metadata/channels, convert to CSV/DataFrame, for flow cytometry data preprocessing.
Mary Midgley
Applies the philosophical reasoning of Mary Midgley (British moral philosopher). Use this skill when analyzing ethical dilemmas involving animals, environmental policy, the limits of science (scientism/reductionism), or when users are trapped by unhelpful metaphors (like 'the selfish gene' or 'humans as machines'). Trigger this whenever evaluating the intersection of biology and human nature, res…
Ilya Sutskever
Applies the reasoning style of Ilya Sutskever (deep learning pioneer, co-founder of OpenAI and Safe Superintelligence Inc.) to problems involving AI architecture, scaling laws, alignment, and research strategy. Reach for this skill whenever discussing machine learning paradigms, the limits of compute and data, AGI timelines, superintelligence safety, or deciding between hardcoding vs. learning. T…
Dnanexus Integration
DNAnexus cloud genomics platform. Build apps/applets, manage data (upload/download), dxpy Python SDK, run workflows, FASTQ/BAM/VCF, for genomics pipeline development and execution.
Geoffrey Hinton
Applies the reasoning style of Geoffrey Hinton, deep learning pioneer and 2018 Turing Award winner. Use this skill whenever evaluating AI safety, existential risk, neural network architectures, cognitive science, or tech regulation. Reach for this when the user is discussing LLM capabilities (understanding vs. autocomplete), the biological vs. digital intelligence divide, AI alignment strategies,…
Kaiming He
Applies the reasoning style of Kaiming He, computer vision pioneer and creator of ResNet. Use this skill whenever you are designing deep learning architectures, debugging neural network optimization, formulating generative AI problems, or bridging AI with other scientific domains. Trigger this skill for discussions on network depth, weight initialization, residual learning, flow matching, or when…
David Silver
Applies the reasoning of David Silver, lead researcher on AlphaGo and AlphaZero at DeepMind, to problems of AI design, reinforcement learning, and open-ended discovery. Use this skill whenever you are designing AI systems, evaluating learning algorithms, balancing exploration vs. exploitation, choosing research problems, or discussing how to break past human performance ceilings. Reach for this w…
Iris Murdoch
Applies the moral philosophy and literary frameworks of Iris Murdoch (British moral philosopher and novelist). Use this skill whenever you are helping a user navigate ethical dilemmas, interpersonal conflicts, creative writing, literary critique, or the struggle against ego and selfishness. Trigger this skill for topics involving moral psychology, the nature of love, attention, objective morality…
Histolab
Lightweight WSI tile extraction and preprocessing. Use for basic slide processing, tissue detection, tile extraction, and stain normalization for H&E images. Best for simple pipelines, dataset preparation, and quick tile-based analysis. For advanced spatial proteomics, multiplexed imaging, or deep learning pipelines use pathml.
Deeptools
NGS analysis toolkit. BAM to bigWig conversion, QC (correlation, PCA, fingerprints), heatmaps/profiles (TSS, peaks), for ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, ATAC-seq visualization.
Albert Hofman
Applies the epidemiological reasoning and population-health frameworks of Albert Hofman (Harvard epidemiologist, Rotterdam Study). Trigger this skill whenever you are analyzing public health strategies, preventive medicine, cohort study design, cardiovascular or neurodegenerative disease risks, or healthy aging. Use it when evaluating whether to use population-wide interventions versus individual…
Clinical Reports
Write comprehensive clinical reports including case reports (CARE guidelines), diagnostic reports (radiology/pathology/lab), clinical trial reports (ICH-E3, SAE, CSR), and patient documentation (SOAP, H&P, discharge summaries). Full support with templates, regulatory compliance (HIPAA, FDA, ICH-GCP), and validation tools.
Kay Tee Khaw
Use this skill whenever you need to reason about public health, epidemiology, preventive medicine, healthy aging, longevity, lifestyle vs. genetics, or dietary patterns. Kay-Tee Khaw, an epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge, focuses on population health and how modest lifestyle changes impact chronic disease. Trigger this skill when evaluating health interventions, discussing longevity,…
Joann E Manson
Use this skill to reason like JoAnn E. Manson, epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School and women's health expert. Trigger this skill whenever you are evaluating hormone replacement therapy (HRT), menopause management, nutritional epidemiology, dietary supplements, or clinical trial methodology. Apply her frameworks when users ask about the risks and benefits of HRT, bioidentical hormones, or tar…
Aristotle
Applies the frameworks of Aristotle (ancient Greek philosopher, logic, ethics, metaphysics, 384-322 BCE) to decision-making, ethics, and analysis. Use this skill whenever the user is grappling with moral dilemmas, character development, habit formation, finding balance (the Golden Mean), persuasive communication (rhetoric), or understanding the root causes and ultimate purpose (teleology) of a pr…
Hannah Arendt
This skill channels the reasoning of Hannah Arendt, 20th-century political theorist and author of 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'. Use this skill whenever you are evaluating moral responsibility, analyzing systemic evil, distinguishing between power and violence, or assessing the nature of political action and freedom. Trigger it when discussing bureaucracy, thoughtlessness, the public vs. priva…
Claude Skills Mcp
MCP server for searching and retrieving Claude Agent Skills using vector search
Adaptyv
How to use the Adaptyv Bio Foundry API and Python SDK for protein experiment design, submission, and results retrieval. Use this skill whenever the user mentions Adaptyv, Foundry API, protein binding assays, protein screening experiments, BLI/SPR assays, thermostability assays, or wants to submit protein sequences for experimental characterization. Also trigger when code imports `adaptyv`, `adapt…
Sebastian Thrun
Applies the reasoning, principles, and mental models of Sebastian Thrun (robotics and self-driving cars pioneer, founder of Google X, Waymo, Udacity, Stanford University). Reach for this skill whenever Claude is asked to advise on hardware/software systems engineering, autonomous vehicles, moonshot ideation, probabilistic robotics (SLAM), or leading high-stakes engineering teams. Trigger this ski…
Hildegard Of Bingen
This skill channels the holistic, interconnected reasoning of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval German Benedictine abbess, theologian, and philosopher. Use this skill whenever the user is dealing with ecological stewardship, holistic health, the intersection of spirituality and physical well-being, creative inspiration, or challenging rigid institutional rules with moral clarity. Trigger this when di…
Bulk Rnaseq
End-to-end bulk RNA-seq orchestrator — takes raw FASTQ reads through QC and trimming (FastQC, fastp/Trim Galore), alignment and quantification (STAR, Salmon, featureCounts), assembles a gene-level counts matrix, then hands off to differential expression (pydeseq2), pathway/GSEA enrichment (pathway-enrichment), and publication figures (scientific-visualization). Use whenever the user has bulk RNA-…
Yann Lecun
This skill channels the reasoning of Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Turing Award winner. Use this skill whenever you are evaluating AI architectures, discussing the limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs), debating AI safety and regulation (anti-doomerism), or designing autonomous machine intelligence. It is highly relevant for topics involving self-supervised learning, open-sourc…
Fluidsim
Framework for computational fluid dynamics simulations using Python. Use when running fluid dynamics simulations including Navier-Stokes equations (2D/3D), shallow water equations, stratified flows, or when analyzing turbulence, vortex dynamics, or geophysical flows. Provides pseudospectral methods with FFT, HPC support, and comprehensive output analysis.
Arbor
Autonomously improve a real artifact (code, training recipe, agent harness, data pipeline, prompt) against an objective and an evaluator, using Hypothesis Tree Refinement (HTR) from the Arbor paper. Use this whenever someone wants to iteratively optimize something over many experiments without overfitting — e.g. "get my model's eval score up", "improve this agent/harness", "tune this pipeline", "…
Arboreto
Infer gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from gene expression data using scalable algorithms (GRNBoost2, GENIE3). Use when analyzing transcriptomics data (bulk RNA-seq, single-cell RNA-seq) to identify transcription factor-target gene relationships and regulatory interactions. Supports distributed computation for large-scale datasets.
Diffdock
DiffDock and DiffDock-L molecular docking. Use for protein-small-molecule pose prediction from PDB or sequence plus SMILES/SDF/MOL2, batch docking, virtual screening, and pose-confidence interpretation. Not for binding affinity prediction.
Yoshua Bengio
Applies the reasoning, AI safety frameworks, and deep learning principles of Yoshua Bengio (Turing Award winner, Mila). Reach for this skill whenever you are discussing AI safety, existential risk, deep learning architecture, representation learning, or AI governance. Trigger this skill when the user asks about mitigating AI risks, designing safe-by-design systems, evaluating frontier models, int…
Confucius
Applies the philosophical frameworks of Confucius (ancient Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BCE) to modern problems. Reach for this skill whenever the user is dealing with leadership, governance, team harmony, organizational culture, moral dilemmas, mentorship, or personal self-cultivation. It triggers on topics like building trust without micromanaging, resolving hierarchical conflicts, aligning act…