Scientific Skills skills

Converts heterogeneous documents and selected URIs to Markdown with Microsoft MarkItDown for text analysis, search, and LLM/RAG ingestion. Covers safe local conversion, streams, Office/PDF/data formats, batch workflows, plugins, vision OCR, Azure extraction, and the official MCP server.

Builds evidence-traceable market research reports and assumption-driven market sizing or forecast scenarios. Use for market definition, industry and customer evidence, competitive landscapes, TAM/SAM/SOM reconciliation, forecast sensitivity, and auditable report scaffolds.

Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable. If the user mentions a .pdf file or asks to produce one, use this skill.

Searches 18 scholarly APIs for papers, preprints, citations, open-access full text, repository records, and journal OA status, and returns results with reproducible provenance. Covers PubMed, PMC, Europe PMC, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, CORE, Unpaywall, OpenCitations, PubTator3, Zenodo, Figshare, ROR, BioStudies, and DOAJ. Use when searching for papers, citations, DOI/PMID/arXiv lookups, abstracts, full text, open-access PDFs, preprints, citation graphs, author publications, biomedical entity annotations, deposited records (Zenodo, Figshare, BioStudies), institution ROR IDs, or any scholarly literature query. Triggers on mentions of any supported database or requests like "find papers on X", "look up this DOI", "who cites this paper", or "get me the PDF".

Builds and audits reproducible NeuroKit2 research workflows for physiological time-series preprocessing, event/interval analysis, multimodal alignment, variability, and complexity. Use when code imports neurokit2 or needs its current APIs, schemas, and method-aware validation—not for diagnosis or device validation.

Explain and audit machine-learning predictions with SHAP. Use for selecting SHAP explainers and maskers, computing and validating feature attributions, handling multi-output explanations, and producing local or global SHAP visualizations.

Builds slide decks and presentations for research talks. Used for making PowerPoint slides, conference presentations, seminar talks, research presentations, thesis defense slides, or any scientific talk. Provides slide structure, design templates, timing guidance, and visual validation. Works with PowerPoint and LaTeX Beamer.

Evaluates scientific claims and evidence quality. Applies to experimental design validity, biases and confounders, statistical interpretation, evidence grading frameworks (GRADE, Cochrane Risk of Bias), and teaching critical analysis. Supports evidence appraisal and identifying flaws; formal peer review writing belongs to peer-review.

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 analysis with scikit-learn compatible APIs.

GPU-accelerates scientific Python on NVIDIA hardware and verifies that the result is correct and faster. Use for CUDA/GPU optimization; CPU-bound NumPy, SciPy, pandas, scikit-learn, NetworkX, scikit-image, vector-search, image-processing, graph, simulation, or file-I/O workloads; CuPy, cuDF, cuML, cuGraph, cuVS, cuCIM, KvikIO, Warp, Newton, Numba-CUDA, or RAFT questions; and profiling, memory-transfer, kernel, or multi-GPU bottlenecks. Also use when large data-parallel Python code is slow and GPU acceleration is a plausible option, even if the user does not name CUDA.

Compiles current scholarly evidence for a scientific manuscript or research brief when the user explicitly asks to gather literature, references, background evidence, competing findings, or a manuscript research packet. Uses Parallel Search by default, Parallel Extract for source retrieval, Parallel Research for explicitly deep/exhaustive work, optional explicit Parallel Chat, and optional Perplexity only when requested or allowed as a failure fallback.

Generates scientific diagram drafts using Nano Banana 2 AI with smart iterative refinement. Uses Gemini 3.7 Flash for quality review. Refines when the review requests improvement, with at most two generations. Specialized in neural network architectures, system diagrams, flowcharts, biological pathways, and complex scientific visualizations.

Analyzes user-requested Screenpipe history windows to detect repeated research workflows, match existing scientific skills, and stage new skill drafts or composition recipes for review. Requires a reachable Screenpipe HTTP API, normally on localhost:3030. Detection and embedding inference run locally; the selected LLM receives redacted app/title cluster summaries and matched skill descriptions. Use only when the user explicitly asks to analyze their recent work and propose skills.

Organizes research with the self-hosted Open Notebook alternative to NotebookLM. Supports source ingestion (PDFs, web pages, audio, video, and Office documents), cited document chat, text and vector search, notes, custom transformations, and multi-speaker podcasts. Use when automating Open Notebook through its REST API or configuring its local or cloud AI providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama, Groq, and Mistral.

Creates and reviews infographics with Nano Banana 2 via OpenRouter. Use for statistical summaries, timelines, comparisons, processes, and visual explanations with supplied data or optional Sonar research. Supports ten layouts, eight style presets, reference images, and accessible palette starting points.

Interactive visualization library. Use when you need hover info, zoom, pan, or web-embeddable charts. Best for dashboards, exploratory analysis, and presentations. For static publication figures use matplotlib or scientific-visualization.

Designs custom laboratory hardware as parametric build123d models and exports fabrication artifacts as STEP, STL, and DXF files - microfluidic chips and molds, optomechanical mounts and breadboard adapters, cuvette and microplate holders, tube racks, animal-behavior rigs, and 3D-printed instrument fixtures. Use when a research task needs a physical part that must mate with standardized labware, an optical table, a cage system, or a printer, CNC, or laser process.

Creates, analyzes, and visualizes complex networks and graphs in Python with NetworkX. Use when working with network/graph data structures, computing graph algorithms (shortest paths, centrality, clustering), detecting communities, generating synthetic networks (random, scale-free, small-world), reading/writing graph file formats, or drawing network topologies. Common applications include social, biological, transportation, and citation networks.

Queries documented public database APIs with explicit endpoints, filters, pagination, and provenance. Used when a scientific, regulatory, financial, or other database-backed fact must be retrieved reproducibly from a named source rather than inferred from general knowledge.

Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx files) or Word templates (.dotx files). Triggers include: any mention of 'Word doc', 'word document', '.docx', '.dotx', 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 or .dotx files, inserting or replacing images in documents, performing find-and-replace in Word files, working with tracked changes or comments, or converting content into a polished Word document. If the user asks for a 'report', 'memo', 'letter', 'template', or similar deliverable as a Word or .docx file, use this skill. Do NOT use for PDFs, spreadsheets, Google Docs, or general coding tasks unrelated to document generation.

Performs bounded, local exploratory analysis of explicitly supported scientific files. Supports redacted CSV/TSV/JSON profiles; optional NumPy, HDF5, FASTA/FASTQ, and basic image metadata inspection; missingness/leakage audits; outlier and transformation sensitivity; and rigorous EDA report scaffolds. Other domain formats are reference-only and unknown formats fail closed.

Trains and evaluates single-agent reinforcement learning with Stable Baselines3 (PPO, SAC, DQN, TD3, DDPG, A2C), Gymnasium custom environments, vectorized rollouts, callbacks, and checkpoint normalization. Applies to reproducible RL experiments, continuous control, discrete actions, and SB3-Contrib recurrent or masked policies.

Generates transcriptome-wide virtual spatial transcriptomics from H&E histology with DeepSpot-M. Used for predicted log1p-CPM expression from 224x224 tiles at about 20x, querying the released protein-coding gene panel by symbol, and whole-slide prediction after resolution-aware tiling with histolab.

Analyzes, manipulates, compares, annotates, and visualizes phylogenetic or other hierarchical trees with ETE 4. Supports Newick/Nexus tree I/O, topology edits and pattern matching, Robinson-Foulds comparisons, gene-tree evolutionary events and reconciliation, NCBI/GTDB taxonomy, SmartView exploration, and publication rendering. Applies to existing trees after alignment and phylogenetic inference, rather than inferring trees from raw sequences.