{"slug": "scientific-agent-skills-a-library-of-procedural-knowledge-for-research-agents", "title": "Scientific Agent Skills: A Library of Procedural Knowledge for Research Agents", "summary": "K-Dense AI released Scientific Agent Skills, an open library of 163 procedural skills across 16 scientific areas including genomics, cheminformatics, and medical imaging, designed to help language-model agents perform defensible analyses by loading versioned instruction files on demand. The library, available at https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills, includes reference material and runnable scripts but reports no task-level evaluation or host selection rate.", "body_md": "arXiv:2609.00065v1 Announce Type: new\nAbstract: A language-model agent asked to analyse an experiment will usually return working code. Whether the analysis is defensible is a different question. A defensible analysis depends on procedural choices: which test the field accepts, which identifier namespace is authoritative, and which caveats must accompany a result. We present Scientific Agent Skills, an open library of 163 such procedures in 16 areas of practice, including genomics, cheminformatics, medical imaging, study design and scientific communication. Each skill is a directory built around a versioned, human-readable instruction file. An agent loads the file only when a task calls for it; the directory often also contains reference material and runnable scripts. We report no task-level evaluation and no host selection rate. Openly licensed and available at https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/scientific-agent-skills-a-library-of-procedural-knowledge-for-research-agents", "canonical_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00065", "published_at": "2026-09-02 04:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-02 04:25:55.496242+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-tools", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["K-Dense AI", "Scientific Agent Skills"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/scientific-agent-skills-a-library-of-procedural-knowledge-for-research-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/scientific-agent-skills-a-library-of-procedural-knowledge-for-research-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/scientific-agent-skills-a-library-of-procedural-knowledge-for-research-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/scientific-agent-skills-a-library-of-procedural-knowledge-for-research-agents.jsonld"}}