tooluniverse

A collection of scientific research tools and specialized skills covering biology, chemistry, medicine, and data science. It connects to databases such as PubMed, a database of biomedical papers, and UniProt, a protein-information database, through one interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching scientific databases, analyzing genomic and clinical data, researching proteins and variants, supporting drug discovery, and carrying out related biology, chemistry, medicine, and data-science work.
Why use it?
It brings many research databases and analysis tasks together, reducing the need to learn and connect each service separately.

Plugin for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/mims-harvard/tooluniverse/plugin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

tooluniverse scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 32 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "tooluniverse",
  "description": "1000+ scientific research tools for biology, chemistry, medicine, and data science. Access PubMed, UniProt, PubChem, TCGA, NHANES, GWAS Catalog, and hundreds more databases through a unified MCP interface. Includes 120+ specialized research skills for genomics, drug discovery, clinical analysis, protein variant interpretation, and more.",
  "version": "1.4.0",
  "author": {
    "name": "Shanghua Gao",
    "url": "https://shgao.site"
  },
  "homepage": "https://aiscientist.tools",
  "repository": "https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse",
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "keywords": [
    "science",
    "biology",
    "chemistry",
    "medicine",
    "genomics",
    "bioinformatics",
    "rna-seq",
    "deseq2",
    "phylogenetics",
    "drug-discovery",
    "clinical-trials",
    "pubmed",
    "uniprot",
    "pubchem",
    "tcga",
    "research",
    "mcp"
  ]
}
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 32 lines scan A 6efd3802df40

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tooluniverse is a plugin published in the GitHub repository mims-harvard/ToolUniverse (1,660 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.