scientific-connectors

scientific-connectors is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from docxology/template. It costs 87 tokens per session (1,062 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A single interface for searching eight scientific databases, including literature indexes, biology archives, UniProt, and the Protein Data Bank. bioRxiv is a website for biology research papers shared before formal peer review, while UniProt and PDB provide protein data and structures.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps search scientific literature, biology records, proteins, and molecular structures, and retrieve records by identifiers such as a UniProt or PDB ID.
Why use it?
It removes the need to learn and maintain a different API integration for each database. Results can be searched through one consistent connector system.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/docxology/template/connectors
Any agent
npx skills add docxology/template --skill connectors
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/docxology/template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,062 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00087 $0.01062
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00531
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00106

Measured yesterday against content hash 4711ae45c7b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scientific-connectors scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 18 executable files (__init__.py, __main__.py, cli.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

`Connector` protocol. All connectors are stdlib-only (`urllib`), retry-safe,
infrastructure/search/connectors/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scientific Connector Registry

Uniform discovery layer over eight science databases (OpenAlex, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, CrossRef, Europe PMC, bioRxiv, UniProt, PDB) via the Connector protocol. All connectors are stdlib-only (urllib), retry-safe, and backed by an optional in-memory HTTP cache.

Quick Start

from infrastructure.search.connectors import (
    ConnectorDomain,
    get_registry,
    list_connectors,
    search_connector,
)

catalog = list_connectors()
biology_connectors = get_registry().by_domain(ConnectorDomain.biology)
hits = search_connector("openalex", "protein folding", max_results=10)

Fetch by ID

registry = get_registry()
protein = registry.get("uniprot").fetch("P12345")
structure = registry.get("pdb").fetch("4HHB")

Available Connectors

uv run python -m infrastructure.search.connectors list-dbs
ID Database Domain
openalex OpenAlex literature
arxiv arXiv physics
semantic_scholar Semantic Scholar literature
crossref CrossRef literature
europepmc Europe PMC biology
biorxiv bioRxiv biology
uniprot UniProt proteomics
pdb Protein Data Bank structure

CLI

# List all registered databases with their domains and descriptions
uv run python -m infrastructure.search.connectors list-dbs

# Search one connector
uv run python -m infrastructure.search.connectors search openalex "protein folding" --max-results 10

# Search all connectors (individual failures are reported as warnings)
uv run python -m infrastructure.search.connectors search --all "membrane" --max-results 5

Pipeline Orchestrator

# Run connector search for a named project
uv run python scripts/pipeline/stage_08_connector_search.py --project my_project

# One-off override that bypasses project connector_search configuration
uv run python scripts/pipeline/stage_08_connector_search.py \
  --project my_project --connector arxiv --query "active inference" --max-results 5

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

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 · 142 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 4711ae45c7b6

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scientific-connectors is a skill published in the GitHub repository docxology/template (19 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 1,062 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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