Science Skills is a collection of add-ons that give AI agents structured instructions, scripts, and references for scientific research, including genomics, structural biology, cheminformatics, and literature search. Researchers use it to guide agents through specialized scientific tasks with information from databases and tools such as AlphaGenome, AFDB, and UniProt. The catalogue entries are individual skills from this collection.
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.
npx skills add google-deepmind/science-skills --skill alphagenome_single_variant_analysisgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google-deepmind/science-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/google-deepmind/science-skills/alphagenome_single_variant_analysis)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/google-deepmind/science-skills/alphagenome_single_variant_analysis"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/google-deepmind/science-skills/alphagenome_single_variant_analysis/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/google-deepmind/science-skills/alphagenome_single_variant_analysis"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/google-deepmind/science-skills/alphagenome_single_variant_analysis.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Privilege Escalation · line 161 Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
- high Privilege Escalation · line 162 Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
- medium Rogue Agent · line 24 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00118 | $0.02925 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00059 | $0.01463 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00024 | $0.00585 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00293 |
Grade A, and why
alphagenome-single-variant-analysis 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 today.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Variant Analysis using AlphaGenome
Prerequisites
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uv: Read theuvskill and follow its Setup instructions to ensureuvis installed and on PATH. -
User Notification: If .licenses/alphagenome_single_variant_analysis_LICENSE.txt does not already exist in the workspace root directory then (1) prominently notify the user to check the terms at https://deepmind.google.com/science/alphagenome/, then (2) create the file recording the notification text and timestamp.
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.envfile: Make sure the.envfile exists in your home directory. Create one if it does not exist. -
ALPHAGENOME_API_KEY: This skill requires an API key to function.You can register for a key at https://deepmind.google.com/science/alphagenome/. You MUST use the safe credentials protocol in the
credentialsskill to check for and request this key if this skill looks relevant to the user's request. -
ALPHAGENOME_GTF_PATH(Optional): Accelerate gene/transcript lookup by pointing to a local copy of the GTF feather file instead of downloading from GCS:echo "ALPHAGENOME_GTF_PATH=/path/to/local/gencode.v46.annotation.gtf.gz.feather" >> ~/.env
Core Rules
- NEVER run
python3orpython3 -cdirectly. The system Python does not necessarily have pandas, numpy, and other key dependencies. ALWAYS useuv runto run ALL Python code — including scripts, ad-hoc analysis files, and one-liners. Do not attempt topip installor create new venvs —uvmanages an isolated environment automatically. - Offline Only: NEVER use external APIs (e.g., MyGene.info, Ensembl REST)
for gene/transcript lookup. Use
lookup_gene_info.pywith the local GTF. If it fails, fix the environment/paths, do not switch to external APIs. - API Key is required:
ALPHAGENOME_API_KEYmust be set before running any script. - Notification: If this skill is used, ensure this is mentioned in the output.
- Report Format: Always use the templates in
docs/report-templates.mdfor generating analysis reports, and ensure to include the table of top hits from the discovery scan.
What ships with it
47 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- docs/alphagenome-api.md 13 KB
- docs/examples/model_limitation_RNU4ATAC/ism_skeletal_muscle_RNA_SEQ.png 12 KB
- docs/examples/model_limitation_RNU4ATAC/plot_skeletal_muscle_RNU4ATAC_detail.png 76 KB
- docs/examples/model_limitation_RNU4ATAC/plot_skeletal_muscle_RNU4ATAC_effects.png 73 KB
- docs/examples/model_limitation_RNU4ATAC/plot_skeletal_muscle_RNU4ATAC_wholegene.png 78 KB
- docs/examples/model_limitation_RNU4ATAC/README.md 1.7 KB
- docs/examples/model_limitation_RNU4ATAC/report.md 3.7 KB
- docs/examples/negative_result_GATA4/ism_heart_DNASE.png 12 KB
- docs/examples/negative_result_GATA4/plot_heart_GATA4_detail.png 74 KB
- docs/examples/negative_result_GATA4/plot_heart_GATA4_effects.png 70 KB
- docs/examples/negative_result_GATA4/plot_heart_GATA4_wholegene.png 78 KB
- docs/examples/negative_result_GATA4/README.md 1.1 KB
- docs/examples/negative_result_GATA4/report.md 3.6 KB
- docs/examples/negative_result_TGFB3/ism_heart_ATAC.png 6.5 KB
- docs/examples/negative_result_TGFB3/ism_heart_RNA_SEQ.png 10 KB
- docs/examples/negative_result_TGFB3/plot_heart_TGFB3_detail.png 51 KB
- docs/examples/negative_result_TGFB3/plot_heart_TGFB3_effects.png 64 KB
- docs/examples/negative_result_TGFB3/plot_heart_TGFB3_wholegene.png 44 KB
- docs/examples/negative_result_TGFB3/README.md 1.2 KB
- docs/examples/negative_result_TGFB3/report.md 3.0 KB
- docs/examples/polyadenylation_HBA2/ism_K562_RNA_SEQ.png 11 KB
- docs/examples/polyadenylation_HBA2/plot_K562_HBA2_effects.png 158 KB
- docs/examples/polyadenylation_HBA2/plot_K562_HBA2_wholegene.png 159 KB
- docs/examples/polyadenylation_HBA2/README.md 1.1 KB
- docs/examples/polyadenylation_HBA2/report.md 3.1 KB
- docs/examples/regulatory/apoa1_promoter/ism_heart_left_ventricle_RNA_SEQ.png 8.6 KB
- docs/examples/regulatory/apoa1_promoter/ism_liver_RNA_SEQ.png 8.6 KB
- docs/examples/regulatory/apoa1_promoter/plot_heart_left_ventricle_APOA1_effects.png 73 KB
- docs/examples/regulatory/apoa1_promoter/plot_liver_APOA1_effects.png 222 KB
- docs/examples/regulatory/apoa1_promoter/report.md 3.4 KB
- docs/examples/regulatory/README.md 1.2 KB
- docs/examples/splicing/col6a2_exon_extension.png 101 KB
- docs/examples/splicing/col6a2_report.md 2.2 KB
- docs/examples/splicing/dlg1_exon_skipping.png 73 KB
- docs/examples/splicing/dlg1_report.md 1.9 KB
- docs/examples/splicing/README.md 1.3 KB
- docs/interpretation-guide.md 17 KB
- docs/report-templates.md 2.8 KB
- pyproject.toml 269 B
- references/citation.bib 823 B
- scripts/analyze_ism.py 10 KB runs code
- scripts/generate_ontology_mapping.py 4.8 KB runs code
- scripts/interpret_splicing.py 9.5 KB runs code
- scripts/lookup_gene_info.py 9.8 KB runs code
- scripts/resolve_ontology_terms.py 5.5 KB runs code
- scripts/visualize_genome_tracks.py 12 KB runs code
- scripts/visualize_variant_effects.py 37 KB runs code
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.
- today Changed · +8 lines bd663b06a6b0
- 10d ago First seen · 252 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 92646a203073
alphagenome-single-variant-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository google-deepmind/science-skills (2,960 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 2,925 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. 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.
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