Scientific Agent Skills is a collection of reusable procedures that give AI agents capabilities for scientific research across areas such as biology, chemistry, medicine, and drug discovery. It is used by researchers and by people building AI scientist workflows with compatible coding agents. The catalogue contains many of the project's skills and supporting instructions.
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 K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill ginkgo-cloud-labgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-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/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/ginkgo-cloud-lab)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/ginkgo-cloud-lab"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/ginkgo-cloud-lab/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/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/ginkgo-cloud-lab"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/ginkgo-cloud-lab.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00094 | $0.02709 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00038 | $0.01084 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00542 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00271 |
Grade A, and why
ginkgo-cloud-lab 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 25d ago.
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.
Copies of this mod
2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- ginkgo-cloud-lab — 89% identical, 68 lines differ
- ginkgo-cloud-lab — 89% identical, 61 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Ginkgo Cloud Lab
Overview
Ginkgo Cloud Lab (https://cloud.ginkgo.bio) provides remote access to Ginkgo Bioworks' autonomous lab infrastructure. Protocols use Reconfigurable Automation Carts (RACs), modular units with robotic arms and plate transport, across a catalog-advertised fleet of 70+ integrated instruments.
The platform also includes EstiMate, a compatibility and pricing assistant that accepts protocol descriptions, files, or links and returns preliminary estimates for custom workflows.
The catalog is organized into Expression & Purification (in vitro / cell-free / E. coli / Pichia), Characterization & Assay, Method & Target Onboarding, and Specialty. Pick a protocol below, then read its reference file for inputs, outputs, the automated workflow, and ordering details.
Available Protocols
The following prices, availability labels, and turnaround text are a 2026-09-30 catalog snapshot, not a configured quote. References link to the corresponding service terms. Catalog and terms sometimes disagree on days versus business days, input format, or readout scope; resolve those differences in the service order.
Expression & Purification - In vitro
| Protocol | Readout | Price | Turnaround | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IVT mRNA/circRNA Synthesis | qPCR (mRNA or circRNA, 384-well) | $99/sample | up to 12 business days | Certified |
Expression & Purification - Cell-free (E. coli CFPS)
| Protocol | Readout | Price | Turnaround | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Validate sequence expression | Go/no-go titer + purity (up to 1800 bp) | $39/sample | up to 10 days | Certified |
| Optimize expression conditions | DoE across 24 conditions | $199/sample | up to 11 days | Certified |
| Express + quantify (HiBiT) | Luminescence, no purification | $39/sample | up to 11 days | Certified |
| Express + purify (A280) | Strep-tag, A280 yield | $149/sample | up to 11 days | Certified |
| Express + purify minibinder | Strep-tag, A280; confirm LabChip separately | $149/sample | up to 11 days | Certified |
| Express + purify (A280 + LabChip) | Strep-tag, A280 + purity/size | $159/sample | up to 12 days | Certified |
What ships with it
18 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.
- references/cell-free-protein-expression-hibit.md 2.4 KB
- references/cell-free-protein-expression-optimization.md 3.0 KB
- references/cell-free-protein-expression-validation.md 2.3 KB
- references/cfps-expression-purification-quantification.md 2.8 KB
- references/cfps-strep-purification-thermal-shift.md 3.0 KB
- references/cfps-strep-tag-purification-a280.md 2.4 KB
- references/echo-ms-cfps-detection.md 2.2 KB
- references/echo-ms-method-onboarding.md 2.8 KB
- references/ecoli-expression-purification-quantification.md 2.6 KB
- references/ecoli-minibinder-expression-histag-a280.md 2.7 KB
- references/ecoli-protein-expression-hibit.md 2.4 KB
- references/ecoli-protein-expression-histag-a280.md 2.4 KB
- references/fluorescent-pixel-art-generation.md 3.2 KB
- references/ivt-rna-synthesis-qpcr.md 2.8 KB
- references/minibinder-strep-tag-a280.md 2.2 KB
- references/pichia-protein-expression-labchip.md 2.4 KB
- references/plate-reader-assay-onboarding.md 1.3 KB
- references/spr-target-onboarding.md 2.8 KB
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.
- 25d ago Changed · +23 lines · -41 tokens per session b3675d3ad360
- 26d ago Changed · +8 lines 5c8f065d9d87
- 1mo ago Changed · +18 lines 88ca5a0f1e2d
- 1mo ago First seen · 107 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A a42fd6891cad
ginkgo-cloud-lab is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills (54,777 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 2,709 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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