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 latex-postersgit 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/latex-posters)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/latex-posters"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/latex-posters/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/latex-posters"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/latex-posters.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 | $0.00049 | $0.02444 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00978 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00489 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00244 |
Grade A, and why
latex-posters 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 26d 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:
- latex-posters — 94% identical, 452 lines differ
- latex-posters — 94% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
LaTeX Research Posters
Create a conference-sized PDF from scientific content, editable LaTeX, and verified figures. Use for new posters, paper-to-poster adaptation, institutional templates, and poster compilation or print preflight.
Choose the poster package
| Package | Use when | Reviewed target |
|---|---|---|
| beamerposter | Beamer blocks or institutional Beamer themes fit the project | CTAN 1.13 |
| tikzposter | TikZ styling and automatically stacked blocks are useful | CTAN 2.0 |
| baposter | A supplied project uses its named, relative-positioned boxes | Archived class v2.0, 2011/11/26; upstream site unavailable at review |
The three bundled templates were compiled locally with pdfLaTeX (TeX Live 2025) and inspected using Poppler 26.09.0. baposter was tested using the pinned archival source described in references/latex_poster_packages.md. Do not interpret an old stable package version as proof of current tagged-PDF support. Other reference snippets are illustrative building blocks unless explicitly tested; they require the indicated class, packages, actual data, and figure files.
Workflow
1. Establish the scientific content and output requirements
- Record exact paper width, height, orientation, venue rules, and printer requirements.
- Choose 1-3 main messages and the results needed to support them. A useful starting budget is 300-800 words with 3-5 figures; adjust to the audience and available space.
- Preserve study design, sample sizes, units, effect sizes, uncertainty, limitations, and data provenance. Include the relevant citations, contact, and acknowledgments.
- Use actual analysis outputs for plots and original research images for evidence. Do not use an image model to invent numerical charts, microscopy, spectra, or results.
2. Prepare and review figures
Prefer vector PDF for numerical plots, TikZ for precise diagrams, and suitable PNG/JPEG
for photographs or conceptual artwork. Convert SVG to PDF before ordinary
\includegraphics; SVG is not a directly supported pdfLaTeX image format.
What ships with it
16 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.
- assets/baposter_template.tex 7.8 KB
- assets/beamerposter_template.tex 8.1 KB
- assets/poster_quality_checklist.md 11 KB
- assets/tikzposter_template.tex 8.2 KB
- references/ai_graphics_for_posters.md 6.5 KB
- references/compilation_and_quality_control.md 8.1 KB
- references/latex_poster_packages.md 19 KB
- references/latex_poster_reference.md 7.5 KB
- references/poster_content_guide.md 21 KB
- references/poster_design_principles.md 22 KB
- references/poster_layout_design.md 22 KB
- references/poster_patterns_and_presentation.md 2.9 KB
- references/README.md 3.0 KB
- scripts/generate_schematic_ai.py 35 KB runs code
- scripts/generate_schematic.py 7.6 KB runs code
- scripts/review_poster.sh 6.3 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.
- 26d ago Changed · -186 lines · -11 tokens per session 4350dc80280f
- 27d ago Changed e0e067b79eb0
- 1mo ago First seen · 388 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 5fd68aee9461
latex-posters is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills (54,953 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 2,444 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.
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