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 pptx-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/pptx-posters)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/pptx-posters"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/pptx-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/pptx-posters"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/pptx-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 | $0.00059 | $0.02763 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00024 | $0.01105 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00553 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00276 |
Grade A, and why
pptx-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 24d 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
3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- pptx-posters — 100% identical, 37 lines differ
- pptx-posters — 86% identical, 0 lines differ
- pptx-posters — 86% identical, 37 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 297 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
PPTX posters
Scope
Use this skill only when the requested source/deliverable is an editable PowerPoint poster. Do not route an unspecified poster request here merely because PowerPoint is available.
The manifest 2.0 workflow generates a real one-slide .pptx from strict local JSON. It does not use
HTML conversion, external templates, schematic/image-generation services, API keys,
environment files, network requests, or mandatory figure styles.
Hard gates
Stop instead of guessing when any gate is unmet:
- The author has not supplied exact poster content and source records.
- Any claim, number, citation, author, affiliation, funding statement, figure, license, or QR target is unresolved.
- Current conference and printer requirements are not confirmed.
- Author approval is not bound to the current manifest content hash.
- An asset is remote, outside the manifest directory, unhashed, or unapproved.
- An input is
.pptm, contains macros/external relationships/OLE/embedded files, or is an untrusted template. - The requested workflow needs PowerPoint to be opened or executed automatically.
- A script reports a package, layout, DPI, contrast, or output-plan blocker.
Never fabricate missing material or leave a plausible placeholder. Drafts fail closed.
Install exact generation dependencies
In the poster project directory, create an environment outside this skill tree. Activate it before running the tools (macOS/Linux shown):
uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install "python-pptx==1.0.2" "Pillow==12.3.0" "lxml==6.1.3"
On Windows PowerShell, activate with .venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1. Then run the
CLI commands below from the skill directory with that environment still active.
Package installation needs network access unless the exact wheels are cached; the
poster tools themselves are local. Generation requires exactly:
python-pptx==1.0.2
Pillow==12.3.0
lxml==6.1.3
All CLIs use lazy optional imports, so python -B scripts/<tool>.py --help works
without these packages. Use -B to avoid bytecode artifacts.
What ships with it
20 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/generation_dependencies.json 70 B
- assets/poster_manifest_template.json 4.4 KB
- assets/poster_quality_checklist.md 8.5 KB
- references/manifest_spec.md 9.2 KB
- references/poster_content_guide.md 7.6 KB
- references/poster_design_principles.md 10 KB
- references/poster_layout_design.md 8.4 KB
- references/pptx_security.md 8.7 KB
- references/security_validation.md 4.3 KB
- references/source_ledger.md 14 KB
- scripts/_common.py 13 KB runs code
- scripts/_manifest.py 46 KB runs code
- scripts/_pptx.py 53 KB runs code
- scripts/check_layout.py 5.8 KB runs code
- scripts/check_palette.py 4.7 KB runs code
- scripts/generate_poster.py 15 KB runs code
- scripts/inspect_pptx.py 1.2 KB runs code
- scripts/inventory_images.py 9.4 KB runs code
- scripts/plan_export.py 9.0 KB runs code
- scripts/validate_manifest.py 1.6 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.
- 24d ago Changed · +14 lines bb4923ec520a
- 25d ago Changed · +7 lines 82c93c70d3b3
- 1mo ago First seen · 276 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A fa9416651e2e
pptx-posters is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills (54,587 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 2,763 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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