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 what-if-oraclegit 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/what-if-oracle)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/what-if-oracle"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/what-if-oracle/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/what-if-oracle"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/what-if-oracle.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 | $0.00063 | $0.02098 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00032 | $0.01049 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00420 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00210 |
Grade A, and why
what-if-oracle 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 9d 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:
- what-if-oracle — 100% identical, 6 lines differ
- what-if-oracle — 100% identical, 2 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
What-If Oracle — Possibility Space Explorer
A structured system for exploring uncertain futures through rigorous multi-branch scenario analysis. Instead of one prediction, the Oracle maps the full possibility space — branching timelines where each path has its own logic, probability, and consequences.
Based on the What-If Paradigm: the idea that speculative questions ("What if X?") are not idle daydreaming but a fundamental computing operation — the mind's way of simulating futures before committing resources to one.
Published research: The What-If Paradigm (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18736841) | IDNA v2 / Unified Digital Consciousness Theory (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18807387)
When to Use This Skill
Use the Oracle when the user:
- Asks "what if…", "what would happen if…", or "explore the possibilities"
- Faces a fork-in-the-road decision with no obvious answer
- Wants best-case / worst-case / likely-case analysis with probabilities
- Needs contingency planning, risk mapping, or strategic option comparison
- Wants to stress-test an idea or think through second-order consequences
For domain-specific framing (startup, tech architecture, crisis response, etc.), see references/scenario-templates.md.
Core Principle: 0·IF·1
Every scenario analysis has three elements:
- 0 — The unexpressed state (what hasn't happened yet, the potential)
- 1 — The expressed state (what IS, the current reality)
- IF — The conditional bond (the decision, event, or change that transforms 0 into 1)
The quality of the analysis depends on the precision of the IF. A vague "what if things go wrong?" produces vague results. A precise "what if our primary supplier raises prices 30% in Q3?" produces actionable intelligence.
How to Run the Oracle
Phase 1 — Frame the Question
Take the user's What-If question and sharpen it:
Decompose into components:
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 185 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A db41c8494457
what-if-oracle is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills (44,469 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,098 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.
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