benchling-integration

benchling-integration is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from magic3007/dotfiles. It costs 50 tokens per session (3,554 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python SDK and REST API integration for Benchling, a cloud platform used by life-science teams to manage experiments, samples, biological records, and workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage DNA, RNA, and protein records, samples and storage locations, electronic lab notebook entries, workflows, data analysis queries, and connections to other systems.
Why use it?
It removes the need to perform Benchling tasks manually or build separate low-level API requests for each type of laboratory data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magic3007/dotfiles/benchling-integration
Any agent
npx skills add magic3007/dotfiles --skill benchling-integration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magic3007/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,554 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00050 $0.03554
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01777
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00711
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00355

Measured 3d ago against content hash ab64829d9ea2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

benchling-integration 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 3d 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.

claude/skills/scientific-agent-skills/skills/benchling-integration/SKILL.md · 534 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 534 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Benchling Integration

Overview

Benchling is a cloud platform for life sciences R&D. Access registry entities (DNA, RNA, proteins), inventory, electronic lab notebooks, and workflows programmatically via the Python SDK and REST API.

Version note: Examples target benchling-sdk 1.25.0 (latest stable on PyPI). Docs: benchling.com/sdk-docs. Platform guide: docs.benchling.com.

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when:

  • Working with Benchling's Python SDK or REST API
  • Managing biological sequences (DNA, RNA, proteins) and registry entities
  • Automating inventory operations (samples, containers, locations, transfers)
  • Creating or querying electronic lab notebook entries
  • Building workflow automations or Benchling Apps
  • Syncing data between Benchling and external systems
  • Querying the Benchling Data Warehouse for analytics
  • Setting up event-driven integrations with AWS EventBridge

Core Capabilities

1. Authentication & Setup

Python SDK installation:

uv pip install "benchling-sdk==1.25.0"

Preview builds (alpha; not for production):

uv pip install "benchling-sdk" --prerelease allow

Environment variables (scoped reads only):

Read only the named keys you need — never dump or iterate over the full environment:

import os

tenant_url = os.environ.get("BENCHLING_TENANT_URL")  # e.g. https://your-tenant.benchling.com
api_key = os.environ.get("BENCHLING_API_KEY")

if not tenant_url or not api_key:
    raise ValueError("Set BENCHLING_TENANT_URL and BENCHLING_API_KEY")

Obtain an API key from Profile Settings in Benchling. For OAuth apps, use the Developer Console and store BENCHLING_CLIENT_ID / BENCHLING_CLIENT_SECRET separately.

Authentication methods:

API key (scripts and personal automation):

from benchling_sdk.benchling import Benchling
from benchling_sdk.auth.api_key_auth import ApiKeyAuth

benchling = Benchling(
    url=tenant_url,
    auth_method=ApiKeyAuth(api_key),
)

Read the full file on GitHub · 534 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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.

Changes

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.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 534 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A ab64829d9ea2

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benchling-integration is a skill published in the GitHub repository magic3007/dotfiles (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 3,554 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 2026-08-31.

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