pylabrobot

pylabrobot is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from magic3007/dotfiles. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,833 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of pylabrobot, MIT.

A Python framework for programming automated laboratory equipment from different vendors through one interface. It can control liquid handlers, readers, pumps, incubators, centrifuges, and other devices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to automate pipetting and sample preparation, manage plates and tips, coordinate multiple lab devices, simulate workflows, and build reproducible laboratory protocols.
Why use it?
It avoids writing separate control code for every supported machine and can simulate protocols before physical execution.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to automate pipetting and sample preparation, manage plates and tips, coordinate multiple lab devices, simulate workflows, and build reproducible laboratory protocols.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magic3007/dotfiles/pylabrobot
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,833 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00073 $0.01833
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00916
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00367
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00183

Measured 5d ago against content hash f9b4468e083a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pylabrobot 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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to pylabrobot — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

claude/skills/scientific-agent-skills/skills/pylabrobot/SKILL.md · 185 lines

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.

PyLabRobot

Overview

PyLabRobot is a hardware-agnostic, pure Python Software Development Kit for automated and autonomous laboratories. Use this skill to control liquid handling robots, plate readers, pumps, heater shakers, incubators, centrifuges, and other laboratory automation equipment through a unified Python interface that works across platforms (Windows, macOS, Linux).

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Programming liquid handling robots (Hamilton STAR/STARlet, Opentrons OT-2, Tecan EVO)
  • Automating laboratory workflows involving pipetting, sample preparation, or analytical measurements
  • Managing deck layouts and laboratory resources (plates, tips, containers, troughs)
  • Integrating multiple lab devices (liquid handlers, plate readers, heater shakers, pumps)
  • Creating reproducible laboratory protocols with state management
  • Simulating protocols before running on physical hardware
  • Reading plates using BMG CLARIOstar or other supported plate readers
  • Controlling temperature, shaking, centrifugation, or other material handling operations
  • Working with laboratory automation in Python

Core Capabilities

PyLabRobot provides comprehensive laboratory automation through six main capability areas, each detailed in the references/ directory:

1. Liquid Handling (references/liquid-handling.md)

Control liquid handling robots for aspirating, dispensing, and transferring liquids. Key operations include:

  • Basic Operations: Aspirate, dispense, transfer liquids between wells
  • Tip Management: Pick up, drop, and track pipette tips automatically
  • Advanced Techniques: Multi-channel pipetting, serial dilutions, plate replication
  • Volume Tracking: Automatic tracking of liquid volumes in wells
  • Hardware Support: Hamilton STAR/STARlet, Opentrons OT-2, Tecan EVO, and others

2. Resource Management (references/resources.md)

Manage laboratory resources in a hierarchical system:

  • Resource Types: Plates, tip racks, troughs, tubes, carriers, and custom labware
  • Deck Layout: Assign resources to deck positions with coordinate systems
  • State Management: Track tip presence, liquid volumes, and resource states
  • Serialization: Save and load deck layouts and states from JSON files
  • Resource Discovery: Access wells, tips, and containers through intuitive APIs

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 5d ago First seen · 185 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A f9b4468e083a

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pylabrobot is a skill published in the GitHub repository magic3007/dotfiles (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,833 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to pylabrobot, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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