synthetic-sciences/openscience is an AI workbench that carries out scientific research by reading papers, forming hypotheses, writing and running code, conducting experiments, analyzing results, and preparing reports. Researchers use it for work in machine learning, biology, physics, and chemistry with remote or local models. Catalogue add-ons extend its scientific workflows through skills and 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 synthetic-sciences/openscience --skill hugging-face-datasetsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synthetic-sciences/openscienceWrote 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/synthetic-sciences/openscience/hugging-face-datasets)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/synthetic-sciences/openscience/hugging-face-datasets"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/synthetic-sciences/openscience/hugging-face-datasets/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.
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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 | $0.04296 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00020 | $0.01718 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00859 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00430 |
Grade A, and why
hugging-face-datasets 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 17d 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.
This is a copy
86% identical to hugging-face-datasets — 1,110 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 571 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Overview
This skill provides tools to manage datasets on the Hugging Face Hub with a focus on creation, configuration, content management, and SQL-based data manipulation. It is designed to complement the existing Hugging Face MCP server by providing dataset editing and querying capabilities.
Integration with HF MCP Server
- Use HF MCP Server for: Dataset discovery, search, and metadata retrieval
- Use This Skill for: Dataset creation, content editing, SQL queries, data transformation, and structured data formatting
Version
2.1.0
Dependencies
This skill uses PEP 723 scripts with inline dependency management
Scripts auto-install requirements when run with: uv run scripts/.py
- uv (Python package manager)
- Getting Started: See "Usage Instructions" below for PEP 723 usage
Core Capabilities
1. Dataset Lifecycle Management
- Initialize: Create new dataset repositories with proper structure
- Configure: Store detailed configuration including system prompts and metadata
- Stream Updates: Add rows efficiently without downloading entire datasets
2. SQL-Based Dataset Querying (NEW)
Query any Hugging Face dataset using DuckDB SQL via scripts/sql_manager.py:
- Direct Queries: Run SQL on datasets using the
hf://protocol - Schema Discovery: Describe dataset structure and column types
- Data Sampling: Get random samples for exploration
- Aggregations: Count, histogram, unique values analysis
- Transformations: Filter, join, reshape data with SQL
- Export & Push: Save results locally or push to new Hub repos
3. Multi-Format Dataset Support
Supports diverse dataset types through template system:
- Chat/Conversational: Chat templating, multi-turn dialogues, tool usage examples
- Text Classification: Sentiment analysis, intent detection, topic classification
- Question-Answering: Reading comprehension, factual QA, knowledge bases
- Text Completion: Language modeling, code completion, creative writing
- Tabular Data: Structured data for regression/classification tasks
- Custom Formats: Flexible schema definition for specialized needs
What ships with it
15 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.
- examples/diverse_training_examples.json 17 KB
- examples/system_prompt_template.txt 5.3 KB
- examples/training_examples.json 6.7 KB
- scripts/dataset_manager.py 22 KB runs code
- scripts/sql_manager.py 28 KB runs code
- templates/chat.json 2.2 KB
- templates/classification.json 1.9 KB
- templates/completion.json 2.6 KB
- templates/custom.json 2.4 KB
- templates/qa.json 2.6 KB
- templates/tabular.json 2.5 KB
- tests/test_dataset_manager_init.py 2.6 KB runs code
- tests/test_dataset_manager_templates.py 4.6 KB runs code
- tests/test_dataset_manager.py 4.1 KB runs code
- tests/test_sql_manager.py 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.
- 17d ago Changed · +2 lines 4bca09862147
- 1mo ago Changed · +8 lines 26d6da20c804
- 1mo ago Changed 65d617212c96
- 1mo ago First seen · 561 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 5e9143dc9be2
hugging-face-datasets is a skill published in the GitHub repository synthetic-sciences/openscience (4,233 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 4,296 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to hugging-face-datasets, differing in 1,110 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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