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
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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 | $0.00067 | $0.01654 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00034 | $0.00827 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00331 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00165 |
Grade A, and why
sentence-transformers 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 4d 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 sentence-transformers — 15 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 — 269 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Sentence Transformers - State-of-the-Art Embeddings
Python framework for sentence and text embeddings using transformers.
When to use Sentence Transformers
Use when:
- Need high-quality embeddings for RAG
- Semantic similarity and search
- Text clustering and classification
- Multilingual embeddings (100+ languages)
- Running embeddings locally (no API)
- Cost-effective alternative to OpenAI embeddings
Metrics:
- 15,700+ GitHub stars
- 5000+ pre-trained models
- 100+ languages supported
- Based on PyTorch/Transformers
Use alternatives instead:
- OpenAI Embeddings: Need API-based, highest quality
- Instructor: Task-specific instructions
- Cohere Embed: Managed service
Quick start
Installation
pip install sentence-transformers
Basic usage
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
# Load model
model = SentenceTransformer('all-MiniLM-L6-v2')
# Generate embeddings
sentences = [
"This is an example sentence",
"Each sentence is converted to a vector"
]
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings.shape) # (2, 384)
# Cosine similarity
from sentence_transformers.util import cos_sim
similarity = cos_sim(embeddings[0], embeddings[1])
print(f"Similarity: {similarity.item():.4f}")
Popular models
General purpose
# Fast, good quality (384 dim)
model = SentenceTransformer('all-MiniLM-L6-v2')
# Better quality (768 dim)
model = SentenceTransformer('all-mpnet-base-v2')
# Best quality (1024 dim, slower)
model = SentenceTransformer('all-roberta-large-v1')
Multilingual
# 50+ languages
model = SentenceTransformer('paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2')
# 100+ languages
model = SentenceTransformer('paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2')
Domain-specific
# Legal domain
model = SentenceTransformer('nlpaueb/legal-bert-base-uncased')
# Scientific papers
model = SentenceTransformer('allenai/specter')
# Code
model = SentenceTransformer('microsoft/codebert-base')
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 269 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 39e0b57a6a32
sentence-transformers is a skill published in the GitHub repository synthetic-sciences/openscience (3,501 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,654 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to sentence-transformers, differing in 15 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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