gbif-api

gbif-api is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wentorai/research-plugins. It costs 13 tokens per session (1,667 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A programming guide for the GBIF API, which provides open access to worldwide biodiversity records from museums, monitoring programs, research papers, and citizen-science projects. Records describe where and when species were observed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve species occurrences, match scientific names, build distribution models, study invasive species, or support conservation and environmental assessments.
Why use it?
It avoids manual downloads from many biodiversity sources and provides common ways to search records by species, location, date, and dataset.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to retrieve species occurrences, match scientific names, build distribution models, study invasive species, or support conservation and environmental assessments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wentorai/research-plugins/gbif-api
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 wentorai/research-plugins --skill gbif-api
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,667 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 11 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 33
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 50
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 59
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 71
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 80
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 94
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 101
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 117
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 137
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 147
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 94
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00013 $0.01667
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00834
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00333
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00167

Measured 6d ago against content hash c15aae22f597, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gbif-api scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl "https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?scientificName=Panthera+tigris&hasCoordinate=true&limit=10"
skills/domains/ecology/gbif-api/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GBIF API Guide

Overview

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international network and data infrastructure funded by governments worldwide, aimed at providing open access to biodiversity data. GBIF aggregates hundreds of millions of species occurrence records from natural history collections, citizen science platforms, monitoring networks, and published literature across the globe.

The GBIF API provides programmatic access to this vast repository of biodiversity data. Researchers can search for species occurrences by taxonomy, geography, time period, and dataset. The API also supports taxonomic name matching, dataset discovery, and species profile lookups. It serves as a foundational resource for ecological research, conservation planning, biogeography, and environmental impact assessments.

Ecologists, conservation biologists, biogeographers, and environmental scientists rely on the GBIF API to retrieve georeferenced occurrence data for species distribution modeling, climate change impact analysis, invasive species tracking, and biodiversity hotspot identification. The data is freely available under open data licenses.

Authentication

No authentication required for read access. The GBIF API is publicly accessible without any API key or token. All search and retrieval endpoints are open. User authentication is only required for data publishing operations (creating datasets and uploading occurrences), which requires a GBIF account.

Core Endpoints

occurrence/search: Search Species Occurrences

Search for georeferenced biodiversity observation and specimen records across all GBIF-indexed datasets.

  • URL: GET https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search
  • Parameters:
Parameter Type Required Description
q string No Full-text search query
taxonKey int No GBIF backbone taxonomy key
scientificName string No Scientific name to filter by
country string No ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
hasCoordinate bool No Filter for georeferenced records only
year string No Year or range (e.g., 2020,2024)
limit int No Number of results (default 20, max 300)
offset int No Pagination offset

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 159 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A c15aae22f597

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gbif-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository wentorai/research-plugins (291 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,667 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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