setup-tooluniverse

setup-tooluniverse is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Zaoqu-Liu/ScienceClaw. It costs 208 tokens per session (4,334 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide helps install and configure ToolUniverse, software that lets an AI assistant search many scientific databases from one place.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for connecting ToolUniverse to clients such as Codex, Cursor, Claude Desktop, and VS Code, then using its scientific search tools.
Why use it?
It removes the need to set up the MCP server, command-line tool, or Python library and configure each supported AI client by hand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for cline. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It is for connecting ToolUniverse to clients such as Codex, Cursor, Claude Desktop, and VS Code, then using its scientific search tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zaoqu-liu/scienceclaw/setup-tooluniverse
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Zaoqu-Liu/ScienceClaw --skill setup-tooluniverse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zaoqu-Liu/ScienceClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 208 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,334 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. ✓ AI security review Sonnet 5 · 7 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
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 $0.00208 $0.04334
Opus 5 $0.00104 $0.02167
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00867
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00433

Measured 8d ago against content hash e724fa535c47, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-tooluniverse 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 8d 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.

skills/setup-tooluniverse/SKILL.md · 358 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 358 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup ToolUniverse

Guide the user step-by-step through setting up ToolUniverse.

Agent Behavior

  • Detect language from user's first message. Respond in their language; keep commands/URLs in English.
  • Go one step at a time. Ask before proceeding.
  • Use AskQuestion for structured choices.
  • Explain briefly in plain language. Celebrate small wins.
  • When something goes wrong, help troubleshoot before moving on.

Internal Notes (do not show)

ToolUniverse has 1200+ tools. The tooluniverse command enables compact mode automatically, exposing only 5 core MCP tools (list_tools, grep_tools, get_tool_info, execute_tool, find_tools) while keeping all tools accessible via execute_tool.

What is ToolUniverse?

Always explain first, in plain language:

ToolUniverse is free, open-source software connecting to 2,000+ scientific databases (PubMed, UniProt, ChEMBL, FAERS, ClinicalTrials.gov, etc.). Instead of visiting each website, you search from one place. Think of it like a universal remote for scientific databases.

Why AI assistants? The AI reads your question, figures out which databases to search, runs queries, and summarizes results. You just ask your question.

Step 1: Choose How to Use It

Present using AskQuestion:

Mode What it means Who it's for
Chat mode Ask questions to an AI assistant. No coding. Most researchers.
Command line Type short commands in Terminal. Quick tests. Terminal-comfortable users.
Python code Write scripts for automated pipelines. Programmers.

Options: "I want to ask questions" → Chat mode | "Quick try" → CLI | "I write Python" → SDK | "I don't know" → Recommend Chat mode

If Chat mode, ask which app (AskQuestion): Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code/Copilot, Windsurf, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, Cline/Trae/Antigravity/OpenCode. "I don't have any" → Recommend Claude Desktop.

Step 2: Install uv

Read the full file on GitHub · 358 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. 8d ago First seen · 358 lines · 208 tokens per session scan F e724fa535c47

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setup-tooluniverse is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zaoqu-Liu/ScienceClaw (60 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 208 tokens to every session and 4,334 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-09-03.

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