AI agent skills by research field
Research Agent Skills from Kalaris Labs combines scientific data tools with skills for literature review, academic writing, citations and publication. Researchers in academia can start with a focused bundle:ml-research, ai-research, biology-research, chemistry-research, medicine-research or
physics-research. For example, run npx research-agent-skills install --bundle biology-research --project.
Install an entire field category with npx research-agent-skills install --category <name>.
The default research-essentials bundle covers
writing, journal formats, literature review, ideation and figures across disciplines.
Life sciences, genomics and bioinformatics
Installlife-sciences for workflows involving sequencing, single-cell analysis, biological networks and
biomedical data. For example, scanpy explores single-cell RNA-seq data,
scvi-tools covers probabilistic single-cell models, and
pydeseq2 supports differential expression analysis. Add
scientific-databases when the task needs external records and identifiers.
Chemistry, drug discovery and materials
Installchemistry-and-drug-discovery for molecule handling and computational chemistry. Start with
rdkit for cheminformatics, deepchem
for molecular machine learning and molecular-dynamics
for simulation workflows. Materials researchers can add pymatgen.
Clinical and health research
Installclinical-and-health for research workflows involving medical images, biomedical datasets and
clinical reporting. pydicom helps inspect DICOM data,
pathml covers computational pathology, and
clinical-reports helps structure research reports. Check
institutional rules before sharing patient data with any agent or external service.
Physics, astronomy and earth science
Installphysical-sciences for scientific computing in these fields. astropy
handles astronomy data and coordinates, qiskit supports quantum circuits,
pymatgen covers materials analysis, and
geopandas supports geospatial research.
Psychology, social science and statistics
Start withresearch-essentials and data-science-and-ml. Use
experimental-design for study plans,
statistical-power for sample-size reasoning,
statistical-analysis for analyses, and
apa7 for APA-formatted manuscripts. For evidence synthesis, follow the
systematic review guide.
AI and machine learning research
Install the relevantml-training, ml-evaluation-and-safety, ml-inference-and-ops, or
multimodal-and-emerging category. ml-paper-writing
covers ML conference papers; evaluating-llms-harness
addresses model evaluation; pytorch-fsdp2 covers distributed training.
Use reproducibility-statement to document experimental details.
Lab automation and research operations
Installlab-automation for supported instruments and protocol systems. Start with
opentrons-integration,
pylabrobot, or
protocolsio-integration, depending on your equipment
and workflow. Review generated protocols before executing them in a lab.
Browse every skill in the catalog. Missing your field? Request a skill.
For paper discovery across fields, firecrawl-research-index
queries Firecrawl’s hosted paper index. For questions over PDFs already in your lab,
use paper-corpus-rag.