> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# flowio — AI agent skill for life sciences

> Read, inspect, and write Flow Cytometry Standard (FCS) 2.0, 3.0, and 3.1 files with FlowIO.

# `flowio`

> Read, inspect, and write Flow Cytometry Standard (FCS) 2.0, 3.0, and 3.1 files with FlowIO. Use for low-level FCS metadata and channel inspection, NumPy event extraction, multi-dataset files, table export, and FCS 3.1 creation; use FlowKit for compensation, cytometry transforms, gating, or FlowJo workspaces.

**Category:** [life-sciences](/skills#life-sciences) · **License:** BSD-3-Clause license · **Version:** 2.1

## Install

```bash theme={null}
npx research-agent-skills install flowio
npx skills add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills --skill flowio
```

## When to use it

Read, inspect, and write Flow Cytometry Standard (FCS) 2.0, 3.0, and 3.1 files with FlowIO. Use for low-level FCS metadata and channel inspection, NumPy event extraction, multi-dataset files, table export, and FCS 3.1 creation; use FlowKit for compensation, cytometry transforms, gating, or FlowJo workspaces.

## Full playbook

Read [SKILL.md](https://github.com/KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills/blob/main/skills/flowio/SKILL.md) for the complete workflow, references and any scripts. The agent installer copies the full skill folder.