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ncbi-datasets-api
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Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.
By brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills (GitHub) · research · 5,016 stars · scanned at commit 8684584
Access genomes, genes, and taxonomy data via NCBI Datasets v2 API
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Sends data to these websites: api.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The author does not mention this. Expected for a research skill.
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- skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/biomedical/ncbi-datasets-api/SKILL.md, line 46
curl "https://api.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/v2/gene/symbol/TP53/taxon/human" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/biomedical/ncbi-datasets-api/SKILL.md, line 49
curl "https://api.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/v2/gene/id/7157" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/biomedical/ncbi-datasets-api/SKILL.md, line 52
curl "https://api.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/v2/gene/search?query=BRCA&taxon=9606&page_size=20" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/biomedical/ncbi-datasets-api/SKILL.md, line 55
curl -o gene.zip \ - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/biomedical/ncbi-datasets-api/SKILL.md, line 63
curl "https://api.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/v2/taxonomy/taxon/9606" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/biomedical/ncbi-datasets-api/SKILL.md, line 66
curl "https://api.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/v2/taxonomy/name_report?taxon_query=Homo+sapiens" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/biomedical/ncbi-datasets-api/SKILL.md, line 69
curl "https://api.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/v2/taxonomy/taxon/9443/subtree" - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/biomedical/ncbi-datasets-api/SKILL.md, line 128
resp = requests.get( - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/biomedical/ncbi-datasets-api/SKILL.md, line 152
resp = requests.get(f"{BASE_URL}/gene/id/{gene_id}") - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/biomedical/ncbi-datasets-api/SKILL.md, line 165
resp = requests.get( - skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/biomedical/ncbi-datasets-api/SKILL.md, line 206
curl -o datasets "https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/datasets/command-line/v2/linux-amd64/datasets"
Runs commands on your computer
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'ncbi-datasets-api' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'ncbi-datasets-api' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named ncbi-datasets-api already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8684584e7d1127940f018157d2c579974fae8f79' -- 'skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/biomedical/ncbi-datasets-api' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/43-wentorai-research-plugins/skills/domains/biomedical/ncbi-datasets-api' ~/.agents/skills/'ncbi-datasets-api' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'ncbi-datasets-api' ~/.claude/skills/'ncbi-datasets-api' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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| Date | Version | Score |
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| 2026-11-10 | 8684584 | 90 |
| 2026-11-08 | bfa0a6e | 90 |
| 2026-11-07 | bfa0a6e | 90 |