bids

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By KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills (GitHub) · research · 126 stars · scanned at commit 802bbea

Organizes, queries, validates, and converts neuroscience and biomedical datasets using the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) standard, covering MRI, PET, EEG, MEG, iEEG, EMG, NIRS, microscopy, motion capture, and behavioral data. Covers PyBIDS (BIDSLayout), the bids-validator, HeuDiConv, dcm2bids, BIDScoin, JSON sidecars, dataset_description.json, events.tsv, participants.tsv, .bidsignore, and derivatives. Use when arranging raw data into BIDS directories and filenames. Use when converting DI…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

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skills/bids/SKILL.md, line 49uv pip install pybids
skills/bids/SKILL.md, line 52uv pip install bids-validator-deno
skills/bids/SKILL.md, line 57uv pip install heudiconv # HeuDiConv - heuristic-based DICOM conversion

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skills/bids/SKILL.md, line 58uv pip install dcm2bids # dcm2bids - config-file-based conversion
skills/bids/SKILL.md, line 62uv pip install nibabel # NIfTI/other neuroimaging file I/O
skills/bids/SKILL.md, line 63uv pip install pydicom # DICOM file reading (used by converters)
skills/bids/references/conversion_tools.md, line 16uv pip install heudiconv
skills/bids/references/conversion_tools.md, line 262uv pip install dcm2bids
skills/bids/references/conversion_tools.md, line 398uv pip install bidscoin
skills/bids/references/conversion_tools.md, line 400uv pip install "bidscoin[all]"
skills/bids/references/core_workflows.md, line 162uv pip install bids-validator-deno
skills/bids/references/core_workflows.md, line 185The older Node.js-based validator (`npm install -g bids-validator`) is deprecated in favor of the Deno-based version. The Deno version is the reference implemen

Runs commands on your computer

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skills/bids/SKILL.md, line 49uv pip install pybids

Connects to the internet

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a research skill.

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skills/bids/scripts/update_schema.py, line 22import urllib.request
skills/bids/scripts/update_schema.py, line 31def fetch(url):
skills/bids/scripts/update_schema.py, line 34req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "bids-skill-updater/1.0"})

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skills/bids/scripts/update_schema.py, line 35with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as resp:
skills/bids/scripts/update_schema.py, line 41data = fetch(url)
skills/bids/scripts/update_schema.py, line 58data = fetch(BEPS_URL)

Install

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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'bids' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'bids' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named bids already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '802bbea44e551abac24d6856f83fc55149bbdba3' -- 'skills/bids' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/bids' ~/.agents/skills/'bids' && 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/'bids' ~/.claude/skills/'bids' (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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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-13	`802bbea`	77
2026-11-07	`29fe36d`	100