datalad

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

Retrieve, version, and publish scientific datasets with DataLad and git-annex, and capture computational provenance with datalad run, rerun, and containers-run. Use when cloning or fetching data from OpenNeuro, DANDI, datasets.datalad.org, or any DataLad dataset; when a file in a dataset reads as a broken symlink or a small pointer instead of real data; when an analysis needs a machine-readable record of how each output was produced so it can be re-executed; or when publishing a dataset to sibl…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

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What this skill can do

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 4 places.

skills/datalad/SKILL.md, line 5compatibility: Needs datalad 1.6.x on Python 3.10+, plus git and git-annex 10.x. git-annex is not written in Python but installs as a prebuilt wheel from PyPI (
skills/datalad/SKILL.md, line 57uv pip install git-annex
skills/datalad/SKILL.md, line 61uv pip install datalad

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skills/datalad/SKILL.md, line 62uv pip install datalad-container # only for containers-run

Runs commands on your computer

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 10 places.

skills/datalad/SKILL.md, line 57uv pip install git-annex
skills/datalad/SKILL.md, line 85datalad clone https://github.com/OpenNeuroDatasets/ds000001.git
skills/datalad/SKILL.md, line 100datalad get sub-01/ # everything under a path

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skills/datalad/SKILL.md, line 119datalad run -m "extract brain mask" \
skills/datalad/SKILL.md, line 148datalad rerun # redo the run recorded at HEAD
skills/datalad/SKILL.md, line 164datalad containers-add fsl --url docker://brainlife/fsl:6.0.4
skills/datalad/SKILL.md, line 182datalad status # what changed, including subdataset state
skills/datalad/SKILL.md, line 197datalad create my_dataset # plain dataset
skills/datalad/SKILL.md, line 213datalad create-sibling-github myaccount/mydataset
skills/datalad/SKILL.md, line 242git annex whereis sub-01/ # confirm another copy exists first

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'datalad' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'datalad' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named datalad 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 "$d" checkout --quiet '802bbea44e551abac24d6856f83fc55149bbdba3' -- 'skills/datalad' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/datalad' ~/.agents/skills/'datalad' && 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/'datalad' ~/.claude/skills/'datalad' (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`	82
2026-11-07	`29fe36d`	100