osti-database

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Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a data skill usually connects to databases or online services with your credentials.

By lamm-mit/scienceclaw (GitHub) · data · 251 stars · scanned at commit 894598c

Search OSTI.gov for DOE technical reports on critical minerals, energy, and materials science

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

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Found in 6 places.

skills/osti-database/SKILL.md, line 20python3 {baseDir}/scripts/osti_search.py --query "rare earth separation"
skills/osti-database/SKILL.md, line 25python3 {baseDir}/scripts/osti_search.py --query "extraction" --commodity HREE
skills/osti-database/SKILL.md, line 30python3 {baseDir}/scripts/osti_search.py --query "lithium recovery" --year-from 2020 --year-to 2025

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skills/osti-database/SKILL.md, line 35python3 {baseDir}/scripts/osti_search.py --query "critical minerals" --product-type "Technical Report"
skills/osti-database/SKILL.md, line 40python3 {baseDir}/scripts/osti_search.py --query "cobalt supply chain" --format json --limit 20
skills/osti-database/SKILL.md, line 75python3 {baseDir}/scripts/osti_search.py --query "heavy rare earth separation" --commodity HREE

Downloads and installs other software

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Found in 1 place.

skills/osti-database/scripts/osti_search.py, line 18print("Error: requests is required. Install with: pip install requests")

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this. Expected for a data skill.

Found in 1 place.

skills/osti-database/scripts/osti_search.py, line 95response = requests.get(OSTI_API, params=params, headers=headers, timeout=30)

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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/'osti-database' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'osti-database' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named osti-database already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/lamm-mit/scienceclaw' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '894598cd3a90891a077c254566276bd379038bad' -- 'skills/osti-database' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/osti-database' ~/.agents/skills/'osti-database' && 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/'osti-database' ~/.claude/skills/'osti-database' (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	`894598c`	75