ncbi-datasets

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

By lilinji/GeneTind-Life-Skills (GitHub) · data · 17 stars · scanned at commit 908229c

Download genomes, genes, virus sequences, and taxonomy data from NCBI using the datasets and dataformat CLI tools.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this.

Found in 3 places.

skills/ncbi-datasets/SKILL.md, line 118datasets summary genome taxon human --assembly-source refseq --as-json-lines \
skills/ncbi-datasets/SKILL.md, line 159datasets summary genome taxon 'saccharomyces cerevisiae' \
skills/ncbi-datasets/SKILL.md, line 203conda install -c conda-forge ncbi-datasets-cli

Sends data to these websites: ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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

Found in 6 places.

skills/ncbi-datasets/references/ncbi-datasets.md, line 28curl -o datasets 'https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/datasets/command-line/v2/mac/datasets'
skills/ncbi-datasets/references/ncbi-datasets.md, line 29curl -o dataformat 'https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/datasets/command-line/v2/mac/dataformat'
skills/ncbi-datasets/references/ncbi-datasets.md, line 35curl -o datasets 'https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/datasets/command-line/v2/linux-amd64/datasets'

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skills/ncbi-datasets/references/ncbi-datasets.md, line 36curl -o dataformat 'https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/datasets/command-line/v2/linux-amd64/dataformat'
skills/ncbi-datasets/references/ncbi-datasets.md, line 42curl -o datasets.exe "https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/datasets/command-line/v2/win64/datasets.exe"
skills/ncbi-datasets/references/ncbi-datasets.md, line 43curl -o dataformat.exe "https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/datasets/command-line/v2/win64/dataformat.exe"

Changes files outside its own folder

The author does not mention this.

Found in 3 places.

skills/ncbi-datasets/references/ncbi-datasets.md, line 413datasets completion bash >> ~/.bashrc
skills/ncbi-datasets/references/ncbi-datasets.md, line 416datasets completion zsh >> ~/.zshrc
skills/ncbi-datasets/references/ncbi-datasets.md, line 419datasets completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/datasets.fish

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'ncbi-datasets' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'ncbi-datasets' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named ncbi-datasets already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/lilinji/GeneTind-Life-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '908229c955510a1841b216e8bf58f6b22818d4dc' -- 'skills/ncbi-datasets' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/ncbi-datasets' ~/.agents/skills/'ncbi-datasets' && 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' ~/.claude/skills/'ncbi-datasets' (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
2026-11-11	`908229c`	82

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stanfish06/skillquarium/skills/ncbi-datasets