Installation

Biology Skills is vendor-neutral. Each directory under skills/ follows the Agent Skills format and can be used independently.

Install with Agent Skills

Install directly from GitHub:

npx skills add biologyskills/biology-skills

The installer discovers the available Biology Skills domains and lets you choose which to install.

For general biological work, select:

biology-core

For more advanced details, select one or all:

biology-core
genomics
...

You can install additional domains independently as required.

Manual installation

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/biologyskills/biology-skills.git
cd biology-skills

Then expose the relevant directories under skills/ using the Agent Skills mechanism supported by your AI client.

For example:

skills/biology-core/
skills/genomics/
...

Your AI client determines where Agent Skills are installed or exposed. Biology Skills keeps the canonical skill definitions vendor-neutral rather than maintaining client-specific copies.

Reproducible use

For research, regulated work, or other reproducible workflows, pin a tagged Biology Skills release rather than depending on the moving main branch.

Systems without Agent Skills

Generate portable Markdown bundles from the canonical files:

python scripts/export.py

Output is written to build/, including a compact biology-essentials.md bundle and short, standard, and complete topic views.