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scientific-toolkit-skill
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Research computing toolkit for optoelectronic information science and engineering, MATLAB/Octave, Python scientific analysis, signal processing, image processing, statistics, simulation, optimization, publication figures, sensor/time-series data, citation lookup, and common scientific libraries. Use when the user asks for MATLAB code, scientific Python, data analysis, plots, simulations, formulas, statistics, machine learning, optical/physical/materials computation, or reproducible research workflows.
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 5,085 stars are split between them (about 509 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 65/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 7ed6377f0efb, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Reads environment variables and sends network requests with them API clients do this to send your key to the service. Check which service it talks to.references/scientific-skills/citation-management/scripts/extract_metadata.py, references/scientific-skills/citation-management/scripts/search_pubmed.py and 2 more
- Runs shell commands Common for dev tools. Read the commands it runs.references/scientific-skills/literature-review/SKILL.md:3
- Makes network requestsSKILL.md
- Reads environment variables, where API keys usually livereferences/scientific-skills/xlsx/scripts/office/soffice.py:25
Web addresses in its code:
- doi.orgreferences/scientific-skills/citation-management/scripts/doi_to_bibtex.py:35
- api.crossref.orgreferences/scientific-skills/citation-management/references/metadata_extraction.md:132
- arxiv.orgreferences/scientific-skills/citation-management/scripts/extract_metadata.py:235
- eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.govreferences/scientific-skills/citation-management/references/metadata_extraction.md:206
- export.arxiv.orgreferences/scientific-skills/citation-management/references/metadata_extraction.md:290
- api.datacite.orgreferences/scientific-skills/citation-management/references/metadata_extraction.md:340
- next-gen.materialsproject.orgreferences/scientific-skills/pymatgen/scripts/phase_diagram_generator.py:42
- openoffice.orgreferences/scientific-skills/xlsx/scripts/recalc.py:23
- parallel.aireferences/scientific-skills/literature-review/SKILL.md:659
These are the sites named in the code, so it's where your data could go. It isn't a complete list: code can build addresses while it runs, and a few of these may be links rather than calls. Whatever you send also goes to the AI model you use.
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onescientific-toolkit-skill zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills · Skill | 65 | ★ 5.1k | ≈133 always | 6mo ago |
| scientific-writing aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw · Skill Same job: research & papers | 77 | ★ 15k | ≈41 always | 3mo ago |
| scientific-figure neuromechanist/research-skills · Skill Both about scientific and figure | 56 | ★ 48 | ≈155 always | 20d ago |
| scientific-ppt-drawing SPYfighting/my-academic-skills · Skill Both about scientific and figure | 51 | ★ 22 | ≈65 always | 1mo ago |
| build-scientific-visualizations gxCaesar/open-research-skills · Skill Both about scientific and figure | 51 | ★ 56 | ≈135 always | 1mo ago |