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@GoogleDeepMind Science Skills is now available on GitHub. We’ve open-sourced this specialized toolkit to accelerate your agentic workflows with scientific grounding and higher token efficiency.

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Source: https://github.com/google-deepmind/science-skills

Science Skills

A collection of agent skills for scientific research tasks, spanning genomics, structural biology, cheminformatics, literature search, and more.

Each skill provides structured instructions, scripts, and resources that extend an AI agent’s capabilities for specialized scientific tasks.

Skill Structure

Each skill directory contains:

• SKILL.md — Main instruction file with YAML frontmatter and detailed markdown instructions
• scripts/ — Helper scripts and utilities
• references/ — Additional documentation and references (optional)

Getting started with GDM Science Skills

Install the Science Skills bundle via npx using:

npx skills add google-deepmind/science-skills/

Using science skills with Google Antigravity

If you’re a new Google Antigravity user:

• Launch the application after downloading Google Antigravity and check the box for Science at the ‘Build with Google’ step - this will install the curated collection of our Science Skills.

If you’re an existing Google Antigravity user:

• Update to the latest version then open Settings -> Customizations -> Build with Google Plugins (click on ‘Customize’ at the bottom of the page) -> Download the Science plugin

Prerequisites

We use the uv package manager to handle dependencies. The first time you trigger a Science Skill, the agent will ask for approval and install uv, and then proceed to respond to your scientific query / task. We recommend restarting Antigravity after this first time installation.

Some skills, such as AlphaGenome and OpenAlex, require an API key to function. Others, such as ClinVar, benefit from an API key to unlock higher rate limits but are still functional without one. The agent should prompt you to obtain the API key and guide you through writing in the correct location. However, if you would rather do this yourself, you can run a command like this in your terminal: echo "ALPHAGENOME_API_KEY=your_actual_api_key" >> ~/.env

Links

You can find examples of Science Skills use cases, including a demo, at antigravity.google/use-cases/science.

We have also published a technical report on the Science Skills.

Licensing & Disclaimer

Copyright 2026 Google LLC

All software is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (Apache 2.0); you may not use this file except in compliance with the Apache 2.0 license. You may obtain a copy of the Apache 2.0 license at: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

As set out in the attached file ‘Skill Licences and Terms of Use’ certain third party data sources referenced within individual Skill files have their own applicable licenses and/or terms of use. See the ‘Skill Licences and Terms of Use’ file for more information. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of individual Skill files complies with any such applicable licenses/ terms of use.

All other materials are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY). You may obtain a copy of the CC-BY license at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, all software and materials distributed here under the Apache 2.0 or CC-BY licenses are distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the licenses for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under those licenses.

This is not an official Google product.