database-lookup SKILL.md skillB
database-lookup from k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/database-lookup@v1.8Pins v1.8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills
- Path
skills/database-lookup/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 10
- Latest version
- v1.8, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 11, 2026
- Size
- 27,582 bytes
- Repository stars
- 54,238
- License
- MIT
Queries documented public database APIs with explicit endpoints, filters, pagination, and provenance. Used when a scientific, regulatory, financial, or other database-backed fact must be retrieved reproducibly from a named source rather than inferred from general knowledge.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Database Lookup This skill catalogs 80 databases with public, registered, or licensed access patterns. Your job is to turn the user's intent into a reproducible retrieval: select the authoritative database(s), make bounded and rate-limited API calls, verify counts when completeness matters, and return results with enough provenance that another agent or human can repeat the lookup. For complex biomedical retrievals, assume small filtering differences can change downstream conclusions. Prefer deterministic APIs, explicit identifiers, exhaustive pagination, and auditable logs over broad searching or plausible summaries. ## Core Workflow 1. **Define the retrieval contract** — Identify the target entity, accepted identifiers, organism/taxon/build/date constraints, filters, expected output fields, and whether the user needs an exhaustive dataset or a targeted lookup. If a required scientific constraint is missing and affects correctness, ask a clarifying question rather than guessing. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/database-lookup@sha256:ead247f623212ca1The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.8, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_6iuuhe5dd4h52wrv)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between Jun 11, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 12 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.8 latest | 2026-10-01 | a92663a | 27,582 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.7 | 2026-09-30 | ce9e6e9 | 27,383 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.6 | 2026-09-11 | eef7c20 | 27,358 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.5 | 2026-09-10 | 27e3483 | 27,022 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.4 | 2026-09-10 | b369c26 | 27,022 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.4 | 2026-09-02 | 1e5eeff | 27,012 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.3 | 2026-07-26 | 2f2022d | 26,054 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.2 | 2026-07-01 | 1e024ea | 34,778 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.1 | 2026-06-15 | 2093901 | 32,626 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260611.1b8fae3 | 2026-06-11 | 1b8fae3 | 28,253 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No instruction to read or print local credentials (matched: read or display the whole `.env)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (27582 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills · 54,238 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6iuuhe5dd4h52wrv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/database-lookup GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ead247f623212ca1560486d863a2d0a8c0555d8d20b975d55053eeb4ed043d37
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