imaging-data-commons SKILL.md skillA
imaging-data-commons 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/imaging-data-commons@v1.8Pins v1.8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills
- Path
skills/imaging-data-commons/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- v1.8, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 26, 2026
- Size
- 31,452 bytes
- Repository stars
- 56,497
- License
- MIT
Queries and downloads public cancer imaging data from NCI Imaging Data Commons. Supports IDC collection discovery, DICOM access, radiology (CT, MR, PET) and pathology AI datasets, metadata SQL, visualization, licensing, and citations. Uses public metadata and download routes without authentication; optional BigQuery and Google Healthcare routes require Google credentials.
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
# Imaging Data Commons ## Overview Query and download public cancer imaging data from the National Cancer Institute Imaging Data Commons (IDC). No authentication required for data access. **Expected network access:** IDC metadata is reachable three ways — a bundled local DuckDB index (offline after installation; additional indices are fetched from GitHub and clinical tables from S3), or the hosted IDC service over MCP or REST (`api.imaging.datacommons.cancer.gov`, no authentication). File downloads use public GCS (`storage.googleapis.com`) and AWS S3 (`s3.amazonaws.com`) — no authentication required. DICOMweb access uses either the public IDC proxy (`proxy.imaging.datacommons.cancer.gov`, no auth) or the Google Cloud Healthcare API (`healthcare.googleapis.com`, requires GCP authentication). Optional BigQuery queries (`bigquery.googleapis.com`) also require GCP authentication. Citation resolution contacts DOI services. Public IDC routes require no credentials; optional Google clients use Application Default Credentials. **Reviewed 2026-09-30:** idc-index 0.12.5, idc-index-data 24.2.2, IDC v24; hosted API 3.0.0b3. Recheck at use time. …
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How to install
mdr add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/imaging-data-commons@sha256:8dd250a80dc6959fThe 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Jul 26, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 10 days.
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| v1.8 latest | 2026-10-01 | a92663a | 31,452 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.7 | 2026-09-30 | a0aea74 | 30,581 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.6 | 2026-09-30 | ce9e6e9 | 30,581 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.5 | 2026-08-10 | aaf763c | 30,399 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4 | 2026-07-31 | 4226ca8 | 23,173 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3 | 2026-07-28 | 0e45106 | 23,173 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2 | 2026-07-26 | 2f2022d | 22,403 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1 | 2026-07-26 | b085e11 | 37,260 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (31452 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 instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills · 56,497 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pbcjnlhouw7pko5u GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/imaging-data-commons GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8dd250a80dc6959fcebc9cbae8049b25a83be31647c597f17a9e674c4f2e3685
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