lab-hardware-cad SKILL.md skillA
lab-hardware-cad 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/lab-hardware-cad@v1.5Pins v1.5 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/lab-hardware-cad/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.5, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 14, 2026
- Size
- 22,830 bytes
- Repository stars
- 56,497
- License
- MIT
Designs custom laboratory hardware as parametric build123d models and exports fabrication artifacts as STEP, STL, and DXF files - microfluidic chips and molds, optomechanical mounts and breadboard adapters, cuvette and microplate holders, tube racks, animal-behavior rigs, and 3D-printed instrument fixtures. Use when a research task needs a physical part that must mate with standardized labware, an optical table, a cage system, or a printer, CNC, or laser process.
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
# Lab Hardware CAD Design physical research hardware as **parametric Python source**, export STEP as the authoritative artifact, and verify the result both numerically and visually before anything is fabricated. The hard part of lab hardware is almost never the geometry. It is that the part must mate with equipment whose dimensions are fixed by a published standard or a vendor drawing. A holder that is 0.5 mm too wide does not fit the plate reader; a channel with the wrong aspect ratio collapses during bonding; a mount whose bolt pattern is 25.4 mm instead of 25.0 mm will not reach the optical table. This skill exists to keep those numbers correct and checked. ## When to use Use for any request to design, model, or fabricate a physical part for a lab: chip, mold, mount, adapter, holder, rack, bracket, enclosure, jig, fixture, arena, or maze. Also use to inspect or modify an existing STEP file. Do **not** use for finite-element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, molecular structure, or scientific plotting. Those are different skills. ## Setup ```bash uv venv --python 3.12 .venv-labcad uv pip install --python .venv-labcad/bin/python "build123d==0.13.0" "matplotlib>=3.8" …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/lab-hardware-cad@sha256:d3e9c67c3f08bfd7The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.5, 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 5 versions of this file, between Aug 14, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 12 days.
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| v1.5 latest | 2026-10-01 | a92663a | 22,830 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4 | 2026-09-30 | ce9e6e9 | 22,141 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3 | 2026-09-02 | 1e5eeff | 21,974 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2 | 2026-08-16 | 336c4f8 | 21,016 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1 | 2026-08-14 | 980e4f0 | 16,342 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 (22830 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_xlpfvs4odbm2zcuu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/lab-hardware-cad GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d3e9c67c3f08bfd7c6bb6c91d6ccc6621a72d2f47248965b4db4e1e296426b18
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