24 instruction files for AI agents, collected from uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills. Install any of them at an exact version with mdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/<name>.
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/agentcomm/SKILL.md · Coordinate agents through the AgentComm mailbox - installing it, binding a durable name, how Codex and Claude hooks…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/bounded-auto-loop/SKILL.md · Run a short, bounded autonomous loop of debugging or experiments before checking back in. Use when the user wants the…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/claude-code-worker/SKILL.md · Delegate a bounded coding, review, or research subtask from Codex to Claude Code in an isolated Git worktree, then…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/decision-gates/SKILL.md · Separate a scientific gate that decides promotion, continuation, stopping, or retirement from a mechanical check you…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/experiment-design/SKILL.md · Design the smallest useful experiment matrix that separates important hypotheses and changes a decision. Use when the…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/handoff/SKILL.md · Create a short-lived, restart-ready handoff so a fresh agent can resume work without rereading the full conversation…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/humanize/SKILL.md · Edit prose so it sounds like the author and reads plainly - stripping formulaic AI phrasing and replacing jargon with…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/job-babysitting/SKILL.md · Directly monitor long-running jobs or pipelines, classify them as healthy, waiting, stalled, failed, completed, or…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/lab-notebook/SKILL.md · Record work in a lab notebook so it is both a literal activity log and an efficient re-entry aid. Use when the agent is…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/maintenance-pass/SKILL.md · Run safe, high-yield codebase maintenance passes that trim dead code, vestiges, duplicate implementations, stale…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/mission-control/SKILL.md · Coordinate multiple long-running agents or workers while preserving the global goal, current evidence, and timely…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/paper-structure/SKILL.md · Organize a scientific manuscript for a specific venue: fix the claim it argues, load the venue's own section skeleton…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/quarto-presentations/SKILL.md · Create, edit, render, preview, and export Quarto reveal.js slide decks for scientific and technical presentations. Use…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/quota-saving-mode/SKILL.md · Reduce model quota spent on repeated supervision, polling, context loading, and status chatter when the user asks for…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/research-code-parsimony/SKILL.md · Keep scoped implementation and review work from growing unnecessary code by identifying the real owner, real callers…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/run-provenance/SKILL.md · Decide how much provenance a computational run owes, record it before the first expensive step, and write a README that…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/rut-breaker/SKILL.md · Detect when work is stuck in a low-yield loop and force a better reset move. Use when the agent is repeating the same…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/sensemaking/SKILL.md · Check whether findings make sense before trusting or reporting them by comparing to the nearest reference, asking what…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/shared-checkout-git/SKILL.md · Stage and commit safely when several agents or people share one working tree, so no one absorbs another owner's…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/skeptical-labmate/SKILL.md · Review a claim, result, or next-step recommendation like a sharp labmate who is trying to catch overclaiming, bad…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/slurm/SKILL.md · Inspect queue state, submit or cancel jobs, debug sbatch and submitit runs, and separate scheduler issues from runtime…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/training-audit/SKILL.md · Diagnose training instability, early validation decline, or uncertain convergence from saved run evidence, and choose a…
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · skills/training-run-hygiene/SKILL.md · Make scientific training visible and recoverable through scale-free loss histories, validation/task curves, early…