The Millimetre Problem: Introducing the lab-hardware-cad Agent Skill
Introducing lab-hardware-cad, an open-source Agent Skill that turns any AI agent into a CAD engineer for lab hardware, benchmarked over 98 geometry-scored runs.
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Open Source
13 K-Dense articles on Open Source — research automation, benchmarks, and case studies from the K-Dense team.
Your AI Assistant Reasons Like a Generalist. Science Needs a Specialist.
Scientific Agents: 503 open-source AGENTS.md profiles that teach any AI agent to reason like a senior practitioner in a specific science or engineering field.
7 min readOne Skill, 78 Databases: Why We Didn't Build 78 Skills
One Agent Skill gives a research agent 78 public scientific and economic databases. Here is the design argument, with real token and routing benchmarks.
12 min readIntroducing Science Superpowers: Scientific Discipline for Your Research Agent
Our new open source methodology makes AI research agents pre-register hypotheses, work reproducibly, and verify before they claim. Pre-registration over TDD.
6 min readTowards Smarter Scientific Search: Exa Joins the Scientific Agent Skills Library
Exa is now integrated into K-Dense's Scientific Agent Skills library, bringing neural web search and URL extraction to AI-driven scientific research.
3 min readScience is Multimodal: K-Dense and NVIDIA on Nemotron 3 Nano Omni
K-Dense is evaluating Nemotron 3 Nano Omni — NVIDIA's new open omni-modal model that unifies vision, audio, and language for — agentic scientific workflows.
14 min readIntroducing mimeo and 80+ Mimeographs: Clone an Expert's Way of Thinking Into Your Agent
mimeo distills how great minds like Jobs, Buffett, and Wittgenstein reason into a SKILL.md or AGENTS.md your agent can load, with 80+ experts ready today.
10 min readThe Sandboxed AI Scientist: Pairing NVIDIA OpenShell with Scientific Agent Skills
Pair NVIDIA OpenShell's policy-governed runtime with Scientific Agent Skills to run autonomous research agents that are highly capable and genuinely safe.
13 min readGPU-Accelerate Your Science: 58x Average Speedup with a Single Skill
The optimize-for-gpu skill rewrites CPU-bound Python for NVIDIA GPUs across 12 libraries in data science, ML, and simulation, with 58x average speedup.
8 min readAgent Skills: The Final Piece for AI-Powered Scientific Research
Agent Skills close the gap between raw AI intelligence and domain expertise, adding 140 open-source capabilities to AI scientific research workflows.
8 min readAgentic Data Scientist: An Open Source AI That Actually Does the Analysis
Agentic Data Scientist is a free, open-source multi-agent framework that plans, runs, and validates full data science workflows autonomously.
3 min readClaude Scientific Writer: Our Open Source Tool for AI-Powered Research Writing
Claude Scientific Writer is a free, open-source tool combining deep research with publication-ready papers, grants, posters, and clinical reports.
2 min readKarpathy: An Open Source Agentic Machine Learning Engineer
Karpathy is our open-source AI agent that trains state-of-the-art ML models autonomously, from data preprocessing to hyperparameter optimization.
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