Two new preprints are live on arXiv, our scientific-agent-skills library passed 40,000 stars on GitHub, and K-Dense BYOK landed in the top 5 of Genentech’s CompBioBench leaderboard.
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K-Dense Updates

// September 3, 2026

>Two New Preprints on arXiv

Scientific Agent Skills. Working code is not the same as a defensible analysis. This paper describes the open library behind our skills repo: 163 procedures across 16 areas of practice, from genomics and cheminformatics to medical imaging and study design.

Read the Scientific Agent Skills preprint →

mimeo. mimeo finds a person’s public work, checks every extracted quotation against the source, and writes a file an agent can load. We tested what actually transfers: knowledge access clearly, grounding measurably, judgment not yet.

Read the mimeo preprint →

Try mimeo on GitHub →

>scientific-agent-skills Passes 40,000 Stars

The library crossed 40,000 GitHub stars this week and now sits at 42,355 – more than 8,400 of those in the last two weeks alone. Thank you to everyone who has starred, filed an issue, or contributed a skill.

GitHub star history for scientific-agent-skills, rising from launch in October 2025 to 42,355 stars in September 2026, with a sharp acceleration past the 40,000 mark in the final two weeks.

Browse the skills library on GitHub →

>K-Dense BYOK Lands in the CompBioBench Top 5

Genentech’s CompBioBench v1 is 100 verifiable computational biology tasks, and K-Dense BYOK running GPT-5.6-Sol-xhigh scored 92% – 4th of 127 submissions. Every entry above it is a general-purpose coding CLI, making this the top result from a purpose-built research app.

Bar chart of the top 10 of 127 CompBioBench v1 submissions by average accuracy, with K-Dense BYOK highlighted in 4th place at 92 percent.

See the full leaderboard →

Download K-Dense BYOK →

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