Community Skills

Overview

Best for: using Valyu yourself. Community-built skills that add domain-specific search to your AI coding agent.

The Valyu community has built powerful skills that extend AI coding agents with specialized capabilities. These community-maintained integrations provide domain-specific search and research functionality.

Scientific Skills

Repository: yorkeccak/scientific-skills Natural language scientific literature search with semantic search over PubMed, arXiv, ChEMBL, PubChem, bioRxiv, medRxiv, clinical trials, and more.

Why Scientific Skills Are Powerful

No API Parameter Parsing: Pass natural language queries directly - no complex search syntax required
Semantic Search: Understands meaning and context, not just keyword matching
Full-Text Access: Returns complete article content, not just abstracts
Image Links: Includes figures and images from papers
Comprehensive Coverage: Access to all scientific literature across multiple databases

Supported Agents

Antigravity
Claude Code
Clawdbot
Codex
Cursor
Droid
Gemini CLI
GitHub Copilot
Goose
Kilo Code
Kiro CLI
OpenCode
Roo Code
Trae
Windsurf

Available Skills

Individual Data Sources (9 skills)

Skill	Data Source	Coverage
pubmed-search	PubMed	Biomedical and life sciences literature
arxiv-search	arXiv	Physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology preprints
biorxiv-search	bioRxiv	Biology preprints
medrxiv-search	medRxiv	Medical and health sciences preprints
chembl-search	ChEMBL	Bioactive molecules with drug-like properties
clinical-trials-search	ClinicalTrials.gov	Clinical trials registry
drug-labels-search	FDA Drug Labels	Official FDA drug information
open-targets-search	Open Targets	Drug targets and disease associations
patents-search	Patent Databases	Global patent filings

Aggregated Skills (3 skills)

Skill	Combined Sources	Best For
literature-search	PubMed + arXiv + bioRxiv + medRxiv	General scientific literature review
biomedical-search	PubMed + bioRxiv + medRxiv + ClinicalTrials + Drug Labels	Medical and clinical research
drug-discovery-search	ChEMBL + PubChem + Drug Labels + Open Targets	Drug discovery and development

Installation

Via skills.sh (Recommended)

npx skills i yorkeccak/scientific-skills

Or browse individual skills at skills.sh - search for “yorkeccak” Example: skills.sh/yorkeccak/scientific-skills/biomedical-search Via Claude Plugin

/plugin install yorkeccak/scientific-skills

Manual Installation

# Clone the repository
cd ~/dev
git clone https://github.com/yorkeccak/scientific-skills.git

# Add as a local plugin
/plugin add ~/dev/scientific-skills

Setup

Get your API key from platform.valyu.ai with $10 free credits ($20 with a work email). First Use (Automatic) Just start using any skill - Claude will automatically detect that no API key is configured, ask for your key, save it, and run your search. Manual Setup (Optional)

macOS/Linux (Zsh)
macOS/Linux (Bash)
Windows
Config File

echo 'export VALYU_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"' >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

echo 'export VALYU_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("VALYU_API_KEY", "your-api-key-here", "User")

mkdir -p ~/.valyu
echo '{"apiKey": "your-api-key-here"}' > ~/.valyu/config.json

Usage Examples

Literature Review Search across all scientific literature:

Search PubMed for CRISPR advances in 2024

Drug Discovery Find compounds and targets:

Find kinase inhibitors for melanoma using drug discovery search

Clinical Research Find trials and patient outcomes:

Search biomedical sources for checkpoint inhibitor combinations trials

Patent Research Search for prior art:

Search patents for CRISPR delivery methods

Output format and processing

All skills return consistent JSON:

{
  "success": true,
  "type": "pubmed_search",
  "query": "your query",
  "result_count": 10,
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "Article Title",
      "url": "https://...",
      "content": "Full article text with figures...",
      "source": "pubmed",
      "relevance_score": 0.95,
      "images": ["https://example.com/figure1.jpg"]
    }
  ],
  "cost": 0.025
}

Pipe to jq to extract fields, e.g. jq -r '.results[].title' or filter jq '.results[] | select(.relevance_score > 0.9)'.

Contributing Your Skills

Have you built Valyu-powered skills that others would find useful? We’d love to feature them here. Requirements:

Open source (MIT, Apache, or similar license)
Clear documentation with examples
Maintained and actively supported
Uses Valyu APIs for core functionality

Submit your integration via GitHub or reach out on Discord.

Additional Resources

Scientific Skills Repository

View source code and documentation

Skills.sh Marketplace

Browse and install individual skills

Official Valyu Skills

See official Valyu agent skills

Join Discord

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Community Skills

Overview

Scientific Skills

Why Scientific Skills Are Powerful

Supported Agents

Available Skills

Installation

Setup

Usage Examples

Contributing Your Skills

Additional Resources

Scientific Skills Repository

Skills.sh Marketplace

Official Valyu Skills

Join Discord

​Overview

​Scientific Skills

​Why Scientific Skills Are Powerful

​Supported Agents

​Available Skills

​Installation

​Setup

​Usage Examples

​Contributing Your Skills

​Additional Resources

Scientific Skills Repository

Skills.sh Marketplace

Official Valyu Skills

Join Discord

Overview

Scientific Skills

Why Scientific Skills Are Powerful

Supported Agents

Available Skills

Installation

Setup

Usage Examples

Contributing Your Skills

Additional Resources