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Life Science Research

General life-sciences research workflows with query routing, evidence synthesis, and optional parallel subagent analysis across genetics, omics, biology, chemistry, structure, clinical evidence, and public dataset discovery.

Type: Plugin with 50 skills by OpenAI
Catalog: Codex official plugins
Source: openai/plugins/plugins/life-science-research (164 files scanned)
Install and details: Agent Skills Index entry
License: Proprietary (manifest)
Signals: Bundled scriptsNetwork calls in codeReads credentialsSpawns processes

Pre-approved tools

No allowed-tools or tools list in its SKILL.md, command or agent files, so the agent asks before using tools as usual.

Hooks

No hooks.

MCP servers and apps

None.

Bundled code

58 code files (Python); first 40 listed:

Network calls

55 files with a network call pattern. First match per file:

plugins/life-science-research/skills/bindingdb-skill/scripts/rest_request.py:184
```
session = requests.Session()
```
plugins/life-science-research/skills/rcsb-pdb-skill/scripts/rest_request.py:184
```
session = requests.Session()
```
plugins/life-science-research/skills/clinvar-variation-skill/scripts/clinvar_variation.py:109
```
response = requests.get(
```
plugins/life-science-research/skills/encode-skill/scripts/rest_request.py:184
```
session = requests.Session()
```
plugins/life-science-research/skills/gwas-catalog-skill/scripts/rest_request.py:184
```
session = requests.Session()
```

Starts other programs

1 file. First match per file:

plugins/life-science-research/skills/locus-to-gene-mapper-skill/scripts/map_locus_to_gene.py:329
```
proc = subprocess.run(
```

Credentials referenced

NCBI_API_KEYNCBI_EUTILS_API_KEY

Static scan of commit 0722921 on 2026-10-27. Signals are patterns found in the files, not a verdict: a network call can be the whole point of a skill. Read the linked lines before you decide. How the scan works.