| name | kdense-pylabrobot |
| description | Vendor-agnostic lab automation framework. Use when controlling multiple equipment types (Hamilton, Tecan, Opentrons, plate readers, pumps) or needing unified programming across different vendors. Best for complex workflows, multi-vendor setups, simulation. For Opentrons-only protocols with official API, opentrons-integration may be simpler. |
Kdense Pylabrobot
Use this Codex adapter for the pinned upstream scientific skill.
Catalog status
- Status:
active
- Source:
kdense
- Audit reasons: none
- Upstream license:
MIT license
- Inventory:
../../inventory.json
- Upstream instructions:
../../../vendor/scientific-agent-skills/skills/pylabrobot/SKILL.md
Procedure
- Resolve the plugin root as three directories above this skill directory.
- Read the matching inventory record and verify its status, reasons, source path, and pinned revision.
- Read the upstream instructions only after confirming this record is still active in the current inventory.
- Treat upstream frontmatter as source metadata, not as Codex configuration. Follow the instruction body only where it is compatible with available Codex tools and the current user-approved plan.
- Treat tools named for another agent runtime as capability requests. Map them to an available Codex tool only when the behavior is equivalent; otherwise report the unavailable capability.
- Ask before credentials, package installation, new network hosts, remote compute, writes, paid services, destructive actions, or imported executable code.
- Use
$science-provenance for produced scientific outputs and $science-review before presenting scientific claims.
Physical-experiment and remote-lab safety (mandatory)
This skill can drive real laboratory hardware or submit paid remote-lab work.
Beyond the general gates, before any physical or remote action:
- Get explicit user approval to operate real devices or submit an order; never
actuate hardware or send a job on your own initiative.
- Simulate or dry-run first and show the user the exact planned steps.
- Confirm samples, reagents, and the biosafety/containment level; refuse
out-of-scope, hazardous, or dual-use protocols.
- Verify instrument state and the emergency-stop/abort path before starting, and
stop immediately on any anomaly.
- For cloud/remote labs, surface the cost and get billing approval before
submitting.
Boundaries
- This wrapper does not grant credentials, network access, package installation, or script execution.
- Do not change an inactive record to active from inside a research task.
- Preserve failures, uncertainty, source identifiers, and licensing constraints.
