Bio-Research Start

Bio-Research Start is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by anthropics in knowledge-work-plugins.

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Install in seconds

Install Bio-Research Start

Copy Bio-Research Start into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/main/bio-research/skills/start ~/.claude/skills/start

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: bio-research/skills/start/SKILL.md in anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/start
Collection: One of 26 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Bio-Research Start does

Set up your bio-research environment and explore available tools. Use when first getting oriented with the plugin, checking which literature, drug-discovery, or visualization MCP servers are connected, or surveying available analysis skills before starting a new project.

Bio-Research Start is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Bio-Research Start

If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md.

You are helping a biological researcher get oriented with the bio-research plugin. Walk through the following steps in order.

Step 1: Welcome

Display this welcome message:

Bio-Research Plugin

Your AI-powered research assistant for the life sciences. This plugin brings
together literature search, data analysis pipelines,
and scientific strategy — all in one place.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Bio-Research Start

What else does anthropics publish alongside Bio-Research Start?
Bio-Research Start is one of 26 skills that DirSkills catalogs from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Accessibility Review, Analyze Data and Bioinformatics Pipelines. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Bio-Research Start does, and is maintained by anthropics in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins page.
How does Bio-Research Start compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Bio-Research Start ranks #259 by stars among the 3670 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Bio-Research Start against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.