Database Lookup

Database Lookup is a Data skill for Claude Code, published by K-Dense-AI in scientific-agent-skills.

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Install Database Lookup

Copy Database Lookup 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/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/database-lookup ~/.claude/skills/database-lookup

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/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/database-lookup/SKILL.md in K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/database-lookup
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 668 skills

What Database Lookup does

Database Lookup queries documented public database APIs to retrieve reproducible facts from named sources. Use it when a scientific, regulatory, financial, or other database-backed fact must be retrieved reproducibly rather than inferred.

Database Lookup is cataloged under Data on DirSkills. Database Lookup comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-scientist, bioinformatics, chemoinformatics and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Database Lookup

This skill catalogs 78 public databases with documented API access patterns. Your job is to turn the user's intent into a reproducible retrieval: select the authoritative database(s), make bounded and rate-limited API calls, verify counts when completeness matters, and return results with enough provenance that another agent or human can repeat the lookup.

For complex biomedical retrievals, assume small filtering differences can change downstream conclusions. Prefer deterministic APIs, explicit identifiers, exhaustive pagination, and auditable logs over broad searching or plausible summaries.

Core Workflow

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

Frequently asked about Database Lookup

What else does K-Dense-AI publish alongside Database Lookup?
Database Lookup is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Adaptyv Bio Foundry API, Aeon and Analytical Method Validation. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Database Lookup does, and is maintained by K-Dense-AI in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills page.
How does Database Lookup compare to other Data skills?
Database Lookup ranks #31 by stars among the 668 Data skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark Methodology, Jupyter Notebook and Solana. 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 Database Lookup against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.