Agents¶
An agent is a Markdown system prompt. It sets a role, the skills to use, and a workflow decision tree. Claude Code or Codex loads the prompt; the agent runs nothing by itself.
| Agent | Use it for | Common first skills |
|---|---|---|
omics-scientist |
Reads, assemblies, MAGs, annotation, taxonomy, phylogenomics, viral discovery, public database records, project setup and biological interpretation. | bioinformatics-project, bio-reads-qc-mapping, bio-assembly-qc, tracking-taxonomy-updates, bio-annotation |
literature-expert |
Literature and preprint search, DOI and citation metadata, citation impact, and claim and evidence extraction. | polars-dovmed, arxiv-search, biorxiv-search, crossref-lookup, csag-extraction |
science-writer |
Manuscripts, revisions and response letters, proposal review, methods sections, multi-reviewer evaluation and argument graphs. | scientific-writing, manuscript-review-council, proposal-review, bio-workflow-methods-docwriter, csag-extraction |
dataviz-artist |
Data inspection, notebooks, exploratory plots, figures and dashboards, greyscale first. | exploratory-data-analysis, notebooks, beautiful-data-viz, plotly-dashboard-skill |
When the right agent is not obvious, ask the router. --agent limits the answer to one agent: