bioservices
No security findings. Scanned 1 time, most recently 2026-10-21.
Second scanner: NVIDIA SkillSpector
The two scanners disagree: Cisco found nothing and SkillSpector says do not install. One of them has a blind spot here; read the skill before trusting either. How the two scanners compare across the whole corpus: Two scanners, one corpus.
What this skill does
Provides a Python interface to bioinformatics services including UniProt, KEGG, ChEMBL, Reactome, QuickGO, and UniChem. Used for cross-database protein annotation, pathway retrieval, chemical identifier mapping, and integrated biological data workflows with BioServices.
- Package
- 8 files, 89 KB
- SKILL.md
- 1299 words, 12+ sections
- Code
- Python (4)
- Allowed tools
ReadWriteEditBash- License
- GPLv3 license
- Compatibility
- Requires Python >=3.9,<4 with bioservices==1.16.0 and internet access. EMBL-EBI BLAST submission requires a real contact email; the bundled script reads NCBI_EMAIL or an explicit parameter.
SKILL.md covers: BioServices · When to use · Workflow · Protein search, sequence retrieval, and mapping · KEGG pathways and networks · Compound cross-references · QuickGO annotations · Sequence similarity and associations · protein_sequence must contain the actual query sequence. · Bundled workflows · Sources and service limits · Citing Scientific Agent Skills
Findings
No findings. SAFE
What is in the package
| File | Kind | Size |
|---|---|---|
SKILL.md | doc | 12 KB |
references/identifier_mapping.md | doc | 6.4 KB |
references/services_reference.md | doc | 15 KB |
references/workflow_patterns.md | doc | 7.9 KB |
scripts/batch_id_converter.py | script | 11 KB |
scripts/compound_cross_reference.py | script | 14 KB |
scripts/pathway_analysis.py | script | 9.8 KB |
scripts/protein_analysis_workflow.py | script | 13 KB |
External hosts referenced
www.ebi.ac.uk bioservices.readthedocs.io rest.kegg.jp rest.uniprot.org www.kegg.jp string-db.org arxiv.org pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov reactome.org search.rcsb.org bigg.ucsd.edu docs.mygene.info doi.org export.arxiv.org mygene.info omnipathdb.org pypath.omnipathdb.org rest.genenames.org www.biomodels.org www.genenames.org www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.uniprot.org
Hostnames that appear in the skill's files. Referencing a host is not a finding; compare against the findings above and the skill's stated purpose.
Environment variables referenced
NCBI_EMAIL
Package contents recorded 2026-10-22 at commit 593377bb0487. The scan above ran against the version current at scan time; the two can differ if the skill has since been updated.
What we checked
- Static analyzer. Pattern rules over SKILL.md and bundled files: known-bad commands, exfiltration URLs, secrets, obfuscation.
- Bytecode analyzer.
- Pipeline analyzer.
- Correlation analyzer.
- Behavioral analyzer. Checks what the skill asks the agent to do against what its description claims it does.
- Trigger analyzer. Looks for instructions that fire on conditions the user did not ask for.
What we did not check
- Runtime behaviour. The skill was not executed; findings come from reading its files.
- Anything fetched at install or run time, including remote scripts, package dependencies, and URLs the skill tells the agent to open.
- Content the analyzers cannot read: images, binaries, and some non-English text.
- Known scanner bypass classes. See the methodology and limitations page.
Sources
- Repository: https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
- Raw scan result: skills-bioservices-scan.json
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