Skill Title

SkillDatabases & data

Your AI can take on data-related tasks in academic work once this skill is added. It is part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite and is filed under the data category. Its source lives in the alterlab-academic-skills repository on GitHub.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

After adding it, give your AI data-related tasks in your academic work. The alterlab-academic-skills repository on GitHub shows the underlying source if you want more detail.

Then ask your AI: use the Skill Title skill

What your AI can do with it

  • Take on data-related tasks in academic projects
  • Apply the skill when a request involves data
  • Work alongside other skills from the AlterLab Academic Skills suite

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills in template/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

One-paragraph overview: what this skill does and the value it adds. Keep the whole SKILL.md body under ~500 lines — move long detail into references/ (loaded on demand).

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user wants to:

  • <concrete task 1>
  • <concrete task 2>

Does NOT Trigger

ScenarioUse Instead
alterlab-other-skill

Core Capabilities

1.

Concrete, correct guidance with real APIs/commands. Cite real sources; never fabricate citations, benchmarks, or DOIs.

Resources

  • references/<topic>.md — detailed reference loaded on demand
  • scripts/<tool>.py — runnable helper (invoke as python scripts/<tool>.py)

Signals

GitHub stars
66
Forks
13
Last commit
Sep 2026
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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
alterlab-skill-name
Source
github.com/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills