plugin-place
A curated Claude Code plugin
marketplace. Currently hosts K-Dense AI's scientific tooling split into
focused, individually-installable plugins so you only load what you need.
Quick start
# Add the marketplace (one time)
claude plugin marketplace add galeep/plugin-place
# List what's available
claude plugin search @plugin-place
# Install whichever pieces you want
claude plugin install sci-bioinformatics-genomics@plugin-place
claude plugin install sci-machine-learning@plugin-place
claude plugin install kdense-document-skills@plugin-place
What's in here
19 plugins, 135 skills, all sourced from K-Dense AI
and licensed MIT. Two upstream repos vendor in, pinned to release tags:
The plugins
| Plugin | Skills | What it covers |
|---|
sci-bioinformatics-genomics | 20 | Sequence analysis, scRNA-seq, gene regulatory networks, variants, phylogenetics, biomedical DBs |
sci-cheminformatics-drug-discovery | 9 | Cheminformatics, molecular ML, docking, medicinal chemistry |
sci-proteomics-mass-spec | 3 | LC-MS/MS, spectral matching, glycoengineering |
sci-clinical-research | 4 | CDS, clinical/case/trial reports, treatment plans, ISO 13485 |
sci-healthcare-ai | 2 | PyHealth, NeuroKit2 biosignal processing |
sci-medical-imaging | 4 | DICOM, WSI, computational pathology, NCI Imaging Data Commons |
sci-machine-learning | 16 | scikit-learn, Lightning, transformers, RL, time series, GNNs, Bayesian, SHAP, GPU/compute helpers |
sci-materials-chemistry | 2 | pymatgen, COBRApy |
sci-physics-astronomy | 6 | astropy, sympy, qutip, qiskit, cirq, pennylane |
sci-engineering-simulation | 4 | SimPy, pymoo, CFD, molecular dynamics |
sci-data-analysis-viz | 14 | Stats, EDA, networks, survival, plotting, big-data dataframes, MATLAB, US fiscal data |
sci-geospatial | 2 | GIS, remote sensing, earth-observation ML |
sci-lab-automation | 11 | Benchling, DNAnexus, LatchBio, OMERO, Opentrons, protocols.io, PyLabRobot, flow cytometry, Neuropixels |
sci-scientific-communication | 22 | Lit review, peer review, writing, citations, posters, slides, schematics, infographics, academic web search |
sci-multi-omics | 3 | DepMap, PrimeKG, scvi-tools |
sci-protein-engineering | 2 | ESM, Adaptyv Bio Foundry |
sci-research-methodology | 7 | Hypothesis generation, grant writing, brainstorming, critical thinking, scenario analysis |
kdense-document-skills | 4 | General-purpose .docx, .pdf, .pptx, .xlsx tools (useful with any plugin) |
claude-scientific-writer | 23 | K-Dense's full writer plugin including the /scientific-writer-init command |
Overlap warning: writer vs. sci-* plugins
The claude-scientific-writer plugin and the sci-* plugins share most of
their skills (K-Dense maintains the same skill code in both upstreams).
Specifically:
- 23 of the writer's 23 skills also appear in one of the
sci-* plugins
(mostly sci-scientific-communication, plus sci-clinical-research and
sci-research-methodology)
- The writer's unique contribution is the
/scientific-writer-init slash
command (which the bare skills lack)
Pick one approach:
- Install the writer: get all the writing/clinical skills plus the
init command, in a single plugin
- Install individual
sci-* plugins: get exactly the domain slices
you want, granular enable/disable
Installing both will give you duplicate skill names, which is unsupported
and will confuse Claude Code's skill router.
How this is built
plugins.yaml is the source of truth. Everything else is generated:
git submodule update --init --recursive
bash scripts/build.sh
This regenerates plugins/* and .claude-plugin/marketplace.json from
the YAML and the pinned upstream submodules. The build is idempotent —
edits inside plugins/* will be overwritten.
The built plugin kind copies a chosen subset of skills from an upstream
submodule. The vendored plugin kind copies an entire upstream plugin
intact (skills, commands, agents, hooks) and generates a plugin.json
from its upstream marketplace metadata. A local kind is reserved for
plugins authored directly in this repo.
To add a new plugin, edit plugins.yaml and rerun scripts/build.sh.
Staying in sync with upstream
