ToolUniverse Skill

How to use ToolUniverse Skill

npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse

{
    "manifest_version": "0.4",
    "name": "tooluniverse",
    "display_name": "ToolUniverse",
    "version": "1.3.0",
    "description": "ToolUniverse: an ecosystem for democratizing AI scientists with 2000+ scientific tools.",
    "long_description": "ToolUniverse is an ecosystem for creating AI scientist systems from any large language model (LLM). It standardizes how LLMs interact with tools, integrating thousands of machine learning models, datasets, APIs, and scientific packages for data analysis, knowledge retrieval, and experimental design. This bundle exposes ToolUniverse capability via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling AI assistants to perform complex scientific tasks.",
    "author": {
        "name": "ToolUniverse Team",
        "email": "shanghuagao@gmail.com",
        "url": "https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse"
    },
    "repository": {
        "type": "git",
        "url": "https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse"
    },
    "homepage": "https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse",
    "documentation": "https://zitniklab.hms.harvard.edu/ToolUniverse/",
    "support": "https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/issues",
    "icon": "icon.png",
    "server": {
        "type": "python",
        "entry_point": "src/run_stdio.py",
        "mcp_config": {
            "command": "uv",
            "args": [
                "run",
                "--directory",
                "${__dirname}",
                "--with",
                ".",
                "--python",
                "3.12",
                "${__dirname}${/}src${/}run_stdio.py"
            ],
            "env": {
                "PYTHONPATH": "${__dirname}${/}src",
                "TOOLUNIVERSE_STDIO_MODE": "1",
                "PYTHONIOENCODING": "utf-8"
            }

What is ToolUniverse Skill?

ToolUniverse is a Python AI agent skill with npx, uvx/pip, docker. Democratizing AI scientists with ToolUniverse This profile combines repository metadata with install, compatibility, and usage signals so developers can quickly decide whether it fits their agent workflow before opening the source repository.

Key capabilities

• Reusable instructions support
• Includes SKILL.md support
• Shell commands support
• Browser use support
• Presentation work support
• Document generation support
• OpenAI provider support

Technical details

Install or run ToolUniverse using npx. Check mims-harvard/ToolUniverse for the latest setup command.

• Built for Python
• Built for Docker
• Install or run with npx
• Install or run with uvx/pip
• Install or run with docker
• Uses stdio transport
• Uses SSE transport
• API key required

Requirements and access

Security and permissions

Review permissions before connecting any MCP server to an agent. Pay special attention to whether it can read local files, write data, call external services, or perform destructive actions.

When to use ToolUniverse Skill

• Use it for reusing agent instructions, scripts, and references.
• Use it for agent skills workflows.
• Use it for coding workflows.
• Use it for data workflows.

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