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benchling-integration

Benchling Python SDK and REST API integration for registry entities, inventory, ELN entries, workflows, Benchling Apps, and Data Warehouse queries. Use when automating lab data with benchling-sdk or the v2 API.

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Content

92%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-engineered skill body: executable examples with exact SDK parameter names, a validation-heavy workflow with retry/reconciliation guidance for batch imports, and a clean one-level reference split verified against the actual bundle. The only cost is a citation block and version-review prose that add tokens without aiding the integration task.

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Conciseness

The body is efficient and assumes competence — it never explains what Benchling or ELN entries are, and packs non-obvious SDK facts like "estimated_count is a property that can raise NotImplementedError" into single lines. Minor trim candidates remain: the ~15-line citation block and the version-review prose carry date/version specifics outside a dedicated section, so not every token earns its place.

4 / 5

Actionability

Fully executable guidance: a pinned install command, a complete OAuth client construction, and three copy-paste-ready examples (FASTA import, inventory audit, CSV export) using exact parameter names (name_includes, ancestor_storage_id, schema_id). Placeholder tenant IDs are not a gap because the workflow explicitly instructs resolving actual folder and schema IDs first.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The 5-step workflow has explicit validation checkpoints and recovery loops for batch/mutating operations: "Read a small filtered page before writing", "read back the result. Check terminal async status; completed polling can still mean FAILED", and "retain external IDs and returned Benchling IDs so a retry can reconcile a partial run without duplicates" — so the batch-operation cap does not apply.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is a lean overview: conventions and small examples inline, with a References section that clearly signals five one-line-described files (core_capabilities, sdk_reference, api_endpoints, authentication, eventbridge). All five exist in references/ as flat sibling files one level deep, with no nested second-level references, and bulk detail is appropriately split into them.

5 / 5

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Description

87%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description that explicitly answers both what and when with a concrete, niche-anchored trigger clause. The only refinement available is adding concrete action verbs (create, import, export) and a few more natural synonyms for the capability areas.

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Specificity

The description enumerates six concrete capability areas — "registry entities, inventory, ELN entries, workflows, Benchling Apps, and Data Warehouse queries" — which is several specific items with only minor gaps, but the single verb "integration" distributes one generic action over them rather than listing multiple distinct concrete actions per area.

4 / 5

Completeness

Both parts are explicit: the what ("Benchling Python SDK and REST API integration for registry entities, inventory, ELN entries, workflows, Benchling Apps, and Data Warehouse queries") and the when ("Use when automating lab data with benchling-sdk or the v2 API") with concrete trigger phrases, matching the top anchor's shape.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good natural-term coverage: "Benchling", "benchling-sdk", "v2 API", "ELN entries", "Data Warehouse", and "automating lab data" are phrases users would actually say. A few natural synonyms are missing, e.g. the spelled-out "electronic lab notebook", "sequences", or "plasmids", so it falls short of comprehensive.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"Benchling" anchors a clear niche with platform-specific triggers (benchling-sdk, Benchling Apps); generic-sounding terms like "workflows" and "Data Warehouse" are qualified by the platform context, so conflict risk with other skills is minimal.

5 / 5

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Validation

93%

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Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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Repository

K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills

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