K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
histolab
Extracts and preprocesses whole-slide histology image tiles with Histolab. Use for WSI inspection, tissue masks, random/grid/score-based tile extraction, H&E stain normalization, and tile dataset preparation. For multiplexed imaging or deep learning inference pipelines, use pathml.
Before you install
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- SKILL.md size
- 8.6 KB (about 2,197 tokens of context each time it loads)
- License
- MIT
- Source on GitHub
- K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
Skills are plain text instructions the agent follows, sometimes with scripts. Check the source, prefer repositories with many installs and stars, and read any script it ships.
Install
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills@histolabRuns in a terminal with Node.js 18 or newer. Add -y to skip the prompts and -g to install for every project instead of this one.
Install for your agent
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills@histolab --agent claude-code -y- Project install writes to
.claude/skills/histolab- Global install writes to
~/.claude/skills/histolab
Start a new session afterwards so the agent picks the skill up. In Claude Code you can also call it directly with /histolab.
What it does
Histolab When to use Use Histolab to inspect WSI metadata, identify tissue, extract image tiles, and standardize H&E staining. Its masks and scores are image-processing heuristics; they do not diagnose cancer, count individual cells, or establish image quality. Installation Histolab 0.7.0 remains the latest published release as of the review date. Its release constraints require Python Kassis, T., Agarwal, V., He, Y., Patel, D., & Brueckner, A. M. (2026). Scientific Agent Skills: A Library of Procedural Knowledge for Research Agents. arXiv:2609.00065. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.00065…
Excerpt from the skill's own SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub before installing: skills run with your agent's permissions.
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