materials-project
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Query Materials Project records, inspect structures and phase data, and export sourced results with OmniScholar. Use for materials screening, property retrieval, phase analysis, XRD capability checks, or JSON/CSV/Markdown/CIF export.
In this repository9 other files it gives its agents.
- academic-citationSkill
- chemical-dataSkill
- literature-readingSkill
- obsidian-literature-baseSkill
- omnischolarSkill
- paper-readingSkill
- scholar-searchSkill
- scientific-figureSkill
- zotero-researchSkill
The file
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7 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 5 are very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈2
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
5
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 9
Follow the user's language.
- Very specific: line 11
Call materials_capabilities before choosing an operation.
- Very specific: line 13
Use materials_route_search when the requested collection has route-specific keys or filters.
- Very specific: line 14
Use materials_get for a verified material ID and route.
- Very specific: line 15
Use materials_advanced only for the declared phase_diagram or xrd actions.
- Very specific: line 16
Use materials_export only on already retrieved records.
- Distinctive: line 19
Read failures.md for failure handling.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Materials Project
Follow the user's language. Keep calculated Materials Project records separate from literature evidence and experimental measurements.
- Call
materials_capabilitiesbefore choosing an operation. Credentials do not guarantee every field or optional local calculation. - Translate conditions into supported
materials_searchfilters. Distinguish containing elements from an exact chemical system; bound pages, results, and fields. - Use
materials_route_searchwhen the requested collection has route-specific keys or filters. Do not substitute a material ID for a task ID, chemsys, substrate pair, or other declared parameter. - Use
materials_getfor a verified material ID and route. Preserve missing-field reasons. - Use
materials_advancedonly for the declaredphase_diagramorxrdactions.xrdmust remainlocal_backend_requiredwhen that backend is unavailable; never guess a remote endpoint or fabricate a pattern. - Use
materials_exportonly on already retrieved records. Keep provenance, units, API/database version, warnings, and license data. CIF export writes a bounded P1 representation from validated structure data and does not claim a derived space group. - Compare records only after checking units, calculation method, task identity, structure, and corrections. Equal formulas do not imply equal structures, and calculated stability does not prove experimental synthesizability.
Read failures.md for failure handling. If Materials Project is not configured, report the required key and do not silently replace calculated materials data with literature snippets or CAS substance data.
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