pylabrobot

Quick Review

Excellent laboratory automation skill with comprehensive coverage of PyLabRobot capabilities. The description clearly articulates when to use the skill (liquid handling robots, plate readers, lab workflows), and SKILL.md provides a well-structured overview with clean separation of concerns across six reference files. The skill demonstrates strong task knowledge with concrete code examples for common workflows (liquid transfers, plate reading) and best practices. Structure is exemplary: concise main file with logical indexing to detailed references, avoiding clutter while maintaining completeness. Novelty is high - laboratory automation requires specialized domain knowledge, hardware abstraction, coordinate systems, and state management that would be token-intensive and error-prone for a CLI agent to implement from scratch. The skill meaningfully reduces complexity by providing unified interfaces across diverse hardware platforms (Hamilton STAR, Opentrons, Tecan) and integrating multiple device types (liquid handlers, plate readers, heater shakers, centrifuges). Minor score reduction only because some laboratory automation tasks might be straightforward API calls, though the orchestration and protocol design clearly justify the skill's value.