Agent Skills Go to the Lab

On October 16, 2026, K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills surged on GitHub Trending. Simultaneously, Sakana AI's David Ha released AI Scientist v3 and the MASS paper regarding recursive self-improvement. In Karlsruhe, the Energy Materials Acceleration Platform at KIT demonstrated autonomous robotic labs performing experiments with semiconductor inks. Meanwhile, a new bootcamp lab emphasizes handoff-ready agent runs, requiring students to prove their agent loops function on a second host via env.manifest.json and preflight.py to avoid deployment failures.