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ToolUniverse

Democratizing AI scientists with ToolUniverse

About ToolUniverse

The agent will walk you through MCP configuration, API keys, skill installation, and validation.

tu CLI — discover, inspect, run, and test tools from the terminal. Python SDK — programmatic access for building AI scientist systems.

ToolUniverse is an ecosystem for creating AI scientist systems from any large language model. Powered by the AI-Tool Interaction Protocol, it standardizes how LLMs identify and call tools, integrating more than 1000 machine learning models, datasets, APIs, and scientific packages for data analysis, knowledge retrieval, and experimental design.

From the project's README

ToolUniverse is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 1.5k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in July 2026.

Install

npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse
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