UW Scientific Software Engineering Center

Skills-first research workflows for Research Software Engineers and Researchers: research, plan, experiment, implement, validate, reproduce, harden, and handoff — interactive when you want collaboration, direct when you don't.

Language-agnostic containerization for research software. Covers Dockerfile best practices, Podman, Singularity/Apptainer, Docker Compose, GPU containers, devcontainers, container registries, and container security scanning.

Generate and develop hydroclimatological data download scripts for GAIA geoscience research

Expert agents and comprehensive skills for interactive data visualization using the HoloViz ecosystem including Panel, hvPlot, HoloViews, Datashader, GeoViews, Colorcet, and Lumen.

Project lifecycle management for research software. Covers onboarding, documentation quality, handoff readiness, and community health file generation for open-source projects.

Agents and skills for Research-Through-Design approach to research software design

Domain-specific scientific computing agents and skills for astronomy, astrophysics, and multidimensional data analysis with AstroPy and Xarray.

Agents and skills for Scientific Python development following community best practices. Covers packaging, testing, code quality, environment management with pixi, and documentation architecture.

Supply-chain security plugin for research software. 2 agents (lead expert + incident responder), 5 commands (audit, incident, lockfile-check, pin-actions, harden-workflow), 6 skills covering hardened CI/CD, dependency security, threat awareness, SBOM/provenance, incident response, and ecosystem-specific quirks (npm, PyPI, conda/pixi, cargo, Go). Covers 2025-2026 campaigns: Shai-Hulud, TeamPCP, axios, LiteLLM .pth persistence.

Comprehensive UI/UX design team simulation with 10 specialized agents covering the full design lifecycle. Includes user research with personas and JTBD, information architecture, interaction design, visual design with Claude's frontend-design aesthetic guidance, motion design, design systems with token architecture and component libraries, accessibility auditing with WCAG 2.2 compliance, UX writing, responsive design, CSS architecture, frontend component patterns for React/Vue/Svelte, usability evaluation with Nielsen's heuristics, design philosophies including Gestalt principles and emotional design, design case studies, user journey mapping, A/B testing strategy, design handoff, and design review orchestration.

Benchmarking and optimization tools for Zarr chunking strategies on cloud object stores. Measures performance across access patterns and generates recommendations based on Nguyen et al. (2023) methodology.

Comprehensive agents and skills for working with the Zarr array storage format — creation, compression, cloud backends, xarray integration, and data migration