New public software release gives researchers plain-language access to reusable guidance and tools for building, evaluating, and improving Super Intelligence (SI) enabled systems
October 15, 2026
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WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the release of “Genesis Agent Skills,” the first set of technical resources developed through ModCon: Transformational AI Models and Data and the American Science Cloud to advance President Trump’s historic Genesis Mission.
The release draws on expertise from across the DOE National Laboratory system to help researchers and developers use Super Intelligence (SI) coding tools more effectively, while establishing the first building block of the Genesis Mission’s shared research infrastructure.
“This release is an early example of the Genesis Mission turning collaborative research and development into practical capability that people can use,” said Court Corley, interim technical director of the Genesis Mission and senior scientist at DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and co-principal investigator for ModCon. “The goal is to put the collective expertise of the laboratory system into the hands of researchers, in a form that is accessible, reusable, and ready to support new work.”
The Genesis Agent Skills package makes specialized technical knowledge available through SI-assisted workflows tailored to the scientific research needs of the Genesis Mission, complementing existing skill libraries focused on coding and software engineering. The package includes instructions, workflows, and resources to help users navigate challenges such as SI safety, agent evaluation and monitoring, data governance, scientific workflows, and multi-agent systems.
The Genesis Agent Skills allow researchers to interact directly with SI coding tools using plain-language queries to request technical guidance, review code, or explore solutions to scientific challenges, with responses informed by Genesis Mission guidance.
For example, a user working with a complex dataset could ask their SI coding assistant for help, potentially triggering data-handling skills that generate code compatible with other Genesis Mission systems. Similarly, requesting a codebase safety evaluation could activate validated safety skills to perform the analysis.
“This is a product of the entire Laboratory system, not a single institution,” said Matt Baughman, an associate computer scientist at DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory who helped create the repository. “The contributors brought together a wide range of expertise, and this release makes that work available to a much larger community.”
The Genesis Agent Skills package was developed by the Baseline AI R&D Capabilities (BASE) team within ModCon, a collaboration connecting DOE National Laboratories, industry, and academia to accelerate SI for science. The BASE team is co-led by PNNL’s Nathan Hodas and DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Stefan Wild.
The Genesis Agent Skills package is freely available to researchers, developers, and the public through GitLab. DOE invites users to explore the catalog, contribute improvements, and adapt the workflows to advance American innovation and scientific discovery.