ginkgo-cloud-lab

ginkgo-cloud-lab is an agent skill that guides you through protocol selection, input preparation, pricing checks and browser ordering on Ginkgo Bioworks Cloud Lab. The cloud lab gives remote access to Ginkgo's automated lab infrastructure, where protocols run on modular robotic units across a fleet of more than 70 integrated instruments, as the catalogue describes it. The platform also includes EstiMate, a compatibility and pricing assistant that takes a protocol description, files or links and returns preliminary estimates for custom workflows. The catalogue is grouped into expression and purification work, characterisation and assays, method and target onboarding, and specialty protocols. Prices, availability labels and turnaround times in the skill are a snapshot from 30 September 2026, not a quote, and the catalogue and the terms sometimes differ on days versus business days, input format or the scope of a readout. The skill says to resolve those differences in the service order. It covers cell-free, E. coli and Pichia expression work, among other protocols. Use it when you want to plan or order lab work through the cloud lab.…