Set up ToolUniverse for Claude Science

The upstream ToolUniverse ships a Claude Code plugin (MCP server + uvx + slash commands). Claude Science loads capabilities differently, so this skill installs the equivalent natively: the tooluniverse pip package supplies the 2500+ tools, and the workflow library is packaged into a single dynamically-loaded skill, tooluniverse-research. No uv, no MCP server, no plugin marketplace.

Loading this skill defines tu_build_research_bundle() in the kernel (run cells in the tooluniverse conda env).

Full install / update — four steps

1. Create the conda env (skip if it already exists):

manage_environments(mode="create", name="tooluniverse", python_version="3.11", packages=["pip"])

2. Install (or upgrade) the tools — the pip package is the tool layer:

manage_packages(mode="install", environment="tooluniverse", packages=["tooluniverse"], use_pip=True)

Pin a version for reproducibility with ["tooluniverse==1.3.0"].