pennylane is a skill in K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills, last changed 1 Oct 2026. It can run shell commands, reach the network, name web addresses and pre-approve tools — read the findings before installing.

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Builds and differentiates PennyLane quantum circuits, hybrid PyTorch or JAX models, molecular VQE and QAOA workflows. Use for variational quantum algorithms, quantum machine learning, simulator validation, and moving validated circuits to provider plugins. For hardware-specific compilation use qiskit or cirq; for open-system dynamics use qutip.

At a glance

What it can touch

How much a skill can do, not whether it is risky.

Pattern check

1 item to review

Broad tools pre-approved in allowed-tools

R34 · High · SKILL.md:6

Commit a25cf9e · 3 Nov 2026

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Install

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Read this before installing: Broad tools pre-approved in allowed-tools — SKILL.md:6

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What it can touch

From the files and frontmatter at commit a25cf9e. This is how much a skill can do, not whether it is risky.

  • Runs shell commands

    Its instructions or files give the agent commands to run on your computer.

  • Reaches the network

    It sends or fetches data over the internet, for example with curl, an HTTP library or a package install.

  • Names web addresses

    It mentions outside web addresses the agent may visit. We list them but don't follow them.

    Outside links we did not follow
  • Pre-approves tools

    Its allowed-tools field lists tools the agent may use without asking you first, in agents that honour it.

    SKILL.md:6 (opens in a new tab)

Pattern check

Pattern check: 1 item to review · commit a25cf9e · 3 Nov 2026

We checked every text file in this skill, at commit a25cf9e on 3 Nov 2026, against 45 published patterns such as download-and-run commands, hidden text and credential access. We don't run the skill, we don't read the web pages it points to, and we can't judge everything its instructions might lead an agent to do. In published tests, pattern checks like this one missed most malicious skills. Read the skill before you install it — especially anything it asks you to download or run.

How the check worksReport an incorrect finding

  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/
  • https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane/tree/v0.45.1
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/development/deprecations.html
  • https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.00065
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00065
  • http://export.arxiv.org/api/query?id_list=2609.00065
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/qml_templates.html
  • https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane/blob/v0.45.1/pennylane/pulse/hardware_hamiltonian.py
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.pulse.ParametrizedEvolution.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/qml_noise.html
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  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/projects/catalyst/en/stable/code/api/catalyst.grad.html
  • https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/catalyst/blob/v0.15.0/frontend/catalyst/api_extensions/control_flow.py
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.devices.Device.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/projects/lightning/en/stable/
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/projects/qiskit/en/stable/devices/remote.html
  • https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/en/api/qiskit-ibm-runtime/qiskit-runtime-service
  • https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-qiskit/blob/v0.45.0/pennylane_qiskit/qiskit_device.py
  • https://amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
  • https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/blob/v0.44.0/setup.py
  • https://pypi.org/project/PennyLane-Rigetti/0.40.0/
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/projects/strawberryfields/en/latest/
  • https://pypi.org/project/PennyLane-IonQ/0.45.0/
  • https://docs.ionq.com/api-reference/v0.4/jobs/create-job
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.QNode.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/introduction/measurements.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.set_shots.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.devices.default_qubit.DefaultQubit.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/introduction/interfaces.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.SPSAOptimizer.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.QNGOptimizer.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.RotosolveOptimizer.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.qaoa.cost.maxcut.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.qchem.Molecule.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.qchem.molecular_hamiltonian.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.UCCSD.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.qchem.dipole_moment.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/qml_qchem.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/qml.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.MultiControlledX.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/introduction/dynamic_quantum_circuits.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.QFT.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/qml_transforms.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.specs.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/code/api/pennylane.qnn.TorchLayer.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/introduction/interfaces/torch.html
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/introduction/interfaces/jax.html
  • https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane/blob/v0.45.1/pyproject.toml
  • https://docs.pennylane.ai/en/stable/introduction/templates.html

Format check

Each agent reads SKILL.md a little differently. We check the file against each one's published rules; we don't run the skill in any agent.

  • Agent Skills specPasses

    The open format from agentskills.io, held to the strictest version of each rule among the agents we check.

    • Note

      Reference files over 100 lines with no table of contents at the top: references/advanced_features.md (188 lines), references/devices_backends.md (173 lines), references/getting_started.md (113 lines), references/optimization.md (166 lines), references/quantum_chemistry.md (155 lines) and 2 more. B5

      Fix: Add a short list of the sections at the top of each.

  • Claude CodePasses

    Claude Code reads its own extra fields, ignores unknown ones, and still loads a skill whose frontmatter is broken, without its fields.

    • Note

      Reference files over 100 lines with no table of contents at the top: references/advanced_features.md (188 lines), references/devices_backends.md (173 lines), references/getting_started.md (113 lines), references/optimization.md (166 lines), references/quantum_chemistry.md (155 lines) and 2 more. B5

      Fix: Add a short list of the sections at the top of each.

  • Claude apps & API uploadPasses

    Uploading to claude.ai or the Claude API, or packaging with Anthropic's script, accepts only the six spec fields and stops on anything else.

    • Note

      The description is 346 characters. The claude.ai Help Center says 200 at most, though Anthropic's API docs and validator allow 1,024. D4

      Fix: If the claude.ai upload refuses it, trim the description to 200 characters.

    • Note

      Reference files over 100 lines with no table of contents at the top: references/advanced_features.md (188 lines), references/devices_backends.md (173 lines), references/getting_started.md (113 lines), references/optimization.md (166 lines), references/quantum_chemistry.md (155 lines) and 2 more. B5

      Fix: Add a short list of the sections at the top of each.

  • OpenAI (Codex & API)Passes
  • VS Code & CopilotPasses

SKILL.md

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