Skills pipeworx-gbif

Global biodiversity data — search species, retrieve taxonomy, and find georeferenced occurrence records via GBIF

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/openclaw/skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/b-gutman/pipeworx-gbif" ~/.claude/skills/clawdbot-skills-pipeworx-gbif && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/b-gutman/pipeworx-gbif/SKILL.md

source content

GBIF — Global Biodiversity Information Facility

GBIF aggregates biodiversity data from thousands of institutions worldwide — over 2 billion occurrence records. Search the taxonomic backbone, get species classification details, and retrieve georeferenced observations filtered by country.

Tools

search_species
— Full-text search across the GBIF species backbone (e.g., "Homo sapiens", "oak", "Panthera leo")
get_species
— Detailed taxonomic record by GBIF taxon key: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus
get_occurrences
— Georeferenced observation records for a taxon, optionally filtered by ISO country code

Ideal for

Ecological research — where has a species been observed?
Conservation tools that need range maps based on real observations
Taxonomy lookups for scientific or educational content
Biodiversity dashboards comparing species richness across countries

Example: wolf sightings in Germany

# First, search for the species
curl -s -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gbif/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_species","arguments":{"query":"Canis lupus","limit":1}}}'

# Then get occurrences with the taxon key, filtered to Germany
curl -s -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gbif/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_occurrences","arguments":{"key":5219173,"country":"DE","limit":10}}}'

MCP config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-gbif": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote@latest", "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gbif/mcp"]
    }
  }
}