Add new blog entries to README for AI co-scientists and workflow importance

- Included a new section on AI co-scientists with a link to a live Q&A session addressing practical concerns for researchers.
- Added multiple entries discussing the significance of workflow in scientific research, emphasizing verification and reproducibility in AI applications.
- Updated the README to enhance the resourcefulness of the documentation for users exploring AI in scientific contexts.
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- **[Agent Skills: The Final Piece for AI-Powered Scientific Research](https://www.k-dense.ai/blog/agent-skills-final-piece-for-ai-powered-research)** — What Agent Skills are, why curated domain guidance beats raw model capability, and an introduction to this repository.
- **[K-Dense Web vs Scientific Agent Skills: Why We Built Both (And Which One You Should Use)](https://www.k-dense.ai/blog/k-dense-web-vs-scientific-agent-skills)** — When the open-source skills are the right tool, and when a hosted platform with managed compute makes more sense.
- **[AI Co-Scientists, Answered: 20 Questions from a Live Session with a University Research Center](https://www.k-dense.ai/blog/ai-co-scientists-answered-20-questions)** — Practical questions from a research center evaluating AI co-scientists: what stays open source and MIT-licensed, how local and desktop deployments work, how data is handled, and how to choose between the hosted platform and the BYOK setup that runs these skills.
### Skill benchmarks and deep dives
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- **[Benchmarking Nano Banana 2 Lite for Scientific Image Generation](https://www.k-dense.ai/blog/benchmarking-nano-banana-2-lite-scientific-image-model)** — A 240-image comparison of scientific-diagram models, useful when choosing a backend for [generate-image](skills/generate-image/): 3.8 s median latency for Nano Banana 2 Lite against 49 s for GPT Image 2, with a quality tradeoff.
- **[Benchmarking NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit Skills for NIM microservices](https://www.k-dense.ai/blog/benchmarking-nvidia-bionemo-nim-skill)** — A separate NVIDIA skill set rather than one of these, but the findings generalize: skills help most with routing to non-obvious endpoints and with weak-model reliability, and do not improve the underlying scientific model's accuracy.
### Why the workflow layer matters
- **[The Model Is No Longer the Bottleneck](https://www.k-dense.ai/blog/the-model-is-no-longer-the-bottleneck)** — The case for why a repository like this one exists: frontier models now match specialized scientific software on raw capability (±0.079 ppm on NMR hydrogen shift prediction), so the limiting factor has moved to the workflow around the model — data access, code execution, verification, and auditable output.
- **[The AI Co-Scientist Is Here. The Bottleneck Is Verification.](https://www.k-dense.ai/blog/ai-co-scientist-verification-bottleneck)** — A 10-point checklist for evaluating a research agent, built around exposing sources, code, data provenance, and intermediate work rather than a polished final answer — the same reasoning behind the provenance and retrieval-contract requirements in skills like [database-lookup](skills/database-lookup/) and [scientific-writing](skills/scientific-writing/).
- **[Reproduction, Not Generation, Is AI's Killer App for Science](https://www.k-dense.ai/blog/reproduction-not-generation-ai-for-science)** — Why re-running published analyses is the highest-value use of an agent: 78% of papers and 93% of individual analysis tasks reproduced across a 221-study benchmark, because a reproduction can be checked against known numbers while a generated claim cannot.
- **[Introducing K-Bench 01: Nine Frontier Models, 178 Real Scientific Tasks, and a Lot of Confident Wrong Answers](https://www.k-dense.ai/blog/introducing-k-bench-01-internal-benchmark)** — Nine frontier models on 178 real user tasks, with overclaiming in 40% of runs. Useful calibration for what to check when an agent reports success, and context for the verification boundaries written into the clinical, regulatory, and research-methodology skills above.
### Security and safe deployment
- **[Security in the Science Agent Era: What Every Lab Needs to Know Before Installing Skills](https://www.k-dense.ai/blog/skill-security-before-you-install)** — The practical review checklist behind this repo's [Security Disclaimer](#%EF%B8%8F-security-disclaimer): read the full `SKILL.md` and `scripts/`, scan before installing, and pin versions instead of tracking a branch.