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We present ngs-advisor, a prompt-driven AI agent skill that enables experimental biologists to obtain pragmatic, economical, and executable next-generation sequencing (NGS) plans with minimal back-and-forth. Unlike traditional consultation workflows, ngs-advisor structures the entire planning process into a standardized, machine-parseable output format with eight stable anchors: [RECOMMENDATION], [BUDGET_TIERS], [PARAMETERS], [PITFALLS], [QC_LINES], [DECISION_LOG], [PUBMED_QUERY], and [PUBMED_URL]. The skill supports six major NGS assay types (WGS, WES, Bulk RNA-seq, scRNA-seq, ATAC-seq, and Metagenome), provides unified parameter conversion formulas, implements three-tier budget analysis (A/B/C), and generates copy-ready PubMed queries with clickable search links. A deliberate anti-hallucination policy prohibits fabrication of PMIDs or papers. We demonstrate the skill on a maize salt-stress transcriptomics scenario, producing a complete sequencing plan from a single user sentence. Source code and skill definition are available at https://github.com/Wuhl00/ngs-advisor.