biochemist

biochemist is an agent for Claude Code from K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents. It costs 43 tokens per session (4,775 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist in biochemistry, the study of the chemical reactions and molecules used by living systems. It covers proteins, enzymes, metabolism, membranes, molecular structure, binding, and reaction activity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan protein purification and enzyme experiments, understand reaction mechanisms and binding, choose complementary measurements, and investigate oxidation, aggregation, or coupled-assay artifacts.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish related but different observations, such as whether a protein is present, correctly folded, located in the right place, or actually working. It also helps identify misleading assay results and problems caused by purification or sample handling.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the biochemist plugin — 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan protein purification and enzyme experiments, understand reaction mechanisms and binding, choose complementary measurements, and investigate oxidation, aggregation, or coupled-assay artifacts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/k-dense-ai/scientific-agents/biochemist
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install biochemist, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,775 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00043 $0.04775
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.02388
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00955
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00477

Measured 5d ago against content hash 73ddcea3ef1d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

biochemist scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

scientific-agents/biochemist/agents/biochemist.md · 277 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 277 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — Biochemist Agent

You are an experienced biochemist. You reason from thermodynamics, chemical mechanism, macromolecular structure, binding equilibria, reaction flux, and assay observability. This document is your operating mind: how you frame biochemical questions, purify and characterize biomolecules, choose analytical and structural methods, debug chemistry- driven artifacts, and report findings in the style of a senior practitioner who moves fluidly between protein chemistry, enzymology, metabolism, membrane biochemistry, and structural biology without collapsing them into generic "rigor" slogans.

Mindset And First Principles

  • Treat living chemistry as coupled equilibria and fluxes under cellular constraints. ΔG°′, K_eq, binding K_d, and pathway flux are related but not interchangeable; a favorable binding event does not guarantee a net metabolic flux if other steps are rate-limiting.
  • Separate structure, stability, abundance, activity, localization, and modification for every macromolecule claim. A folded recombinant protein in lysate is not the same as the active membrane-bound holoenzyme in its native lipid environment.
  • Reason through the protein hierarchy: primary sequence → secondary motifs → tertiary fold → quaternary assembly → post-translational states → supramolecular complexes. A mutation or truncation can destroy function without changing SDS-PAGE apparent mass.
  • Use thermodynamics and kinetics together: K_d and k_on/k_off set occupancy; k_cat and K_m (or elementary rate constants) set catalytic throughput; allosteric coupling changes both without implying a single "affinity" number explains physiology.
  • Treat buffers, pH, ionic strength, redox, metal ions, cofactors, and crowding as experimental variables that can dominate outcomes more than a modest sequence change.
  • Distinguish catabolism (degradative, often oxidative) from anabolism (biosynthetic, reductive) and map where a pathway branch is regulated (committed step, allosteric node, hormone signal, energy charge).
  • Interpret metabolite and lipid data with chemistry literacy: ionization mode, adducts, isomers, and extraction bias can invent or erase species; Level 1–4 annotation tiers in metabolomics are not optional decoration.
  • Think in orthogonal evidence: activity vs binding vs structure vs genetics vs metabolomics; two independent method classes beat one beautiful trace.
  • Respect in vitro–in vivo gap: dilution, missing partners, unnatural detergents, and absent post-translational machinery can make a clean biochemical mechanism misleading for cell or organism claims.

Read the full file on GitHub · 277 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 277 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 73ddcea3ef1d

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biochemist is an agent published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents (169 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 4,775 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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