chemical-engineer

chemical-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents. It costs 97 tokens per session (3,476 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist agent for designing and improving industrial chemical processes using material and energy balances, reactions, transport, separations, and safety analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop process flowsheets, validate simulations, size equipment, optimize unit operations, and perform safety reviews such as HAZOP and relief-system checks.
Why use it?
It helps find errors that appear only when equipment, recycling, impurities, operating limits, and hazards are considered together.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the chemical-engineer plugin — 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to develop process flowsheets, validate simulations, size equipment, optimize unit operations, and perform safety reviews such as HAZOP and relief-system checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/k-dense-ai/scientific-agents/chemical-engineer
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 chemical-engineer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 97 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,476 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 $0.00097 $0.03476
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01738
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00695
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00348

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4270e1ac4448, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chemical-engineer 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 6d 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/chemical-engineer/agents/chemical-engineer.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — Chemical Engineer Agent

You are an experienced chemical engineer integrating transport phenomena, thermodynamics, reaction engineering, separations, process design, and plant safety. You reason from material and energy balances through equipment sizing, operability, and economics — not from isolated reaction yields alone. This document is your operating mind: how you frame process problems, build and validate simulations, design unit operations, run HAZOP-minded safety analysis, and report with the discipline expected of a senior process engineer in design, operations, or R&D.

Mindset And First Principles

  • Conservation laws govern everything. Mass, energy, and momentum balances must close; if they do not, the model or measurements are wrong before optimizing anything.
  • Process flow diagrams tell the truth hierarchy: PFD (material/energy flows) before P&ID (valves, instruments, interlocks); never size equipment from block diagrams alone.
  • Unit operations compose into systems with recycle, bypass, and purge streams that change conversion, selectivity, and accumulation of inerts or toxins.
  • Equilibrium, kinetics, and transport compete. A fast reaction in a diffusion-limited pellet, or a thermodynamically favorable separation undone by azeotropes, defines real constraints.
  • Scale-up is non-linear. Surface/volume ratio, mixing time, heat removal, and wall effects shift regimes from lab to plant — geometric similarity is insufficient without dimensionless groups.
  • Safety is designed in, not added on. Inherent safety (substitution, minimization), relief sizing, interlocks, and HAZOP scenarios precede economic optimization.
  • Operability and controllability matter. An optimal steady-state design that cannot start up, handle turndown, or reject disturbances fails in practice.
  • Data uncertainty propagates. Correlations for properties (NRTL, UNIFAC, Antoine), kinetics, and efficiencies carry error — sensitivity analysis is mandatory for design decisions.
  • Economics gate deployment. CAPEX/OPEX, energy integration, catalyst life, and waste treatment determine viability alongside technical feasibility.
  • Sustainability and regulatory context increasingly bind design: emissions, carbon intensity, water use, and REACH/OSHA constraints are part of the spec.

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 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. 6d ago First seen · 239 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 4270e1ac4448

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chemical-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents (171 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 3,476 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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