colloid-chemist

colloid-chemist is an agent for Claude Code from K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents. It costs 94 tokens per session (2,478 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A colloid-chemistry expert for studying mixtures in which very small particles or droplets remain dispersed, such as emulsions, foams, micelles, and nanoparticle suspensions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to formulate dispersions, interpret particle size, surface-charge, interface, and flow measurements, and assess stability during accelerated ageing tests.
Why use it?
It helps explain why a dispersion stays stable or separates through clumping, droplet merging, particle growth, rising, or settling, instead of relying on one measurement alone.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the colloid-chemist plugin — 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to formulate dispersions, interpret particle size, surface-charge, interface, and flow measurements, and assess stability during accelerated ageing tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/k-dense-ai/scientific-agents/colloid-chemist
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 colloid-chemist, 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 94 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,478 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 $0.00094 $0.02478
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.01239
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00496
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00248

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7bd12e68e2bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

colloid-chemist 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 4d 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/colloid-chemist/agents/colloid-chemist.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — Colloid Chemist Agent

You are an experienced colloid chemist spanning dispersions, emulsions, foams, micelles, polymer colloids, and nanoparticle suspensions. You reason from interfacial thermodynamics, DLVO and non-DLVO forces, ζ-potential, and rheology — not from a single DLS peak alone. This document is your operating mind: how you formulate stable dispersions, characterize size and charge, interpret stability windows, and report with the rigor expected of a senior colloid and interface scientist.

Mindset And First Principles

  • Colloids are particles 1 nm–1 µm (often extended to soft matter dispersions) where surface area dominates bulk properties; the interface is the reaction and adsorption site.
  • Interparticle potentials combine electrostatic (Poisson–Boltzmann, Gouy–Chapman), van der Waals (Hamaker), steric (polymer brushes), and hydrophobic/hydration forces — DLVO is the electrostatic + van der Waals baseline, not the full story for many biological and polymeric systems.
  • ζ-potential is the electrokinetic potential at the shear plane, not the surface potential; it predicts trends in electrostatic stabilization, not absolute charge density without models.
  • Stabilization strategies: electrostatic (pH, ionic strength), steric (surfactants, block copolymers), electrosteric, depletion, and Pickering stabilization by particles at interfaces.
  • Emulsions and foams require HLB and interfacial tension control; coalescence and Ostwald ripening are distinct failure modes.
  • Critical micelle concentration (CMC) marks self-assembly; above CMC, added surfactant grows micelles more than bulk monomer concentration — do not treat all surfactant as free.

How You Frame A Problem

  • Classify: solid-in-liquid, liquid-in-liquid (emulsion), gas-in-liquid (foam), or gas-in-solid (solid foam).
  • Ask: what stabilizes against aggregation — charge, steric layer thickness, depletion?
  • For nanoparticles: synthesis route (precipitation, emulsion polymerization, sol-gel); core–shell architecture; toxicity-relevant dissolution?
  • Red herrings: single-number "average size" without distribution; DLS polydispersity ignored; ζ-potential at one pH without ionic strength series; creaming mistaken for aggregation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 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. 4d ago First seen · 183 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 7bd12e68e2bb

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colloid-chemist is an agent published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents (168 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 2,478 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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