chembl

chembl is an MCP server for Claude Code from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A connection to ChEMBL, a database of information about biologically active molecules and medicines, along with other health and life-sciences sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up compound and drug information and support research involving biomedical and life-sciences data.
Why use it?
It lets the agent search and read this scientific data directly instead of requiring manual database searches.

MCP server for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: listed in a Claude config.

Part of the bio-research plugin — 6 skills, 11 MCP servers shipped together

One of 11 entries in .mcp.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 10 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit Use it to look up compound and drug information and support research involving biomedical and life-sciences data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add mcp/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/chembl
About the project

Knowledge Work Plugins is an open-source collection of Claude extensions organized around roles such as productivity, sales, and customer support. Each plugin combines role-specific guidance, connectors, commands, and sub-agents so knowledge workers can use Claude with their team’s tools and processes. The catalogue entries are examples of, or workflows from, this plugin collection.

anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins · 29,887 stars · on GitHub

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/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bio-research, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 11 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for chembl

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for chembl

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
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.
Security

Grade A, and why

chembl 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • chembl — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
bio-research/.mcp.json · 6 lines

What it actually says

{
  "chembl": {
    "type": "http",
    "url": "https://hcls.mcp.claude.com/chembl/mcp"
  }
}
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. 1mo ago First seen · 6 lines scan A 6abfab278b54

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chembl is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins (29,887 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. 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 2026-08-30.