protein-qc

protein-qc is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from adaptyvbio/protein-design-skills. It costs 140 tokens per session (3,777 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quality-control guide for checking designed proteins before further testing. It combines structure-confidence measurements, binding-interface checks, production-related properties, and sequence-pattern checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting filters for protein structure and binding designs, checking expression and solubility risks, and detecting sequence liabilities such as unusual cysteine patterns or deamidation sites.
Why use it?
It helps remove designs with weak predicted structures, poor interfaces, or likely production problems. Its measurements are screening filters, not direct predictions of binding strength.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Setting filters for protein structure and binding designs, checking expression and solubility risks, and detecting sequence liabilities such as unusual cysteine patterns or deamidation sites.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adaptyvbio/protein-design-skills/protein-qc
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.

Any agent
npx skills add adaptyvbio/protein-design-skills --skill protein-qc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adaptyvbio/protein-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,777 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium analysis-evasion · line 1
    Suspicious Unicode normalization or mixed-script content
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00140 $0.03777
Opus 5 $0.00070 $0.01888
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00755
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00378

Measured 12d ago against content hash c0dd8623a64e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

protein-qc 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 12d 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.

skills/protein-qc/SKILL.md · 383 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 383 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Protein Design Quality Control

Critical Limitation

Individual metrics have weak predictive power for binding. Research shows:

  • Individual metric ROC AUC: 0.64-0.66 (slightly better than random)
  • Metrics are pre-screening filters, not affinity predictors
  • Composite scoring is essential for meaningful ranking

These thresholds filter out poor designs but do NOT predict binding affinity.

QC Organization

QC is organized by purpose and level:

Purpose What it assesses Key metrics
Binding Interface quality, binding geometry ipTM, PAE, SC, dG, dSASA
Expression Manufacturability, solubility Instability, GRAVY, pI, cysteines
Structural Fold confidence, consistency pLDDT, pTM, scRMSD

Each category has two levels:

  • Metric-level: Calculated values with thresholds (pLDDT > 0.85)
  • Design-level: Pattern/motif detection (odd cysteines, NG sites)

Quick Reference: All Thresholds

Category Metric Standard Stringent Source
Structural pLDDT > 0.85 > 0.90 AF2/Chai/Boltz
pTM > 0.70 > 0.80 AF2/Chai/Boltz
scRMSD < 2.0 Å < 1.5 Å Design vs pred
Binding ipSAE_min > 0.61 > 0.70 AF3/Boltz (see ipsae)
ipTM > 0.50 > 0.60 AF2/Chai/Boltz
PAE_interaction < 12 Å < 10 Å AF2/Chai/Boltz
Shape Comp (SC) > 0.50 > 0.62 PyRosetta
interface_dG < -10 < -15 PyRosetta
Interface BUNS <= 4 <= 2 PyRosetta
Expression Instability < 40 < 30 BioPython
GRAVY < 0.4 < 0.2 BioPython
ESM2 PLL > 0.0 > 0.2 ESM2
Folding ΔG < -2 kcal/mol < -4 kcal/mol SaProtΔG

Design-Level Checks (Expression)

Pattern Risk Action
Odd cysteine count Unpaired disulfides Redesign
NG/NS/NT motifs Deamidation Flag/avoid
K/R >= 3 consecutive Proteolysis Flag
>= 6 hydrophobic run Aggregation Redesign

Read the full file on GitHub · 383 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 383 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A c0dd8623a64e

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protein-qc is a skill published in the GitHub repository adaptyvbio/protein-design-skills (159 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 3,777 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.

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