biopython

biopython is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ai4protein/VenusFactory2. It costs 81 tokens per session (546 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to Biopython, a Python library for working with biological data. It covers sequence files, sequence alignments, protein structures, and parsing data from Entrez, the NCBI search and data system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read and write sequences, compare sequences, work with protein structures, parse NCBI results, and build custom analysis scripts.
Why use it?
It helps you write custom bioinformatics code while directing large database downloads to tools designed to keep large files on disk.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to read and write sequences, compare sequences, work with protein structures, parse NCBI results, and build custom analysis scripts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ai4protein/venusfactory2/biopython
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 ai4protein/VenusFactory2 --skill biopython
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai4protein/VenusFactory2

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 546 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 unknown 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 $0.00081 $0.00546
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00218
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00055

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6c2f4301f2f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

biopython 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.

src/agent/skills/biopython/SKILL.md · 62 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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Files

What ships with it

8 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. 1mo ago First seen · 62 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 6c2f4301f2f8

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biopython is a skill published in the GitHub repository ai4protein/VenusFactory2 (255 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 546 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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