kegg-database

kegg-database is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from beita6969/ScienceClaw. It costs 60 tokens per session (3,170 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of kegg-database, MIT.

A direct connection to KEGG, a biology database that maps genes, chemicals, diseases, and drugs to biological pathways.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve pathway information, link genes to pathways, inspect metabolic processes, study drug interactions, and convert database identifiers.
Why use it?
It avoids having to build separate web requests for KEGG data and supports controlled access to its records.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to retrieve pathway information, link genes to pathways, inspect metabolic processes, study drug interactions, and convert database identifiers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/beita6969/scienceclaw/kegg-database
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 beita6969/ScienceClaw --skill kegg-database
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beita6969/ScienceClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,170 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00060 $0.03170
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01585
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00634
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00317

Measured 5d ago against content hash 718436319c23, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kegg-database 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/kegg_api.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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

This is a copy

100% identical to kegg-database — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/kegg-database/SKILL.md · 376 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 376 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

KEGG Database

Overview

KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) is a comprehensive bioinformatics resource for biological pathway analysis and molecular interaction networks.

Important: KEGG API is made available only for academic use by academic users.

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when querying pathways, genes, compounds, enzymes, diseases, and drugs across multiple organisms using KEGG's REST API.

Quick Start

The skill provides:

  1. Python helper functions (scripts/kegg_api.py) for all KEGG REST API operations
  2. Comprehensive reference documentation (references/kegg_reference.md) with detailed API specifications

When users request KEGG data, determine which operation is needed and use the appropriate function from scripts/kegg_api.py.

Core Operations

1. Database Information (kegg_info)

Retrieve metadata and statistics about KEGG databases.

When to use: Understanding database structure, checking available data, getting release information.

Usage:

from scripts.kegg_api import kegg_info

# Get pathway database info
info = kegg_info('pathway')

# Get organism-specific info
hsa_info = kegg_info('hsa')  # Human genome

Common databases: kegg, pathway, module, brite, genes, genome, compound, glycan, reaction, enzyme, disease, drug

2. Listing Entries (kegg_list)

List entry identifiers and names from KEGG databases.

When to use: Getting all pathways for an organism, listing genes, retrieving compound catalogs.

Usage:

from scripts.kegg_api import kegg_list

# List all reference pathways
pathways = kegg_list('pathway')

# List human-specific pathways
hsa_pathways = kegg_list('pathway', 'hsa')

# List specific genes (max 10)
genes = kegg_list('hsa:10458+hsa:10459')

Common organism codes: hsa (human), mmu (mouse), dme (fruit fly), sce (yeast), eco (E. coli)

3. Searching (kegg_find)

Search KEGG databases by keywords or molecular properties.

Read the full file on GitHub · 376 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 5d ago First seen · 376 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 718436319c23

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kegg-database is a skill published in the GitHub repository beita6969/ScienceClaw (896 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 3,170 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to kegg-database, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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