materials-project

materials-project is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from beita6969/ScienceClaw. It costs 109 tokens per session (1,500 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interface to the Materials Project, a database of computed properties for inorganic crystal materials. It can retrieve structures, band gaps, formation energies, stability measures, symmetry, and density.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find candidate materials, look up known material records, and filter materials by properties such as band gap or stability.
Why use it?
It avoids writing separate database requests when searching materials by chemical formula, ID, or measured property ranges.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to find candidate materials, look up known material records, and filter materials by properties such as band gap or stability.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,500 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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: 10 findings, up to high

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 →

  • high Supply Chain · line 81
    Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.
    Fix: Avoid downloading and executing remote scripts. Use trusted packages from PyPI/npm. If remote fetch is required, verify checksums and use HTTPS.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 24
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 31
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 38
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 45
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 54
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 63
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 82
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 103
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 107
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00109 $0.01500
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00750
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00300
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00150

Measured 9d ago against content hash e78974e7900c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

materials-project scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

metadata: { "openclaw": { "emoji": "\U0001F9F1", "requires": { "bins": ["curl"] } } }
skills/materials-project/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Materials Project API

Search and retrieve computed materials data from the Materials Project database (v3 API). Covers 150k+ inorganic crystalline materials with DFT-computed properties.

Authentication

All requests require the X-API-KEY header set to your Materials Project API key. Store it in the MP_API_KEY environment variable.

export MP_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"

API Base URL

https://api.materialsproject.org/v3

Search by Chemical Formula

curl -s -H "X-API-KEY: $MP_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.materialsproject.org/v3/materials/summary/?formula=Fe2O3&_fields=material_id,formula_pretty,band_gap,formation_energy_per_atom,energy_above_hull,symmetry,density&_limit=10"

Lookup by Material ID

curl -s -H "X-API-KEY: $MP_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.materialsproject.org/v3/materials/summary/?material_ids=mp-149&_fields=material_id,formula_pretty,band_gap,formation_energy_per_atom,energy_above_hull,symmetry,density,structure"

Filter by Band Gap Range

curl -s -H "X-API-KEY: $MP_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.materialsproject.org/v3/materials/summary/?band_gap_min=1.0&band_gap_max=2.0&_fields=material_id,formula_pretty,band_gap,formation_energy_per_atom&_limit=20"

Filter by Thermodynamic Stability

Find materials on or near the convex hull (energy_above_hull close to 0 = stable):

curl -s -H "X-API-KEY: $MP_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.materialsproject.org/v3/materials/summary/?energy_above_hull_max=0.025&elements=Li,Fe,O&_fields=material_id,formula_pretty,energy_above_hull,formation_energy_per_atom&_limit=20"

Filter by Elements

Search for materials containing specific elements:

curl -s -H "X-API-KEY: $MP_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.materialsproject.org/v3/materials/summary/?elements=Si,Ge&_fields=material_id,formula_pretty,band_gap,density&_limit=15"

Key Properties

Property Description Unit
band_gap Electronic band gap eV
formation_energy_per_atom Formation energy per atom from elements eV/atom
energy_above_hull Energy above convex hull (0 = stable) eV/atom
symmetry Space group and crystal system -
density Computed density g/cm^3
volume Unit cell volume Angstrom^3
nsites Number of sites in the unit cell -

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 9d ago First seen · 129 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A e78974e7900c

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materials-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository beita6969/ScienceClaw (898 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 1,500 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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