pubchem-database

pubchem-database is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from beita6969/ScienceClaw. It costs 49 tokens per session (4,063 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of pubchem-database, MIT.

A search tool for PubChem, a public chemical database containing compound records, properties, structures, and bioactivity information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search by name, CID, SMILES, molecular formula, or other identifiers; retrieve properties; convert chemical formats; and run similarity or substructure searches.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to search large numbers of compounds and compare them by identity, chemical structure, or measured properties.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to search by name, CID, SMILES, molecular formula, or other identifiers; retrieve properties; convert chemical formats; and run similarity or substructure searches.

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

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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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,063 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.
Origin 97% 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 $0.00049 $0.04063
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.02031
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00813
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00406

Measured 5d ago against content hash dbabdc5b2d93, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pubchem-database 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/bioactivity_query.py, scripts/compound_search.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

response = requests.get(url)
Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to pubchem-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/pubchem-database/SKILL.md · 573 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 573 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PubChem Database

Overview

PubChem is the world's largest freely available chemical database with 110M+ compounds and 270M+ bioactivities. Query chemical structures by name, CID, or SMILES, retrieve molecular properties, perform similarity and substructure searches, access bioactivity data using PUG-REST API and PubChemPy.

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when:

  • Searching for chemical compounds by name, structure (SMILES/InChI), or molecular formula
  • Retrieving molecular properties (MW, LogP, TPSA, hydrogen bonding descriptors)
  • Performing similarity searches to find structurally related compounds
  • Conducting substructure searches for specific chemical motifs
  • Accessing bioactivity data from screening assays
  • Converting between chemical identifier formats (CID, SMILES, InChI)
  • Batch processing multiple compounds for drug-likeness screening or property analysis

Core Capabilities

1. Chemical Structure Search

Search for compounds using multiple identifier types:

By Chemical Name:

import pubchempy as pcp
compounds = pcp.get_compounds('aspirin', 'name')
compound = compounds[0]

By CID (Compound ID):

compound = pcp.Compound.from_cid(2244)  # Aspirin

By SMILES:

compound = pcp.get_compounds('CC(=O)OC1=CC=CC=C1C(=O)O', 'smiles')[0]

By InChI:

compound = pcp.get_compounds('InChI=1S/C9H8O4/...', 'inchi')[0]

By Molecular Formula:

compounds = pcp.get_compounds('C9H8O4', 'formula')
# Returns all compounds matching this formula

2. Property Retrieval

Retrieve molecular properties for compounds using either high-level or low-level approaches:

Using PubChemPy (Recommended):

import pubchempy as pcp

# Get compound object with all properties
compound = pcp.get_compounds('caffeine', 'name')[0]

# Access individual properties
molecular_formula = compound.molecular_formula
molecular_weight = compound.molecular_weight
iupac_name = compound.iupac_name
smiles = compound.canonical_smiles
inchi = compound.inchi
xlogp = compound.xlogp  # Partition coefficient
tpsa = compound.tpsa    # Topological polar surface area

Read the full file on GitHub · 573 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 573 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A dbabdc5b2d93

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pubchem-database is a skill published in the GitHub repository beita6969/ScienceClaw (896 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 4,063 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 97% identical to pubchem-database, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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