pdb

pdb is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills. It costs 84 tokens per session (1,417 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A tool for finding and examining three-dimensional protein structures from the RCSB Protein Data Bank, a public database of experimentally determined protein structures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve a structure by its PDB ID, find similar structures, inspect metadata, extract chains or domains, and prepare targets for binder design.
Why use it?
It avoids manually searching, downloading, and preparing protein structures when you need a specific target or part of one.

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 retrieve a structure by its PDB ID, find similar structures, inspect metadata, extract chains or domains, and prepare targets for binder design.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/biotender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills/pdb
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 BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills --skill pdb
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills

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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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,417 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00084 $0.01417
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00709
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00142

Measured 12d ago against content hash 20a152819515, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

pdb scanned grade B with 2 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.

Sends data to an external URLmediumData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

response = requests.post( "https://search.rcsb.org/rcsbsearch/v2/query",

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -o 1alu.pdb "https://files.rcsb.org/download/1ALU.pdb"
skills/adaptyv/pdb/SKILL.md · 218 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.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 218 lines · 84 tokens per session scan B 20a152819515

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pdb is a skill published in the GitHub repository BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills (178 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,417 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (sends data to an external url, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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