bio-covalent-design

bio-covalent-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 152 tokens per session (4,268 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A drug-design toolkit for creating molecules that form deliberate chemical bonds with selected protein residues. These reactive groups are called warheads, and the toolkit covers several residue targets and warhead types.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design covalent inhibitors, such as molecules aimed at cysteine, lysine, serine, threonine, tyrosine, or aspartate residues, and to assess their reactivity and drug-like properties.
Why use it?
It helps weigh the trade-off between reacting strongly enough to bind and avoiding unwanted reactions elsewhere. It also addresses whether the bond should be permanent or reversible.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to design covalent inhibitors, such as molecules aimed at cysteine, lysine, serine, threonine, tyrosine, or aspartate residues, and to assess their reactivity and drug-like properties.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gptomics/bioskills/covalent-design
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 GPTomics/bioSkills --skill covalent-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GPTomics/bioSkills

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
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gptomics/bioskills/covalent-design"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gptomics/bioskills/covalent-design.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,268 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 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 $0.00152 $0.04268
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.02134
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00854
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00427

Measured 8d ago against content hash ffd0eb33071a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-covalent-design 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (examples/warhead_classifier.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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

chemoinformatics/covalent-design/SKILL.md · 276 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 276 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: RDKit 2024.09+, OpenEye / AutoDock Vina 1.2+ (for covalent extensions), GOLD (commercial), DOCKovalent (web service), HCovDock 1.0+.

Before using code patterns, verify installed versions match. If versions differ:

  • Python: pip show rdkit then help(rdkit.Chem) to check signatures
  • CLI: check version output of each docking tool

If code throws ImportError, AttributeError, or TypeError, introspect the installed package and adapt the example to match the actual API rather than retrying.

Covalent Inhibitor Design

Design molecules that form covalent bonds with target protein residues. Clinically validated targeted covalent inhibitors include KRAS G12C inhibitors (sotorasib, adagrasib), BTK inhibitors (ibrutinib), and EGFR inhibitors (osimertinib). Covalent design requires balancing intrinsic reactivity (must form bond) vs selectivity (only the intended residue), reversibility (irreversible vs reversible covalent), and drug-likeness (warheads can hurt PK).

For warhead substructure filtering (in non-covalent contexts), see chemoinformatics/substructure-search. For non-covalent docking, see chemoinformatics/virtual-screening. For pose validation, see chemoinformatics/pose-validation.

Reactive Residue Taxonomy

Residue Nucleophile Example compatible warheads Design note
Cysteine Thiol / thiolate Acrylamide, haloacetamide, nitrile Commonly targeted; local pKa and geometry control reactivity
Lysine Amine Sulfonyl fluoride, aldehyde Aldehydes can form reversible imines with amines
Serine Alcohol / alkoxide β-lactam, boronate Often requires catalytic activation
Threonine Alcohol / alkoxide Boronate Context-dependent and less commonly targeted
Tyrosine Phenol / phenolate Sulfonyl fluoride, fluorosulfate Local environment strongly affects reaction
Aspartate/Glutamate Carboxylate Residue-specific electrophiles require experimental validation Do not infer aldehyde Schiff-base formation with carboxylates

Read the full file on GitHub · 276 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. 8d ago First seen · 276 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A ffd0eb33071a

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bio-covalent-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,199 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 4,268 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 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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