database-lookup

database-lookup is a skill for Claude Code from itallstartedwithaidea/agent-skills. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,646 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A common interface for querying more than 78 scientific and public databases, including chemistry, biology, clinical research, economics, and patents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up compounds, proteins, genes, clinical studies, economic data, or intellectual-property records in research workflows.
Why use it?
It removes the need to learn each database’s separate API format, pagination rules, and response structure.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; built for cline.

Part of the all-skills plugin — 73 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/itallstartedwithaidea/agent-skills/database-lookup
Any agent
npx skills add itallstartedwithaidea/agent-skills --skill database-lookup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itallstartedwithaidea/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install all-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 73 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,646 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00066 $0.01646
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00823
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00329
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00165

Measured 6d ago against content hash a8499e3f8027, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

database-lookup 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 6d 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.

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.

skills/scientific-research/database-lookup/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Database Lookup

Part of Agent Skills™ by googleadsagent.ai™

Description

Database Lookup provides unified programmatic access to 78+ scientific and public databases spanning chemistry (PubChem, ChEMBL), biology (UniProt, COSMIC, Ensembl), clinical (ClinicalTrials.gov, FDA), economics (FRED, World Bank), and intellectual property (USPTO, EPO). The agent constructs API queries, handles pagination, normalizes responses, and caches results for reproducible research workflows.

Scientific research increasingly depends on integrating data from multiple heterogeneous databases. A drug discovery project might query ChEMBL for bioactivity data, UniProt for target protein information, PubChem for compound properties, ClinicalTrials.gov for related clinical studies, and FRED for healthcare spending trends—all for a single research question. This skill abstracts the API differences into a unified query interface.

Each database connector handles authentication, rate limiting, response parsing, and error recovery. Results are normalized into consistent schemas (DataFrames with typed columns) regardless of the source API's format (REST JSON, XML, CSV, SPARQL). Caching prevents redundant API calls and enables offline analysis of previously retrieved data.

Use When

  • Retrieving compound data from PubChem or ChEMBL
  • Querying protein sequences or annotations from UniProt
  • Searching clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
  • Fetching economic indicators from FRED or World Bank
  • Looking up patent information from USPTO
  • Integrating data across multiple scientific databases

How It Works

graph TD
    A[Research Query] --> B[Query Router]
    B --> C{Database Selection}
    C -->|Chemistry| D[PubChem / ChEMBL / DrugBank]
    C -->|Biology| E[UniProt / Ensembl / COSMIC]
    C -->|Clinical| F[ClinicalTrials.gov / FDA / OMIM]
    C -->|Economics| G[FRED / World Bank / BLS]
    C -->|Patents| H[USPTO / EPO / WIPO]
    D --> I[API Request + Rate Limiting]
    E --> I
    F --> I
    G --> I
    H --> I
    I --> J[Response Normalization]
    J --> K[Cache Layer]
    K --> L[Unified DataFrame Output]

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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. 6d ago First seen · 162 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A a8499e3f8027

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database-lookup is a skill published in the GitHub repository itallstartedwithaidea/agent-skills (36 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,646 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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