ligandmpnn

ligandmpnn is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JimLiu/science-skills. It costs 100 tokens per session (1,657 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A method for designing protein sequences around an existing three-dimensional backbone while considering bound molecules, nucleic acids, or metals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to redesign residues around a small molecule or cofactor, or to design metal-binding sites.
Why use it?
It helps redesign binding pockets and coordinating sites while keeping the surrounding molecular geometry in view.

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 redesign residues around a small molecule or cofactor, or to design metal-binding sites.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jimliu/science-skills/ligandmpnn
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 JimLiu/science-skills --skill ligandmpnn
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JimLiu/science-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,657 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 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 $0.00100 $0.01657
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00829
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00166

Measured 12d ago against content hash 004f25fe7caa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ligandmpnn 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 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.

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/ligandmpnn/SKILL.md · 124 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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 · 124 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 004f25fe7caa

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ligandmpnn is a skill published in the GitHub repository JimLiu/science-skills (226 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 1,657 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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