motif-for-claude-science

motif-for-claude-science is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jvogan/motif. It costs 34 tokens per session (448 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for opening bounded DNA, RNA, protein, or other sequence data in the Motif workbench, or creating a standalone HTML workbench when needed. Motif is a tool for visually reviewing molecular-biology sequences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing FASTA, GenBank, raw sequence, or Motif JSON data and checking the resulting workbench content.
Why use it?
It helps an agent present sequence data for visual inspection and use a portable HTML fallback when the connected viewer is unavailable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Reviewing FASTA, GenBank, raw sequence, or Motif JSON data and checking the resulting workbench content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jvogan/motif/motif-for-claude-science
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 jvogan/motif --skill motif-for-claude-science
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jvogan/motif

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 448 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00034 $0.00448
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00224
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00045

Measured 13d ago against content hash 9b6682fcde32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

motif-for-claude-science 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 13d 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/motif-for-claude-science/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Motif for Claude Science

Use the Motif connector for interactive molecular-biology review when its tools are available.

Open a connected workbench

Call motif_open_workbench with exactly one of:

  • payload: a bounded Motif inventory/workspace object; or
  • content: exact FASTA, GenBank, raw sequence, or Motif JSON text.

Include filename when it provides a useful format and provenance hint. For ambiguous raw sequence, include molecule (dna, rna, or protein). Do not send binary AB1/ABI content through this text tool.

Verify the returned motif.mcp.workbench.v1 schema, source name, record count, and residue count. A successful call is not proof that the host mounted the App: confirm the visible Motif identity and intended sequence in the frame. Current Claude Science local/custom connector builds may not register Motif as an artifact viewer. Use the viewer chooser only when Motif is actually listed; Sequence viewer unavailable—showing as text is a generic host fallback, not a Motif parse error.

Create the portable fallback

If the host does not mount MCP Apps, call motif_create_workbench_artifact with the same input. It returns an embedded, self-contained HTML resource and motif.mcp.artifact-export.v1 metadata with a safe filename, byte count, and SHA-256. It does not write a file; save or open the exact resource through the host and verify it visually. The opened workbench is interactive, but it is an immutable snapshot rather than a live MCP App.

Safety boundary

These tools validate and render data in an ephemeral workbench. They do not write a durable library, run external analysis software, expose a shell, or grant generic DOM/filesystem access. Database JSON and workspace ZIP created inside Motif are ordinary unencrypted user-owned checkpoints.

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. 13d ago First seen · 46 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 9b6682fcde32

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motif-for-claude-science is a skill published in the GitHub repository jvogan/motif (47 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 448 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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