ncats-arax

ncats-arax is a skill for Claude Code from K-Dense-AI/drug-discovery-agent-skills. It costs 99 tokens per session (2,137 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A client for the NCATS Translator ARAX biomedical knowledge graph, a service that connects biological entities and relationships from selected data sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find one-step or specified two-step biomedical relationships, normalize entities, and inspect the provenance of returned paths.
Why use it?
It keeps graph lookups limited to specified relationship types and preserves the sources and query details, reducing the risk of treating an unverified connection as fact.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to find one-step or specified two-step biomedical relationships, normalize entities, and inspect the provenance of returned paths.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/k-dense-ai/drug-discovery-agent-skills/ncats-arax
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 K-Dense-AI/drug-discovery-agent-skills --skill ncats-arax
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/drug-discovery-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,137 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 $0.00099 $0.02137
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01069
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00427
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00214

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4f92a5ea756d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ncats-arax 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/arax_client.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.

skills/ncats-arax/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NCATS ARAX

Use ARAX as a constrained knowledge-graph lookup service. Submit reviewed CURIEs and explicit Biolink types, preserve the exact TRAPI exchange, inspect query-edge bindings and provenance, and treat every returned path as a candidate for subsequent verification.

Endpoint: https://arax.transltr.io/api/arax/v1.4 — POST TRAPI, no key. Checked against: the live production service, August 2026 — preflight reports ARAX 1.5.4 and TRAPI 1.5.0, the versions this client is pinned to.

Read query-contract.md before constructing a query. Read output-schema.md when interpreting saved artifacts, warnings, provenance, or partial results.

Safety boundary

  • Use only public, nonsensitive research questions. ARAX status facilities may expose query and caller metadata even when store=false is requested.
  • Do not submit patient information, confidential research questions, unpublished compound programs, or proprietary target hypotheses.
  • Do not present a returned path as a validated mechanism or clinical recommendation.
  • Report a zero as "not returned under these constraints," never as evidence that no relationship exists.
  • Describe position as unscored response order, never rank.
  • Verify important candidates with literature and authoritative databases separately.

Workflow

  1. Normalize free text separately, then review and report the proposed CURIE and category.
  2. Choose a typed one-hop query or an exactly two-hop query with both endpoints pinned.
  3. Use default RTX-KG2 lookup unless the user explicitly names two to five providers.
  4. Acknowledge that the biomedical query is public and choose a new or empty output directory.
  5. Run the client once. Do not silently change provider selection or expansion order after a failure or empty result.
  6. Inspect summary.json for bounded bindings and provenance and response.json for the exact TRAPI payload.
  7. Verify scientifically important paths outside ARAX.

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 12d ago First seen · 199 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 4f92a5ea756d

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ncats-arax is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/drug-discovery-agent-skills (28 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 2,137 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.