oligonucleotides

oligonucleotides is a skill for Claude Code from K-Dense-AI/drug-discovery-agent-skills. It costs 167 tokens per session (2,044 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for designing siRNA and antisense oligonucleotides, short genetic sequences used to reduce production of a chosen protein. It selects transcript sites and checks sequence, temperature, and off-target risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to tile a transcript, rank candidate sites, scan for off-target matches, and plan chemical modifications for siRNA or antisense designs.
Why use it?
It helps screen the sequence and chemical choices that can make nucleic-acid drugs ineffective or affect unintended transcripts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to tile a transcript, rank candidate sites, scan for off-target matches, and plan chemical modifications for siRNA or antisense designs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/k-dense-ai/drug-discovery-agent-skills/oligonucleotides
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 oligonucleotides
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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README.md
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Per session 167 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,044 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium analysis-evasion · line 1
    Suspicious Unicode normalization or mixed-script content
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
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 $0.00167 $0.02044
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.01022
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00409
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00204

Measured 12d ago against content hash 28e94b56a890, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

oligonucleotides 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 4 executable files (scripts/_shared.py, scripts/chemistry_plan.py, scripts/offtarget_scan.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/oligonucleotides/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Oligonucleotide Therapeutics

The modality that sidesteps the protein entirely. If a target has no druggable pocket, no extracellular epitope, and no ligandable cysteine, an siRNA or antisense oligonucleotide can still silence its transcript — and the design is sequence arithmetic rather than chemistry intuition.

No installation, no network, no key. Sequence tiling, nearest-neighbour thermodynamics, and seed scanning are implemented in the standard library. Transcriptome-wide off-target scanning needs a FASTA that you supply. Thermodynamics: SantaLucia (1998) unified nearest-neighbour parameters.

Read references/sirna-and-aso-design.md before choosing a site, references/chemical-modifications.md before drawing a pattern, and references/delivery-and-safety.md before committing to the modality — that one is judgement, not syntax, and it is where programmes fail.

The three scripts

Script Answers
oligo_design.py Which sites, and are their thermodynamics right?
offtarget_scan.py What else will this silence?
chemistry_plan.py What modifications, and where?

Two mechanisms, two incompatible rule sets

siRNA loads into Argonaute-2 and is cleaved by RISC in the cytoplasm — it needs an RNA-like duplex throughout. Gapmer ASO recruits RNase H1, works in the nucleus, and needs an unmodified DNA core.

Two consequences. ASOs can target introns and pre-mRNA; siRNA cannot, because RISC only sees mature mRNA. And the chemistry is not interchangeable: a DNA gap in an siRNA breaks Argonaute loading, while fully modifying an ASO silently removes RNase H recruitment — the molecule binds its target beautifully and does nothing.

Duplex asymmetry decides which strand is loaded

The siRNA rule that matters most. RISC keeps the strand whose 5' end is less thermodynamically stable. Get it backwards and RISC loads the sense strand, silences something else, and your molecule looks simply inactive — sending you to hunt for delivery problems that do not exist.

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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 · 156 lines · 167 tokens per session scan A 28e94b56a890

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oligonucleotides 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 167 tokens to every session and 2,044 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.