pkpd-translation

pkpd-translation is a skill for Claude Code from K-Dense-AI/drug-discovery-agent-skills. It costs 154 tokens per session (2,176 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of calculations for translating laboratory potency and animal pharmacokinetic results into an estimated human dose. Pharmacokinetics describes how a drug moves through the body over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to calculate clearance, exposure, half-life, and steady-state behavior, scale animal doses to humans, and compare projected exposure with target potency.
Why use it?
It helps reveal whether a compound could reach its intended concentration at a dose people might safely tolerate before development goes further.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to calculate clearance, exposure, half-life, and steady-state behavior, scale animal doses to humans, and compare projected exposure with target potency.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/k-dense-ai/drug-discovery-agent-skills/pkpd-translation
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 pkpd-translation
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 154 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,176 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
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    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 $0.00154 $0.02176
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01088
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00435
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00218

Measured 12d ago against content hash 56dcdd57b3e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pkpd-translation 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/allometry.py, scripts/exposure_margin.py, scripts/nca.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/pkpd-translation/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PK/PD Translation

The arithmetic between a number on a plate and a number on a label. It decides whether a compound can reach its target concentration at a dose people can tolerate — and it is where a surprising number of programmes discover, late, that it cannot.

No installation, no network, no key. Every calculation here is closed-form or a fixed-step numerical integration in the standard library. Reference: FDA, Estimating the Maximum Safe Starting Dose in Initial Clinical Trials for Therapeutics in Adult Healthy Volunteers (2005) — the Km factors are its Table 1.

Read references/nca-and-parameters.md before quoting a PK parameter, references/interspecies-scaling.md before converting a dose between species, and references/translating-potency-to-dose.md before turning an IC50 into a dose — that one is judgement, not syntax.

The four scripts

Script Answers
nca.py What are this profile's clearance, volume, and half-life?
pk_compartmental.py What does this regimen look like at steady state?
allometry.py What is the human equivalent of this animal dose?
exposure_margin.py Does the projected exposure cover the target, and is it safe?

Free drug, or the answer is wrong by 1/fu

This is the one to get right. Only unbound drug engages the target. Comparing a total plasma concentration against a free-drug IC50 is the most common translation error, and at 99% protein binding it is a hundredfold error in the dangerous direction:

C_free = C_total x fu       1000 nM total at fu = 0.01  ->  10 nM free

Against a 100 nM IC50 that is tenfold under-coverage, not the tenfold coverage the total number suggests. exposure_margin.py coverage takes --fu and reports both.

A related trap: 50% inhibition is rarely enough. Occupancy is C/(C+Ki), so 90% needs nine times Ki and 95% needs nineteen. Ask what fraction the biology requires, and for how long.

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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 · 161 lines · 154 tokens per session scan A 56dcdd57b3e1

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pkpd-translation 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 154 tokens to every session and 2,176 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.