chem-brainstorm

chem-brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Kdevos12/ALKYL. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,755 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A thinking guide for computational chemistry, the use of computers to study molecules, drugs, and chemical reactions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate molecules, suggest explanations for how they work, assess reactions and retrosynthesis, or plan library-screening and batch workflows.
Why use it?
It helps turn a chemistry question into a suitable way of working by checking the available inputs and identifying whether the task involves a molecule, hypothesis, reaction, or automated workflow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the alkyl plugin — 27 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kdevos12/alkyl/chem-brainstorm
Any agent
npx skills add Kdevos12/ALKYL --skill chem-brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kdevos12/ALKYL

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install alkyl, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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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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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,755 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00050 $0.01755
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00877
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00351
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00176

Measured 5d ago against content hash d074a12d1687, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chem-brainstorm 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 5d 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/chem-brainstorm/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chem-Brainstorm — Computational Chemistry Thinking Guide

A flexible brainstorming framework for comp chem problems. Not a rigid checklist — activate only the steps relevant to the problem at hand. For complex/recurring workflows, load the appropriate references/protocol-*.md.


Step 1 — Classify the Problem

Identify which mode(s) apply (can be multiple):

Mode Keywords Protocol
MOL "evaluate this molecule", "properties of X", "is this drug-like?" references/protocol-mol-evaluation.md
HYP "why does X work?", "what target?", "generate hypotheses", "SAR" references/protocol-hypothesis.md
RXN "will this reaction work?", "retrosynthesis", "conditions", "mechanism" references/protocol-reaction.md
PIPE "screen a library", "build a workflow", "automate", "batch" references/protocol-pipeline.md

For simple one-off questions (e.g. "LogP of aspirin"), skip to Step 3 directly.


Step 2 — Audit Inputs

What is available?

Input type Examples
Structure SMILES, SDF, MOL, InChI, name
Library .smi, .sdf, CSV with SMILES column
Target Gene name, UniProt ID, PDB ID
Reaction Reaction SMILES, SMARTS, conditions
Data IC50/EC50 table, experimental results
None Starting from a concept only

Missing inputs → note what to fetch (Step 3 MCPs).


Step 3 — Tool Map

Match inputs and goal to available tools. Order = cost (⚡ fast → ⚡⚡⚡ expensive).

ALKYL Scripts (local, instant)

Goal Script Cost
Properties, Lipinski, PAINS chem_props.py
Drug-likeness filters (Ro5/Veber/Egan/PAINS) chem_filter.py
Full structural analysis (FG, stereo, QED, SA) chem_analyze.py
Protonation state at pH chem_pka.py --ph 7.4
CYP450 metabolic soft spots chem_metabolism.py
Scaffold, BRICS fragments chem_scaffold.py
Tautomers, stereoisomers chem_tautomers.py / chem_enum.py
Substructure / similarity search chem_search.py
Compare two molecules (MCS, Δprop) chem_compare.py
Apply reaction SMARTS chem_react.py
Batch process a library chem_batch.py
Diverse subset selection chem_diversity.py
3D conformer generation chem_3d.py ⚡⚡
QM input (ORCA/Gaussian) chem_qm.py ⚡⚡⚡

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 5d ago First seen · 175 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A d074a12d1687

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chem-brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kdevos12/ALKYL (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,755 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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