fbdd

A guide to fragment-based drug design, a method that starts with small chemical pieces and turns promising pieces into larger drug candidates. It covers filtering fragments, measuring their efficiency, docking them, and combining or expanding them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building fragment libraries, analyzing screening results, docking fragments to proteins, and growing, linking, or merging fragment hits.
Why use it?
It organizes the specialized checks and strategies needed when small fragments bind weakly and must be developed into stronger, drug-like molecules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/fbdd
Any agent
npx skills add Kdevos12/ALKYL --skill fbdd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kdevos12/ALKYL

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 874 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 $0.00064 $0.00874
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00437
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00087

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5a7d317999d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fbdd 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 2d 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/fbdd/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fragment-Based Drug Design (FBDD)

Purpose

Design and analyze fragment libraries, compute ligand efficiency metrics, perform fragment docking, and execute fragment-to-lead elaboration (growing, linking, merging) with computational support.

When to Use This Skill

  • Building or filtering a fragment library
  • Computing LE/LLE/LLEAT efficiency metrics
  • Docking fragments into a target (weak binding, requires special settings)
  • Growing a fragment hit toward lead-like compounds
  • Merging two fragment hits sharing a common substructure
  • Analyzing X-ray fragment screening data

Reference Files

File Content
references/fbdd-theory.md Fragment rules (Rule of 3), LE/LLE/LLEAT/BEI/SEI, Hann complexity model, fragment-to-lead strategies (grow/link/merge), success stories
references/fragment-library.md Library design: RDKit filters (Ro3/PAINS/flatness/rigidity), 3D sp3 character, commercial sources, diversity selection, quality checks
references/fragment-docking.md Low-MW docking pitfalls, Vina fragment settings, ROCS shape screening, Smina fragment mode, pose clustering, hotspot validation
references/fragment-growing.md Scaffold growing (R-group enumeration, MMPA vectors), fragment merging (MCS-based), FBDD-aware REINVENT, SynthesizabilityOracle, elaboration scoring
references/efficiency-metrics.md LE/LLE/LLEAT/BEI/SEI formulas, efficiency evolution plots, Abad-Zapatero plots, LELP, GE (group efficiency), metric-driven SAR

Quick Routing

"Build a fragment library"fragment-library.md

"Dock fragments into my target"fragment-docking.md

"I have a fragment hit, want to grow it"fragment-growing.md

"Track efficiency as I optimize"efficiency-metrics.md

"What makes a good fragment?"fbdd-theory.md

Core Concept: Rule of 3

Property Fragment (Ro3) Lead-like Drug-like (Ro5)
MW ≤ 300 Da ≤ 400 Da ≤ 500 Da
cLogP ≤ 3 ≤ 4 ≤ 5
HBD ≤ 3 ≤ 4 ≤ 5
HBA ≤ 3 ≤ 8 ≤ 10
PSA ≤ 120 Ų
Rotatable bonds ≤ 3 ≤ 7 ≤ 10

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 2d ago First seen · 73 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5a7d317999d2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fbdd is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kdevos12/ALKYL (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 874 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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