synplanner-usage

synplanner-usage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Laboratoire-de-Chemoinformatique/SynPlanner. It costs 182 tokens per session (3,213 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python toolbox for retrosynthesis, which is the process of working backward from a target chemical to possible starting materials and reaction steps. It uses chython-synplan, formerly called CGRtools, for reaction and chemistry data processing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to curate reaction datasets, generate or evaluate retrosynthetic routes, train route-scoring models, and inspect synthetic plans.
Why use it?
It provides higher-level workflows for cleaning reaction data, extracting reaction rules, planning routes, and analysing proposed syntheses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to curate reaction datasets, generate or evaluate retrosynthetic routes, train route-scoring models, and inspect synthetic plans.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/laboratoire-de-chemoinformatique/synplanner/synplanner-usage
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 Laboratoire-de-Chemoinformatique/SynPlanner --skill synplanner-usage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Laboratoire-de-Chemoinformatique/SynPlanner

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 182 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,213 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 high

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 →

  • high System Prompt Leakage · line 182
    Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.
    Fix: Remove any instructions that reveal, print, or output system prompts or internal rules. System instructions should never be exposed to end users.
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 $0.00182 $0.03213
Opus 5 $0.00091 $0.01606
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00643
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00321

Measured today against content hash 8bb2410826c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

synplanner-usage scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 today.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Laboratoire-de-Chemoinformatique/SynPlanner/main/configs/planning_standard.yaml
skills/synplanner-usage/SKILL.md · 288 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 288 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SynPlanner usage

READ references/tasks.md FIRST

Before exploring the repository, before grepping the source, before writing a line of code — read references/tasks.md, sitting next to this file.

It maps around thirty tasks to the exact API pieces each one needs, in order, with links to a worked notebook and the reference page. This file gives the rules. That one gives the sequences, and no sequence is repeated here.

Skipping it means reconstructing from the source what is already written down — which is where the time goes, and where wrong answers come from. Read it first even when the task looks simple.

What SynPlanner is

SynPlanner is a high-level reaction processing toolbox for retrosynthesis. It orchestrates chython-synplan (also known as chython, formerly CGRtools) — a pure-Python chemoinformatics engine with capabilities comparable to RDKit — for reaction data curation, retrosynthetic planning, and analysis of synthetic routes.

When to use something else

SynPlanner is for retrosynthesis and reaction-level work. It does not need to be in the loop for plain molecule handling.

chython is already installed as SynPlanner's engine and covers most of what RDKit does. For molecule-level work that never touches a reaction or a route, use from chython import ... directly rather than going through SynPlanner. Do not reach for RDKit just because the task looks like ordinary cheminformatics — chython is already there.

Use RDKit only where chython genuinely lacks the capability. SynPlanner itself does exactly this for synthetic-accessibility scoring and molecular descriptors — see synplan/chem/rdkit_utils.py.

Do not overcorrect. "Prefer chython" is not "never RDKit" — when chython does not have the function, reach for RDKit and say so, rather than hand-rolling it.

A library is not a route

synplan.chem.synthon is a port of Synt-On and answers a different question from planning: what can be built from a catalogue, not how to make one molecule. Asked for a synthesis, plan. Asked for a library, for analogues, or for what a catalogue reaches, fragment and enumerate. Do not reach for Tree to enumerate, and do not hand back a fragmentation pathway as a route — it names no reaction and no conditions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 288 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. today Changed · +9 lines 8bb2410826c4
  2. 8d ago First seen · 279 lines · 182 tokens per session scan A 3ce01890878d

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synplanner-usage is a skill published in the GitHub repository Laboratoire-de-Chemoinformatique/SynPlanner (59 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 182 tokens to every session and 3,213 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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