chem-dft-orca-singlepoint

chem-dft-orca-singlepoint is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,944 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for calculating the electronic energy of a molecule at a fixed structure with ORCA, a quantum-chemistry program. It can also calculate atomic forces and a Hessian, which describes how energy changes around the structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to calculate single-point DFT or Coupled Cluster energies from structure files such as XYZ, CIF, or MOL. It also helps obtain forces or a Hessian for the same structure.
Why use it?
It avoids manually preparing ORCA input files and reading its output. It provides a standard way to evaluate molecular energies and optional derivatives for non-periodic 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/learningmatter-mit/atomisticskills/chem-dft-orca-singlepoint
Any agent
npx skills add learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills --skill chem-dft-orca-singlepoint
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,944 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 $0.00039 $0.01944
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00972
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00389
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00194

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9bbbb798402c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chem-dft-orca-singlepoint 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (example/validate_multicore_orca.py, example/validate_orca.py, scripts/run_singlepoint.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.

.agents/skills/chem-dft-orca-singlepoint/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DFT Single-Point Calculation with ORCA

Goal

Compute the DFT electronic energy and optionally forces (gradients) and/or the Hessian for a given molecular structure with the ORCA quantum chemistry program. The calculation relies on the SCINE wrapper for automated input generation, output parsing, and error handling, with curated defaults suitable for standard cases.

[!IMPORTANT] This skill is for standard DFT single-point calculations on molecular (non-periodic) systems. For advanced methods, multi-reference calculations, or properties not exposed here, use the advanced ORCA skill. For geometry optimization, use the ORCA optimization skill.

1. Prerequisites

  • Conda environment: orca-agent with scine_utilities and ase installed
  • ORCA binary: The environment variable ORCA_BINARY_PATH must point to the ORCA executable
    export ORCA_BINARY_PATH=/path/to/orca
    
  • Input structure: A molecular structure file readable by ASE (.xyz, .cif, .mol, etc.)

2. Parameters

Parameter Default Description
--structure (required) Path to input structure file
--charge 0 Molecular charge
--spin_multiplicity 1 Spin multiplicity (2S+1)
--functional PBE DFT functional (e.g. PBE, B3LYP, wB97X-V, PBE0)
--basis_set def2-SVP Basis set (e.g. def2-SVP, def2-TZVP, def2-TZVPP)
--dispersion None Dispersion correction (e.g. D3BJ, D4)
--solvation None Implicit solvation model: CPCM or SMD
--solvent None Solvent name (e.g. water, ethanol, dmso); required if --solvation is set
--special_option NOSOSCF ORCA special option passed to SCINE calculator. Set to empty string to disable.
--nprocs 1 Number of CPU cores for ORCA
--compute_gradients off Flag to also compute forces
--compute_hessian off Flag to also compute the Hessian matrix
--calculator_settings None Extra SCINE calculator settings as a JSON string (see below)
--output_dir auto Output directory

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 169 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 9bbbb798402c

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chem-dft-orca-singlepoint is a skill published in the GitHub repository learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills (160 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,944 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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