chem-vibration

chem-vibration is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,354 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for calculating molecular vibrations in finite systems such as molecules, clusters, and adsorbed molecules. It uses machine-learning models of atomic forces to calculate frequencies, normal modes, zero-point energy, and infrared spectra.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze molecular vibration frequencies, inspect normal modes, estimate zero-point energy, or produce infrared spectra for molecules and clusters.
Why use it?
It provides a way to study how a molecule vibrates without manually deriving the required force calculations. It is intended for non-periodic systems, not repeating crystal structures.

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-vibration
Any agent
npx skills add learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills --skill chem-vibration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills

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When invoked 1,354 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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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 $0.00027 $0.01354
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00677
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00135

Measured 4d ago against content hash 346c7bfdf42c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chem-vibration 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/calculate_vibrations.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-vibration/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Molecular Vibration Analysis Skill

Goal

Calculate the vibrational frequencies ($\nu$), normal modes, and zero-point energy (ZPE) of non-periodic (finite) systems — molecules, clusters, and adsorbates — within the harmonic approximation using Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs).

[!IMPORTANT] This skill is for molecules and finite systems only. For periodic crystals, use the phonon skill instead.

Background

In the harmonic approximation, the potential energy surface near a local minimum is approximated as $V \approx V_0 + \frac{1}{2} \sum_{ij} H_{ij} \Delta r_i \Delta r_j$, where $H_{ij} = \frac{\partial^2 V}{\partial r_i \partial r_j}$ is the Hessian (force constant) matrix. Diagonalizing the mass-weighted Hessian yields $3N$ eigenvalues: for a nonlinear molecule, $3N-6$ are real vibrational modes (and $3N-5$ for linear molecules), while the remaining eigenvalues correspond to translational and rotational degrees of freedom (near zero).

1. Prerequisites

  • An MLIP wrapper must be available (MACEWrapper, MatGLWrapper, or FAIRCHEMWrapper).
  • ASE must be installed in the relevant conda environment.
  • The input structure must be a molecule or cluster (non-periodic). Periodic systems should use mat-phonon.

2. Choosing a Foundation Potential

[!IMPORTANT]

  • Use OMAT or MatPES trained models (e.g., MACE-OMAT-0-small). These are optimized for forces and give reliable Hessians.
  • The harmonic approximation requires a well-converged equilibrium geometry. Always relax with tight force tolerance (fmax ≤ 0.001 eV/Å) before computing vibrations.

Refer to the foundation-potentials skill for details.

3. Calculation Workflow

Step 1: Prepare a molecule

Use ASE's built-in molecule database or provide a structure file:

# Built-in molecules: H2O, CO2, CH4, NH3, CH3OH, C2H6, etc.
# Or provide a .xyz / .cif / POSCAR file

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 4d ago First seen · 118 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 346c7bfdf42c

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chem-vibration is a skill published in the GitHub repository learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills (158 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,354 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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